[Game Thread] Basic Enchantment in House Blue

[Moridain]

She nods her head, getting rid of the mild blush. "A fair toll then." she smiles, 'vanishing' the two coins with a gently flick of her fingers.

"Do you come here often, then? It would be a very pleasant place to study, after all."

[Nickolie]

Lance took a step forward and turned to look at Summer.
"No, mostly I come here every third week to tend the plants on my turn. Though sometimes I will bring a trusted friend here to see it, or lovely new student who wants to know more about the hidden corners of House Blue."
He smiled to himself and gently plucked a flower from the air, a small blue thing that smelled to sweet and seemed very delicate. Lance held it for a second then with the flower in his palm he held it up and blew towards her, like some blow a kiss. The flower drifted through the air right up to Summer.
"So, Mad Ferret's Room, The Endless Hall, Lord Duemo's Library, or the Dragon Sea Caves next?"

[Moridain]

Summer tries, unsuccessfully, to pretend that the word 'lovely' didnt make her heart flutter.

When the flower floats over to her she grabs it out of the air as if plucking it from a bush and slips it behind one ear.

"While I may be an adventurer, I am also a student. Lord Duemo's Library I say." She beams, stepping over to the hole again. She raises an eyebrow, "If I simply drop, will the enchantment catch me..?"

[Nickolie]

"Yes, but be careful."
He walked over to her side and looked down at the hole.
"It's best to do it slow. There have been a few times when it missed, or didn't notice someone who moved to fast."
He leaned over the edge and wiggled his feet, implying that it was him that the spell had missed.
"Just step over, I'll come down a second or two after. Don't want to land on you now do I."
The spell catches who ever goes over the edge and gently lowers them much as it lifted them.

[Moridain]

Grinning, Summer steps brazenly over the edge, dropping swiftly, but safely, to the ground. She steps aside, waiting for her guide to follow.

[Nickolie]

Lance led her then to an open library. Mostly it was filled with text books and out dated text. It was a place to find research martial and contained very few real spell books. It was a large area but was unsupervised for the most part. The only thing keeping an eye on the students was a tiny Air Elemental, and the spell that stopped any books from leaving the room with out first being signed out in a book next to the exit.

Lance smiled his way past the few House Blue students in the area, and led Summer back in to the book shelves. Here he paused and smiled at her, and held his finger to his lips.
"Shhh, We are in the right row. This one is not as tricky."
He opened his arms, like one would do when offering up a challenge. He was going to let her try to find the door to this one as well.

[Moridain]

Summer doesnt bother to bring out her tools this time, and simply begins looking around for a switch or trigger for this hidden library. She has heard many tales of books that, if pulled open a secret door.

[Nickolie]

After Summer searched the area for a book, or other form of trigger, and failed she looked slightly closer at the books themselves. See what would be the book to have a trigger. After a short while she came across "Lord Duemo's Key" she took it from the wall and nothing happened. Everything was still normal and in place.

Lance grinned and leaned against the book shelf. He motioned for her to open it and read. He chuckled and made sure no one was looking.

Inside the front cover was a small scribbled note, something hard to read and not purely in common. It was like a spell, but not quite. [Decipher Script Check DC 15, to understand that this is a magical pass word of some kind, and needs to be read out]

[Moridain]

Summer opens the book with a grin and scans the first page with a sinking feeling. Smart she may be, but she has her fathers skill with the written word.

She sees one of her mothers favorate cryptograms though and smiles. While normally such a task would be above her...

ooc Rolled a 19.

[Nickolie]

"Well then."
Lance waits for her to say the words, as the book tells her too. He then repeats them, as he knew them by heart now.

There was a sudden sinking feeling, an over powering force that seemed to swallow them whole and suck them down to some dark place. Though the feeling was quickly over and once more both Lance and Summer were on solid ground. Though not the same ground. They stood in a runic circle as if summoned. Around them was a library, though it seemed older, mustier and much more rich in it's decor.

Lance stepped forward and spoke clearly.
"Hail to the keeper, we come to learn."
He waited a second then waved Summer forward.
"Always say that when you come here, or he gets a bit touchy."

The area was maybe 30ft by 30ft in total not a larger area, but it was stuffed with books that looked to be very very old and filled with arcane lore. Also there were three small writing desks set up to study.

"Welcome to the hidden study of Lord Duemo, second Head Master of House Blue."
Lance said proudly as he himself glanced around the dimly candle lit room.
"He set it up for himself, but shared it with a few favored students. Then hid the key in the cover of a book, so that it would not be lost."
Lance tapped on one of the stone outer walls, it was laced with arcane runes that had the faintest blue glow.
"It is a space inside a space. To leave we just step back in to the circle and say I've finished my studies."

[Moridain]

Eyes enchanted by the vast stores of arcane knowledge around her, Summer almost neglects to say "H-Hail to the keeper, we come to learn". And even then she says it with a slight stutter.

Bouncing slightly on her heels she hugs lances arm slightly. "It is for libraries like this that I came here! Books full of arcane power, just waiting to be pored through..!" Her fingers ache to grab the books that have already caught her eye, books she has only heard of and many she has never even considered, which is even better.

She beams at lance, "I suppose you get lost in here, some days..?"

[Nickolie]

Lance looked down at her and nodded.
"Yes, this is were I come to study if things get challenging. I rarely need to use half the things in here, but it is good to have them."
He did not make a big deal out of his arm being hugged, but he did put his free hand on her arm, a sign of affection, or friendship.
"Come here any time you like, but try not to let others see it. The more that see it, the more likely students who don't really care for it will sneak in, or someone from another House."

[Moridain]

She grins, "The added deception and secrecy just makes this place an even more amusing place to go to."

"Do you mind..?" She asks, whimsically, gesturing toward the book cases. She hates to cut the tour short, but she had spotted a book on a magical quandry that had troubled her for weeks!

ooc feel free to 'drag' her away from here if you wish, but I thought I would give you a good spot to end scene. She can always continue her tour the next day, or week, after all.

[Nickolie]

"No, go ahead. Though I think I should get going myself. I have much to do. I am glad you like it, I'll see you later."
He back stepped on to the circle and muttered his goodbyes then said.
"I've finished my studies."

OOC With that we are finished. We still have to wait on the others before I start the next day mind you.

[Moridain]

ooc Cool. Well, just so you know: Summer has Basic Divination in the morning. Also Jared, my new char, has Basic Magical Arms and Armor. As strange as it is for my first class as a hous black char to be in house Red.