(052) Reckoning the Abbey

[ehiker133]

Desmond eyes the statue of the hale nun more closely.

How are her hands being held? Apart? Or are they together, as if there should be something in them? What are the animals looking up at? The area where her hands come together? Or something else?

If hands are together, and the animals look at that spot, as well, he queries aloud if maybe her hands is the proper place for the orb that was found in the Abbey proper.

If the animals look elsewhere, then Desmond attempts to discern the focus of their gaze.

Gazing at the fountain for too long suddenly makes Desmond feel parched...

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[coffee]

| Dieter may indeed relax somewhat, but never entirely. Something is going on around here, and the threat hasn't been fully dealt with. |

[sully]

Dorgan relaxes, just a tad, as Josiane walks around the room and nothing jumps out to attack her.

"I guess this place ain't all bad. I'll be outside with Olaf if'n ya need me."

Dorgan will leave the room, grabbing his pack off the floor on the way out.

[doctorx]

Josiane kneels before her dead Sister and offers up a quiet, sorrowful prayer for her soul.

Once this is achieved she will examine the statues more closely. Are they representative of any Saints she can identify? In particular, does the fountain statue appear to represent her own Saint Tamarae?

[Eris]

Dorgan relaxes, just a tad, as Josiane walks around the room and nothing jumps out to attack her.

"I guess this place ain't all bad. I'll be outside with Olaf if'n ya need me."

Dorgan will leave the room, grabbing his pack off the floor on the way out.

When Dorgan arrives, Olaf will ask, "So, what did you find in there? Anything useful to us?"

[verhaden]

Torben

Torben listens in on Dorgan's report, having stayed behind to help secure the party's flank.

[sully]

Dorgan

"Eh, one'a them holy symbols ended up unlockin' the door and there was a shrine to Josiane's gods inside. Prob'ly the icons the old Lady back in Ket wanted us to bring back. There's a dead nun in there as well, kinda spooky but the Miss will take care of the remains the right way, I 'spect."

[waysoftheearth]

Desmond eyes the statue of the hale nun more closely.

How are her hands being held? Apart? Or are they together, as if there should be something in them? What are the animals looking up at? The area where her hands come together? Or something else?

The nun's hands are held wide apart in the universal gesture of heavenly awe. The animals are depicted gazing off into the heavens also, though it doesn't appear that they're all looking at one place exactly... if they were, it would be kinda, somehow, somewhere up... there, a non-descript place halfway up one of the overhead arches. Desmond doesn't see anything noteworthy there.

[waysoftheearth]

By this time Josiane has finished her moment of prayer, and looks askance at the half-hidden facial features of the fountain-nun... d6 they don't strike her as familiar. The image of a lesser known Saint perhaps? Or even a common Sister?

[Tonneau]

Gustave strides into the chamber on Dorgan's exit. The ivory light glows on his shining armour (and honey locks), turning him into a divine icon, shimmering in holy glamour.

"So, no wine then", he muses, "just the dead nun?"