Arduin, relying on the research he had done before departing the Covenant, recalls that the original text of the Luminous Codex was in a Germanic dialect, not Latin, and thus he is able to quickly eliminate most of the texts in the room with a single glance. After just a handful of moments, he has c...

AleBelly wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 12:13 am My turn to apologize...had a fun bout of cellulitis from scratching poison ivy. Do not do that!!!

Ugh, so sorry to hear that

Arduin, go ahead and make a Per + Order of Hermes Lore check vs. an ease factor of 10 for spying out the book. Gertrude watches the woman carefully but she doesn't even begin to acknowledge the older woman's presence. In fact, as Gertrude sees the door to the adjoining room slip open and then close ...

There is a window in that wall, but the thick leaden glass is so grimy it doesn't allow much light. It's likely dirtier on the outside than the inside, but Arduin could choose to clean up the inside if he wants to see what happens. Otherwise, he looks at the crate and its remaining contents and gues...

The remaining area is probably a smallish bedroom. Arduin slips into the room, letting the door close softly behind him, and moves over to the crate. It's hard to make out many details in the dim light, but he gets a powerful woody smell from the crate as he approaches, and he can make out the clea...

Sorry for the delay posting--work/life has been wild recently. Arduin scans the weird pile quickly, but elects to keep on, dismissing it as a manifestation of the fey's cooking impulses, and cracks the door. Peering inside, he sees what would be a relatively spacious room crowded with bookshelves, ...

Gertrude watches the woman bustle about while Arduin moves invisibly along the back wall of the room toward the closed door. The woman keeps her eyes assiduously on the butcher block and her own hands, occasionally blowing a stray lock of hair out of her face or brushing a bit of dewy moisture from ...

Gerd steps forward from the group, addressing the Ruena townsfolk. "Perhaps the mud-men are guardians summoned by the people of this town to protect them from the attack of the dog-men! Hail, villagers!" he calls, raising his voice as loudly as he can. "We mean you no harm--we have c...

Gertrude peeks in and sees the same scene, noting still no sign of Arduin within. The woman moves about the space as if entirely oblivious to Gertrude's presence.

Gertrude sees Arduin step back out of the doorway, chanting a kind of liturgical tune low, before he locks eyes with her and promptly vanishes from sight! Turning back to the doorway, he slides inside as stealthily as he can, keeping one eye on the young woman inside as he does so. She looks directl...

OK, go ahead and make your spellcasting check for this. It'll be: (Perdo Score) + (Imaginem Score) + (Stamina Ability Score) + 1 (Faerie Aura) + (1d10 stress die result) If the total is 20 or higher, you cast the spell with no fatigue. If the total is 10 to 19, you cast the spell but take a fatigue...

As Gertrude moves toward the cabin, she can hear the tuneless singing more clearly, but as near as she can tell, her mind is unaffected by whatever is impacting the rest of the group.

Path A, except that it doesn't wind, it just comes straight down from the top.

The oven is between the two interior doorways, and the butcher block centrally located in the kitchen.

The geometry of the room is correct, but imagine your approach being from the top left of the image. Arduin can spy two doorways leading into other parts of the cottage. On the right-hand wall (according to the picture), the leftmost doorway has a rustic wooden door in it that's currently shut. On ...

Arduin doesn't spy any books sitting in the kitchen--nor is the mask visible there.

He also doesn't detect any anomalies or fluctuations in the area's aura. He isn't really able to detect regio directly but he's keeping his senses peeled for a strengthening Fey aura, which has not yet manifested.

Gertrude looks upon the scene in growing horror, eventually landing on something specific to do to help. Calling to Simon, who stands nearby similarly engrossed in the events unfolding before him, and the two of them rush forward to drag Melchior away from the brambles. He is unresisting, although e...

OK this week has turned into a bit of a mess on the back of that long weekend--oof. Every night has been a long one. I'll update over the weekend for sure, and sorry about the delay.