One Stream, Two Chambers, Three Puzzles and a lot of Vis

After three days on the road the Magi and companion reached the village of Saint Sebastian. Leaving asides some small incidents involving fire, snow, witch craft and sainthood the villagers were persuaded to show Jen to the shrine of Saint Sebastian located some distance from the village in a cave. Yvonne and Calvin tailed them at a distance with Virida running between. The villagers departed after depositing Jen at the cave and it was time for the exploration to begin.

Upon entering the cave it was discovered that a small stream ran down the centre of the passageway and that strange glowing moss grew on the walls. Yvonne collected some moss on a stone to help light her dungeonlab. Further on the passageway forked and two tunnels led up and down. The upper passageway seemed well ventilated and the clear sweet tasting stream was running down that passage. Everyone ascended to the chamber in the right hand fork, except Yvonne who kept falling down because of the water and the divine-ness of the place. In the chamber was an island surrounded by water upon which a statute with outstretched arms stood, several glowing objects at his feet.

The first to attempt to cross to the statue was Jen who promptly found him her itself completely immersed in water which is quite a feat for a stream that’s only ankle deep. Just before it began to panic a voice spoke calmingly about the Divine, asking it to accept it truly with its whole heart. Upon doing so Jen immediately found itself standing in front of the statue on the island. It retrieved one of the artefacts lying at the feet of the statue and cross the small stream to join its companions. Calvin and Virida were soon to follow and also returned sporting small divine gifts.

At the fork in the passageway Yvonne impatiently awaited their return. The lower passageway led to down into the darkness and eventually to a large chasm. This barrier delayed our magi for sometime as they concocted various methods to get around it. Yvonne finally made a bridge of air and with Virida’s ropes and Calvin’s gremlinses skills, they managed to cross the chasm.

Finally they entered into a large chamber lit by flame. One wall of the chamber was oddly rounded and had a strange design marked on it, two others contained a number of objects and a set of hands and the centre of the chamber was taken up by a large chandelier and table with many coloured glowing flames on it.

Fascinated by these objects the group began to examine them. Upon discovering that here were puzzles for them to solve the Magi dissolved into a friendly competition to defeat the cipher, logic puzzle and flaming table. At each success a grinding rumbling sound echoed through the chamber from the vicinity of the curved wall. The Magi could feel themselves getting closer to the goal. However before they had completed the last challenge their companion took it upon itself to un-complete one by removing the coloured globe that Calvin had so carefully selected and placed into the hands on the right wall. Jen could only hurriedly replace the ball when the grinding rumbling sound was joined by the tinkling sound of breaking glass…
Upon completing the final puzzle the curved wall rolled back and the Vis source was revealed. A beautiful geometric design around a well of power produced crystals of raw magical power… most of which Jen had crushed by un-completing the puzzle.

As Yvonne and Calvin debated the best method to collect the crystals, Virida reached forth and tried to collect the shards of the broken vis with her fingers incautiously. The shards cut into her releasing raw magical power into her blood and triggering wizard’s twilight. Fighting against this frightening experience Viridia struggles free but not without results, her fingertips are now pure hard sharp diamonds. Jen immediately comes to her assistance with its knife, attempting to dig the crystals out of her skin but with no chirgury skills Jen is sadly ineffective and manages only to wound itself. Yvonne collects the power from the Vis shards into a few of the larger remaining pieces and plucks the whole crystals from the air. After a short debate where it is decided not to render down the now unconscious Jen for Vis but to instead cast a permanent female aspect onto it. Calvin unfortunately doesn’t quite succeed and manages to anchor this to himself instead of Jen. To douse the spell he extinguishes the red flame on the table the he linked it to, plunging the chamber into darkness. A quick creo ignem shows that the chamber no longer contains the puzzles and that the passageway instead of leading up out of the chamber leads down.