You look in at the room marked 20a.

Here is the currently revealed map of areas you have explored:



A 10-foot-diameter hole, ornately edged, gapes in the floor of this room.  Directly above it is a similarly sized hole in the ceiling. A small pedestal sits
against the southwest wall, a diagram barely discernable above it.  There are three small bowls on the pedestal.  The bowls are empty.

The hole in the floor and ceiling appear to lead down to an identical room below and above, and those rooms to identical rooms below and above, ad infinitum.  It is like looking into the infinity of two mirrors facing each other.

Grizz checks the doors to the west to see if they're locked.

"This room makes me dizzy," he says to no one in particular.
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Kahan casts a spell, and the grappling hook begins to glow with a bright light.

After tying the 50' length of silk rope to the grappling hook, he started lowering it into the hole, careful to watch the hook instead of looking for anything down the hole. If there wasn't anything down there, he'd pull the rope back up and use it as a torch while he went to open the door into the western room.

"This whole place kinda makes me dizzy."

Borimer answers, his hand on the ivory hilt of Chianta as he keeps watch for any signs of the creature stalking them.
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As the rope descends, an odd thing happens.  You see the bottom of the rope dip down 15 feet, then 30 feet, and looking up, you see the same rope dropping down toward you.  This appears to be an endless loop of holes in three floors, each floor being 15 feet.

In other words, after about 45 feet of dropping the rope, the top of the rope is dangling in front of your face.

Taking a minute to look more closely, you see that the only difference between the rooms is the placement of the southern door on one of the rooms and the color of the ring around the hole.  Yours is black,the one below you is red, and the one below that is white.  Looking up, it appears that the one above you is white, and the one above that is red.

Below is a diagram.  They are supposed to be all the same size, so ignore my error.  You are at 20a; you can reference the others by 20b and 20c or by color of the ring.



Grizz tries the door to the west.  It is unlocked.

Borimer opens the west doors, eyes to the ground and only periphery vision being used to get an impression of whats beyond.

The west door opens, revealing a large kitchen.  (Room 14.)

A massive, dust-covered preparation table stands against the south wall. A large fireplace is located on the western end of the north wall. Next to it, a door leads west and another door leads north. The room appears to be empty, although it has signs of recent use.

Borimer steps warily into the chamber and checks each of the doors to see if they're locked, although he doesn't open any of them.

Kahan scratches his head at the odd hole beneath him (or would it be considered above him?), looking up at where the hook was hanging before pulling it back up. "This is very odd magic. Syrissa, what is the point of this place? Do you have any idea?" the young priest asks, pulling out a gold piece and dropping it into the hole, wondering if it will fall infinitely and eventually achieve terminal velocity.

Syrissa indicates she knows next to nothing about this place or its magics.

The doors are all unlocked.

"Syrissa, would you feel comfortable staying back here with Edmure while we scout ahead? I have a feeling Esylia will come back, and I do not think there is any other way for her to get back to this level other than through these holes. Edmure would likely be very handy in finding Esylia, as long as he keeps his eyes closed and simply listens for her to return." Kahan asks, waiting for her answer before continuing forward with Borimer. "Which door would you prefer to go through first? I have no preference and would likely decide randomly if you don't care." he mentions with a shrug, looking between the two doors.

"Let's see if these west doors can take us back to the room beyond the arrow slits, the one we haven't reached yet."

Borimer leads the way to the west doors and beyond, Chianta's hilt never far from his hand.

Kahan follows along, wrapping the grappling hook's rope around his arm and propping it on his shoulder so his hand would be free.

The door to the west leads into a 20' x 15' room (area 13).  A round table
sits in the center of the area, the top warped and leaning to one side. Doors to the east lead to the kitchen (area 14).  There is a door to the west, and to the north, an arched opening leads to the base of a circular staircase winding its way up.

Otherwise, the room itself is empty.

Grizz examines the table on the floor.

Borimer checks to see if the west doors are unlocked, and then if any sound can be heard from beyond them.

