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Alexander inspects the door, then presses his ear against it and listens.

Out of Game: Listen Check:16+2=18

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Haru hugs his mother back, but as he watches her hand Matthias the book, he says. "I would not read that you won't like it, I could not even finish reading it."

Matt takes the book and begins to read silently, taking no head of the boys words of warning. Quickly the look on his, face is that of a grim and disturbed pandering confused and yet deep in thought. Matt begins to flip threw the pages quicker scanning over them less reading and then slams the book closed.

"Your kids right" Matts says in a tone not befitting his normal personal style shoving the book at your chest and dropping it if you do not take it before he releases it.

Matt stairs blankly at the dark hallway leading to the acid pit room and adds. "We should move along." He starts walking down the steps toward the sulfur smell.

Meanwhile:
Alexander the light sound of bubbling can be herd in the distance and a smell of sulfur is in the air.

Edited: KittenPunk on 20th Feb, 2013 - 2:05am

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Alexander pushes the door open and carefully proceeds, light in his off hand and sword in the other.

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Izumi catches the book Matthias shoves into her as he turns to leave. "What did you read?, she calls out to him as he leaves the room.

Puzzled, she looks the book over, then has the idea it might have an enchantment on it. She proceeds to check it before she reads it.

(Out of Character: Spellcraft 15+5+1=21)

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In Character: After handing the bag to Izumi, Krusten returns to her search and heads towards where Felipe is in the acid pit room. She takes the length of her cloak making it a breathing mask across her face.

Out of Character: I already rolled for search, etc some posts ago.

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Alexander the hallway leads to a narrow staircase leading up the webs are nearly gone in this part of the hall and you can see light from the top of the steps. However, you also think you hear something moving a mix with the sound of bubbling.

Krusten, Matt and Felipe are all in the acid pit room now, but there is nothing to be found even for the keenest of eyes. The platform splits to 2 walk ways as a wall divides the room in half lined on both sides with the pits. You can move a round the room on the 5 foot wide passage with out fear of falling in the acid so long as you stick to the wall. On the far side of the room is another platform and steps leading down before a long dark staircase leads down into the wall between and beneath the acid pits.

Izumi finds no enchantment detected, but this book is not in as pristine condition as the other one was, in fact this one looks older and well warn in comparison to the one you fond earlier.

Before opening it to read you turn it on its die to see what number is on this book after all the other book had "I" the roman numeral for one embossed in gold on the binding.

The new book:
A high quality thick blue stained leather bound book is found. On its cover it reads in gold embossing "Journal XII." in large bold print.

Inside the book on the first page it reads:
"Journal of Thomas Greenwater."

I was right, he's here. I can't believe it but I found him at last, but everything I have tried so far fails me. The carvings on the wall I have spent the last several days deciphering appear to be that of the same prophecy I read about back home. A group of emissaries chosen of the people of the land blessed by their Gods will set forth on a path they would of never dreamed taking. Bestowed upon them will be gifts, and guided will their travel start till they have challenges to conquer of their own will. Lay fast the blades of men and womanly power till a group is formed within the darkness. As travel changes the molded form their path shall be lit but not aided till finally the sleeper will be woken at the shedding of a child's blood.

Blood is the key, but it speaks of a child when there is none to be found. Yes, the dreamer bears his youthful form but how can the blood of a dead man be drawn or spilled, and how is the pillars toppled just from blood? This sacrifice makes no sense but all of my research suggests it.
Unless it's at an appointed time"¦ No. No. Now makes more sense.

Then it was all in vain? I have wasted the prim of my years if only to come this far that I may stand in the shadow of the man that I call God and not have the power to resurrect him? I will never surrender! My task is true, and my goal worthy. Oh, Gods of the world, task me with this undertaking. Wait not for a group to prove themselves, for I am here, now!

This can't be a waste. I will not accept it! The connecting rooms have hieroglyphs I have yet to decipher, perhaps with their additional information I can find an alternative to the requirement stated for the sacrificial offering. There must be a way to wake him before the appointed hour.

The next several pages become a scribble of repetitive words and drawings. The ink in some places is so thickly overlapped that it is little more than a black blotch upon the page.

Sets of words such as "Bonds of Blood", "The dreamer rests" waiting to be woken", "Wake the boy but leave the man", "wake the man but leave the boy", 'the wisest fool", "offering" 'sacrifice", "Tower of stone, tower of stone", and "a group will be chosen" repeated on page after page.

Scribbled around them, drawings of foreign symbols, geometric shapes, sketches of wall reliefs, and disjointed segments of map like schematics. On one page a set of eyeglasses is drawn in heavy detail down to the cracks in one of the lenses and the broken spring on the folding hinge of one side.
The book goes on with a great many sketches, some of the images are unidentifiable, others with a touch of madness depicting a room drawn with pillars and a stone alter. Other pages depict the face of an old man resting.

Others with a faceless boys' form sketched spread over the stone bound and wrists cut, a trail of heavy ink splattered across the page.

Out of game:
At this point the book has become tramped in madness and disturbs even the most sane of minds; you will have to make a will check if you want to resist shutting the book to continue reading.

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As Izumi reads, she feels pity for the man. To adventure on a path to find his lost God, only to find that he is not allowed his wish. If he had made at least 12 volumes of notebooks, he must have spent a long time down here in his search, only to be turned away. The maddening jealousy he must have felt, and anger towards "The chosen ones".

She reads on as she notes the mans mind beginning to slip as he ponders the words found in that large room. She looks over the sketches trying to ascertain the meaning of the less identifiable ones. When she finds the page with the boy on the stone with his wrists slit and his lifeblood ebbing away, she pauses before trying to go on...

(Out of Character: Will check 10+5=15)

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Some of the images you start to make out as you study the overlapping ink trying to discern what lines go together and what is part of a different image layered over top.

The shape of an hourglass, a sketch of a plain looking box. A drawing of an eye colored red with the use of blood and ink, a feather broken in half, a round disk on a chain. Another feather this one inked dark black. There are more images to decipher at another time. But, for now you turn the page.

You turn the page and stop an illustration in heavy ink is clearly drawn on a page mostly blacked out around the edges the symbol of a sun rising in the horizon over a horizontal plain. If and when you decide to go to the next page you are surprised to find text as a glimmer of sanity returns to the folds of this book.

"Awake, but not alive. Sleeping, but not dead. Old, but young.
And, all it took was my life. I will be dead by tomorrow, but he is no longer trapped, no longer dreaming. Even if this is all I could do, it is done now, and there is no going back."

The book ends and the remaining pages are blank.