Stack Of Speakers

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Encounter Conditions

None?

Initial Text

You find a stack of speakers crammed into one corner of the ballroom. They're so quiet it's surprising they're even on, but they do make faint noises as though struggling under some heavy weight.

Summary of Choices

1. Add a capacitor array (with capacitor array) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 capacitor array
2. Plug in shivering capacitors (with shivering capacitors) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 set of shivering capacitors
3. Run through magnetic coil (with magnetic coil) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 magnetic coil
4. Insert a hound crystal - (with hound crystal, after checking the speakers) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 hound crystal
5. Add artificial hound crystal - (with artificial hound crystal, after checking the speakers) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 artificial hound crystal
6. Insert your resonant emerald crystal (with resonant emerald crystal, after checking the speakers) - Enhance speakers, lose 1 resonant emerald crystal
7. Listen closer - Gain 4 XP in Perception
8. Check the speakers - Gain 4 XP in Perception, unlock crystal options.
9. Leave well enough alone - Nothing

Choice Text and Results

Add a capacitor array

You link the capacitor array into the system, which should help power things up a bit.

Plug in shivering capacitors

You link the strange capacitors into the system and begin to hear whispers from the speakers, faint sounds demanding your attention… as though they're whispering about some forgotten treasure. If only you could hear them a little more clearly.

Run through magnetic coil

You add a magnetic coil to the speakers, pumping up the volume. You're not sure what it's supposed to be playing but for now there's just static.

Insert a hound crystal

You slot the hound crystal into the speakers, faintly hearing a distant baying.

Add artificial hound crystal

You slot the crystal, like an unassuming lump of quartz, into the speakers. After it snaps in, you hear something like a distant baying.

Insert your resonant emerald crystal

You snap the crystal into the speakers and see a surge of green energy flow through them, a faint crackling drowned out by the sound of crystal bells.

Listen closer

Placing your ear next to the speakers, you hear a sound like rocks grinding together and metal clashing against metal. It's not particularly spooky, but the speakers might just be acting up.

You've earned 4 XP in Perception

(Or, after enough progress)

Placing your ear next to the speakers, you hear distant crystal chimes and whispers you can't quite understand. It's not unpleasant, but you feel like you've heard the whispers somewhere before and it's itching at the back of your mind.

You've earned 4 XP in Perception

(Or, after more progress?)

Placing your ear next to the speakers, you hear a scratching like something pawing at the inside of the case and distant howls. Whoever chose the soundtrack definitely knew how to make things spooky.

You've earned 4 XP in Perception

Or?

Placing your ear next to the speakers, you don't hear much of anything. A bit of static maybe, comforting white noise without a pattern or purpose.

You've earned 2 XP in Perception

Check the speakers

You take a while, poking at the speakers. They seem to be intended to cover a fairly small area and that might work in absolute silence. But, with any other speakers going and the chatter of a party, it's going to need something more.

Part of the problem seems to be ports added within each speaker, which definitely replaced some things that they might have wanted to keep. It doesn't look like anywhere to add wires, though, more like a small crystal.

You've earned 4 XP in Perception

Leave well enough alone

It looks like they're hooked up. It should take care of itself.

(Walk Away)