Dark Rumblings

[Ebiris]

"Hopefully he has knowledge that's useful to us then," Alicia says, carrying onwards.

[Anastasia]

A short hallway with three doors on either side and a door at the end. The sonorous voice speaks, "Those who have long thoughts from the long walk, take the leisure. To your sides are meditation rooms, where one can become closer to Mystra's will. Those who are resolved and ready should continue onward."

[Ebiris]

Alicia checks the meditation rooms for monsters, consecrating the whole area before opening the door ahead.

[Anastasia]

Ahead is a simple room with stairs going up - collapsed. Dead greenery and dead vermin are both here, along with a door to the north and a door to the east. By both doors are signs.

[Ebiris]

What do the signs say?

She's gonna open them anyway but still.

[Anastasia]

The north door reads, 'Spell laboratory' and the eastern door reads, 'Wondrous laboratory'.

[Ebiris]

The spell laboratory is opened up and explored and consecrated!

[Anastasia]

Within you find something - a single brain floats in a jar of fluids, floating up and down slowly. Profane symbols are engraved into the jar, a steady flow of green and black energy materializing around it and going into the brain.

[Ebiris]

Any knowledge for wtf is going on here?

Also blessed sight/greater arcane sight info as to evilness/spells active?

[Anastasia]

K:A real quick.

[Ebiris]

[20:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+50+15 Marie arcana
[20:55] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+50+15 Marie arcana --> [ 1d20=17 ]{82}
[20:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+46 Alicia arcana
[20:55] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+46 Alicia arcana --> [ 1d20=15 ]{61}

[Anastasia]

You've heard of this. A profane necromantic ritual to turn living minds into spellbooks, using the intelligence there to sort, organize and hold the magic. The main draw is that spells recorded that way align better for certain necromantic rituals. It's a rare but valid choice of the discriminating evil necromancer.

[Ebiris]

"Grotesque," Alicia says, walking up and using a dispel evil to break the profane focus of the ritual before she reaches into the jar and plucks the brain out, a burst of silver flame boiling over it and causing a skull to form around it, skin following as a spine stretches down and the rest of the body slowly rebuilds itself.

Regenerate function of silver fire used. Per the spell physical regeneration takes 2d10 rounds without the missing body parts to attach.

[Anastasia]

Normally I'd rule regenerate isn't sufficient to restore an entire body. It restores lost parts, not recreates the body wholesale. However, this is deific action with silver fire so I'll allow it.

The body is of a thin, bony old man, slowly forming. Once his mouth forms he screams, screams silently at first but with volume as his chest and lungs regrow.

[Ebiris]

"Peace," Alicia bids, more silver fire rippling over him as she shifts to supporting him by the back of the neck rather than clutching the top of his head as he reforms.

Greater restoration function used which cures masses of stuff including insanity.