Expert scryer Myn attempts to regain control of the apparatus.

Arcana:http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4766417/

"Is it okay to let them wander around?"
Sureiya stows his blades, takes a breath and approaches the guy who's still alive.

"I'll be take care of this" he says, while taking the pikeneer's weapons, and then inspecting it for any other thing he's carrying.
"This bow doesn't look half-bad" Sureiya adds.
Take weapons from everyone and place them in a corner, check their pockets too for valuables or concealed weapons.
Perception (16) http://orokos.com/roll/251698

Having made it this far, Torinn knows exactly what to do next. Rutger emits a low growl at the prisoner, while Torinn quietly asks Bernkastel, "What do we want to ask him again?"

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"... Mr. Bifrons mentioned a surprise for us and one other, possibly Ms. Thelkra."

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Sheathing his weapon and giving the helpful shaman a pat on the head, Torinn gets to interrogating the interrogateable prisoner. "What is Batym planning?" he snarls at the shadar-kai.

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>>76078
The shaman parries, and moves to look out the door for signs of danger.

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Ramuh decides to see what Myn is up to and determine whether anything useful comes from the scrying pool.

Ramuh notices that Myn seems to have managed to hold the image in place--it's no longer shifting out of control, but the warlock can't seem to direct its movements either. It's essentially frozen for as long as he can hold it, and the deterioration has ceased as well. What appears in the scrying pool appears to be a dark hallway, similar to the ones you've been passing through in the keep, but lined with doors--thick, metal doors with a tiny aperture near the top of the door that can be closed off with a sliding compartment. The doors appear to be designed for standard medium-sized humanoids, and the hallway is about ten feet wide, and appears to stretch for about twenty feet in front of your current vantage before turning a corner. The view is unfortunately not birds-eye, you appear to be looking forward through the corridor. The hall is illuminated by green-flame braziers.

The ranger discovers that the pikers are equipped with standard, non-magical longbows and curious long pikes which probably require special training to use effectively. Bifrons has a superior crossbow as well as a pair of short swords. All are carrying an assortment of regular arrows and, in Bifrons' case, crossbow bolts.

"How should I know that?" the pikeneer replies. He appears cowed, but still a bit defiant.

Myn waits for something to happen.

>>76082
He can't possibly know nothing. The shaman turns away from the hallway and looks at the pikeneer, letting her spirit companion watch instead.

Insight take 10. (25)

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Unaware of the scrying, the ranger decides to take one of the longbows with him, alongside with all of the quivers. "Let's take them all, just in case."

Bernkastel: (Insight) As far as you can tell, he's mostly telling the truth. You get the sense he knows very little. But he might say more with a little encouragement of some kind.

>>76086
"It sounds like he has an idea, even if he hasn't been told," the shaman informs Torinn.

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Swiftly tiring of the empty hallway, Myn asks for a second opinion.

"Mister Sid, I don't suppose you would mind trying your hand at repairing this arcane pool?"

Myn directs his gaze at the interrogee.

"Although if our friend here should continue to prove uncooperative, I may volunteer him as the components for a blood magic method that should prove fruitful."

Intimidate:http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4767091/

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Still thinking about his new acquisition, Sureiya returns with the rest and adds something to Myn's comment.

"Could that wait until I finish my archery practice? I'd like to see how well I can handle an enemy while it tries to run away" he says, while stretching the string of the bow.
Intimidate aid another (24) http://orokos.com/roll/251931

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"I-I think Marquis Batym was going after someone they suspected was skulking around the prison level," the pikeneer stammers, clearly fearing for its life. "He didn't mention anything about the other intruder, just that he thought there was one, b-but hadn't actually seen it!"

Sid wanders over to the scrying pool and has a look. He squints hard and ponders, then says, "Well... if I had a few hours, I might be able to work with it. I don't think we have that much time, though, best just to use as is!"

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"Prison level? Please explain."

"Someone lurking in the prison? That's Thelkra for sure" the ranger says, while holding an arrow in his left hand.

"We probably should give her a hand before finishing our little test with the dragons."

Ramuh taps the scrying pool with is staff to see if anything happens.

Ramuh's efforts at provoking the scrying pool are unsuccessful in garnering a reaction.

"The bottommost level of the keep is where they lock up prisoners," the shadar-kai replies, his eyes darting from the warlock to the paladin.

>>76094
"Mr. N, can you scry that? And Mr. Silversprocket, maybe a warning to Ms. Thelkra," requests the shaman as she plants the battle standard for the break.

>>76095

"Our view appears to have halted at this location. It may well be this prison level, however."

>>76096
At this, the shaman walks over to look. "... I see. Could one of Mr. N's pets take over the watch?"

The shaman conjures her smaller spirit into the alleged prison level.

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Bernkastel summons her spirit through the scrying pool, and then it appears in the hallway, as you can see through the pool's field of vision.

>>76098
Unless it senses immediate danger, the spirit looks around the corner(s) and mostly anything the scrying pool couldn't see before.

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Myn chucks his imp into the hallway as an invisible sentry.

>>76099
well, I'll assume nothing attacks SC so it just wanders around and looks at everything it can, including through the apertures, and comes back and tells the shaman unless interrupted somehow like someone talking to it.

