Beyond the western arch, steady red ward-lines guide Doku into a narrow practice annex. Slate circles cover the floor, while crystal resonance dampers hang between stone pillars.
The palace archivist closes the gallery behind her. The chimes fade beyond the sealed arch, and no sound comes from the inaccessible grimoire vault.
The Palace Archivist
This annex is safer for refinement. The dampers will absorb excess resonance, provided you keep the working within the marked circles.
A blank teaching wall faces the central slate circle. Faint guide-lines appear across its surface, forming the outline of the teleportation diagram consumed by the folio.
The Palace Archivist
You may reconstruct the diagram from memory here. No sealed grimoire will be opened, and I will record each correction without directing your hand.
The blue folio remains in Doku’s possession, its teleportation page empty. Clean slates, wax, and treated parchment rest on a side table beneath the ward-lamps.
Mistress Vale, the enrolled family, and the palace herald remain at the refuge. Only Doku and the palace archivist stand in the annex, with the blank wall awaiting her next decision.
✓ Quest Accepted
Restore the lost teleportation working
“"First do you have any equipment thar can help spellcasting? I think gloves with magical focus plus perhaps crystals I can equip in my parasol to work as my custom staff would both do me well. Plus it would help when I create things like runes. Perhaps I could buy a book filled with rune magic seals since rune magic is the easiest one to use as you just need to draw it."”
SUCCESS (Legendary Diplomacy, rolled +0)
Doku Nohara
Do you have equipment to help spellcasting? Focused gloves and crystals for my parasol as a custom staff would help, especially with runes. I would also like a book of rune magic seals.
The palace archivist studies Doku, then turns toward a warded equipment chest set into the annex wall. Her expression shifts from caution to professional approval.
The Palace Archivist
Yes. The instruction registry can issue silver-thread focus gloves, two resonance crystals, and a licensed seal-book. Your request is sound.
She unlocks the chest and lays out plum-black gloves threaded with fine silver, then fits two clear crystals into mounting rings sized for Doku’s parasol.
The Palace Archivist
The gloves sharpen intention without supplying force. These crystals can serve as a paired staff focus through your parasol, while preserving its existing mechanisms.
From a recessed drawer, she retrieves a blue-bound volume titled The Practical Book of Rune Seals. Its pages contain stable diagrams for frost, warding, binding, illumination, and containment.
The Palace Archivist
The gloves, crystals, and seal-book are now assigned to you for lawful study. Copying and practice are permitted in this annex under the dampers.
+ New Item Acquired
Silver-Thread Focus Gloves
+ New Item Acquired
Resonance Crystals
+ New Item Acquired
Practical Book of Rune Seals
“I make sure to add the crystals to my parasol so I can now also cast spells through the parasol. Making it my Needle-firing Rapier/Staff Parasol.”
SUCCESS (Fair Magic, rolled +2)
Doku sets the closed Needle-Firing Rapier Parasol across the slate circle and seats the two clear resonance crystals into its mounting rings.
Silver-thread focus gloves sharpen the alignment. She threads the parasol’s existing mechanisms through the crystal housings, preserving the needle-firing rapier within its dark plum frame.
A controlled pulse passes from the handle to the crystals. Rune-lines kindle along the folded ribs, then settle into a stable circuit without disturbing the annex dampers.
The Palace Archivist
The focus is complete. Your parasol now carries spellwork as a paired staff, while its needle mechanism remains functional.
Doku opens the Practical Book of Rune Seals and tests a minor Frost pattern through the parasol’s tip. Pale rime forms on the slate circle in a clean, contained ring.
The Palace Archivist
The crystals accept your shaping immediately. Record this as the Needle-Firing Rapier Staff Parasol, a lawful custom focus for runes and directed workings.
The completed parasol rests in Doku’s grasp, combining concealed needle fire, rapier function, and reliable spellcasting focus beneath its alternating plum and dark-purple panels.
“Now with the new modifications I use rune magic to recreate the teleporter.”
SUCCESS (Fair Magic, rolled -1)
Doku opens the Practical Book of Rune Seals and places the modified parasol within the central slate circle. Silver threads and resonance crystals catch the ward-lamp glow.
She reconstructs the consumed teleportation diagram through the parasol’s folded ribs, isolating the sustaining medium before directing the release toward the annex’s western marker.
The crystals flare in sequence. Space folds cleanly around the parasol, and Doku vanishes from the central circle without disturbing the dampers or the ward-lines.
She reappears at the western marker, parasol still balanced in her gloved hand. The teleportation rune settles across the slate behind her, complete and stable.
The Palace Archivist
A successful reconstruction, Lady Nohara. The parasol has restored the lost pattern without consuming the book’s remaining instruction.
The palace archivist records the working beside the custom focus assignment. The parasol now carries a repeatable teleportation rune, anchored through its paired crystals and controlled by Doku’s gloves.
The Palace Archivist
You may use this anchor again in the annex, provided the destination remains marked and the surrounding wards are respected.
Quest Complete
Restore the lost teleportation working
Skill Upgrade: Magic Fair→Good