Harak will look up the stairway from the bottom to see if anything is visible or if anything can be heard.

Grizz looks at the table.  On the underside, someone has carved crude numbers in the wood with a knife or dagger that read:

"486267825798"

Underneath that is scratched the word:  "DEAD"

The door to the west is unlocked.  There is no sound beyond it.

Harak listens at the stairs and hears something.  It makes a soft "plink, plink, plink" of some ball or round item that is rolling down the stairs, hitting one stair, and then the next as it starts to pick up momentum and come down toward the room where you are at.
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"Get back from the stairs," Harak yells as he uses his supernatural speed to move as far away as possible.

Kahan nods and quickly follows the monk (although likely not as quick as Harak), running through the door, careful to keep his eyes on the floor and using his good memory to not run into anything rather than looking ahead in case it was a trap.

Borimer quickly follows the others out the door, guarding them as they leave with his body between them and the stairs as they exit.

One of the exploding orbs rolls down the stairs, slightly into the room, and then explodes, knocking the table into splinters and throwing them against the wall.  Everyone safely made it out of the room.

You hear a cackling woman's laugh from the top of the stairs which is disappearing away from the stairwell.

"How many of those do you reckon she has?"  Borimer asks Syrissa as he walks back to the stairs.

[will listen for any more sounds of her movements]

(Syrissa is back at the strange infinite teleportal holes with Edmure.)

Syrissa responds, "She must have gotten those after I last saw her.  They certainly make things more dangerous for all of us, even more than her power to turn us into stone with her gaze."

No more movements are heard.  She is either hiding upstairs or has moved beyond the reach of your hearing.

Kahan will follow Borimer and cast a spell.

Borimer draws his ebony blade and opens the west doors, always wary of meeting the gaze of anything that may or may not be able to turn him to stone.

Harak will also stay with Borimer.
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PM

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Kahan casts a spell.  A dust devil rises up next to him.  Everyone else stays clear.

The party moves west through the next door.

The door opens to an L shaped hallway.  There is a north door, a south door, a door to the northwest, and a door to the southwest around the turn.

Borimer listens at the first southern door for any sounds of...anything.

Harak stays close to Borimer, waiting and listening.

There are no sounds.

Grizz opens the south door, trident ready.

The south door opens to reveal two broken bunks that have fallen down and collapsed as though broken in a scuffle of some sort.  Otherwise, the small room is empty.

Borimer listens at the first northern door.

Borimer hears a slight gurgling sound at the northern door.  He also smells a disgusting, sewage-like odor coming from underneath it.

Current Status:

Borimer is inspecting (listening and smelling) the door just north of #9.  Nearby are Harak, Flint, Kahan, and Grizz.  Naj is in room 13.

Your friendly medusa guide Syrissa is back in the room with the infinite teleportal with her blind husband Edmure.  The doors leading back there are all open so you can hear if anything is going on.

Her evil sister gorgon Esylia (who is twisted and serpentine) is somewhere on the level above you and has been lobbing grenade-like objects down the stairs and the teleportal level.

Room 12 has two broken beds.

The room north of room 12 has a sewage smell and strange but faint sloshy sounds coming from it.

You have two vials of fluid that will turn stone to flesh...just in case.  Presents from Syrissa.

You found a strange device in Room 33a that is a pulley/winch system connected to two numbers on the wall set to "35".  Pulling the winch will change the numbers.

You found a Crystal Focus Room in room 32a with an odometer like object with 12 numbers:  742138703546

You found a code of 12 numbers scratched into the bottom of a table: 486267825798.  Underneath that was scratched the word:  "DEAD"

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"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

Borimer pushes open the door just enough to glance inside.

The smell intensifies.  It appears to be a privy.  There is a corresponding hole in the northern floor with a wooden "seat."

how large is the area?
This message was last edited by the player at 21:46, Tue 19 June 2012.

Large enough for an average sized butt.  :)

Couldn't resist.  Here's the map.  It's at #11:

While Borimer is inspecting the toilet, Grizz inspects the beds to the south room.

