"Ahhh...!" Aria's hazel eyes twinkled, and she looked at Rose as if she were imagining her in several other costumes, or even racial guises, after all. "Perhaps I can finally pretend to be the elf I briefly thought I hoped I was as a girl..."<br/><br/>She let Rose teleport them as far around the house as they could see, up by one of its 'front' corners. A flower-lined dirt road emerged from dense lush forest and ended in front of the palatial house, coiling back on itself in a loop which enclosed an ovular flower garden (in fact Aria had a vague impression that some landscaper had had certain female anatomy in mind, doubtless thinking himself or herself clever with some metaphor about flowers).<br/><br/>The front of the house itself, like the back, sported several balconies and mirrored windows on its second and third levels. The roof hosted several gables and a small turret worthy of a princess or wizard. Green vines had been allowed to grow up the gray stone of the house, like intricate knotwork, a decidedly elven touch and perhaps shaped by druid-magic.<br/><br/>The first floor, as on the house's other sides, had no windows, or its windows had been filled in by solid stone walling of magic-suggesting smoothness. The front entrance was grandiose, either imposing or inviting depending on one's tastes: white marble steps seemed to pour out from double doors of solid silver. This was flanked by two marble pedestals with statues of lions. Before all this, a row of sculpted shrubbery clung to the front of the house. Thorny rose bushes were even trimmed or perhaps 'sculpted' into green leafy shrub-statues;, some taller than a man, such as more leaping elves like the stone statues in the back hard, and a pair of three-horned beasts flanking the front entrance.<br/><br/>At the stairs' top, the silver double doors were closed, and from each hung a great hoop-shaped knocker with a little golden lion's head 'biting' it to clench it to the door.<br/><br/>Aria looked across it all for a moment, and mentioned, "I'd been trying to use my new sight to look for wards about the place, and now I see one - a sphere of faint abjuration, perhaps eight paces in diameter, centered where the doors meet. The hemisphere of the aura extends like a bubble from the doors and wall about them, covering part of the stairs. To judge from the way the doors are set - and here I speak from my own, uh, more mechanical knowledge of doors and locks, nothing to do with arcane sight - they swing either outward or in. If we got an edge-on look into the crack between the doors, even from a distance, by standing before the exact center of the house, we could probably tell whether they were locked."<br/><br/><br/><br/>oops, last post meant  to be 'whom they were used to heal', not 'whether', but it seems the intent got across.<br/><br/>Ah yes, Lesser Vigor! (i.e. downtime healing at half the price, 11 per cast rather than 5.5, and without the variability). I'd forgotten about it, nice idea. Sooner or later I'll up Aria's UMD item to +15, giving her 20/20 on wands and staves, and we can halve our long-term healing costs. And-or we could just get several LV wands so when she rolls a 1 on UMD for one (=no retry for 24 hours on that item) she can try another. The UMD increase is not really necessary for healing (the 12.5K to increase the circlet would pay for about 30 such wands), but I'd hate to roll a 1 on Remove Curse or something like that - her 'Lucky' ability - which I have yet to use and roleplay - would let her reroll one such check per day though.).<br/><br/>Judging from Rose's 'up to the top of the wall', I might've misconveyed something about the layout. There's no wall around the house, it's just a building amidst 'open' gardens and pools. Aria's question was just which side of the building to go around (they seem to be in the 'back', with no door on that side), and how far from the 'side' wall to go (between it and the pool or hedge maze, or to the 'outside' of the pool or hedge maze).   Or maybe you meant Rose wanted to teleport atop a hedge maze wall, or onto the roof of Westkeep? (in which case we can go there)<br/><br/><br/>Although I do love castle walls, ramparts and courtyards, and have a layout of that sort for another area. :)<br/><br/>Please, get the sleep you need. :) I'd gone to bed myself, but didn't nod off for awhile, so figured I'd pop up and see if you'd posted...<br/><br/>(And if you're ever not posting b/c the RP is uninteresting or annoying, let me know and I can try to jump-start your writer's block somehow, such as adding more clarification or some conversational hook to the end of the post, or advancing it a little further.)<br/><br/><br/>(front gardens)<br/><br/>(hedge maze)   (Westkeep)    (pool)<br/><br/>(tennis court)<br/><br/>(back gardens)<br/><br/>(ampitheater)<br/><br/>(crescent lake)<br/>