Second Adventure 03: Abomination

"and you show me were you lost him? i make be able to find some trace of him?"

Snarg almost pushes Kolson outside with him. "Ya might be knowin' what to look for? There was one of 'em here a sec ago apparents. Where was he walkin'?"

Spoiler:

A Mirror that could... teleport people? That was fascinating.

"Thanks."

Zeiss returned to O'ulan.

"I'm going to go outside to see if we can find a way to get you out of here."

Spoiler:

Ashakel slowly approached the water, to see if it is cured. He puts his finger slowly inside the water.... And then pulls it out.

Outside:
Kolson, Higaide, and Snarg split up to check the area. Any tracks that might've been have long since faded aside from the most recent ones. Traveling over the cave you spot the Orc mage mentioned earlier's tracks leading west and then stopping suddenly.

Kolson, hitting on a bit of sudden inspiration, crawls back on top of the cave and heads north a bit, and after several minutes of searching manages to find a pile of rocks that looks odd. The pile looks fairly heavy, and he calls out for help in moving them.

"What's wrong with your hands?" Rory asked, addressing the elf woman. "How did it contaminate the water?"

Tabran Cole wrote:"and you show me were you lost him? i make be able to find some trace of him?"

"Yeah I guess" Sethos walks Tabran to the river and points to the other side of it. "He dissappeared over there, just before Kez could take his legs" He steps back a little as he begins to cough, his throat so dry, he pulls out his water bottle and takes a long drink from it.

Archengeia wrote:Outside:Kolson, hitting on a bit of sudden inspiration, crawls back on top of the cave and heads north a bit, and after several minutes of searching manages to find a pile of rocks that looks odd. The pile looks fairly heavy, and he calls out for help in moving them.

*Helps move them.*

"Yip, yip, rocks!" Snarg says, somewhat excitedly, as he bounds over to Kolson. He draws a mining pick hanging from the side of his pack and gets to work moving and breaking up the rocks.

Tab heads off to were Sethos pointed to

"looking back you should get that hand looked at it looks like you scratched it in the fight"

Spoiler:

Ashakel:
Your finger seems fine, if a bit wet.

Rory:
The Elf woman looks at the deformed Elf, confused, then looks at her hands. "I... don't think anything's wrong with them," she begins hesitantly. "I remember trying to wash Thonson's blood off, but... that's all... was something happening to the river?"

Rock Group:
After some digging you move what turned out to be a fairly large pile of rocks, and would probably take more common people much longer to remove. At the very bottom of the pile is a single, perfectly spherical chunk of pure Magicite.

Tabran Cole wrote:Tab heads off to were Sethos pointed to

"looking back you should get that hand looked at it looks like you scratched it in the fight"

Spoiler:

It becomes quite clear that the mage in question was a fairly accomplished Yellow Mage as now, mere minutes after his departure, almost no residue remains. The Mage had cast Exit, at least at Spell Level 10 or higher, and as such there is no way to determine where it took him.

"The river was somehow magically corrupted. It made the crops and the people of Kheynth ill. We went in here to investigate what's going on. The water appears to be safe now. Anyone up for a swim?" Ashakel responded to the Elven lady.

"Glowin' rock?" Snarg looks at the Magicite with a raised eyebrow, cokcing his head to the side. "Maybe bustin' it up would help?" he says as he raises his pick.

After some digging you move what turned out to be a fairly large pile of rocks, and would probably take more common people much longer to remove. At the very bottom of the pile is a single, perfectly spherical chunk of pure Magicite.

"Neat. Do we smash it, or can anyone disable it?"

Zeiss:
As you head outside you immediately spot Kolson, Higaide, and Snarg all gathered around a fairly heavy looking pile of rocks, staring at something intently. You also spot Tabran examining a spot some ways to your west.

"It was causing all sorts of illnesses in town, though for any of us out-of-town folks, it would age the extremities dipped into it considerably. The plant life drinking the water got tainted. Not only are the villagers sick, they're practically starving." He turned toward the elf man, the husband. "What's in your blood, I wonder...?"

"Oh, not gettin' a good feelin' 'bout this." Snarg lowers his pick. "Ya magi maybe can do somethin' 'bout it?" He turns to Kolson.

"Like, let's just lift it, or something."

Rory:
The Elf looks a bit confused. "Well as near as I can tell my blood's red just like any other Elf's... though I wonder if that..." he shudders "thing had been seeping into the water somehow, tainting it."

Zeiss walked towards Snarg's group. It seemed they found something.

"Hey, what are you looking at...?"

He saw some magicite. Was it the thing keeping O'ulan in the cave?

Spoiler:

"Most likely. They hid it well too. But before that, miss, are you alright now? Do you feel any pain or discomfort? I need to find out what they did to you, beyond somehow injecting a foreign element into you..."

*noticing that the river appears to be back to normal, she looks down at her hand and unwraps it. It appears the same, no better and no worse. Attempting to heal it again [ie heal check on self] yields no results. She turns to the elven couple holding out her hand*

"This is the result of the magical taint on the water. I believe the taint was caused by the abomination that had somehow affixed itself to you. It was of a spacial affinity yet you appear to be of water affinity.... curious. Could you perhaps help us puzzle through this? We've been sent to purify the water, and that task seems accomplished, but it appears my comrades which to further investigate the matter."

Snarg points at the glowing rock. "Magotcite." He plants his pick to act as a lever for the Magicite and attempts to pry it up and out of its position.

Magicite Group:
Zeiss examines it and quickly determines that this Magicite has been carefully placed for a very specific purpose, probably would only work in this one spot.
Kolson examines the Magicite and determines that, somehow, it has been attuned to a specific soul... most likely the Tusker's... and given its nature would have theoretically prevented his escape possibly for years, if they chose it. It would project a full sphere so tunneling or bashing through the rock would have done no good. This type of usage of Magicite is virtually unheard of, as most everyone uses Pyreal for something of this nature, but by using Magicite they ensured that the barrier was impossible to pierce by the soul it was attuned to.