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>1 AP: Drink the water, attempt to recover from the ordeal
- The water does provide some relief, if only a little -
- You were much warmer than you consciously realized, and that heat had caused you to sweat -
- Sebastian is busying himself organizing a pile of papers that had been set astray at some point -
- You really do feel better, a little less tense if nothing else -
>1 AP: A racket you say? Take a brief look out the window and see what’s going on
- Your gaze catches on a window overlooking the markets of 44th –
= Perception test =
= DC 8 , 12 & 18 vs 3d6+Per =
= 8 , 12 & 18 vs 8+2 =
= Success, Failure, Failure =
- A property on the neighboring block is currently on fire -
= Def: "That’s the understatement of the century" =
- Indeed, the building, an apartment complex you think, is positively engulfed in flame -
- Cackling tongues of fire lick at the air from every window, the structure endlessly exhales vast plumbs of smoke that ascend in a billowing cloud -
- The ferocity of the blaze even threatens to spread to the other buildings on the block -
- A crowd of bystanders have gathered on the street below, you cannot hear them well over the fire -
- Above, the smog haze has begun to obstruct the spotlight’s callous observation of Serenade, spreading like a cataract over an eye -
>2 AP: Something is not right with the sky tonight. Make another observation of the night sky.
- Peering through the smoke, you immediately notice that something is awry with the placement of stars in the sky -
= Perception test =
= DC 7, 10 & 18 vs 3d6+Per+1Ap =
= 7 , 10 & 18 vs 8+2+1 =
= Success, Success, Failure =
- The constellations are wrong, in fact the entire starscape is horribly distorted -
- Stars are blurred in spiraling vectors, but what’s more they do not move.
- The cosmos is supposed to move over the course of the night -
- But the stars are motionless, affixed in position as though they were trapped in amber -
- Like someone cut away part of night sky and draped it around Serenade, twisting and stretching space in the process -
= Def: Not entirely accurate. Stars and other celestial objects do move, but not to a degree that it would mundanely perceivable relative to the surrounding expanse of space. What you are referring to is the shifting of perspective caused by the earth’s rotation. =
