Vial of Frost

## Description

*A vial of frost, obtained during the Spider Pathway during Event #004. Although this sample was of frost spiders upon collection, the once-spiders seem to have dissolved into an amalgamate of stark white snow overnight. It might be related to the Blue-Green Wood.*

## Quest Chain

Meloa Ruicott, while investigating the caverns of the labyrinth during Event #004, comes across a pathway of the same frost spiders that seem to have invaded the school building. She uses a Glass Vial to collect some of the spiders for further analysis.

However, when she stores it and wakes up the next day, she finds that the spiders have dissolved into snow, leaving the vial full of frosty, white powder. Even stranger, is the fact that no matter what is done to this snow, it does not seem to melt - and if placed back in the vial, it retains the look of being freshly fallen.

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £3

If Meloa Ruicott shows this vial to Lamont D'Reichier, he seems to have no idea what it is. This is perhaps **more** telling than his having knowledge of it: after all, Lamont is well-studied. For a kind of snow to be something he doesn't recognize? It's quite preposterous!

As one would expect, it must be related to an entity of some sort. One thing Lamont **does** notice, though, is that the snow has some sort of mineral deposit.

*Perhaps they'll need to find someone that knows a thing or two about rocks. When you've completed this prompt, please post a log to the Update Spreadsheet.*

### Meloa, Alma, Freisse, and Lamont; January 9, 2017

Meloa shows her vial to Lamont while he takes a look at Alma Thompson's Vial of Snow. He doesn't recognize the mineral deposit - unlike Alma's Vial of Snow, it doesn't seem to be salt. What could it be, then?

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £1

When tested in the lab, the only thing Meloa can be certain of is that the frost doesn't seem to melt. As for the mineral deposit, though? She simply isn't sure! When it goes beneath a microscope, though...

*Use (!investigate vial\_of\_frost) when placing the vial beneath a microscope. When you've completed the prompt, please place your log on the Update Spreadsheet.*

### Meloa and Alma; January 21, 2017

Meloa takes Alma Thompson to the science lab in order to view the Vial of Frost beneath the lens of a microscope. When she focuses the image, she sees something curious.

Alma makes a drawing of the specks. They consider visiting Christoph Payne or the library for more information.

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £N/A

Should Meloa and Alma visit the library to learn about the Vial of Frost, they'll discover that the tiny organisms they viewed under the microscope simply look like regular ocean plankton. Pieces of the puzzle might begin to fall together:

* They discovered sea salt in the Vial of Snow.
* The **Vial of Frost** contains sea plankton.
* The frost spiders don't seem to match any known records of snow entities, regardless of where they - or anyone at the school - looks.
	+ ... So what *are* these snow spiders, then?

### Meloa and Alma, February 4, 2017

Meloa identified that the weird amoeba organism under the microscope was in fact sea plankton. The girls discuss attempting to summon a pixie to talk to using the Purple Harebell if that's possible... or to at least try and talk to a fairy using the flower. Meloa asks Alma to grab hers in her stead, so she can continue studying.

They can't seem to summon a fairy using their Purple Harebell... but maybe if they *presented it to a fairy*....?

Meloa can choose to either:

* Find a fairy to speak to and show them the Purple Harebell, or
* As proposed, speak to Bleu about any disturbances in the oceans of late, or if there's anything special about the type of sea plankton.

*When you've chosen your path of action, let Thumper know over Skype or in chat! If you'd like to speak to a fairy, please see the conditions listed on the information for the Blue-Green Wood. Otherwise, information will be relayed to Bleu in advance before your roleplay is schedule.*