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letsplayamurder2025-08-21 04:46 am
Event 4: Spring Hope Eternal
Down to half your group's size, afflicted with hallucinations of faces long gone, you've certainly been put through a lot these last few weeks.
What's a bit more?
Upon the morning, a great clatter comes from the temple. A few pegasi have once again fled from the stables on their floor, seemingly distressed but unharmed. The cause becomes more apparent the lower you venture. Deeper and deeper down into the temple, the colder and windier it gets...
What's a bit more?
Upon the morning, a great clatter comes from the temple. A few pegasi have once again fled from the stables on their floor, seemingly distressed but unharmed. The cause becomes more apparent the lower you venture. Deeper and deeper down into the temple, the colder and windier it gets...

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[And- waits for backup, for once, before descending to the lower floors.]
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What will we encounter this time, I wonder...
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[She's gonna head down tailing Vanity, since she has enough sense to figure she should probably tackle this with a group.
Eru follows this time too.]
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Well she was heading down anyway for swing time so may as well see what's going on this time. ]
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Leb, wait up--
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Time to head down and see what's up. ]
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Thankfully, she's not actually affected by the cold, but it does give her a bit of disquiet on the mental level. How does she know this is real, and not just a herald of the man of the north, here to mock her? ]
This is real, isn't it? The cold winds.
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[But some other trick? He can't discount that.]
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How dare you ignore me, boy!
[True to those words, Astarion ignores him, though he's shaking slightly.]
It figures even a horse with wings would be skittish.
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Event START
The threat here feels less tangible than a horde of monsters looking for a fight. It seems you'll be dealing with the weather this time - and quickly; or else the whole island may be frozen.
So it seems, for now, there's nothing better to do than investigate.]
[This event will focus primarily on investigation and puzzle solving along with some optional combat near the end.]
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Can she read anything off the tree or the columns? ]
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[What kind of symbols are we looking at on the closest column to her?]
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mods!
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He's definitely seen his fair share of mysterious puzzles before.]
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He knows how columns with indents work!!]
We are clearly meant to set something into these columns. But where to find that something...
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Any other columns or something interesting to peer at?]
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slides in with starbucks and sunflower seeds cw: hallucinations
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who has definitely been here the entire timewoodenly shuffles over to anymore column available.... ignore the litter of cats hanging off his body and following him around, or the look on his face that screams AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]
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[CAT HAS ARRIVED LATE, AS USUAL. are there any pillars for him to check, perhaps?]
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Event part 2: The riddles
You've got time, and you've got friends.]
[(For the sake of organization, the investigation of the lines following the columns will be moved to under the toplevels posted here!)]
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2/3, cw hallucinations and also Bad Girlfriend Behavior
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(Optional) Event part 3: Mind the gardeners
They aren't directly targeting you, but they might cause some damage if they aren't subdued.]
[(This is an optional combat encounter with rogue automatons. Characters will roll 2d6 to determine whether attempts to use their powers will result in a failure (1-3) a medium-success (4-9) or a complete success (10-12).)]
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4 -> Vanity
according to my math 6+4 = 10
2 - 1 for the damaged arm = 1
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EVENT WRAP-UP: Spring Has Come Again
When the final object, a lute from the Music Room, is placed on it's column all ten begins to glow with light. The weather calms as does the rogue automatons' erratic behavior. The flashes of lightning stop, the winds settle, the snowy flurries lessen to a gentle snowfall. The bitter cold remains though. It's almost enough, almost, but not quite...
From beneath the cocoon of gnarled roots, a golden glow seeps into the ground and flows with a brilliant light through the ground and up into the cypress tree. It pulses and spreads through the trunk, into every branch and every leaf. The lights from the columns and the golden light of the tree burst in unison, filling the garden with warm, divine light-
When the light fades and the godlings visions clear, the snow is gone. The tree and whatever magic regulates it have been rebalanced after being neglected for so long. Well done, all.
Now the only problem is freeing Leb and Cerejeira because those roots have not gone anywhere.]
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Well, I feel accomplished as shit. ... what's with the tree-ball. ...Leb, you do that?
[Wheremst've-]
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