On Monday, October 13, 2025 1:50 PM Stuck Ey via Emerald Flame wrote:
Do the orbs come apart or open? Are they all the same? Marking? Assuming they can't be opened and they are all identical, continue mapping out where we are. -Os
The orbs look made to come apart, but they don't by themselves. They have a flowing, rune like pattern etched into the panels, but it is not in a script that any of you recognize, and might just be ornamental. We could proceed on the mapping, there's not much left of the area, but... On Monday, October 13, 2025 6:14 PM via Emerald Flame wrote:
Nia will try to pick up one of the three orbs.
Assuming she doesn’t burst into flames or something similar, she would tap the orb against the edge of her shield to see if it sounds hollow.
[OOC: I'm going to take a bit of liberties with what you're okay with here, interject if you have a different idea...] As Nia takes the orb and taps it against her shield, inspects it up close, and so on, the assistant silently hovers over to Nia and reassembles its ornate panels of its "arm" into a "hand"-like shape, expecting Nia to give the orb to it. When she acquiesces, it absorbs the orb into itself and begins hovering out of the chamber, back the way you came. Following the assistant, it flies back to the chasm you crossed when you entered the temple. The shadows in the room you fled do not grow in any way similar to last time, and you are not in that room long enough for it to matter, anyway. When you all reach the chasm, the assistant stops right at the edge, seemingly wanting to cross, but being unable to. It continues to hover there, the orb still within its form, and it speaks [translated as in pidgin again] to the party "incubator... cannot reach". From what you observed, it's possible the assistant cannot hover more than a couple feet off the ground, making the chasm problematic. [Checks and etc. here welcome as desired; I'd say you have a variety of options if you want some of the eggs for yourselves, and/or if you want to satisfy the assistant and try to get it or the egg to the other side.] As you are determining what to do next here, you hear some indistinct commotion from the other side of the chasm, vaguely muffled in a sense that makes you think it might be coming from above ground. -- bss (Brian S. Stephan) | https://bss.zone/ | GPG: 0x80895FCB