A meeting at Maria's Tower
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Atel pipes up
"Personally both of those sound like bad ideas. A city full of mind eaters, or messing with one of the things that lead us to this gigantic mess in the first place. But if I had to pick between the two evils, I'd go with the Mehinrs, because with that we at least have an idea what we're in for."
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((Bump
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Bingo is the ownewr of the poket plane, Z. A pwrofessowr of the keep. We have no means to unpeterify him fwrom hewre.
The golem, as you said, it's made fwrom something diffewrent than adamantite. So I suspect it's mithwral… Not good news.I suppose ouwr best bet then is to twravel to Sigil and find mowre infowrmation. How do we go thewre though? We use cewra's twree powrtal, twry to tampewr with mehinwrs owr inspect the illithids' s city?
thoughts?
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Mmmm…pastries. Z politely reaches for one with a child-like smile Thank you.
As he nibbles on the pastry, he examines the image of the construct. Using his knowledge of metalwork and crafting, he attempts to identify the material the creature is made of.
Thing has the color of iron, but I doubt that’s what it’s made of. Might be made of adamantine, maybe. I suppose someone who kin travel the planes might be able ta find enough of it ta make somethin’ that big.
What do we know of the temperament of this Reclaimer fella? Is he the type ta break into the Keep? Maybe he thinks it’s abandoned and he’s lookin’ fer treasures - it kinda is, right? Maybe we kin inform him it isn’t abandoned and get him to stop…if he’s the cooperative sort. Though, it’s never that easy, I suppose.
Or, maybe, someone is just using one of his constructs ta break in. Maybe we kin talk to ‘im and find out who he made it for. Maybe he has a way to shut ‘em down in case of emergency or somethin’. Either way, we should try n contact ‘im…if we can and his reputation indicates he kin be reasoned with.
If not, I agree with trappin’ it somehow. It don’t look too friendly an’ I’m pretty sure we don’t need ta worry about “bait” cause, we’d be the bait.
Oh, and who is Bingo? Kin we, somehow, unpetrify ‘im so he kin bring the Keep back? Might be better ta go that route.
Takes another bite of his pastry and wipes the powdered sugar from his mouth.
Mmmmm...
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María listens to Nate and Isolde and nods "that sounds vewry possible. I would think is the most logical way of intewrpwreting what happened."
Glances over at Shannon and a faint smile comes to her lips "Not too late. Thank you fow coming. Here, I'll let you catch up." María snaps her fingers and a scroll appears floating right in front of Shannon, in it there's the transcription of what has been said so far, written in a fine letter
"Youwr input will be vewry welcome" she says right before calling on a student nearby and asking them to bring some non alcoholic drinks and pastries
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"Oooo… ", echoes Isolde, grinning back at Nate. "I love it when a plot thickens, though yeah, it could be this guy just sold his work to our 'real' villain! Is this a good time to mention I have a little scroll called 'Planeshift' in my possessio-... why hello, Shannon!~"
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Shannon knocks, unexpectedly, at the tower gate.
I've come to fulfill my promise of aid… I trust it's not too late?
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::Nate peers over Maria's shoulder at the book - tap-tapping his lower lip as he reads alongside her. He then claps her shoulder, and grins to Isolde:: Ooooo. Looks like an artificer! Odds are that metal thing belongs to him! Maybe he took over the old place… Oooor he sold his work to whoever did?
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Well, I for one have always wanted to visit Sigil, I've only ever read about it.
Atel grins hopefully, if a little naively
I mean, this land used to house the ancient Empire of Narfell, there has to be some sort of planer gate left over that's still in workable order, somewhere, right?
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Maria gasps a bit at the read of Sigil. She closes the book with a loud thud sound.
It's cleawr to me that we need to find this pewrson. What do you all think? Finding a way to wreach Sigil is no easy task though.
This is getting intewresting and dangewrous. But we must keep on.
she looks very serious now and looks at everyone in turn
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Ahhhh wait Nate! María startles and runs off towards her library, only to be back a few moments later with an old heavy book. The book has a dismembered metal body painted on its cover and the tittle is written with rectangular letters "Golems&Makers"
If by any chance thewre's these mawrkings listed in this book, it might save us some pwrecious time! she then mutters to herself about how silly it was not to remember about toys book before. She opens it and skims through like the pro bookworm she is
But don't get too fawr, Nate, you might be the best chance to leawrn mowre about the cwreatowr should we find it.
