House of Cards 1.2
Once again the party shares a surreal yet visceral and partially-lucid dream where they move from room to room in a manor of some kind with a questionable-at-best floorplan.
Present in this dream are Maximus, Whisper, and Pipistrelle.
Locksmith's Workshop
A modest, wood-panelled room lined with workbenches. Bolted to the workbenches are various small vices and small pedal-powered grinding wheels. Scattered about are small blank metal keys.
Found Tool
- Large Key Mould
Furnace Elemental
Encountered a hostile Fire Elemental in the Furnace Room. It appears to have made the furnace itself its home, causing it to surge with intense heat even without fuel.
Bookshop
Books line shelves locked behind crystal glass in this room. A coin slot allows for the purchase of several books.
Denizens of The Realm
An old leather-bound book with no author purchased in the Bookshop of The First House Of Cards. All but one page appear to have been torn out.
Found Pages of Denizens of The Realm
Throne Room
Found Secret
- Pulled secret lever hidden behind the throne
Observatory
Found a short guide to the "constellations" in the "sky" which the large telescope in this room points up at. Looking through the telescope reveals an infinite void of swirling pinkish murk, dotted with glowing golden diamond shapes. These "stars" do not resemble any actual known celestial bodies visible above Istolaire in either form or position.
"Constellations" in The First House Of Cards
- Ruby: 1 lone star
- Sapphire: 2 stars
- Emerald: 3 stars which form an equilateral triangle
- Gold: 4 stars which form a symmetrical trapezoid
- Amethyst: 5 stars which form a pentagon
- Quartz: 6 stars which form a rectangle made of two equal squares
Jeweller's Workshop
Found Item: Giant Gold Ring
- A large gold ring, formed like a finger ring but easily as big as a bracelet to a regular humanoid.
- Embedded in the ring in a single-file line along about one quarter the outer circumference are the following faceted stones:
- An emerald, a sapphire, an amethyst, a smoky quartz crystal, a ruby