Borimer quietly closes the door and exhales, then moves to the south bend. After making sure nothing lurks down the south passage he listens at the northwest door.

DM Heath:

Large enough for an average sized butt.  :)

realizing my mistake i had edited the post to read 'area', but i was too late to evade being the butt of your joke ;p

FYI, the sloshing noises were from down the hole, which he did not investigate.

"I think i forgot to check something-"

Borimer grits his teeth and walks back into the water closet, and then tosses an iron spike into the hole.

Harak also looks at the bed trying to discern if the broken wood was broken recently or long ago.  "Two of us should carry one of the vials each.  It wouldn't do to have the one person holding both of the turned to stone," he will suggest.

Scratched on the broken wood on one of the beds as if by a dagger is the following:

->92

It appears as if the beds were recently broken.

Grizz takes the other blue vial.


Borimer throws a spike into the privy.  As he does so, a slimy, amorphous substance reaches out and grabs him, absorbing his arm.



Borimer suffers 5 acid damage on his right hand.  He also feels dizzy and confused.  (Saving throw missed, intelligence temporarily halved through psychic damage.)
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Borimer shrugs off the acid touch of the creature but his mind reels from the psychic impact, his ebony blade cutting the air around him in confusion.

"What the crap?" Grizz says with a twisted half-smile as he runs north to help Borimer, striking at the dung beast with his trident.

Harak attempts to pull Borimer free while staying away from the stuff on his arm.

Borimer hits the oozing creature that sticks out of the privy attacking him, slicing through it.  He slices again, and his sword gets stuck.  The acid eats away at him further.  (11 hp dmg.)

Grizz storms forward, stabbing into the ooze with his trident.  The trident hits the ooze, pulling out mucous-like membranes with its barbs.  The trident appears to be losing some of its glint.  (The trident loses 1 of its magical bonuses and is now only +1.)

Harak has also rushes forward and helps pull Borimer free of the creature.

The ooze-like creature strikes out, missing Borimer, strikes out again, hitting Grizz and covering his chest with its corrosive acid.  The bare-chested fisherman feels the acid eating through his chest hairs and skin.  (12 hp dmg.)  He also feels dizzy and strange.  (Intelligence temporarily halved by psychic damage.)

Borimer fumbles and yelps with pain when the creature's acid further scorches his flesh.  He answers with a flurry of blows aimed at bringing the thing down for good.

Harak attacks the thing with his quarterstaff, trying to remain out of it's range (I know...not really possible).

Grizz drops his trident at seeing it lose some of its glimmer and instead strikes with his javelin, pulling it swiftly from wher it is slung on his back.

Harak and Borimer swing twice at the thing, and Grizz hits once with his javelin.  The onslaught reduces the creature to a pile of slush and ooze that falls to the floor and back into the privy.  Its death apparently neutralizes its acidic properties.

OOC: FYI, I originally thought of making this a "Dung Elemental," but I thought that might be too cheesy, so it is a modified type of Ooze from a monster manual with a couple of special attacks I took from a couple of oozes there.
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"This place is pretty crappy.  Let's continue looking for the way out."

Grizz looks down into the privy, shining a light down there.

Borimer wipes off his blade and keeps watch as Grizz ponders the abyss.

Grizz sees a disembodied arm down in the hole below, and it its hand is firmly gripping something.

"Looks like a job for a fisherman."

Borimer claps Grizz on the shoulder.

Grizz shrugs and says, "I've done worse.  You guys go on and see what's ahead while I try to get it out.  This may take awhile, but at least I have fishing gear back here."

"No offense my friend, but this looks like one mean privy. I think it's best if we stay together in this place."

Borimer looks to see if anyone agrees and will stay with him to guard over Grizz while he fishes for gold.

Grizz uses some fishing wire and hooks to get the dismembered hand up to the surface.  Clutched in the hand is a small note.

You can't help but notice that this hand is not all that decayed.  Its owner must have died within the last two weeks or so.

