[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Yep, Shiva's shouts don't make it past the steps. The marble absorbs sound.

As soon as she places her hand on the Gauntlet, a tingle runs through her. A huge smile splits Gothitelle's face as she also touches it. Gothitelle gains 1 Loyalty.

Shiva feels uplifted. She smells freshly broken earth, and pine needles, and decomposing leaves. She hears birdsong. Her mind instantly travels back in time to the huge cottonwood tree in the swamp where she once napped - she can picture every second of that day, as if she were there. She finds she can even pan the scene around in her mind, exploring hollow stumps and discovering hidden animals she never got to see on that actual day.

All these experiences take but a moment. A warbling cry resounds from the pillar and a wave of power washes through you. Your mind feels more open and free than you've ever felt before, and it's a great feeling. Like a forest with no underbrush, going on for miles, endless and endlessly varied.

Shiva gains 1 Will point and feels fully rested (all exhaustion removed).
There will be other effects which she won't discover until later (remind me when the Library is like half-explored.)

A cheerful, wide voice speaks in her mind. "Accept this gift. If the others wish to approach, they will be welcomed. Manifesting myself is wearying, but I shall make the attempt when everyone who wishes to gather at this Relic Stone has done so."

Nathan, Valder, and Heart can hear that a voice is speaking, but it sounds muffled (possibly by the silencing marble of the Atheneum).

Ventus doesn't hear it. He sees everyone's heads jerk up involuntarily/in surprise and look toward the Gauntlet, but he cannot sense why that might have occurred. He still senses only the same powers as when the forcefield first came down.


Valder doesn't quite make it through the door before this happens, though he finds that his immense strength is enough to open it alone.