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In a plain and rather boring looking guard tower, the sounds of clinking glassware and quill against paper echoed from one of the upper floor's windows. Cutting through the morning air's tune of chirping birds and the gentle rustling of leaves. There, a monocle wearing half-elf was in the midst of performing an experiment based upon a set of instructions he had recently deciphered from an ancient and easily forgotten alchemist of old. A number of flasks, test tubes, and pipettes containing various substances floated around a frothing cauldron of bubbling blue liquid. [color=steelblue]"Begin recording. Experiment No. S-132-19-B. Summa 15, Morning. Based upon the recipe in the scroll I collected in the Tulbuk Castle Ruins, the concoction was expected to produce an aroma akin to Mortella Flower. This will be an exciting discovery as the Mortella has been long extinct for nearly 650 years."[/color] Rudolph says as a quill automatically records his words on the pages of a book positioned behind him. With a simple flick of his wrist the floating lab equipment approach the cauldron and pour its contents into the bubbling blue liquid.

The reaction was almost instantaneous. The liquid bubbled more violently and, even before the half-elf wizard could do anything, turn into a grey smoke that smelled nothing like a flower's aroma but more of a malodorous smell of sulfur and cow dung. Coughing and gagging for a good whole minute while fumbling around in the grey gas that effectively limited his vision to half a meter in front of his face, Rudolph finally felt the familiar feel of glass and wood. Desperately he opens the window to the [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/0f/4f/1e0f4f64f2148cb0ae26952ada3183a1.jpg]room[/url]  he quickly raises a hand and points two fingers outward. [color=steelblue]"[i][b]Aero.[/b][/i]"[/color] Suddenly a gust of wind collected the oppressive grey smoke out and away from his person. [color=steelblue]"Addendum to Experiment No. S-132-19-B, Mortella Flowers smell of sulfur and manure. Recipe was likely made as a prank for neophyte alchemists. End recording."[/color] The wizard says in between coughs. The quill dutifully writes it down word per word before going still and laying itself down as Rudolph finishes saying 'End recording'.

[color=steelblue]"Makers above, that was foul. Well played ancients. Well played."[/color] He says while fanning the air in front of his face with one hand and snapping with another. The fanning did little to alleviate the invasive odor, but the snapping of his fingers brought life to the inanimate objects; that promptly began to clean and re-organize themselves. With the experiment room being fixed and cleaned up, he goes down his tower to make some breakfast...and maybe take a shower and a change of clothes.