After a few minutes of search, the symbol on the construct's chest plate appears. The entry on it reads:
JOLUPIUS BERHAN, also known as The Reclaimer, is a wizard and planar traveler, collector of all sorts of trinkets and magical items wherever he can find them. He is one of the best construct creators in the known realms, who takes particular pride in his products being virtually indestructible. He was known to sell his work to wealthy noble houses and entities throughout the planes. He can usually be found in Sigil whenever he is not actively looking for trinkets and baubles wherever he can find them.
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Ahhhh wait Nate! María startles and runs off towards her library, only to be back a few moments later with an old heavy book. The book has a dismembered metal body painted on its cover and the tittle is written with rectangular letters "Golems&Makers"
If by any chance thewre's these mawrkings listed in this book, it might save us some pwrecious time! she then mutters to herself about how silly it was not to remember about toys book before. She opens it and skims through like the pro bookworm she is
But don't get too fawr, Nate, you might be the best chance to leawrn mowre about the cwreatowr should we find it.
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"All bards to the lore-mobile, gotcha Maria. And ughh… let's cross our fingers for a NONE-Mechanus origin, eh Atel?
And NaaAAaate... try your fancy-pants scholar spells, why don't you? I'll cheer you on!"
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Atel, having been listening up to this point, speaks up.
If it is related to Mechanus, Isolde, it would be something past annoying at this point. I mean, it's big enough that its possible a gnome or something could be piloting it from the inside too – don't give me that look I've seen it done -- or at least providing it the power it needs to go....
She pauses, rubbing her chin in thought then makes a suggestion.
I wonder if there might be a way to immobilize it that would be easier than taking it on directly?
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Maria smiles looking at Isolde if you and Nate could take a look… pwrobably you two have access to the most lawrge amount of knowledge thewre is. Pewrhaps thewre's something even in old fowrgotten stowries.
What do you think?
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Right. Let's say that's a construct and that one could maybe figure out who the creator is from those markings… Anyone wants to take that task? I'm not really that keen on the construct department. I like illusions better. Way lower maintenance. I'm... I'm going to work on a way to get the tower back to our plane. Anyone has any ideas on where to start?
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María clears her throat Sowrry, I fowrgot to mention… this is just the memowries of what I saw an houwr-ish ago. So what you see, is what we got.
I'd say it's a constwruct, based on the fact it's made of some kind of metal. But that only would mean it's eithewr fully sentient owr that someone is behind this....
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Isolde looks, Nate's obvious excitement making her smile helplessly. She muses, tilting her head ever so slightly to the side, gesturing with a dainty finger as if drawing the circular mark into the air.
"Could be a mage's symbol, a maker's mark, some sort of organizational or cult belonging? It doesn't ring any immediate bells, but honey.. ~please~ reassure me, and say that thing isn't from the plane of Mechanus? Because that would start skirting the edges of annoying!
Oh, and! If the spells won't work through the portal, we can try the symbol itself right?"
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::Nate's eyes widen and his mouth purses into a bedazzled 'o' shape. He tugs on Isolde's arm and gestures at the portal, perhaps unwisely more excited than scared::
"Look, m'dear! Take a gander at the mark on its chest! A large circle, with a smaller one on the top left, and a line leading down rightwards. A symbol of sorts! Perhaps a mage's symbol. Perhaps this Bingo's symbol? What do you make of it?"
::Nate runs his free hand through his orange hair and leans a bit closer, his other arm still in Isolde's::
"Say, Maria, and Mad, do you think an 'Identify' or 'Legend Lore' spell will work through this magical vision portal-y thing?"
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::Nate arrives alongside Isolde, initially quite taken by the pool and the portal. He leans to one side and peers at it with a blithely curious grin. When Maria begins to speak, though, he pauses the expression and peeks at her with big green-blue eyes.
Looking at the creature as Mad reveals more of its physical details, he murmurs back to Isolde::
"It does. And metal flesh, too! Could be something in the books, could be something unique to the experiment itself. I sort of want to ask who Bingo is, and how the Keep ended up in the Void, but I suppose that'll have to wait."
::He glances to Maria and Mad, and then the image of the metal creature::
"Is it possible for us to get more physical details about the creature? We know it's metal, and dark, and large, and sentient. What else can we see?"
Mad makes a few more gestures at Nate's request, isolating the creature so it can be seen in its entirety: a large, humanoid looking creature with bald head and a bulky frame. When she zoomed in on the creature, one could spot intricate details on the metal that composed the shell of this creature. Runes covering almost every spot of it, and glyphs with designs that would take hours to translate, at best. Zooming back out, the creature features most prominently a huge mark on its chest, circular in shape, with a smaller circumference drawn within, near the upper edge of the large circle, and a straight line toward the lower edge starting from the bottom of that smaller circumference.
