D&D II Act One Scene IV(a) - The Dead in Osinzir

The statues are about the height of ten men. Most of the rulers are in the same expressionless pose, in robes, looking forward. Some of the more interesting ones show dramatic scenes from their life. A man leaping with fire in his hands, another strangling a demon, a woman holding her lover as a robed figure hovers over them both.

The guards are armed with steel Qiangs.

He simply lies dead in the snow, represented beautifully by chiseled quartz.

Retula crosses the bridge, the giant castle in front of her. More guards line the path up to the front gate. Near the gate are two mature golden dragons.

Hetyaro indicates that Retula is to go around the castle. The dragons lie quite a distance from her and Hetyaro.

Suddenly a blue spherical portal opens in the courtyard. The Osinzir guards seem unconcerned.

Banjo wrote: »

She makes a lewd but unrecognisable hand gesture that gives far too much away about the debased nature of activities on the plane of shadows.

OOC: At who?

Retula goes around the building, following Hetyaro.

Right there in Osinzite and Common is a plaque announcing, as Hetyaro intimated, Merculin's Townhouse.

Mr. H on his walk around the house, sees there is a pantry room to the left hand side. Hetyaro, flying to the first floor, sees a bedroom, with a fresco of a panther and a long bed, with some kind of grey device attached to another one, shaped like a box, via a rope.

Opening the doors she steps into a lobby with a black crystal chair and a strange flat disk near a box, on which is depicted a man on a bird. The writing on the box is in some unknown language.

On the West wall is a closed door and the pantry entrance. On the East wall, two closed doors.

She walks into the pantry, which contains rows and rows of cans, with the same strange writing symbols on them as the box.

Banjo wrote: »

Does she recognize the origin of the symbols, eg she knows what infernal looks like even though she can't read it.

Also, is there a can opener?

There is a can opener on one of pantry shelves.

The writing is not of any form she has ever seen.

OOC: She'd recognise the orthography of almost all of the Player's Handbook languages.

The box contains more of the language, as well as multiple pictures of this man in various situations. Little else can be told of it.

OldGoat wrote: »

He, playing up the human side of his mixed blood, walks over to the nearest guard and engages in conversation.
"Hello my man. Nice spear! I'm a stranger in town and looking to get settled. Could you point me in the direction of anything that might be of interest, like other strangers, places of entertainment, food, accommodation, mysteries, easy money.
Also, is that portal destination determined by music. I mean, if I play a tropical island kinda beach party Waikiki vibe will I end up on a tropical island at a beach party? That'd be pretty cool.

Start with the food."

The guard laughs.

"That's essentially how the gate works, we just sent somebody to Corrilos, I'm guessing you came from there. It's a bard powered gate.

Food and entertainment can be lacking here, it's mainly the palace with the other buildings being preserved for historical reasons, this is the place where Osinzir was founded, with most of the empire in the jungles to the South or on the moons, nobody lives here anymore. Nearest decent restaurant is on the moons, the nearest not decent one is around the castle, "The Kitchen" it would translate as in common, I think it's labelled as such. Though it's food for powering manual work, not for taste.

Any other strangers? A Shadar Kai went by a few moments ago, with a sentient bird and a summoned unicorn, I haven't seen anything that bizarre since last spring with the robot ghost. If you meet her, tell her the dragons want to see her."

He sees the Kitchen clear enough, steam rising from the open fry at the back. Some workers from the Paddy field that feeds the castle sit about it with large bowls of meat soup.

Another, bigger, crowd has gathered outside a red mansion across the street.

OldGoat wrote: »

Mags is drawn towards the bigger crowd near the mansion. Audience trumps appetite. He ask a couple of lads at the back what's going on.

One of the crowd turns to face Mags, a rich looking old woman in a floral dress.

"Somebody has entered a mansion, probably looking for an advantage in the race. They haven't used the mansion in the race in a long time. I wonder what they'll find."

Banjo wrote: »

Retula takes a closer look at the disk, and if there's no obvious sign of traps she'll open the box.

OOC : What other situations is the guy on the box seen in, out of interest? Anything that demonstrates he's not tiny? Because Retula is on high alert for a psychotic sparrow-jockey right now

On the back of the box the man stands with four boys and a woman in some kind of wheat field. From the images he seems normal sized.

The disk is reflective, Retula can clearly see her face in it. When angled correctly in the light there is a slight rainbow like effect on its surface.

Opening the box shows a grove that clearly is meant to hold the disk.