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<blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 6923413" data-attributes="member: 6804768"><p><strong>Robhuud the Quick</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">~ </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Ah! </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It feels great to wake today! </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">~</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Robhuud stirs from his small palette bed to the beginnings of daybreak, the early morning light shining on his feet at first, but steadily moving up his body. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Nimbar was brilliant! </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">He kept large goose-featherstuffed couches and regal overstuffed chairs all about his library. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Robhuud had quickly made one of the couches into at bed, laying his palette and blankets among the deep purple cushions.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The light coming through the large picture windows spaced throughout the massive room was natural, providing an incredible, almost aerial 360 degree view of the island. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">His closest window looked out southwest across the inland sea. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The view was real, but the window through which it was visible was not. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">It was a magical portal to pipe in the natural light and view from the outside. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Whoever said that deep study of magic had to be dreary had certainly never run across such a place as this! Several stories underground and nearly inaccessible except through magical means, Nimbar's Library was part of a much bigger fortress, Hawke's Castle, a magical, demi-castle, nearly impenetrable from the outside, if anyone knew to look in the first place. The library itself was a massive room, more than 100’ long and as wide. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">It was secured from prying eyes and scrying wizards. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The windows were little more than magical picture frames allowing visibility from the outside, or illusions of other scenes, whatever Nimbar’s pleasure.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">It was the perfect place to read, study, write, and construct. The library was what Nimbar wanted it to be at whatever time he wanted it, and in this case, what Nimbar wanted was to have it be used, worked in, thought about, and valued. Robhuud was dumbfounded nearly the entire first week left alone here. He had certainly seen it before, but not quite this way. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Back to back glass curios in a large oval surrounded a huge granite table in the center of the room, where Nimbar would conduct magical tests and experiments. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Exquisitely made, the curios were sturdy as rock but as delicate and regal as finely cut glass, the wooden bases made of the finest hardwood available in the Flanaess. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The walls of the room were floor to ceiling bookcases filled with untold volumes of magical tomes, alchemical instructions, and all manner of encyclopaedical expeditions. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The bookcases were punctuated by furniture and tapestries, plush purple, red, blue, and gold couches, crafted chairs, statuettes, paintings, and astrolabes, telescopes, and other wizarding tools. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Any number of hurricane lamps and high-end glow lanterns would light upon entry by someone, and the tapestries would pull back upon magical command, either providing the desired illusion as a moving painting, or providing the view of surrounding island and region.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">It was a blue tome on a lectern at the entryway that led Robhuud to the book of instructions and tales regarding Hawke’s portal mirrorof mental prowess. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The instructions were intentionally cryptic, yet another security in place to guard the location, its occupants, and its accoutrements from illicit use. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">It had taken a little more than a week to figure out how to use it. It would allow movement out of the fortress to almost any place Robhuud could imagine. For the moment, however, he was perfectly content imagining himself sequestered here for a month or so. He had studying to do, scrolls to as create, even weapons to build. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Magical or real (he often couldn’t tell which)smokeless fireplaces provided warmth to balance a steady seaside breeze blowing through vents or perhaps the windows (he couldn’t tell this either). </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">A cauldron in one of the fireplaces self-stirred. The library was highly disheveled at the moment, with stacks of books among his “spot” in it, but it was infant-simple-easy to find anything Robhuud needed. Books and parchment were plentiful. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">One wall had a series of wardrobes containing various clothes and equipment. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Spell components, stacks upon stacks of parchment, barrels of ink, and potion-making and alchemist sets could be found among the curios. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">More books were stacked near the desk he appropriated. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Spellbooks, travelling spell books, books on natural science, magical science, alchemy, metallurgy, stonecutting, magical and conventional appraisal, planar knowledge, or mundane topics such as genealogies, anthologies, translations of literature from a variety of men and monsters. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">He had taken the liberty of "camping out" on the great sofa, leaving the library only to use the lavatory, to walk the inner halls of Hawke's Castle in organized 5 minute breaks, or to the grand kitchen to make his meals. He went right to it, moving quickly to make full use of the roughly seven (7) weeks he intended to stay. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Hawke'sCastle did not come equipped with proper smithing forges, tools, and raw materials, so he would use the mirror of mental prowess to go to Greyhawk and rent a forge to create weapons. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">He would bring them back to Hawke’s castle to store them, hopefully later after much study to also imbue them with magic. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">He was a little limited in things of that sort, but he could create an item or two to sell in a pinch. His second reason for going to Greyhawk was more practical: he needed a backpack. Not simply any backpack, but a magical haversack. He found one, a quite fine one indeed, a dark brown leather one, and purchased it. It was not inexpensive, but it was a sound purchase. He wanted to be able to carry more resources, particularly scrolls and a travelling spellbook, without giving the appearances of a walking library. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Nimbar's library would be perfect for preparing spell scrolls; it was quiet and resource-laden. He could have gotten lost in the library for more than a year, were it not a nagging feeling at the end of the seventh (7th) week that he needed to be somewhere else, perhaps with his friends. They were understanding that he needed a break, and that access to this library was just what he needed. