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Field Mission 6: A Day in Thay, Part 1
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![]() ![]() Ready or not, rested or not, it's time to get moving, Reclaimers. You've got a very, very long day ahead of you. And another one. And another one. And, you get the joke. Early Friday morning, with the Director there to see them off, the Reclaimers load up into the Bureau's transportation orbs for the sixth time since this whole ordeal began, and make their way to about a mile or two outside of Thay. It's important to try to stick to the story, at least — that you're all visitors from a faraway school, here to spend some time with the students and faculty of Boarbumps. As much as Lucretia would have liked to join you, she can't. None of the other leading members of the Bureau of Balance can. Whoever enters Thay, after all, is entering a bubble, after all. A time trap. Nobody will be able to leave until the Relic, the Lamp of Undoing, is either retrieved or destroyed. Someone needs to be able to continue if you all can't. 1. SEVEN O'CLOCK ALREADYAs we noted in the OOC post, prompts on this log will be a quick few sentences of specific things happening during each hour. It's expected that Reclaimers will be seeing all of these events multiple times! So feel free to play with them as you see fit. If you're not sure if something you want to do would warrant a roll, please ask us in the RNG thread. ![]() ○ The Reclaimers have arrived in Thay, much to the curiosity of the highly intelligent, occasionally highly ... suspicious ... residents. Nevertheless, they recognize you as visiting, esteemed students, and, though perhaps still suspicious, welcome you into their fold. Also, as a note: Every time the relic is used, time is reset to this moment. ![]() ○ Afternoon classes at Boarbumps begin, starting with a lecture on the magical circuits of the common toad. If you happen to sit in on this one, as a visitor from another school, you may be asked to assist in the dissection. You will be heckled by the rest of the class as deemed fit. ![]() ○ The second afternoon class at Boarbumps begins. Are you three or four time loops in and in desperate need of a nap? This class, The History of Boarbumps, is for you. You will be treated to a long and droning lecture about how the students attending during Boarbumps' very first semester banded together to stop a particularly plucky troll. Which you'd think would be an interesting tale. It is not. ![]() ○ The third and final afternoon class at Boarbumps — Fighting with Fire — begins. The professor, known to be slightly more unorthodox in her teaching methods, will recruit any Reclaimer who happens to be there to defend themselves from the students' incoming fireball spells. The potency of the fireballs themselves range from the tickle of a candle, to that one time you ate a ghost pepper, to one particularly fiery spell that might actually hurt you. ![]() ○ There's a slight catastrophe over in the Town Square. That is to say, a giant spider seems to have escaped from Boarbumps and is terrorizing the vendors, to everyone's surprise. Subdue or dispatch it, it's up to you. ![]() ○ Cleanup of whatever damage the spider did is underway. In the meantime, the faculty of Boarbumps and the Hermetic Order of Red Wizards invite the Reclaimers to a small dinner in one of the public meeting rooms at the Red Keep. Every member of the Red Wizards are present, aside from Onerion Wyvernspur and Brian Darling. ![]() ○ No matter where you are in Thay, you'll feel the ground rumble underneath your feet. The residents largely pass it off as an earthquake, but will note that they have become much more frequent lately. ![]() ○ With a sudden loud roar, the ground of the town square suddenly begins to split. People, shops, and everything else begin to drop into the chasm, despite the Red Wizards, and everyone else's, attempts to save them. 2. OOC: A SPECIAL SHOUTOUTYou are welcome to keep track of how your character experiences these time loops as much or as little as you're comfortable with — we'll also be tracking what you all are doing! Our Minato player Kel came up with some extremely snazzy coding if you would like to track how each loop plays out for your character more closely. Thank you, Kel! Of course, this is completely optional. Keep up with as much as you'd like, have fun as you see fit, and we hope you enjoy this mission! |
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1. About a loop or two in, Dave is going to Wild Shape into Davebirdsprite and chill out on one of shrines from 3 to 5 p.m. — hopefully a very anxious, flapping-his-wings bird isn't accidentally an omen for anybody. He's just waiting to see if something interesting happens! Does it?
2. A few more loops in, Dave is going to get some more degrees of anxious, and will pull out any books the library that might be written in primordial, so he can use them to try to translate this book. He is aware there may be consequences.
Any DC is fine!
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1. Oh, what a sight to see, a really fucking weird looking bird, such as thee. Dave will perch himself down on a few rocks and lay in wait for what's going on at the shrine. He'll see Szass Astrosz come down and start prayer on a rather lonely, unmarked shrine. In his hands are a set of beautiful gems, all laid out on a simple string. Each bead gives off a soft silver shimmer and have runes of Draconic inlaid into each one. We feel this is worth mentioning since Dave is a bird and birds love shiny. He stays there for about an hour before picking up and leaving. No words are uttered aloud, no open prayer. Whoever he's praying to must have a different way of supplication than other gods.
And with your investigation roll, you'll find, with a 9, that most of the shrines here are pretty well kept. A few litter the area in every direction, but Dave will notice that there's one that looks as if it's been sort of forgotten. No one's come to it in quite a long time and it looks rather put-out.
2. The thing about magic is that most spells require some sort of verbal or written component in order to pull it off. As such, Thay has a vast library of literature on the various languages of Faerun, especially constructed so that aspiring wizards can learn and duplicate the magics that have evolved over the course of history. Netting a 14 on attempting to find a book to help translate the ancient non-elemental primordial language proves to be a tough task, however, and it'll take the majority of his 5th or 6th loop in here.
He'll get a few more pieces in before the inevitable ground-shaking times start.
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much later into the loops — like, at least past the 10 mark — dave is gonna finally manage to dislodge his knitting needles from a tree and drop a really, really shitty square of rib stitching in front of the broken shrine, using the pattern in the poem. listen, he tried his best, and even though his ability to use knitting needles as a weapon rivals his sisters, he can't exactly knit like she can.
this isn't even about the mission, he's having a very personal morale problem. maybe someone else who's stuck doing the fate & time thing on this planet would understand? and even though he's never really put much stock into religion, he will sit there and complain about how he's tired of playing the delorean, because that somehow makes more sense than marty mcfly, and he's especially tired of wondering what's happening to the timelines and versions of themselves that get shoved to the side whenever the loop resets — and he doesn't like the idea of a goddess, or anybody really, being stuck out there in godverse dealing with this shit for all eternity, and is she even listening?
tl;dr does istus hear this really shitty technically a prayer, or is he rambling to himself? any dc is fine!
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I've been waiting for you, you know.