You pull out the note and open it up.  Unlike the hand, the cloth note is decaying and the writing on it very old.  After a few moments, you are able to decipher it.  The writing says:

528373567447
DEMONS

"Perhaps that is not where we should be going.  At this rate, we can eliminate all the wrong choices before eterninty ends.  There must be a more efficient way to figure out where we are going than discovering where we should not go."

Grizz will leave the latrine and try the northwest door.  "Not sure if that's the stinkiest thing I've ever caught or not," he says.  He also looks to see how old the, um, scat in the latrine might be.  2 weeks?  Older?  More fresh?

"We should stick together," Harak says while motioning to Borimer and the others.  "Maybe seperated by the blast radius of those things that crazy gorgon is tossing at us," he says grimly.

OOC: I don't remember who is with us.  Do we have a good idea of the blast radius?
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To Harak: The status hasn't changed much since I posted the above, except that you fought the ooze monster in room 9 and found a new note with a new code and the word "DEMONS" on it.  You also found a partial code of some kind scratched into the wood of one of the destroyed beds in room 12.

Character positions are pretty much the same.
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Borimer takes watch while Grizz tries the northwest doors.

You examine the northwest room, finding a shattered bed and desk in the room.  (Room 10.)

Here is the full map that you have explored so far:

Borimer moves to the south door and listens for anything beyond, letting those more clever than himself search for clues around this northwest chamber.

He hears nothing at the south door.

Harak continued to stick close to Borimer as he is checking out the doors.

Grizz examines the destroyed desk and bed in room 10.

Borimer opens the south doors with his sword hilt in hand.

The south door reveals a 15 foot by 20 foot room.  (Room 7.)

This was apparently a bunk room or barracks of some sort, with several sets of bunks.  However, the bunks have been destroyed, as if in a battle or ransacking.

All around the floor, you see familiar pieces of statues that have been blown to bits, more work of Esylia making sure the victims of her gaze never see the light of day again.  The bunks also show signs of being hit by explosions from her strange grenade-like balls.

What is different here is that the pieces of the statues seem to have been arranged in a strange pattern of concentric circles.  In the center is the remains of a stone hand, open-palmed.  In that palm is resting a cloth note similar to the one you found in the privy.  It is folded so you cannot see the writing on it.

Borimer is careful to avoid the concentric circles of debris on his way to securing the south doors, first listening at the east one, and then the west.
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He hears nothing at the south door, but he hears a muffled sound from behind the southwest door.

Grizz finds that someone has carved the following numbers on the side of the desk:

->348<-<-

is the muffled sound repetitive, like a wheel turning or a machine moving, or water flowing, etc?

It was a one time muffled sound, like something just moved back there.

Borimer looks at his comrades and points to the door, then his ear, and then the door again.  When everyone looks ready he opens it to whatever lurks beyond.

Grizz follows the others into the bunkroom and stands with his trident ready behind Borimer.

Harak is ready to follow them into the room.

I will post a move later today.  I haven't heard from a few of you in awhile.  Flint? Kahan? Everything okay? I will assume you are just tagging along unless I get a post.
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With Harak, Kahan and Grizz right behind him, Borimer opens the door in the southwest.

He is immediately met with a cry of "No, you monster!  Leave me be!"  This is followed by a muttering and a flash of light.

This flash of light is a lightning bolt directed at the door.  The man who has just cast this spell from some sort of wand has his head turned away to make sure he doesn't look at you.  But you have little time to reflect on that since you are busily trying to dodge a lightning bolt.

OOC: Surprisingly, not a single one of you made the saving throw, which actually makes sense, since you were blindsided by it.

Borimer is hit by the lightning for 23 hit points damage.
Harak is hit by the lightning for 22 hit points damage.
Grizz is hit by the lightning for 28 hit points damage.
Kahan is hit by the lightning for 17 hit points damage.

The lightning bolt bounces off the far wall, hits one of the broken bunks, and stops.

The man, meanwhile, is diving under the bed in the room.

You see that the room is some sort of bedroom with a bed and a desk.  (Room 8.)


