Difference between revisions of "Low Estate/Turns/Turn 6"
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Off to the side, Aernoud whistles for his bird. It flutters and darts through the air, sometimes vanishing entirely and reappearing elsewhere. It is buffeted by the wind, but nevertheless manages to cross the room and snatch up the wand from the pile at the base of the bookshelf. Some further flutters, and the wand drops into Aernoud's hand. It's a slim bone wand, polished smooth, and featureless except for a rune on the flat end of the handle, and a spiraling line cut into the tip. | Off to the side, Aernoud whistles for his bird. It flutters and darts through the air, sometimes vanishing entirely and reappearing elsewhere. It is buffeted by the wind, but nevertheless manages to cross the room and snatch up the wand from the pile at the base of the bookshelf. Some further flutters, and the wand drops into Aernoud's hand. It's a slim bone wand, polished smooth, and featureless except for a rune on the flat end of the handle, and a spiraling line cut into the tip. | ||
''"Willem, how do I use this?" Aernoud shouts over the wind. He holds up the wand so that Willem can see the rune on the handle. "Can you read this?"'' | |||
Meanwhile, Lazer backs out of the room and runs back along the tunnel to where he remembered seeing some pipes visible in the roof. Examining them, he thinks he's determined the appropriate valve to turn in order to, hopefully, overload the pipes in the laboratory ceiling and flood it with water. | Meanwhile, Lazer backs out of the room and runs back along the tunnel to where he remembered seeing some pipes visible in the roof. Examining them, he thinks he's determined the appropriate valve to turn in order to, hopefully, overload the pipes in the laboratory ceiling and flood it with water. | ||
[[Low Estate/Turns/Turn 5|← Turn 5]] • [[Low Estate/Turns/Turn 7|Turn 7 →]] | [[Low Estate/Turns/Turn 5|← Turn 5]] • [[Low Estate/Turns/Turn 7|Turn 7 →]] | ||
Revision as of 12:05, 13 June 2013
- Aernoud van Nevel (josh_g): forest wanderer — FATE ▣▣▣▢▢ • Stress ▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
- Antheunis Opgieten (lpsmith): slippery urchin — FATE ▣▢▢▢▢ • Stress ▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
- Boudin Verdonk (maga): bravo and expeditor — FATE ▣▢▢▢▢ • Stress ▢▢▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
- Mattius Rothmann (Fang): brutish warmage — FATE ▢▢▢▢▢ • Stress ▢▢▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
- Willem de Vos (Jota): student magician — FATE ▣▣▣▢▢ • Stress ▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
- Lazer Dennis (Rob): manic-depressive man out of time — FATE ▣▢▢▢▢ • Stress ▢▢▢▢ • Consequences unused (2), unused (4), unused (6)
Underground lab and mysterious figure
Boudin's vibe is that the figure doesn't have any job or duty as such, but nevertheless it's unable to leave for some reason, so it's clearly still under some obligation or geas.
Willem steps forward and attempts to negotiate. As he summons up the sensations of the desert, the figure cocks its head to the side, as if listening. The sandstorm dies away as it waits, and then finally it speaks again: "Distant near, but near not yet distant? Bound and kept to wait and watch, endless seasons brought forth from traveled vessel then a promise, a wisp, a gibe? .. A single coin is not the sultan's price, the curved barb stings the selfsame scale!" The wind whips up higher than ever.
In the breeze, one of the gems rolls off the shelf, and Antheunis reflexively leaps forward to catch it before it hits the ground. He snatches it from the air, but the action has attracted the figure's attention, and a voice comes from the whirlwind: "Pearl, star, poisoned wine. Other songs shadowed, lend strange cast, to ask sinks below the fire."
Willem translates the best he can, despite the looks the others give him. "That's what it sounds like he's saying, anyway."
It's hard to tell, but Boudin thinks things are reaching a breaking-point here.
Off to the side, Aernoud whistles for his bird. It flutters and darts through the air, sometimes vanishing entirely and reappearing elsewhere. It is buffeted by the wind, but nevertheless manages to cross the room and snatch up the wand from the pile at the base of the bookshelf. Some further flutters, and the wand drops into Aernoud's hand. It's a slim bone wand, polished smooth, and featureless except for a rune on the flat end of the handle, and a spiraling line cut into the tip.
"Willem, how do I use this?" Aernoud shouts over the wind. He holds up the wand so that Willem can see the rune on the handle. "Can you read this?"
Meanwhile, Lazer backs out of the room and runs back along the tunnel to where he remembered seeing some pipes visible in the roof. Examining them, he thinks he's determined the appropriate valve to turn in order to, hopefully, overload the pipes in the laboratory ceiling and flood it with water.
