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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:36 pm
Maryl almost began to panic again watching the gauge ticker rise so quickly. "Uh oh! That's bad isn't it?" She looked around the control panel frantically then turned her eyes to the lever. She gripped it with both hands and yanked down on it as hard as she could. Please work.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:39 pm
The lever stuck at first then slowly moved down to its lowest point before clanking into place. The sound of rushing water seemed to intensify but the gauge ticker began to retreat back toward the green. Eventually the sound of rushing water began to subside as well.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:43 pm
Maryl wiped her forehead and let out a sigh of relief. She decided to walk out of the machine room and round the corner back to the circular room. She walked toward the stairs and paused to look for any changes to the room itself. She hurried up the stairs to look over to the eastern door to see if the lights were the same.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:46 pm
The reservoir room had drained out significantly. The entry and catwalk seemed farther above the water. The water level lowered, revealing a path to the lower catwalk and a lower section of the walkway that had been previously submerged. The eastern door remained the same One red light on and one green off.
The previously submerged walkway dropped off to a point where the passage was stone instead of old metal and leading down to a landing by the surface of the water.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:02 pm
Maryl looked up at the door to see it unchanged. In disappointment, she hung her head and sighed. As soon as she opened her eyes again she noticed the water much farther below and a path leading farther down. She hurried back down the stairs and down the catwalk to get to the stone path. Since it was wet she slowed her pace to make sure not to slip and fall.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:40 pm
At the landing mist rose from the waterfall generated by the grating from the previous room. The stone was obviously hewn to form a reservoir but around the bottom pool to the south lied a section of the stone wall with a rather large crack in it. The crack generated a faint howling noise as air flowed through it.
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Lebia rolled 1 100-sided dice:
32
Total: 32 (1-100)
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:57 pm
As Maryl reached the landing, she could hear a faint howling noise. She carefully made her way to where the sound was the strongest and found herself at the southern wall. She tapped on the wall with her knuckles and came to the conclusion that it was hollow. The first idea was to blast the crack open, so she took a few steps back and held up her book. Well here goes... The spellbook flipped open to a page as Maryl raised her hands and wand up into the air. "Drops of mist, gather before me and form into a torrential vortex!", she called out, twirling her wand around herself then holding it out forward. Streams water rose around her forming into a crystal clear sphere. "Aqua ray!"
As Maryl finished, the sphere unleashed like a Geyser, streaming toward the cracked wall and slamming into it with tremendous force.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:05 pm
As the water collided with the cracked wall, the stone crumbled and broke away unveiling an alcove in the wall. The space consisted of a minor depression and a back wall of polished flat stone and a faintly glowing magic circle. As the water cleared, the circle began to rotate in place and glow brightly. It resembled the image on the parchment.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:10 pm
Maryl approached the circle curiously, to get a better look at it. It looked familiar. She dug the parchment out of her pocket and looked at it, then at the circle, then back at the parchment again. After taking a deep breath, she approached the circle and placed a hand at the center. She thought to herself, wondering what it did or why she had to find it. All those questions or relevancy started seeping back up.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:14 pm
As Maryl put her hand on the center the circle illuminated brightly whiting out the area of the room. It flashed three times before vanishing from the wall and taking Maryl with it. The circle was a teleportation spell set up and left on that wall.
((Go to the Library.))
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:15 pm
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