- Thurlgood
- Room is half study, half chamber
- Room smells like smell ozone
- Writing desk on the side, drawer is open
- Two large armoires
- One more staircase leading upwards
- Thalina investigates the drawers - whole bunch of things:
- Very short set of reports written to various people to Master Valethin on Varlow
- Lark Southbank Watcher
- Letter on Varlow’s movements - think he works for the Gutter Court
- Written by Sabel - Describes a time that Varlow was approached by the Serrakin Guild
- They had some sort of disagreement
- Gave a folder thing in velim to Varlow
- Looks like Serrakhin Guild is trying to influence Varlow
- Varlow has made contact with Alina on 4 occasions - written by a senior to the other two
- Library steps
- Eastern garden
- Alina was flustered - believed Varlow was trying to get close to Alina
- Assessment at the end - looks like Serrakhin Guild is paying Varlow off
- Final report - opportunity to ambush Varlow at this house 2.5 days ago
- A couple of letters written to my Dearest Alaris (the mage) - Lady Sotro
- Letter that reads as if Sotro and Alaris are both in love
- Pretty door - tucked into my portrait like a scandal behind her fan
- Second letter
- She is upset that Alaris is paying close attention to Varlow
- Alaris has a scar under his left nipple - he used to weigh more
- Search the armoir - has a bunch of chains and rings
- Think it is worth 100 - 500 gold pieces
- Magical cloak with warding sigils on it
- Cloak of protection - +1 to AC
- He didn’t know about Merrick Thalin’s plans
- One wall is covered with chalk diagrams - lots of things connected
- War, Nature, Religion, ????, People?
- Besides it is a painting - the painting is looking back. The painting itself is an empty white space that we’re seeing from a distant 45 degree angle. There is a single pedestal with a book on it
- There is a painting on the fourth
- Painting and orb - tell everyone to not touch the painting. Think it’s an opening to another dimension. The magic is deep, old, and not something that Alaris is capable of
- Orb that has been built over time
- Trying to link into the portal - looks like a scrying divination sphere
- Seems like it looks at people in the portal
- The apple is now in the painting
- Thalina got another nat 20
- As she first pours energy into the orb - see a picture of a bedraggled mage sitting. Sat in a military encampment. Looks disheveled, scarred, and tired. Staring out into the misty distance.
- He’s been stuck in there a day
- The painting sends you to a lobby, Alaris threw him in there. Then he wandered. Different rooms - he’s in the paintings of the paintings
- There are doors within the paintings
- On the losing side of a battle
- Painting of a church in a religious section - must use the index. Index will give you a set of symbols, and we need to think of those symbols in the church to get out
- Church hidden on the mountainside. Ask the index for mountainside church recently indexed
- Have to get through the ceremony without disturbing anyone
- We all jump into the painting - in a completely white empty void
- 4 golden arch doors
- Recent entry alive index request - mark down 4 symbols. Round symbol, square, pitchfork, flame
- We enter gallery of war, concentrate on those 4 symbols, and
- Northern arch - gallery of war
- Seems to be an endless amount of stars above us - hanging and slowly rotating are thousands of paintings. Some are stationary. Some have people acting out scenes. All appear to be depictions of war or battle.
- Hands tied behind his back, and rope tied to his hands
- We jumped into the battlefield painting
- Dawn on the morning of a battlefield war - plopped besides a fireplace with a bedraggled Varlow
- Asked Varlow about the Serrakhin Guild
- He does love Alina
- Took money and then feel in love with her
- There is a golden archway hovering in the air about 500 yards away
- We spoke with the cook - side fights for King Mykel
- Paintings depict some time in mankind’s history
- 150 men on our side and 1000 - 1500 on their side (army of Prince Jaspia)
- Jaspia’s Banner is around the exit
- Men last 15 minutes
- The curator saw us while we were in the painting
- We inspired the men and
- Alaris woke the curator by lying to us - started materialize in the air
- Long silhouette - no face, only suggestion of structure
- We go to the religious gateway
- We landed not in the mage’s tower. Landed into extravagent quarters - Valethin Insignia