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Inching Closer
Anonymous
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No.175000
175042 175084 175098
The next big quest with everypony in it is coming soon (TM)
1777 replies and 50 files omitted.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176927
176929
>>176923
>So apparently he defied that order and switched out the caskets, hiding the original one.
>We’ve already searched that room, the bedroom in front of it, the library, the smaller library, and the laboratories on the other side from where you came.
After her outburst, Posey lets the mare finish and addresses her description.
"Did you find any traces as to how he transported the real or the fake? Any skid marks or scratches on the floor?"
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176928
176929 176930
>>176925
>I thought I found his phylactery and had it destroyed with help of Father Maren here in city, but there is chance that did not work or it was not actually his phylactery.
Rosey Ring's eye twitches somewhat
"You... Destroyed what you thought was his phylactery.. BEFORE you knew he was destroyed?"
It appears to be a rhetorical question, as the mare seems more exasperated than disbelieving
"The first impulse of those fighting liches. Destroying a Lich's phylactery doesn't destroy the lich, it just prevents them from resurrecting after being killed through other means. If what you destroyed was a phylactery and Curwhinny was indeed a lich, then he should still animate somewhere, but very, very, VERY angry."
Anonymous
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No.176929
176930 176931 176932
>>176927
“You laugh, but there’s a logic to it to him. He thinks that whatever energy a mage has is finite. They will need more from somewhere, and it’ll run out after almost a quarter millennium.. I tried to respond that if the mage went into a kind of stasis, or tupor, then a limited supply could well last a quarter millennium. But you must understand, Joseph Curwhinny is not an unknown figure to us. We know him as that business stallion who got rich off of carrying shipments of slaves for Zebrican traders and importing tobacco, then became a kind of weird recluse in his old age, eventually being murdered in what was basically a labor dispute. There’s not much room in that conception for him to have been a lich. To them, he’s the archetypal capitalist: the Stallion who built Baltimare. To call him a lich is an understandable exaggeration of his villainy, but ultimately unnecessary and a distraction from the real point.

I think the casket - and the term used was ‘casket’, and not sarcophagus - may have been light enough to be carried by two stallions if they were strong though for short distances. But they may have dropped it, put it down, or pushed it at some point. I didn’t see any scuff marks, but I wasn’t looking for them.”

>>176928
Concerned pony noises

“Lichs aren’t real, right? They can’t actually hurt us… right?”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176930
176933 176954
>>176928
Silver's only physical reaction is to shrug.

"Liches have not been around in Equestria for many, many, many years. Curwhinny may have even been last 'living' lich to exist within this country. All of rest are over in Dread League, so those of us who would fight them do not get much chance to learn. And we do not get chance to research how to fight them either when we come to what we think is simple job clearing out quarry of few skeletons and zombies only to find out it is filled with literal army of ghasts. Still though, I am not so sure he will be so angry. What I saw of his journal, he had made peace with living normal life after his experiments failed. Well, before militia ponies showed up, that is."

>>176929
"I mean, there is entire country of them..."
Rosey "Posey" Ring
25cff16
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No.176931
176934
>>176929
>He thinks that whatever energy a mage has is finite.
"He knows little of magic then... The power of a mage is unlimited, the only question is how much power a horn can channel on any given day from the ambient magic so abundant in the universe, or the antithesis of such." Posey says, with a bit of a huff
>I think the casket - and the term used was ‘casket’, and not sarcophagus
"Oh, that's actually quite the difference, as it would affect what state his body is in."
>“Lichs aren’t real, right? They can’t actually hurt us… right?”
Posey does not laugh (her laughs are scarce), despite the hilarity of this question. Her paralyzed, professional face remains dead serious as she answers.
"Yes, they are, and they can."
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176932
176934
>>176929
>I didn’t see any scuff marks, but I wasn’t looking for them.”
"Then let's go look for them." Posey says, proceeding towards said room.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176933
176935
>>176930
"What did you do with the remains of the broken phylactery? I could examine it."
Anonymous
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No.176934
176936
>>176931
“How- How so? What doses it change?”

