LOL! What time of day is it? And how many hours until we have to decide to forgo a long rest? (ಡ艸ಡ)
I would say it's about 11:30 PM right now (In Game Time). So that thing is going to hatch thirty minutes after the museum opens and the people there to see the stone will be there when it hatches.
Well, the Doctor is most likely going to pick up that the bump was intentional, but Iota is successful in seeing some of the papers she was carrying.
She can tell from these papers that the Doctor isn't a Doctor of the M.D. kind. She's a Doctor of the Ph.D. kind, in the field of Archaeology.
One of the papers is a familiar flyer that was posted all around the city. The Varkenbluff/Amblino Museum of Natural History is going to unveil its new exhibit: The Murkmire Stone. There is a picture of an ovoid, light green, opaque, and with a gemstone-like sheen, stone. It is covered in strange furrows.
The next paper is of her notes. She can read some of the notes written by the Doctor herself.
"Not of any known society. No historical practices match, nor its composition," "Found it in Tomes of the Occult," "Egg of Unknown Creature. Previous records in Occult show that they are dormant for generations, until unearthed. Creature develops rapidly once unearthed. Will hatch and will be ravenous for raw meat. Grows exponentially as they feed," "Eggs are indestructible, but can be neutralized..."
There are mathematical formulas regarding days and times. Eventually the solution shows that the solution found from these formulas, is the day and time when this egg will supposedly hatch:
Our story begins in the Kingdom of Valerith, specifically in the city of Amblino, the City of the First Light. A weary Doctor make her way from the Amblino University into the City proper. Her dark bags under her eyes seem to be heavier now as the stressed Doctor continues on. A million thoughts rush through her head as she makes her way through.
She snaps out of her thoughts to hear music and she looks up to see an idiotic human make the noise with an instrument in a street corner before he is tackled to the ground by the guards and promptly dragged away.
A passing child asks her mother, "Mommy...? What was he doing? Why was he dragged away?" "He was doing something very evil, dear. He was trying to make music. Whatever you do, dear, Never make music like he did...!"
The Academic continued on, and eventually found her way to the Grim Lodge. She enters and makes her way to the Quieter area where she can drink in peace, and she makes her order while placing a gold coin down on the counter,
"...Whatever is the strongest alcohol you have. I need the drink,"
There she would sit for hours and drink, and eventually, when nearly everyone is gone, she could be heard talking to herself with a conflicted and frustrated sigh,
"What am I going to do...?! Talking to them didn't work. Hell, I even got threatened for being arrested for telling a tall tale, but I know it's the truth. And I got caught taking matters into my own hands..."
With a whimper and a thunk of her head flopping onto the bar, forehead making the noise against the wood. Her next question is muffled as she asks herself, "Am I really going to have to go to the Legion of Needles and Thorns for help...?"
Anyone can hear the Doctor talk to herself. No need for Perception checks. You are welcome to roll History on the Legion of Needles and Thorns.
Anyone can approach her (provided they're not in their Clown Attire), and lead her into the speakeasy. ^_^
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