[sorry...been out sick with the family...will try to catch up ]

Votin stops to survey what Narrhil has found ... "If things seem safe, let us gather up theses items...we can use them later...Narrhil use caution...too many odd things are around here."

Iron Ranger wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

If the others can light the area Votin will ascend the stairs...very very carefully.

There are no stairs in this snowy field.

[When we get to the bell tower]
 

Caveman wrote:

Narrhil was still try to comprehend the process of this portal. "So, Sir Votin, if you used the portal, did you come from the future or the past?" Still a novice in the arts, the cryomancer struggled to learn so much in such a short period of time about such a powerful construct of magic.

"Some magic relics can only be used so many times per day, or perhaps at a certain time, when the stars are in the right order in the skies," he answered in consideration to Votin's query, "and there is also this missing key, which might activate the portal from this side!"

Once they gather the party starts back towards the bell tower.

"I have no idea... we have a way to track the moon and sun...travel through time is unknown to me."

[ Would Votin be aware of the Hyperborean calendar? ]
 

[Dur to Votin's advanced age he needs hearing aids...]

"There is a secret room in the basement where the body of the last priest lays...an opening of sorts is in the floor where you must lie in and move some sort of levers...it will close and take you to the tunnels where the beastmen are and I came in from.

I don't know how to send it back if there were more than one person trying to go back or forth.

Keep in mind the intelligent beastmen seemed to be protecting me from the more savage ones..."
 

Caveman wrote:

"We did search the priest's body and there was no key. Perhaps he hid it under a flagstone within the domed chamber. It not going any place, I think we keep going to the bell tower, and then we can return to try and find the key!"

"At least you are not cursed, whatever that ring was, Master Kéet," half smiles the cryomancer that the Pict's joke.

"I agree...we need to gather enough wood to smoke the meat...do we need any more information or can we bid farewell to the witch now...assuming we can comeback later?"

Speaking to the others, "or with the guardian priest's hidden key...what does that mean?"
 

"Anything we learn would be a boon!"

Caveman wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin looks Narrhil and Tillak and whispers "What sort of sorcery is this?"

"Is it that she is a ghost, a vision of what was?"
 

"Unfortunately in order too discover the truth...we will have to go find these fools and the wizard...I know that there are 2 groups of beastmen...opposed to each other ... what a mess we have stumbled into."

Votin tells the others  "I have been there...dangerous...we are not yet ready."