>>176932
“Why would we want to go looking for it at all? If there’s a living, or well, animated lich in there, I think Feather Duster has the right idea.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176935
176937
>>176933
Silver fishes around in his bags, taking a bit longer to do so than normal being in the dark and lacking night vision. After a few moments, he comes out with a hooffull of pieces that, judging from the small damaged picture among the remains, could have once been a locket. It looks like it was smashed apart with an edged weapon.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
25cff16
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No.176936
>>176934
>What doses it change?
"A sarcophagus, literally meaning 'corpse eater', gets itself name from how the limestone slowly consumes the flesh of the body. If he were in a sarcophagus for centuries without proper dressings, he would be nothing but bones or even dust by now. It's why vampires prefer wooden caskets." She explains.
>Why would we want to go looking for it at all?
"Because that's my job." Posey says, flatly
"Besides, these grounds have been disturbed, and magic casket or not, some things refuse to stay buried. If we just let the casket stay misplaced, we will regret it later, inevitably." She continues
"Besides, Glass Horizons will want to know about it before his insurance finds out."
Rosey "Posey" Ring
25cff16
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No.176937
176938
>>176935
What's inside the locket?
Anonymous
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No.176938
176939 176940
>>176937
The interior is painted with what seems to be a mare and three foals.
Anonymous
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No.176939
176942
>>176938
"A memory of something precious... It's not easy to tell now that any magic it would have had has now vanished, but it's plausible." Rosey Ring replies, squinting at the locket
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176940
176941
>>176938
"May I take this? I may be able to confirm it after some research."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176941
>>176940
With a bit of trepidation due to the nature of the item in question, Silver nods. Realizing that it may be difficult to tell in the dark, he vocally confirms this.

"You may. Maybe it is real, or maybe it turns out Maren got his magic sword out for nothing after all, who knows."
Anonymous
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No.176942
176943 176945
>>176939
It appears to have been made of silver, and it has most certainly been cut by a sword.

>>176917
Neela stares at Kira silently. She has returned to laying on the couch upright with her hooves and forelegs hanging off.

In Free Rover’s defense, she looks and smells delectable
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
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No.176943
176944
>>176942
"...yeah, you know I wouldn't. Anyways...enough about me, I'm a pretty boring subject. But you..." Kira rights herself in her coils. "So...have you had any crushes on males?"
Anonymous
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No.176944
176946
>>176943
She looks down.
“That buck earlier was cute. The mover one. Bright Due was too…”
Anonymous
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No.176945
176947 176950
>>176942
Posey would like to search the room where the casket was, to look for signs of any pony activity.
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
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No.176946
176958
>>176944
"Hehe, I could tell. You wanted to sit in one's lap and the other you tried hitting on even though he's married. He seemed into the attention, though, so I think you had a chance. Have, since I think we succeeded in not scaring him off!" Kira beams a bright smile at Neela.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176947
176948
>>176945
(Maybe GM pone would accept a Search roll?)
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176948
176949
>>176947
It's coming no matter what I'm this situation. Watch me roll a 1.
[1d20+5 = (6+5) = 11]
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176949
>>176948
Gonna roll for Gloomy
[1d20 = 11]
Anonymous
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No.176950
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>>176945
>No one wants to look in the only place in the entire structure that hasn’t already been checked - the only place that’s like a traditional catacomb with bodies in the walls.
I had to look up if “search” is trained check to see if maybe that’s the reason why you haven’t done it thirty posts after being told to do it.

I really am going to have to describe every single place the casket isn’t before being able to finally describe where it is, aren’t I?
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176951
>>176950
Maybe. I've forgotten where that is.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176952
>>176950
>the only place that’s like a traditional catacomb with bodies in the walls
Pardon, I just haven't been able to fully absorb the description of the dungeon.

Now that you point it out, it sounds like an obvious location to search.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176953
176957 176958
"Say, are there any catacombs in this dungeon? A place where various inanimate bodies or caskets may be stored?"
Amber Sunset
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No.176954
176956 176958
>>176914
Amber shrinks beneath the scolding of her father the would-be murderer. She looks aside with teary eyes before forcing herself to look back at him. Her lips are stretched back to the point her molars are showing, and her voice is tremulous.

"But…ponies would be talking about what happened to Vaeltaja. Maybe even more than they are now, whether they know the truth or not. They'll be hanging onto his words, thinking about what was done to him. I'm scared too, Papa, but doing this will only make things worse before the inspector comes, and we'll have to bear the guilt of knowing what you did."

She sniffs. The filly is leaned back low enough to make an indent in the snow. "There has to be another way. You could, you could…send him away from the village so nopony talks to him. And there must be something we don't know about, since ponies don't act this way just from words. Something else is doing that."