"Good, that's much better. Now my practice will have to wait a little bit" the ranger says, preparing some rope from his bag.

"Now, stand still or my friend offer might still be up for consideration" he says, while restraining the pikeneer. Once he's done with it, he checks the unconscious guy, take his weapons away from him and tie him up as well.

Myn's imp flutters out into the hallway and idles.

When Bernkastel's spirit returns, it cannot relay anything to the shaman other than the fact that its senses ceased to function after it was summoned through the scrying pool.

The pikeneer doesn't resist as he is bound. The forcemage is only carrying a normal, non-magical quarterstaff and wearing basic clothing.

Ramuh is curious about the ranger's desire to check out the force mage's wardrobe, but decides not to mention it. After all, the fantasies of half-orcs surely aren't any of his business.

"So then, shall we continue? Or do we take a detour to the prison level?" The genasi pauses, then adds, "Of course, after we have taken a short rest and tended to our wounds."

"The person who's lurking the prison is most likely one of our allies" Sureiya explains. "We should get ready soon and look for her."

Myn notices something happen in the scrying pool--a figure begins to skulk down the hall, staying close to the wall and quiet. It cautiously moves a few steps, then stops to listen before continuing towards the corner. It doesn't take long to see enough of the figure to notice that it is a familiar, slender half-orc figure dressed in leathers. Thelkra approaches the corner and looks around it, and the warlock feels as though the scrying pool is being "tugged" towards her for some reason. Releasing his hold on it may lead to the view following her.

"We appear to have found her, Mister Sureiya."

Myn surrenders his hold on the pool to the scrying magnet.

"We should send her a warning" then Sureiya turns to the shaman. "Would you send your spirit friend to warn her about we just were told?"

Thelkra stalks down the hallway, and rounds the corner. The scrying pool seems to be slowly following her--and whatever Myn did earlier, it seems to have been successful in slowing or perhaps altogether stopping the deterioration of the viewpoint, as it no longer seems to be getting smaller.

Around the corner is what appears to be a four-way intersection, but directly in front of the half-orc rogue is a heavy, wooden set of double doors that are locked with a large padlock. After peeking down the side passages, Thelkra approaches the double doors and pulls out what appears to be a lockpick of some kind.

Myn's arcane senses tell him something is off here... it's strange that it's following Thelkra on its own. It's almost as if the half-orc has attracted the attention of "something," a something that has seized control of the pool, possibly as a result of the earlier Hadar-related spell.

>>76109

While Myn is tempted to allow the hijacking out of curiosity, any being capable of performing it is more likely than not on his blacklist.

"It seems that something nefarious is using this pool to track our clandestine friend."

Attempt to disable the pool, destructively if necessary.

Myn determines that it might be possible to disable the device in a less destructive way, but force is far more expedient. The first eldritch blast blows apart a good part of the rim of the pool, causing a good portion of the water to spill over.

Ramuh frowns at the warlock's display.

"It appears we must make haste then to save your wayward ally, although," Ramuh smiles wrly, "for a group intent on saving a kingdom, you have an unhealthy appetite for detour." The revenant adds, "Afore we venture out, though, I would counsel rest."

Unless there are objections, Ramuh directs the battle standard to be placed and replenishes his arcane reservoirs.

Take short rest. Spend one healing surge -after Battle Standard is planted-, then if no objections, have Sid regen the armour daily power.

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"Hey, just you wait! We should send her a warning first!" then, wondering why the shaman stayed silent, he takes the first sheet of paper he finds in his filled-with-stuff bag and uses it to write something on it. 'Beware, there's a trap ahead!' the ranger doodles on the note Thelkra once gave to him.
Then the stucks it in an arrow and prepares his bow. "Hopefully you haven't completely messed it."

After that, and only if the ranger can spot a safe wall (a place where it would unlikely hit her) he shoots the arrow with the message through the pool

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>>76114
"I'm sorry. For an unknown reason, the spirit could sense nothing. Still, we'll try."

The smaller spirit is conjured again, and this time, it appears directly in front of Thelkra, blocks her way with arms spread wide, and shakes its head.

Thelkra responds rather violently to the sudden appearance of the spirit, wasting no motion in back-flipping and hurling a dagger. It spins as it slashes through the spirit, instantly dissipating it. It's only a second after she already attacks that she seems to realize what it was, and she begins to scan the area around her.

It's then she notices the arrow, though it came out at a strange angle due to the damage the scrying pool has sustained. The image seems to focus intently and darken around the edges as the half-orc approaches the arrow, and begins to read the note.

Myn slays the pool.

Myn's continued eldritch blasts completely shatter the scrying pool beyond all usability.

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>>76119
Wincing at the damage, the shaman calls back the poor spirit and settles down for a rest. "Was destroying the pool really necessary? And why didn't the spirit's senses work?"

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"If the pool can be remotely accessed, it can be nothing but dangerous to us and Miss Thelkra. As for your spirit..."

Myn thinks for a moment.

Arcana:http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4770702/

Myn thinks it probably has something to do with the strange, evil entity that he sensed before. Beyond that, it's difficult to say.

"...it may have been the fault of the watcher as well."

At this, the shaman asks the pikeneer, "Are there similar pools elsewhere?"

Ready to short rest.

New thread~
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