Entering without the breaking

Jan. 29th, 2016 07:25 pm
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So, Savril has picked out a nice little mage estate that promises to have some interesting books he hasn't stolen copies of yet, and defenses that can be cracked. It's not the easiest of all houses, because - well, he's already broken into all of the easy ones. He is on intermediate difficulty for burglary. But since the triplets broke into the Larivias house (which had, from Savril's acquaintance with sneakery, made it past intermediate difficulty before they teleported inside) they're cleared to come along after the place has been properly cased.

That is, if they have parental permission. Savril does not want to upset the parents of terrifying children. Parents of terrifying children tend to also be terrifying themselves.
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Search for traps and treasure

Nov. 10th, 2015 11:25 am
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There is a library.

It is actually an excellent example of one: it has books on history and philosophy and astronomy and science and languages and even a little modest section for storybooks, tucked in a corner against the wall. These books are all easy to pick up off the shelves and read, like ordinary libraries.

The books on magic, on the other hand, are behind locked and spelled glass, with their position signatures scrambled and constantly shifting so they can't be teleported away, each one built to set off a silent alarm that'll alert the owner if touched, and to turn completely blank if opened without permission. And then burst into flames if someone tries to force it to show what it's hiding or tampered with in the wrong sort of way.

Just another day in Kystle. Stealing peeks from books in a mage's library is not recommended for the casual reader.
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