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"Hold! Another one of those and I'll have to kill you..."

Borimer clutches his side and draws his blade, simultaneously looking around the chamber to be sure of no medusae.  He turns to his comrade Kahan.

"Ok, I'll admit that hurt."

The man peeks out from behind one of his hands, squinting with one eye.

"But," he stammers, "you...she...is she dead?"  He looks hopeful.  "I'm very sorry about this.  You should knock though, you know, or announce your presence.  This is a dangerous place."

He comes out and sits on the bed.  You can see that he is emaciated, his clothes in tatters, and that his lips are parched and chapped.  He also looks to have been hurt badly in a recent battle or something.  "She killed them all," he says, obviously a little wild-eyed and crazy from whatever ordeal he's been through.  "There's only me...and maybe Shamir...but I don't think so."

Grizz says, "Oh, yeah, that hurt.  I've got to sit down."  He sits down on one of the beds in the bunkroom to let the others interrogate this guy.

Kahan grunts after getting hit with the lightning bolt, shaking off the bright light and pain briefly before administering some healing to the fighter types who seem to have been taking a beating. "Are you in need of healing?" the priest asks the man, approaching him and sitting down next to him on the bed. He pulls out a days worth of rations and some water for him, seeing as he looks like he hasn't eaten or drank in days. If he is indeed hurt, he will also heal him.

Using CLW's on Borimer and Grizz. Can we have a recap of everyone's HP too please?

OOC: That's right.  With Adaran gone, I'm going to have to start keeping track of that again if you guys aren't doing so!

As the man sees Kahan administering to his friends, he pulls himself out from under the bed and takes a seat.  He is frail, and is shaking with tremors.  He will take what healing he can get, and he begins to talk, telling you the following:


"My name is Chrisman.  I brought ten warriors with me and went through the Crossroads Ark about...I lost track of time in here...but it must have been at least 10 days ago.  I've only had a little water since then.

That snake-woman beast set upon us soon after we arrived, turning my men into stone and blowing them to bits.  I fled, hiding from her.  A couple others did too, but she got them eventually.  I wound up here, where I've been for many days now.

"We know some of what happened.  There is a man here who lived in this temple -- Androlus.  When the evil snake woman arrived and he saw what she was doing to those who lived in the temple, he put out his own eyes to avoid turning into stone.  She has kept him locked up ever since, trying to cull information from him.  We don't know how long he has been her prisoner, but it has likely been many years.  We were going to release him when she found us and set upon us.  That's where the last of my men made their stand.

"So here is what we learned from Androlus.  The spherical device is only one part of the Crossroads Ark.  It is the part that controls time.  When we came through, we did not go anywhere except through time.  Backwards in time, because we saw parts of the temple that were broken are now intact.  We think we have been sent back a thousand years.  Anyone you knew will not be born for many centuries to come.

"The next part of the Crossroads Ark will send you through space.  There are many locations it could send you, from the deepest areas of hell to Allevia.  But the proper code must be input into the six gears.  This snake woman is searching for codes.  I set up a trap outside this door to catch the snake woman.  Androlus told us where to find a code, but a portion of it was missing.

"You need to talk to Androlus.  He can get us out of here if you save him.  He knows all about this place."

Chrisman then says, "Where is Lumen?  We need to report back.  Is the king still well and held to the throne by Lumen's spell?"

"Lumen was killed by Esylia, the snake woman that you mentioned, when we came through, along with the rest of his men. The king was turned the stone for safe-keeping by Esylia's sister, Syrissa, who joined us here with her husband, a blind man. Do not worry, she is a friend and will not turn you to stone. Do you know anything of the explosive spheres that Esylia carries? We have seen a couple of them already, and they are quite devastatingly powerful." Kahan asks, using a healing spell on Chrisman.

He shakes his head in disbelief.  "Lumen is...dead?  Why did he come through?  He must have known if he dies his spell on the king will be undone and the king will be free to track us down and kill us.  But if the king is stone, perhaps we will be safe, so long as this Syrissa is alive."

