More Talking Books and Crystals

Returned to The Library

The group returns to the library after their dinosaur adventure.

Fitheach Eun places the Dinotopia book back on the table and looks around the library.

Talia Sunsong: "I got shinies!"

Talia Sunsong has two handfuls of crystals.

Fiesty.Lotus reorients herself to the library after the portal move.

 Fitheach.Eun looks at the crystals in her pouch quizzically.

Rorn: carries crystals to his little hoard.

Fitheach.Eun “So now that we have these...”

Fiesty.Lotus looks in her pouch and finds all sorts of crystals.

Fiesty Lotus: "Yes?"

Fitheach Eun: “Do you think that book will talk to us again? He was awfully grumpy.”

Fiesty Lotus: “Hmm- perhaps there is another one.”

Talia.Sunsong "Maybe the book is hungry. What do books eat?"

Savage Taurus notices the others playing with their crystals, which reminds him of the red crystal he found on the floor of the library.

Fiesty Lotus: “We need a book on crystals and their uses.”

Looking for More Crystal Books

Fitheach Eun: “That would be more useful than that grumpy troll or whatever he was.”

Fiesty Lotus begins searching the stacks.

Fitheach Eun goes to help.

Savage Taurus takes the red crystal out, which he kept separate from the others because it seemed extraordinarily pure and clear and brilliant.

Rorn arranges his hoard pieces and tries laying on them.

Talia.Sunsong "Maybe books eat paper wads."

Savage Taurus slinks away into another corner of the room so they can’t see what he is doing.

Talia.Sunsong looks for paper wads to feed the book.

Fitheach Eun stares at the rows of books but finds no inspiration.

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh, oh here is one about other dimensions!”

Fitheach Eun: “Oh?”

Savage Taurus examines the crystal with his serpentine eyes, chuckles to himself that the others are wasting their time looking through books.

Fiesty Lotus looks in the book and can’t understand a word it says.

Rorn: looks for other shiny objects to add to his hoard.

Rorn notices shiny bell on cat's collar.

Savage Taurus can feel a power emanating from the red gem, like a humming, buzzing in his head and body, and it’s so perfectly formed, truly a thing of beauty.

Rorn crawls on his belly, trying to sneak up to cat with shiny bell.

Fitheach Eun comes to look at Fiesty's book.

Fiesty Lotus puts the book back and looks around some more.

Fitheach Eun sees a bright purple book and pulls it off the shelf curiously.

Savage Taurus: a thought occurs to him, a connection that seems to come out of the ether, and he looks down at the necklace that he found at the end of that tunnel when he crawled into the ancient ruins.

The Red Crystal Fits

Fiesty Lotus asks Druid Fitheach “What's that book?”

Rorn: tries to pounce on the cat's bell. The cat hisses and swat's Rorn's nose.

Fitheach Eun: “I don't know.”

Fitheach Eun carries the book to the table and sets it down: " It was somehow attractive..."

Fiesty Lotus looks at the title

Talia.Sunsong "Purple is attractive." fluffs skirt.

Savage Taurus: "It couldn't, he mutters to himself, but gives it a try, and finds that the red gem fit perfectly into the end of the ancient necklace. Holding his breath, he presses it in and it locks into place.

Fiesty Lotus: “It's called "Crystals and their Uses" whadaya know!”

Fitheach Eun opens the book slowly...

Savage Taurus instantly feels the full power of the crystal course through his body; if he had hairs on his scaly body they would be standing on end. After a moment the surge subsides and the red crystal pulsates dully over his heart as it hangs around his neck.

Another Talking Book

Fitheach Eun: Oh dear, another head...I wonder if this one talks?

Talia.Sunsong comes closer, holding a handful of paper wads.

Fiesty Lotus ventures "Hello book."

Book Tech: “May I help you?”

Talia.Sunsong "Are you hungry?" offers paper wads to head in book.

Book Tech: “I know all about crystals and their uses.”

Fitheach Eun: “Oh, do you?”

Book Tech looks at the wads of paper dubiously

Talia.Sunsong "Can crystals make us powerful and rich?"

Savage Taurus has no idea what he has unlocked, but is feeling very optimistic with this new turn of events.

