Trouble in the Lower City V
Date
April 11, 2021, noon
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Organizations
Location
Lower Amber City
Largesse Level
Small
Comments and Log
Danielle seems to be surveying the buildings referring to her notebook. She appears to have noted each place where her and kynan had found the spider ingsigna the first go round and is looking for new markings
Kynan is also continuing his survey of every standing wall, post, and door, looking up and down and around. He's at a different location than Danielle though.
The buildings are not particularly interesting; no new marks, no attacks by great eight-legged beings of pur malevolence... And this one, one in her notebook, is... not like it is in her notebook. The marking is not there. So is the wall. The wall is not there. There is a lack of what Danielle's notebook says is a run-down warehouse. Instead, there is a small pottery, including a shop front.
Over by Kynan, there is a good series of standing posts - he is a little downhill, where a spit of water leads up to what is now a dry dock, but must have once been a wet dock. There are a lot of stubs of old metal posts in the floor, some up to a foot high.
Danielle blinks and checks her notebook again. First, she'll use her physical sense to scan for signs a wall had recently been there but removed by conventional means, hammer, chisel, trampling wyvern and then her sense of magic for that type of hijinks in the area
Kynan steps back for a moment, considering the structures in front of him for a few minutes. He turns to look around the area more broadly, and by doing so, sees Danielle in the distance. He starts walking up towards her, and as he gets close enough, calls out in an appropriately loud voice, "Good evening, Danielle."
Danielle rolls with advantage 1 at difficulty 15, using occult, magic sense.
The result is a success.
There is no immediate impression of a demolition, and indeed, there are flagstones here that are almost perfect. Dirt is in some of the cracks.
Magically, nothing seems out of ploace to Danielle; the world is, apparently, as it should be. Just Different.
Danielle turns to wave to Kynan "good evening Kynan" She gestures to the area in front of her "Do you perchance remember a wall being here?" She says this as if it's a natural question and doesn't carry the odd subtext "Is our reality shifting around us
Kynan asks, "Former building? Hmm, let me think, the memory for such things is somewhat fleeting for me nowadays. Yes, well, no." He steps back, to take the area in some more. "I do certainly recall a bigger structure around here, but I also do remember that shop. I am not sure when that became different though. Or maybe it is I who became different. It is hard to say which is which."
Danielle hms "It is hardly the first indication that reality is somehow shifting around us but under who's impetus, how and why. these are unanswered riddles. You say you rember this shop? That's interesting for it isn't within my memory. Have you been inside previously?
Kynan shakes his head, err..., hood. "Not having a need for pottery, I have not entered. Thus, the memories are somewhat vague to me. When I was looking for the spider drawings, I believe there was a much larger wall here. But in passing by at some recently later time, I do recall the shop, though its presence did not at the time trigger any remembrance of the former. Curious. Amber was rather stable in my recollection. And a change of this sort is even more drastic than places far away from here."
Danielle nods "There has been some previous supposition that we are in a near shadow of amber or that realities are overlapping but this one of the more solid piecesof evidence we've got. one solid structure changing to another
Kynan nods. "This is not like the Amber of my recollection. Actually, this is not like the universe of my recollection for that matter. I have never been anywhere where my sorcery has failed me so, and I have been to places far from Amber. Do you know many of the people of the area? I wonder who is manning that shop? Or womanning. Or monstering. Or something like that."
The shop fails to turn into anything horrific and devour passers-by.
Danielle hms "Well that is certainly within ouur purview to find out she says and tries the door
Kynan seems to prepare himself for the "monster" option as he waits behind and to the side of Danielle.
The door opens. Inside, there is a place that seems to be abandoned. Rows of shelving hold up ready-made pots. A basic wheel, of the sort that people stand at, is in the middle of the room, a pot half-made on it. The place has the air of somewhere just freshly abandoned, right down to the water pooling at the bottom of the pot, inside and out.
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