>>176930
Would Silver know what the Dread League is? I thought it was basically unknown to most.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176956
>>176954
It doesn't come up in conversation often, but he's mentioned knowing they exist before.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176957
176958 176961
>>176953
>>176950
If Silver's found it, he could show the way. As it is, his player has forgotten.
Anonymous
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No.176958
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>>176946
She smiles, tilts her head, and briefly wags her puffy tail. “You think so?”

>>176953
Pear Faucet:
“Yes, the set of hallways past the entry door have recessed burial chambers. It was probably the first place we catalogued.”

>>176957
Silver perhaps recalls a skeleton becoming animated and pulling itself out of the walls in the hallway not far past the entry door where they found and fought The Corporal.

>>176954
“Little pony… You just… We have to do something to stop him. To stop this. We can’t banish him. He’s too popular. We’d have to bring it up in council, and Ukkonen would defend him. He would defend himself. It wouldn’t work. It would put us in danger, if anything. We can’t reason with him. He thinks the apocalypse is coming and will not fear the Central Council. He is beyond reason. The most obvious thing to do would be to go get the inspector, probably at Kaukainen Piste, and tell him we have a compliance and probably a medical emergency that we cannot contain. But he’ll think it only got this bad by our deliberate indifference. You must understand. I was in the War. Our Council has already been written up for much, much less egregious violations of the ban on public displays of religion. We will be suspected. Not just Vaeltaja.

I think there is something else happening. A virus, or maybe a bacteria. Probably locked in the soil, and unleashed when that meteor melted and scattered the frost. Distemper, or something else. We’re seeing it more amongst Vaeltaja’s followers because he takes them out to The Blast.

But maybe it is just religious fervor. When the role of Shaman was abolished, it created a desire for a new priest. The Pathway Forward is not popular out here as the Old Gods, even the Central Council understands that. There is a reason why Pakkasen wanted to let Vaeltaja preach when he first started. There is a reason Ukkonen follows him even now. Vaeltaja preaches of a world where we see our loved ones again - of a world that isn’t so dark and so cold. Little Kultainen, you need to understand. This is all nonsense. The pathway forward to a better world and a better life - this one and only world, and our one and only life - will be long, hard, and require great sacrifice, but it is very much worth it. And if you want us to see each other after this week, Varltaja must be taken care of.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.176959
176966
>>176958
Silver shivers when remembering The Corporal. That was a fight that nearly did them all in.
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
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No.176960
176966
>>176958
Kira nods enthusiastically.

"Well yeah! If he wasn't into it you'd think he would have stated, 'ma'am, I'm married' or something like that towards your advances. But he didn't, so...I think you have a chance!"
Rosey "Posey" Ring
e0cb42b
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No.176961
176965 176966
>>176957
Catacombs are something that Posey would be interested in examining even if she had no quest, just for recreation.
>>176958
>“Yes, the set of hallways past the entry door have recessed burial chambers. It was probably the first place we catalogued.”
"That sounds like the ideal place to hide a casket. Let's go check there."
Amber Sunset
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No.176964
176966
>>176958
Tears run down Amber's cheeks as she listens to the horrible dilemma. "If you can kill him, you can drive him away. Just get him away from here without hurting him. Please don't do anything so terrible!"
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176965
176966
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>>176961
>>176958
Posey's pace increases as she hears that there are catacombs to explore.
Anonymous
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No.176966
176968 176969 176978 176984
>>176960
Stilling wagging her small, tuft of a tail,
"Hey yeah, that's right. He seemed a bit receptive. You think we'll see him more, right? Maybe he'll be even more receptive in the future. It's a shame we couldn't get either of those movers to stay... Maybe if we had some alcohol. That's what we really need is some alcohol.

>>176964
He breaks eye contact and looks away. He appears to be crying to.

"We don't - we don't have much of a choice, Kultainen..."

>>176959
>>176961
>>176965
Moving away from the central area and along the hallway, past the laboratories, the hallway extends for some feet before turning at a 90 degree angle. There, it continues, coming to a busted down wooden door on the right, and then eventually ending in a mirrored 90 degree turn to the left, which comes back to the central room.

Along the walls of the hallway are recessed burial chambers like in a traditional catacomb or crypt. These are two high, each one offset from the one above or below, and with rounded ends on the top, but flat on the bottom. Some of these are sealed with brick and mortar. Some of them are completely open, and completely vacant. Where this occurs, Posey can see that these are carved into the clay, and supported by stone. A few have clear evidence of being broken open, with bricks on the ground, or with bricks partially covering them. One at least contains a complete equine skeleton.

