The Sunken Circle, The Temple of The Archons Steps lead down from each of the five shrines into the sunken area at the center of the Temple of Archons. Along the wall of the depression at shoulder height, an inscription is carved, “It Belongs Not to the Pawn to Question the Intention of the Hand That Moves It”. The bulk of the sunken area is taken up by a single immense block of red stone that has been carved into a wondrous model of a city. When one descends the stairs, the model lights up, illuminated by the same light that currently falls on Zyan above. When you first viewed the model, the streets are lit by the mottled light of sun through dappled clouds. But later, when you poke your heads in to the temple, the model is lit by silver light of the moon and phantasmagorical pools that accumulate below the city's dangling colored lanterns. The model rises to shoulder height at its highest, and waist height at its lowest. It is stylized, with some buildings and locations of ou
So we should have seven Potions of Oneiric Transference left. We have a couple of commitments: we owe the Chittering Masons a pile of cloth, and we told Ela the ghost-maid we'd try to free her from eternal servitude. We can see how much of that library we can clear out via priaduct, too...
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ReplyDeleteWe used the robes to corral the paper soldier, the library keys worked, but there was a mysterious force field over an area of the shelving (a weird pit with gravity-bending, very Escher or Labyrinth ). Fortunately I rolled a 31 when Ben said Dozar had a 40% chance to dispel it.
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