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Nick discerns from the language of the runes, not to mention the enormous snake, that this is some kind of summoning circle directed to the realm of Yig, ancient Lord of Serpents. The circle is somehow making a barrier between living things inside and outside the circle, with neither able to pass easily to the other side. The flies buzzing around are pretty unhappy about that. There aren't any spirits around either. Not even the normal ones that gather when life passes.

 

Sun's still hammering down, so the cold-bloods are still active, and the hillside does have its share of snakes.

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The magic is life magic, and using the name of the town has pretty major symbolic significance, but how or why she can't quite grasp.

troll, Nick's prescience is thwarted by a surge of chaotic life-magic, something that can't have been either accidental or residual. He'd need to take a look to be sure, but something might be watching him and Equinox.

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An absolutely gargantuan mass of life-magic energy is looming over the hillside, looking down at the mages. It resembles a brilliant silver chimera, made up of both real and potential living things. Possibility and the promise of creation pulse from it, all directed by some singular mind that gives it form and purpose. Like a smoke-plume, it billows out of the town river below. Nick also detects that some ghosts are in the mix somewhere.

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Equinox's magical learnings and keen eye let her in on a little secret: the ley line coursing through the earth and water below isn't anything like the harsh, angular dragon lines Ghorummaz carved into place eons ago. It's the result of guiding elemental force, bending it and binding it to one direction and purpose. It seems to draw most of its authority from the narrow spring river, which has all the signs of having been around for a long, long time.

It's barely stable, and only really works by sheer momentum, but it's powerful enough and a feat of magical engineering all the same.

As it's not connected to the larger network, its likely source is the spring upriver.

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The motorcycle hits a barrier of force, dimensional energies twisted into a pseudo-wall that keeps certain living spirits out catching Pitch and Equinox as they're flung out. The vehicle is undamaged but flung a significant distance backwards.

A different sort of brute force might be more applicable...

troll, Springsvale attempts to pull a fast verbal one on Nick with a Bluff roll of 24. Nick's Attractive bonus to Bluff comes into play for Mystical Reasons.

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Sorry Ecal, really, I keep forgetting this, it's dumb. Proper exposition in a couple hours.

 

EDIT: Ecalsneerg, the runes(and general power surrouding the coffin) are as archaic as the dragon line coursing through it, tapping into primal elemental forces and acting as a conduit to direct them. The generative power it emits is far beyond what the surrouding desert would normally be able to reach, making it both a magnet and source of life. There's a few rumors in the Southwest American tribes that some of their shamans found ways to give up their lives to lend their energy to the world around them by forcing their bodies into the spiritual realm, but nothing even remotely on this level. No single person, no matter how effervescent, could do something like this.

 

trollthumper, Springsvale is lying. More specifically, lying about how useful the summoned creatures are to it.

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Those both make it easy.

Arcane Lore: the deserts around Magic Mesa, even miles from the plateau, have a reputation for bad nights. With the symbolic departure of the Sun, powers from other worlds(or at least shades of them) can move into the human world. They can only invade when around people using magic to twist the dimensional gates, however, but that makes them much more likely to cooperate with summoners they find.

Notice: there is a nexus of dimensional power around the town. It just became visible as the sun started to vanish below the horizon.

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