<div class="floatleft">(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/1722654/f_50688231467987858812/07127_Antique_French_Vernis_Martin_Display_Cabinet_c_1880_1_org_master.jpg?width=768)</div><div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/66/ac/e066acf8043ad8adcf40a3e35311d8e8--purple-curtains-velvet-curtains.jpg)</div>If a rapier could pout and indignantly give you her back, this is precisely what this sentient one would be doing at Aren's words. Even if Bert's quick and, apparently, heartfelt apology had begun to mollify her a bit, she was right back to her shrilling banshee performance. With the uncovered staff grumbling gentlemanly from the farthest display case. And the hysteric cackle still emanating from one of the uncovered display cases.<br/><br/><strong>"You don't care about being courteous to me, so why should I care about any information you might need!"</strong>The rapier shrilled imperiously, her figurative back still turned to the group.<br/><br/>Meanwhile Taruviel was still feeling the effects of the piercing scream. Her ears ringing wildly. And, yet, somehow, this seemed to enhance the image her mind's eye was being blasted with. The grotesque wax-like substance that the creature seemed to be formed of. And in particular, the figure within. And the more Taruviel peered into the disturbing display of melting wax, the more clear the figure within became. And as the ringing slowly began to ebb a fraction, Taruviel's mind cleared enough to recognize the figure as something she'd seen in a book. The image of Lolth, the patron deity of the drow. Taruviel also remembered that Lolth was serviced by a form of lesser demons known as Yochlols, possessive of this wax-like body that seemed to constantly be melting in on itself and reforming back up again.<br/><br/>However, it is anyone's guess as to why the group was blasted with this image as the entitled rapier had unleashed her ungodly screech.<br/><br/>The black staff sighed heavily.<strong>"Please do not humor her. She is impossible to be around once you get her going and no offense to you, but you look like you're only passing through. We are the ones who'll have to suffer her for hours upon end as she rants and raves."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Oh, come on, Pops, you don't mean that. This is pure comedy gold! Maiden... <em>cackle</em> Really! <em>cackle</em>"</strong>The raspy voice from one display case over to the rapier's rejoined.<br/><hr/>OOC<br/><br/>A point of clarification. All of you saw a vision of a melty, wax-like creature. Within it is something you think looks like a different form. The Religion/History check was to determine if you could recognize what this form might represent. Because it was something happening simultaneously to the scream I had you roll normal even if you failed the con save. So in other words, the Religion/History check was not to recognize any of the items you are currently conversing with. If you want to roll any checks for that, you may feel free to do so. Only this time it would be with a disadvantage if you failed your Con save.