manually turn the band stopping on each rune and trying to determine its purpose then moving on to the next,
at the end set it to φ
once finished point at the floor and say stuff
[14-5+1] Vikus guesses that the φ has something to do with actual stuff, rather than mental effects. To confirm this...[20!+1,4-1] He summons a sack made of misty stuff. It draws itself to Vikus, sticking quite well. He feels a sudden change in the bag's weight; checking inside reveals an equally misty mask. Nice.
In that case, Falcon attack and PM spell aimed at everything.
[6v14] Sasha swoops again, but the great beast evades the attack. Meanwhile, Archmage Coolguy [10+2-2,18+1-2] creates a pair of greaves in a pile of grainy stuff. The greaves are on fire, or something, and set the grainy stuff on fire. Each one has a weird symbol on it, like a table or something...
Sweet.
Point wand at wall and say word. Then head east.
[8-2] Nothing happens. Angered, Laren storms east, into a room over a hundred feet to a side and about 50 high. A massive bear with a bair of skin wings, surrounded by a flock of weird bats, glides uncertainly around the room's top.
alright, hold a wand each hand and say Word.
[17+1+3+3+3,4+2+3+3; or 27,12] Twin beams exit each wand, mixing oddly. Out of the mixture, Jane's original wand's form takes victory, creating a tan metallic breastplate. Weird how she keeps making those...Jane realizes that it can shapeshift somehow, likely so I can figure out what to do with that Crit+7 more easily.
Change to the Θ rune, PM spell at a wall. Get tanglefoot.
[16+3,4-1] Clair summons a nice golden helm. It starts shooting little...are those
telescopes?...out of a gem on its front. They seem to grow as they fly out. Trying to ignore this, she then scoops up the three tanglefoot bags and awkwardly sticks them in her armor.
Write down the words (FUCK YOU) in notebook. Name them "daze spell".
Examine wand, to see the runes, then close eyes and choose one at random.
look at the runes. φ Θ ⌂ α ╒ ô, nice, aren't they? You decide that the ⌂ looks pretty.
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The five mages make four new magical artifacts. Meanwhile, the Archmage's foe does not cease its attacks. [7v17]
The mage avoids the blow, although his lifeblood continues to drain...-----
I'll improvise something like Pariah's idea--well, pretty much the same, except better-quantified.
I'll post the next action once you fix it. I might replace you with Xantalos, because I trust him.