Prepping the Reactor

AK510-40 Dark Autumn Start Week 1 [Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]

Moonday (afternoon)

Bob fought hard against the boredom of such arcane conversations and looked out of the door hopefully scanning for an incoming foe. To his delight he was attacked by a baphen sized giant spider. The others continued with their work knowing that he would call for help if he needed it. Bob was quite happy with this arrangement and the arrows started to fly. Soon there were a couple of dead spiders lying at this feet and a smile on his face. To pass the time he set to butchering and skinning the beasts. Grisly work, but far better than listening to the arcane mumbo jumbo that was being spouted in the room nearby. And he wanted a pair of Stuffitt's spider skin shoes.

All they needed now, Ethan explained, was a sphere of annihilation and several pounds of Kellum. They others looked at him dumbfounded. They were as likely to get the Val-Roi of the Cycles from The Bigany Church to plant the crops in Woodhaven that year. A sphere of annihilation could only be created by arch mages of great power, such as the great Lord Maajii of Az-Ylar. Even Ivellios whose power was growing considerably of late could not yet hope to master such magic. If that wasn't bad enough there was no kellum left in the mines. Kellum was a substance that no one had ever heard of so it was unlikely that it could be found in sufficient quantities elsewhere.

Todd had been searching the room very carefully during all of this arcane theorising and as the others began to despair, his efforts were rewarded. A hairline difference in the etching of designs on the walls behind their flux control panel was highly suspicious to his trained eye. A careful application of pressure here and a magical gesture there and the secret panel was opened. Inside were six kellum ingots. It was no co-incidence that this amount kellum was stored here decided Ethan. They must have all the required components for the reactor stored nearby. Todd tucked away the other contents of the panel for safe keeping.

They continued to search the room and fiddle with the controls and this time Jo managed to activate something. A silver tube as thick as a man's arm and waist high rose from the floor. A golden ball made of an unknown alloy rested on it's top. The surfaces of the shaft and orb were covered in arcane runes. Todd discovered tiny silver tubes that could be folded out from the shaft. Jo determined that the runes of the shaft indicated that the tubes could be used to cast spells and that the golden orb was used to absorb spells. He theorised that the DeDannan ogre wizards who used the facility cast the spells using the tubes and then channelled them into the golden orb in order to open the elemental portals and to create the sphere of annihilation. However the power released by the spells stored in the silver shaft was so great that they might have trouble controlling the elemental power. Appleby explained that if extreme levels of elemental power were released without full control it was likely that everyone within a couple of hundred yards would be disintegrated. That revelation dampened their enthusiasm for a few moments. Then they decided to energise the spheres with their own lower level spells in order to have an easier time controlling the elemental reflux.