<span style="font-weight: bold">Entrance Hall</span><br/><br/>Nanami begins drawing the magic circle without too much trouble. As she gets about halfway done, though, she can feel the magical feedback begin, running up her arm with electric jolts of pain; the ground beneath her feet starts seeming to warp, shifting around to try to ruin the circle before it can be completed. It seems like it's just her perceptions, though; drawing on her willpower and magical experience, the kitsune grits her teeth and continues on. It only gets worse as she approaches completion, with the air seeming to resist her movements and mana flowing in a torrent from the area around the statue as its egress steadily chokes off. With a final stroke though, the circle completes. Nanami's left sweating slightly, and after a few seconds deep breath, she approaches the statue. Passing over the circle, the air abruptly feels... stale, lifeless, and unmoving, while the sense of mana that had permeated the air is no longer present. When she touches the statue, it stays stone, not moving, warming, or softening to her touch.<br/><br/>[[Decided to do this as Nanami creating advantage on the statue. It is, for reasons which may be becoming clear, a very hard task, so I set the difficulty at four; Nanami has Clever +2, and also has a stunt that covers this, so she rolls +4.<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/253543">Careful Create Advantage (incl. stunt)</a>:<span style="text-decoration: underline">4dF+4</span><span style="font-weight: bold">4</span><br/>She ties; she creates "Magically Confined", but because it's a tie its only a one time use instead of a new permanent aspect. The magic circle doesn't seem very stable.]]<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">West Upstairs Hallway</span><br/><br/>Joining Bella and Aiyaka, Vormitraax and Felicity head up the stairs, admire- or not- the stained glass on the walls, and catch up with the two thieves working together on the western door as thick as, well, thieves. This door is also confirmed to be untrapped, and the duo peer down. There's a long hallway. A *long* hallway, that seems to end with another door identical to the one they just came through some long way away. Occasional clean-burning lanterns keep the hallway well lit, and a luxuriously long red carpet runs the entire length of the hall; there's art every dozen paces or so, some more paintings of the now familiar demoness- if she was the owner of this place she had a planet-sized ego, and if not someone had a worrying obsession with her- and some more prosaic art pieces of landscapes. "Not bad," Bella says. "Even if we don't find the spear, we should have no trouble covering costs- I know a good art dealer who'd pay gold for all of these."<br/><br/>Picking one of the side doors, the four head into the first door on the right. It's a fairly plain bedroom; well appointed with a writing desk with some paper on it, a few chairs, a polished metal mirror, and a moderately sized bed in one corner. There's a window streaming in sunlight from the idyllic outside, and in the bed is a human-sized lump under fluffy looking quilts.<br/><br/>[[Updated map:]]<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><img alt="Image" src="http://i.imgur.com/i5Xrk7K.png"/></div></div></div>