Fitheach Eun: How do we use the crystals to make something more powerful?

Book Tech: They can do some wonderful things.

Fitheach Eun grabs some paper and a quill to make notes

Fitheach Eun: "What sort of wonderful things?"

Book Tech: “They can be used and even magnified if the crystal is a good one.”

Savage Taurus slithers back over to the others trying to act as if nothing out of the ordinary has just happened.

Fitheach Eun notices a strange flash of red on Savage but is too busy with the head to investigate.

Book Tech: “Well, you can make an eternal lantern or a portal magnifier.”

Savage Taurus tries to not be too conspicuous, even though he needs his hat to still be taller than the hobbit.

Fitheach Eun: “A portal magnifier?”

I Know All About Crystals

Rorn: flies up to Savage and eyes the shiny crystal on his necklace.

Book Tech: “Oh yes that is a simple device. Would you like to know how to make one?”

Fitheach Eun smiles: "Yes, please."

Book Tech: “Alright. You can construct a sun driven reaction dish. This can be done by installing a dorsal crystal emitter in a delta ray resonance compressor. You can then run a diagnostic on the multitronic filament. Don't forget to calibrate the transitory particle interceptor, or you could wind up with an unwelcome subharmonic oscillation.”

Fiesty Lotus blanches "Um, is there an easier way?”

Fitheach Eun gulps...

Fitheach Eun: “Could you repeat that?”

Fitheach Eun: “Or, yes, is there an easier way?”

Book Tech: “Oh, yes. The basic construction is as follows..”

Fitheach Eun whispers to Fiesty: “Do you have any idea what he is talking about?"

Book Tech: “The easy way to construct a temporal portal is to affix the crystal to a receptacle. A steel convex dish will work. Then affix some magnetized lenses and a refractor cage for the crystal and you will have yourself a basic unit.”

Savage Taurus: “This book sounds like it was written by a gnome, with all that fancy gadget talk.”

Fitheach Eun: “A steel convex dish? And what is a refractor cage?”

Talia.Sunsong "Can you put that in language a Fae can understand?"

Fitheach Eun: I strongly doubt that is possible, Talia

Talia.Sunsong drops paper wads. "I'm a Fae genius. I can figure this out all by myself." She goes towards the door.

Book Tech: “You will need a convex dish a way to affix the crystal to the dish and several lenses to direct the crystal flow”

Interesting

Fitheach Eun: “Must the dish be steel or will any metal do?”

Book Tech: “You could use silver.”

Fitheach Eun: “Excellent I have a silver bowl.”

Savage Taurus looks at the talking book in contemplation and mutters to himself, "Maybe there is somethin to this book learnin'. That stuff sounds awful useful."

Fitheach Eun does not notice that Talia ran off

Talia.Sunsong wanders outside

Talia.Sunsong finds a carousel "Pretty horsie!"

Savage Taurus: “I can touch iron...I think *sighs*...it’s been so long I'm starting to forget.”

Fitheach Eun: “That's good Savage; it will help.”

Savage Taurus: “I don’t know nothin bout no carousel, but I know how to carouse.”

Fiesty Lotus turns to Druid Fitheach "I think I kin work on that."

Fiesty Lotus looks at Savage and sees the red crystal in his necklace.

Talia.Sunsong : "I'm a Fae genius I think I will make my own crystal magic."

Talia.Sunsong grabs a yellow crystal and shoves it into the mouth of a sea carousel dolphin.

Talia.Sunsong hops onto the back of the carousel animal. The animal starts bouncing around.

It rips itself off the carousel.

Talia.Sunsong  "Whoa!"

Whoa!

It bounces itself around the land and towards the library.

Fiesty Lotus attaches the crystal to the center of the dish with some wires lying around.

Savage Taurus watches the nanny bouncing around on a dolphin and mutters, "Faeries."

Fitheach Eun goes outside to look.

Talia.Sunsong crashes through the library door.

Savage Taurus: “Hold on there, missy!”

Talia.Sunsong "Stop!" grabs onto the carousel animal, riding it around the library.

Savage Taurus grabs at the dolphin to try to get it under control.

Talia.Sunsong is thrown to and fro, knocking over books and boxes.

