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You take your right hand off of the wall, and with both of them you quickly grope your way up the shaft until you reach the crown, then you follow them up and - Pattern's Peace! That is a candle holder! And ... that is a candle!
Maker's Mercy! Oh, what a candle! You pluck it out of its perch, and turn it over in your hands. It has to be more than a foot tall, and as there is still a bit of taper to its top, you judge that it has barely been used. Beeswax too, though you have come to expect such luxury from this house. You kiss the silly thing as you stuff it in your apron, and when you discover that it wasn't alone atop the candelabra, but that there were three others just like it, you end up kissing them as well as you stuff them into your apron as well. For good measure, you kiss the candelabra when you turn to leave, and when you bump into the trunk or whatever on your way out, you end up laughing and kissing that as well. To tell it true, you'd probably be skipping right now if you weren't in near-total darkness at the moment. Oh, you don't know if you are relieved, or you are cracking up, but either way, you really, really needed this. Once you are out in the hallway, you get your 'stick set up right outside the illuminated door. You figure you will leave a candle burning in the 'stick and the door open, so just in case something happens, you have a light to lead you out of the room in a hurry ... though you'll need to be careful opening the door, otherwise you might just snuff it out. Then you make sure that you have everything you'll need on you - and nothing you don't. Once you have satisfied yourself on this account, you pin in the Fuel-Nodule, offer up a quick prayer, then get down on your knees in front of the door once more.
Time to roll the proverbial dice!
> May I please have five rolls of 1d100? The DC is 21; if there are still rolls remaining after ten minutes, feel free to roll again. There is going to be a lot of rolling tonight, assuming I don't fall asleep on you lot.
Also, I would like to state for the record that I did manage to get the first post of this update on Monday as I had promised, but I screwed it up, and then had to wait ten minutes to delete it and post it properly, by which point it was already Tuesday (for EST). I probably wouldn't have been able to get the rest of the update posted before the midnight oil burned out, but an effort was most assuredly made!
