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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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I was wondering... I think I heard a mention of you being able to 'copy things' if I put it lightly. Could you...
[She offers the book with a curious gaze.]
Could you copy something like this?
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Absolutely.
[He opens the book up, skimming over the contents to get an idea of what's inside.]
Where'd you pick this up?
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I... borrowed it from the library here.
[Borrowed.............]
It was magicked, before. It took me a little bit to try and catch it. [...] Do you know much about the dragons in this world?
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[Imagine if he could have a dragon as a familiar? Maybe if he works hard enough... more reason to study summoning.]
I know they're powerful, something you shouldn't mess with without a few good plans. I read in our mission dossier that Onerion worships a dragon god...
[He pages over to an illustration of a platinum-colored dragon fighting a five-headed one, each head a different color. It's labeled Bahamut and Tiamat.]
How was it magicked?
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It was in a darker section of the library, not many people seemed to gravitate towards it. But the books were moving on their own. Like they didn't want to be touched or read.
[...]
Do you think Bahamut or Tiamat have anything to do with these time loops?
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[Moving on their own, huh? A brief Detect Magic spell, his eyes turning a bright red as he examines the book, proves that the thing itself isn't magical on its own, so someone must have cast something on them. He wonders why, and the red fades as the spell ends.]
I don't know... I'm sure the relic itself and whoever is wielding it is the direct cause, but one or both of them could be involved. Anything is possible at this point, so we'll just have to follow what leads we can.
[That said.]
... I did have the idea that it might be a dragon down in the chasm, though.
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I see. Thank you for looking, Ferran.
[Once they are done with the book she returns it to her bag because she sort of intends to keep it?]
I wasn't aware there was a dragon down in the chasm. Dragons seem to be a theme here.
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[Now that Yuri's taken the original back, a copy of the book appears in his hand with a glittering red light. They're identical enough that it won't matter which she returns and which she keeps, but Ferran has the feeling that she might be able to duplicate it just by holding onto one and letting another appear with the resetting of the loop. That's still a theory that needs testing at this point, though.
Speaking of theories that need testing, his expression turns to something more hesitant.]
Well... I can't say for sure. I didn't exactly get a good look at it, but it had a lot of teeth, and there was white fire... so it seemed like a decent guess.
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So, it's true. That's an amazing skill... I'll see if I can return this one to the shelf before this loop is finished.
[She glances towards the stairs with some dread but she swallows it back.]
White fire? I think it's a safe assumption... I'm not sure I've ever read of dragons with time magic, though.
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Thanks. It's something I had before I came here, so I'm not sure if there's an equivalent in this world...
[He gestures for them to continue forward and leave the stairs behind them, literally and figuratively. It'll be nice to be in a relatively normal hallway as they talk.]
Yeah, me neither. I'm thinking... whoever has the relic is probably trying to stop it, with the way it keeps destroying the town. If we can find a way to help with that, maybe they'll be willing to listen to reason.
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I hope so. It's awful seeing everything upheave every single night...