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Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker
Vassarious gets out their laptop and looks for information on the temples and sees if there are photos. They look for the details of the symbols there and try to determine if there is enough information to figure out if they might be shielded there, or if they could be with minor modification.
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This is a roll against research...I mean tradecraft. Vassarious finds that information on these walls is officially secret. He is able to scrounge up a few pictures on the web, but they aren't terribly high quality.
The stones themselves are supposedly not understood by any-one except Maximus himself, though you have some strong evidence to the contrary. Vassarious quickly gleans (occultism! roll) that the configuration of the stones produces the effect, rather than any symbols.
He's not sure how to reproduce the effect... he suspects that they healing temples and gate temples won't produce a shielding effect without modification.
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Originally Posted by TGLS
I'll start looking into where I could find information on the service records of the priests, particularly their access to the inner most section of the temple and how long ago have they served.
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There are Six classes of people who could fit that description.
- High Priests, who manage and direct other priests
- Secretary Priests, who wait on the emperor ready with news, food, and to fetch anything he might desire.
- Architecture Priests, who build and maintain the structures of the temple
- Janitor Priests, who keep the place clean (but only a few will be allowed in the third wall)
- Animal Guards, a lot of whom serve a short time (6 months) guarding the temple complex
- Imperial Guards, who are usually drawn from the most elite ranks of the army, and spend 6 months to a year on temple duty.
The records can be found thusly:
- High Preists are a matter of public record and history books.
- The three lesser categories of priest's records will be kept in the offices of the priests, which is inside the first wall but away from the tourist area. A backup is held in an office building downtown. You can also make public inquiries about individual priests.
- The Animal Guards will have their own records, kept in their barracks, but you suspect the office building down town and main priest's offices will have backups of that for reference.
- The Imperial Guards use military records, which will be kept in a very different set of buildings, though they are still at the capital. The Priests probably keep their own set of records about the guards as well.