Secrets and Stone

[wildestmods]

Who: Need and whoever rescues her, Lloyd and 1 pal.
What: Learning from the ruins
Where: Different areas in Trollmarket
When: After the group discussion, shortly before the group will be made to move on.
Warnings/Notes: N/A for now.

Trollmarket is not an evil place, nor a place tarnished by hidden shadows.

It's a place where a good people once lived. It's a place that is losing its life-giving light as the stone dims, tragically losing something beautiful that touched the magic and life force of a world.

It's a place that was somehow ravaged by the sun by a people who found it to be poison.

There are a few things in the ruins that can help some of them learn a little more about the people that lived here - and therefore a little about the new world they found themselves in.

Comments

[hourglasshalfempty]

:They wear identical clothing. They could have easily been largely mindless magical constructs running loose without their masters, following half-remembered commands. Or an enchantment gone awry.: He'd realized they were intelligent when he saw their king and throne room; that was more than mindless repetition or re-creation could manage.

"With your permission, majesty, we will take this letter and this device to the others. It tells us that there is a place of safety not far from here, where we may find answers and guidance. If necessary, may we bring others to this library to see it for themselves?"

[hasapoint]

:Lots of people wear identical clothes and do things that are hard to understand,: Need insists stubbornly. The constructs she's familiar with are rarely put in outfits, but she really just wants to Teachable Moment this. :Different planes have very different kinds of people sometimes.:

She can't nod, but there's an impression as if she's done so. :Thank you, sire, we will tell them. If any of your people need healing, I can help.:

[wildestmods]

The gnome chatters that it's fine for them to take what they want or bring who they want to the library.

And thanks Need for the offer. Then he signals for his fellow gnomes to head back.