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">[OOC] And thus begins Robhuud's re-introduction back intothe story. [/OOC]</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">[OOC] Spell list sent along. [/OOC]</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aust Thale, post: 6923413, member: 6804768"] [b]Robhuud the Quick[/b] [COLOR=#ff0000][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]~ [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Ah! [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]It feels great to wake today! [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]~ [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Robhuud stirs from his small palette bed to the beginnings of daybreak, the early morning light shining on his feet at first, but steadily moving up his body. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Nimbar was brilliant! [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]He kept large goose-featherstuffed couches and regal overstuffed chairs all about his library. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Robhuud had quickly made one of the couches into at bed, laying his palette and blankets among the deep purple cushions. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The light coming through the large picture windows spaced throughout the massive room was natural, providing an incredible, almost aerial 360 degree view of the island. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]His closest window looked out southwest across the inland sea. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The view was real, but the window through which it was visible was not. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]It was a magical portal to pipe in the natural light and view from the outside. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Whoever said that deep study of magic had to be dreary had certainly never run across such a place as this! Several stories underground and nearly inaccessible except through magical means, Nimbar's Library was part of a much bigger fortress, Hawke's Castle, a magical, demi-castle, nearly impenetrable from the outside, if anyone knew to look in the first place. The library itself was a massive room, more than 100’ long and as wide. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]It was secured from prying eyes and scrying wizards. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The windows were little more than magical picture frames allowing visibility from the outside, or illusions of other scenes, whatever Nimbar’s pleasure. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]It was the perfect place to read, study, write, and construct. The library was what Nimbar wanted it to be at whatever time he wanted it, and in this case, what Nimbar wanted was to have it be used, worked in, thought about, and valued. Robhuud was dumbfounded nearly the entire first week left alone here. He had certainly seen it before, but not quite this way. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Back to back glass curios in a large oval surrounded a huge granite table in the center of the room, where Nimbar would conduct magical tests and experiments. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Exquisitely made, the curios were sturdy as rock but as delicate and regal as finely cut glass, the wooden bases made of the finest hardwood available in the Flanaess. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The walls of the room were floor to ceiling bookcases filled with untold volumes of magical tomes, alchemical instructions, and all manner of encyclopaedical expeditions. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The bookcases were punctuated by furniture and tapestries, plush purple, red, blue, and gold couches, crafted chairs, statuettes, paintings, and astrolabes, telescopes, and other wizarding tools. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Any number of hurricane lamps and high-end glow lanterns would light upon entry by someone, and the tapestries would pull back upon magical command, either providing the desired illusion as a moving painting, or providing the view of surrounding island and region.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] It was a blue tome on a lectern at the entryway that led Robhuud to the book of instructions and tales regarding Hawke’s portal mirrorof mental prowess. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The instructions were intentionally cryptic, yet another security in place to guard the location, its occupants, and its accoutrements from illicit use. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]It had taken a little more than a week to figure out how to use it. It would allow movement out of the fortress to almost any place Robhuud could imagine. For the moment, however, he was perfectly content imagining himself sequestered here for a month or so. He had studying to do, scrolls to as create, even weapons to build. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Magical or real (he often couldn’t tell which)smokeless fireplaces provided warmth to balance a steady seaside breeze blowing through vents or perhaps the windows (he couldn’t tell this either). [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]A cauldron in one of the fireplaces self-stirred. The library was highly disheveled at the moment, with stacks of books among his “spot” in it, but it was infant-simple-easy to find anything Robhuud needed. Books and parchment were plentiful. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]One wall had a series of wardrobes containing various clothes and equipment. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Spell components, stacks upon stacks of parchment, barrels of ink, and potion-making and alchemist sets could be found among the curios. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]More books were stacked near the desk he appropriated. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Spellbooks, travelling spell books, books on natural science, magical science, alchemy, metallurgy, stonecutting, magical and conventional appraisal, planar knowledge, or mundane topics such as genealogies, anthologies, translations of literature from a variety of men and monsters. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] He had taken the liberty of "camping out" on the great sofa, leaving the library only to use the lavatory, to walk the inner halls of Hawke's Castle in organized 5 minute breaks, or to the grand kitchen to make his meals. He went right to it, moving quickly to make full use of the roughly seven (7) weeks he intended to stay. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Hawke'sCastle did not come equipped with proper smithing forges, tools, and raw materials, so he would use the mirror of mental prowess to go to Greyhawk and rent a forge to create weapons. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]He would bring them back to Hawke’s castle to store them, hopefully later after much study to also imbue them with magic. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]He was a little limited in things of that sort, but he could create an item or two to sell in a pinch. His second reason for going to Greyhawk was more practical: he needed a backpack. Not simply any backpack, but a magical haversack. He found one, a quite fine one indeed, a dark brown leather one, and purchased it. It was not inexpensive, but it was a sound purchase. He wanted to be able to carry more resources, particularly scrolls and a travelling spellbook, without giving the appearances of a walking library. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] Nimbar's library would be perfect for preparing spell scrolls; it was quiet and resource-laden. He could have gotten lost in the library for more than a year, were it not a nagging feeling at the end of the seventh (7th) week that he needed to be somewhere else, perhaps with his friends. They were understanding that he needed a break, and that access to this library was just what he needed. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][OOC] And thus begins Robhuud's re-introduction back intothe story. [/OOC] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000] [OOC] Spell list sent along. [/OOC] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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