Periodically, along the floor, there are little markings, sometimes with a small flag with a flat base to stand upright, sometimes with yarn, and most often with chalk, of locations along the floor.

But what may be most interesting is one of the burial chambers on the lower level. Barely squeezed in between the rounded portions on the top, and filling essentially the entire space, is a large stone rectangle. There are signs of chipping and scratches along the edges of the recess, and a few on the stone itself.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176968
176970
>>176966
>But what may be most interesting is one of the burial chambers on the lower level. Barely squeezed in between the rounded portions on the top, and filling essentially the entire space, is a large stone rectangle.
That sounds like what we're looking for. Posey examines this first.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
3c70351
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No.176969
176970
>>176966
>Some of these are sealed with brick and mortar. Some of them are completely open, and completely vacant. Where this occurs, Posey can see that these are carved into the clay, and supported by stone. A few have clear evidence of being broken open, with bricks on the ground, or with bricks partially covering them.
Does the brick and mortar appear to be more than 1 foot?
Anonymous
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No.176970
176971 176978
>>176968
It is not decorated in any way, and fits within half of an inch of the top of the recess, and is snug with the edges, clearly having hit and slightly damaged the edges of the recess as it was placed. Best guess to the substance it is made of is a cheaper or perhaps spoiliated white marble. The lid as well as parts of the container itself show obvious signs of serious cracking and damage, very unlikely to have been caused during transport, based on the positioning of the damage on the top. There are presumably slots for iron spikes to keep the top in place, though the marble near these is cracked.

>>176969
About 7 and three quarters inches in thickness, which is to say, standard brick width.

Go ahead. You won’t desperately wish you had those spells slots later, to accomplish what could have waited a day, or have been accomplished with a hammer.
Anonymous
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No.176971
176972
>>176970
>Go ahead. You won’t desperately wish you had those spells slots later
Well, my detect magic is a 1/day SLA, so I use it or lose it.
>>176970
>It is not decorated in any way, and fits within half of an inch of the top of the recess
Does it match the description of the false iron casket?
Anonymous
c59d419
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No.176972
176973
>>176971
“That’s about the sane dimensions, more or less” she says. “Maybe very slightly larger, but I don’t have a measuring tape on me.”

>if you detect magic on the burial chamber you won’t be able to detect magic on anything later
Actually, that makes things more fun
Anonymous
3c70351
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No.176973
176974
>>176972
>“That’s about the same dimensions, more or less” she says. “Maybe very slightly larger, but I don’t have a measuring tape on me.”
"Have you actually seen the original?"
>you won’t be able to detect magic on anything later
I can still cast it out of my lvl 1 slots, but I would rather avoid that because I need those, and Dread Necromancers don't get any lvl 0 slots for some reason.
Anonymous
c59d419
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No.176974
176975
>>176973
>I can still cast it out of my lvl 1 slots, but I would rather avoid that because I need those
Correct. You do.

“Uh, well… briefly… I can confirm there were no markings and I do think it was marble. But I can’t say I did much more than a quick examination.”
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.176975
176976
>>176974
"I could cast a spell to detect Undead, with the same range as my magic detection. It would at least tell us if there's any monsters nearby or in this casket."
Anonymous
c59d419
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No.176976
176977
>>176975
Pear:
“Any monsters, in that casket or otherwise, are sealed away. They are only dangerous if we disturb them.”
Rosey "Posey" Ring
3c70351
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No.176977
176979 176980
>>176976
"That I know, but it's also my job to catalog the presence of monsters in this catacomb."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
3952934
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No.176978
176979
>>176966
>>176970
Silver got more than just a brief look at the original casket. Can he tell if it's the original?
Anonymous
c59d419
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No.176979
176980 176981
>>176977
Her ears go down
“This whole place has been gone through by raiding parties twice now. We’ve been in here working for days. There can’t be monsters in here we didn’t know about.” She speaks without confidence.

>>176978
If it isn’t, it’s most certainly of the same make.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
3952934
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No.176980
>>176979
>>176977
"It would not look good for my track record if I missed undead creatures here when I had already received payment. Anyways, this casket looks like it is correct one."

(OOC, there is one issue with using detect spells I've figured out: if you use Detect Magic, you won't find any other magic items left to be found here in the catacombs, and Detect Undead is the same way for undead if Rosey was, somehow, an evil dread necromancer looking for undead minions for her new lair.)