Turn 28
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See if I can find Grundar, and what he found.
LUCK [9]
Just as James got off the mech wanting to see what Grundar was up, he saw the troll scurying over with something in his hands. "
Hey boss, I found something interesting. I swear I havent looked inside" Indeed he hasn't, as puzzle based lock was still locked. Luckily for healer, the puzzle was a familiar one and easy to solve at that. Inside, among some asorted gemstones lay an amulet. Amulet itself was like an puzzle. Various pieces that made up the amulet were carefuly aranged as to not fall out from shock or hasty flings. Aside from looking fancy, the configurations had an added bonus of dampening any spell that would be cast upon the wearer.
Use Both essences on a rock that can translate languages and put it in the funnel
((I asume you meant the enchantment esenses))
CMP [2+2+1=5]
POT [1+1+2=4]
LUCK [1]David, not quite happy with his rather random megaphone, atempted to create a fix for it. In retrospect, using two esenses with inteligence of their own might not have been a very great idea. Whatever words said to the stone would return in elder tongue, not quite enough to drive an experienced mage insane instantly, yet prolonged exposure would be most unadvised.
"Hey Crimson, if this teleporter is like the other one I found, you need shards to activate it."
Two more aether essences.
"Ok... Two shards for the portal!"
But create a force essence before that.
CMP [2+1=3]
POT [1+1=2]
CMP [5]
POT [6]CMP [6+1=7]
POT [1+1=2]Duo of mages crafted some esenses to prepeare for whatever awaited them beyond the portal gate. Jase created an esense of precision and a normal one, while Crimson created a chaotic yet guiding esense. Wether that was a good sign or a bad one was anyones guess.
LUCK [6]As mage sacrificed a pair of shards, a single point in the middle of the portal apeared. Out of that point a stream of stone dust spiled forth, swirled around the bright spot for a while, and wwith blinding speed flew into place. From the swirling dust a tall stone arch formed. The sight through the arch was far from the bland wall of a cave. It was far from anything what could be found anywhere on the island. The portal led to a forest of brightly collored mushrooms, each several meters tall. Within the "forrest" great number of annimals could had been seen runing away from the sudenly apeared portal archway.
"So it seems that I found my best opponent for using magical arts... Big, unresponsive and durable. Curse this door!"
Seeing that death magic and my honed body failed in opening the door, I use shadow magic to phase doorlock out of reality (-1 for ethereal, 1 shadow essence).
CMP [4+1+1-1=5]
POT [6+1=7]
LUCK [1]
DEX [3]Whaz commanded the lock to go away. The lock remained there. Whaz started to shout threats at the lock. The obstacle remained stalwart. Whaz tried to scare the lock away, yet his oponent proved to have nerves of steel. Having exhausted all other options, Shadow mage atepted to phase the lock out. As he recited his command and burned through a shadow esense, great ammount of shadows colected around him and surged towards the lock. Then they stoped there, as if confused. The spell was a paradox, a command that could not happen. Shadows started tearing at each other, and within a single moment all power contained within the spell combusted, exploding in concentraded blasts towards entirely random directions. Shadow mage just could not get away unscached, spell blasted him away, coloring him entirely in black.
Try to sense some miasmic energies from the alien area
CMP [4]
POT [5+1=6]
LUCK [8]Witness stoped at the edge of alien fields and listened. Not with his ears, but with his power. There was something there, something calling out to him. Nearby. It would soon know that the signal was heard.
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From within the main portal a new chalenger steped forth.
Aoshi, the great guide had come to direct the flow of life an power within this realm. The only one to pass maze of horrors, his skill of changing paths would prove lethal to many.
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