As to the spheres, he shrugs.  "She seems to have an unlimited supply.  I think she keeps them upstairs somewhere."

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"I'd like to get my hands on those exploding spheres, damn handy in a tight spot I'm bettin'."

Borimer's eyes methodically sweep the area as he talks, always mindful of avoiding evil eyes when possible.

"No offense to the lady we came with but I plan on killin' her sister today."

"I just hope Syrissa doesn't object to your sentiment, friend." Kahan replies as he stands up. "So let me get this straight. We are currently about 1000 years in the past, trapped in a locked series of rooms with basically no idea how to get back to where we came from, or how to defeat the evil gorgon who is trying to blow us all to pieces. Sound about right?" he continues, smirking slightly. "This is probably the worst predicament we've been in for, oh, about a week. Tell me, Chrisman, do you know where Androlus is being kept?"

Not for the first time Borimer finds himself wondering if living dead knights with their demonic lapdogs could follow the group here and make their day even brighter.

"I'm going to check that other south door."

He moves to the southeast door (room 7) and listens again before opening it to see what's beyond.

"Androlus was on the second floor somewhere.  I don't know directions because we've been fleeing non-stop.  I can try to take you to him, but it will be a dangerous trip and I am very weak.  I can't promise you anything, though, because it's been 10 days now, and I don't remember all that well."

"The snake woman kept him locked in a closet area inside a square room.  It was a secret door that we stumbled upon because Androlus heard us and called out for help."

OOC:  If you choose to have Androlus help you, he will move slowly and may need someone to support his weight much of the time.  Even with healing, he is dehydrated and starving.  This will not heal with a simple spell but will heal over time as he gets food and water.  He also walks with a limp that slows him down.

Chrisman:  Chrisman is a scholar and has some training in magical arts.  His spellbook was lost somewhere when he was fleeing, and he just used his last lightning charge on the wand, so he is of little practical help there.

OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE:  Keep Chrisman alive to lead you to Androlus.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE:  Find Androlus.

what was the result of this action?

"I say we find a way to the second floor and get this Androlus to guide us. I don't want to spend any more time here than necessary, even if I can't grab those exploding spheres."

The southeast door opens to reveal another small room.  (Room 6.)  There is a desk and wooden bench in the room.  There is also a small jeweled chest in the room.  It is open and empty.

Kahan makes sure Chrisman is as well fed as he so desires, giving him his food in exchange for the knowledge he's given. "Here, I'll let you use this so you aren't completely defenseless while we try to get out of here." the priest states, reaching into his haversack and producing a wand, handing it to Chrisman. "It is a Rod of Paralyzation and has four uses. Try not to hit us with them." he stated with a grin, obviously a jab at the wasted lightning bolt spell from earlier. While Chrisman eats and slowly regains his strength, Kahan follows Borimer, carefully rooting through the desk to see if there's anything of interest within, or elsewhere in the room (scratches on any wooden surfaces, notes hidden underneath furniture).

Flint having been lost in one of the other rooms, finally catches up with the others.  "So did I miss much?  I trying to make sense of all of these random numbers.  I'm sure there has to be some sort of book or catalog that may explain this in more detail."

"If only it were that simple. I think we may need Androlus's help to figure out how to get to Allevia, and once Chrisman feels up to it, we should head out post-haste." the priest stated, walking with Borimer and checking the southern door before opening it.

OOC: Now that you know you have traveled back in time 1000 years, please don't think there is a story inconsistency if you find magic items because this is 1000 years prior to Augmantium wiping out all magic when you released it.  Also, those who followed Chrisman through the time travel part of the Ark did so before you got Augmantium.

"I can heal him if we meditate for a couple of hours.  I can make his mind strong enough to sustain his body on its own.  We should then have the aid of a fully capable man, not the hobbled man before us.  We should secure a place from the beastly sister, though.  We can rest, if some of you need to."

