<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/NkjJ0qm.jpg])</div>After you finish conversing amongst yourselves, you decide to move forward; exploring the rest of the small establishment, you find three other rooms beyond the shop: a sparsely-appointed bedroom, almost austere in its lack of any items of value or keepsakes with a neatly-made bed that appears to have not been slept in in some time, a kitchen full of pots and pans that upon inspection seem rarely used and mostly there for decoration and to keep up appearances, and finally a study where rows upon rows of books fill the shelves that almost crowd the rooms. If you examine the books, you find them to mostly address such subjects such as history, herbalism, arcane knowledge, and dragon lore, a few of them even written in Aroon's hand--or Auronorex, as you have come to know him.<br/><br/>Behind the house within two shuttered doors that come unlocked at your touch, just as the door upstairs had been, you find the cellar basement. The space is well-kept and entirely devoid of the dust that usually gathers in such places, except for a single orb on the floor with a note upon which is written the words,<em><strong>"If you have come this far, it means that you are willing to take upon yourself the task. Take the orb; it will help you in your travels. Consider it an up-front portion of the reward, and go with my blessing."</strong></em>Upon touching the orb, you see a circle carved with arcane runes spring to life just beyond, the runes slowly rotating around the active circle with a faint blue light that casts incandescent shadows across the large room beneath the house. It is now time; make peace with whatever gods you worship and take your next step into an unknown place where danger and adventure await.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Those who can make a DC 30 Knowledge (Arcane), DC 20 Knowledge (History), or DC 30 Knowledge (The Planes) check recognize the orb to be a minor artifact; the Orb of Perpetual Renewal. If someone holds the orb and concentrates upon it for a full minute, they are instantly healed entirely of all wounds that may be taken (HP damage). Furthermore, it appears as though a few more spells have been woven upon it by Auronorex, though you are unable to tell what they do at this time.</div></div>