Fitheach Eun goes back to look at what Fiesty is doing, shaking her head.

Savage Taurus wrestles the wooden animal, wrapping his long tail around it to subdue it.

A dusty old box with a rusty padlock falls off a shelf.

Fiesty Lotus ignores the hubbub and proceeds. She using some lens she found in a drawer and fixes them to the dish.

Talia.Sunsong the carousel animal with the crystal in its mouth shudders to a stop, wrapped in Savage's tail.

Fitheach Eun watches her sister building the contraption

Talia.Sunsong jumps off the carousel animal. "Those crystals are dangerous!"

Savage Taurus: sighs, "Can you turn this thing off, Nanny?"

Talia.Sunsong rips the crystal from the carousel animal's mouth.

Savage Taurus: lets out his breath and uncoils himself from the dolphin

The carousel animal becomes still.

Fitheach Eun looks over at the fae and shakes her head sadly, "Must you always wreck the place?"

Fiesty Lotus: “Well, This is about what the book said.”

About What the Book Said

Talia.Sunsong "It wasn't my fault, it was his fault!" points at the carousel animal.

Savage Taurus slithers over to check out what the hobbit is doing.

Rorn: noses the old locked box.

Book Tech looks at the hobbits work and nods, “That will do.”

Savage Taurus: looks at the hobbit and thinks she may be part gnome.

Talia.Sunsong "What is that Rorn?"

Talia.Sunsong bends down to pick up a locked box marked "Cursed"

Talia.Sunsong "Cursed? Well, I'll just put this on a shelf."

Savage Taurus: “You seem pretty adept at this mechanical stuff for a drood there little missy.”

Fiesty Lotus: “All I did was wire up some stuff. It wern't that hard.”

Savage Taurus peers over her shoulder to watch what she is doing.

The Device

Fitheach Eun is impressed with the device.

Rorn lands on the table and sniffs at the device.

Savage Taurus puts on his spectacles to get a closer look.

Talia.Sunsong "Will this get us more cream?"

Fitheach Eun rolls her eyes.

Fiesty Lotus: “I made this so that we could put any crystal in it.”

Fiesty Lotus: “There, that should do it.”

Savage Taurus: “And then what does it do?”

Talia.Sunsong "Let's shove all sorts of crystals in it and see what happens!"

Fitheach Eun looks to the book, "OK what do we do with this now?"

Fiesty Lotus reads “I think it magnifies power.”

Savage Taurus: Like makes us all royalty?

Book Tech: “You can affix this to any machine and it will provide power.”

Savage Taurus: “Hmmmm....contemplates how that could be useful.”

Talia.Sunsong  "Power? I want Fae power. Maybe then I will be worshipped like they did for me in Egypt."

Could We Affix It To An Airship?

Fitheach Eun: “Oh, interesting. Could we affix it to an airship, for example?”

Book Tech: “Yes, you could.”

Book Tech: “If you add a different crystal to it, it will do many things.”

Savage Taurus: “Like helps us enslave creatures to do our bidding?”

Fitheach Eun raises an eyebrow, “Fascinating."

Book Tech: “Pardon?”

Fitheach Eun looks at Savage, "Druids don't do that."

Savage Taurus: mutters, "Never mind. I guess we have different ideas about what 'power' means."

Rorn: tries to curl up and sleep in the dish

Book Tech: “For example you may add a yellow crystal for distance or space.”

Fitheach Eun turns to Fiesty; “What do you think about that different crystals idea?"

Fiesty Lotus: “I like it. We should try it out on a small project.”

Fitheach Eun nods; “Let’s figure out what that would be."

The Red Crystal

Savage Taurus: "Uhm...err..." tries to act nonchalant as he asks, "what ..uh...what do red crystals do?"

Fiesty Lotus: “Druid Fitheach has that list.”

Fitheach Eun pulls out the list: “Red crystals are for transformation."

Savage Taurus tries to be the very picture of detachment as he responds, "Oh..ok....good to know..."

Fitheach Eun notices the red crystal hanging from his pendant and smiles.

Savage Taurus casually puts his hand over his necklace and peers reprovingly as the elf.

Talia.Sunsong "Let's put it on the airship and look for cream."