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Re: The Scorched Sanctuary
“Did we hear a bell ring when they did? Maybe the bell is activated a portal?”
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"No, I think was just the strange light..."
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"Hmm, let's see what's making this noise down here first. By the way, this may sound strange but I the gods just contacted me and completely changed the way I do my magic. Instead of thaumaturgical I am more ecclesiastical. I know it sounds bizarre, but with everything going on is it really?"
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"I dare say it is not," replies Narrhil, "the gods move in mysterious ways!"
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[So, plan get down stairs, warriors first?]
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Votin (and Tillak) move to the cellar door to better hear the dull ratcheting noise.
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Can Tillak discern what's he hears on the other side of the door?
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Re: The Scorched Sanctuary
SullyB74 wrote:
Can Tillak discern what's he hears on the other side of the door?
It's too quiet, and unknown, but it sounds similar to an anchor to him.
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Re: The Scorched Sanctuary
Kéet, who was distracted just remembers his thiefly training gives him a tool for circumstances such as this.
He attempts to Discern Noise (4:12) . [1d12]=8
=10.000000ptDiscern Noise: =10.000000ptTo hearken at a door and detect the faintest of noises on the other side, perceive
the distant footfalls of a wandering monster, or distinguish a single voice in a crowd. Six rounds (one minute) of concentrated listening are required.
Keet quiets the crowd and presses his ear to the wood. After a short while he nods his head, and thinks he agrees with TIllak.
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Votin crosses his arms and leans a shoulder against the wall, ready to rock n roll. 
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Keêt pops the door open and makes an "after you" gesture to the warlock.
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The door swings inside, and they all see again the deep fingernail like gouge marks waist high upon the cellar side of the door and now illuminated in the bright light they are clearly deeply stained in dark blood.
The tiny staircase inside the stone wall drops quickly into darkness.
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[So, does the spell not go underground, it is a sphere? Continuous Light Creates a 60-foot-diameter sphere of lambent light.]
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[You're right I screwed that up, nobody saw the bloody scratches. And Keet is in Pitch black at the open cellar door. The Others in the Light sphere.]
[ALL +100XP for DM humiliation]
[Anyway- Yes I think its way cooler that the sphere should illuminate the entire area of the sphere, however I'm holding Lambency to None. only lighted within and giving off no light outside.]
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[Yes, that makes sense. It like walking from one side of a very thin wall. One side is dark. The other lit.
Another question that plagues me, I know there is no sun for a year, but what of moonlight or starlight, we do see that, right?]
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Yep, both moonlights, starlight, saturn light, comet light, when they can break through this freakin storm cover!
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And i think the sphere behaves like glass at night*. you can only see through it if something gets very close to it.
Light excluded, so torches thirty feet away are invisible to those inside the sphere.
*but not reflective of inside
make sense.
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