"I think that is a wonderful idea. If I can get a good rest, I can be of much more use as my supply of healing spells is running low. I can use what I have before we rest, and keep the rest for later." Kahan agrees, nodding and looking at Borimer to see if he agreed, being the highest 'ranking' member of the group.

I, too, can use what powers I have left after completing the ceremony with our trigger happy friend.  I could be in better shape, myself.

"I can watch over everyone while they rest. I suggest we hole up in one of the bedrooms we came across earlier, easiest to defend."

Borimer rubs his side where the lightning scorched him.

"Any last healing I can get before guard duty?"

[im thinking room 12 looks good]

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Chrisman says, "I set a trap outside this room.  If she comes in and tries to take the note, it will warn us and possibly injure her."  He refers to the hand with the note on it in the bunkroom.

Here's what you have uncovered of Level 1 so far:

You are currently around Room 8.  Room 7 is where the trap has been laid.



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"Does that note have a clue on it, or did you put it there knowing Esylia would think it was a clue?" Kahan asks, having wondered what the note was but not wanting to touch it when he heard there was a trap involved. While he is waiting on an answer, he will cast another healing spell on Borimer and Grizz. Once everyone is settled in to rest, he will also cast a spell on the door, telling everyone that if they wish to open it, they must first speak a command word or be blasted by fire. "Borimer, why don't you and I go find Syrissa and tell her we will be resting? Perhaps she would like to take a break as well." he asks before heading out of the room.

Casting Cure Serious Wounds on Borimer (which should bring him back to full if I'm not mistaken), then Cure Light Wounds on Grizz, before casting Fire Trap on the door (the command word is earthroc if it matters). Can we have that recap on HP now? I'll make sure to keep track of my own once I'm sure what it's at. Also before resting Kahan will do a healing check on anyone that hasn't already been healed.

He says, "It had a number on it.  I set it there a day or two ago, and I've forgotten what the number is now."

"Good idea."

Bormer thanks the priest for the healing and then goes with him to speak with Syrissa.

"We should stay here were he has been safe for over a week," Harak suggests.

He is down to 32/54 hp.   He can heal 12 hp on himself after doing the ceremony, but that would wipe him out as far as doing anything else for a while (other than fight).  He could use some healing that didn't cost so much, if there's any left.  He can watch all night.

Borimer nods before leaving to speak to Syrissa.

"Yes, I definitely agree, the spell will do us good. And the priest's."

As you are discussing whether to rest to regain your faculties and strength, you hear a shout from back in the teleportal room.  Then you hear a scream.

As you run over there to investigate, you hear another of those explosions.

In the teleportal room itself, you see rubble flying down between the teleportal area, working its way up to terminal velocity as it falls nonstop.  Some of the rubble is also on the ground next to you.

Looking around, you see that it is the remains of Syrissa.

Naj is also standing there, as well as Edmure, and they relate what they saw (or heard):

Syrissa was yelling up a level at her sister, Esylia. Then Syrissa jumped into the teleportal, trying get across to Esylia.  But Esylia's gaze was stronger than Syrissa's, and Syrissa was turned to stone.  Her sister then lobbed the grenade-like objects at her, and the explosion blew up Syrissa's falling statue-ified body.

By the time Naj got there, he saw the remains of a large, serpentine tail exiting the door two levels below you...and one level above you.

"Now," Edmure says, "everyone Syrissa turned to stone has been revived."  Then the blind old man stops short, still in shock at his wife's death.

"Including the lich king. Fantastic." Kahan mutters under his breath, heaving a sigh and furrowing his brow in frustration. "And technically, it's everyone she will turn to stone, because we are currently 1000 years in the past. Semantics aside, we were planning on taking a rest before... this all happened. Would you care to join us?" he asks the older man, offering to lead him back to the bedroom area if he said yes.

Still struck by his sudden loss, Edmure agrees to follow you back to rest.

OOC: Since Edmure is blind (and therefore impervious to the gaze), and now enraged at Esylia, he will help you in any way he can.  You might find a use for his imperviousness.

Borimer resumes watching over the others while they rest, Chianta's hilt never far from his hand.