"Well that worked better than I expected." Kahan mutters, checking his hand to see if the stone is still in it or if it somehow magically returned to the bowl. Grabbing Borimer by the shoulders, he begins ushering him south, easily covering his eyes by the fighter's broad back. "Let's end this once and for all, eh friend?" the priest chuckles as he opens the door.

The stone is still in Kahan's hand.  It starts getting hot the moment he steps off the invisible floor.

As soon as the stone warms up and he is quite certainly off of the invisible floor, Kahan drops the stone and watches it to see where it goes before leading Borimer after the gorgon.

Kahan drops the stone but finds that, before it even hits the floor, it teleports immediately back to the hand that was holding it.  The stone is even hotter now.

Borimer's special skills make him aware of his friend before he speaks, so when urged forward the warrior doesn't jump and start swinging at imaginary snake ladies.

"Aye, let's put her down once and for all."

Borimer moves forward ready to fight as soon as his companions are gathered.
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Looking around, now somewhat worriedly, Kahan hopes to find a bowl similar to the ones on the floor above that he could perhaps put the stone into.

Each floor has three bowls and the same diagram.  On the first floor where Kahan currently stands, the left bowl has a red stone with three white dots, the center bowl is empty, and the right bowl has a white stone with two black dots.

The priest attempts to drop the stone into the center empty bowl. Hopefully he can get rid of it before it starts to burn him.

The stone is burning hot.  Kahan knows it will soon cause permanent burn damage to his hand if he doesn't do something about it.  He tosses the stone in the middle bowl.  The stone disappears, teleported somewhere.  Looking down at his numb hands, Kahan is thankful to see that it was not teleported back to his hand.

You hear another crunch of metal in the southern room, and an enraged squeal escapes Esylia's lips.  Apparently, she has been engaging the guardian statue but is now moving on.
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Borimer can smell his quarry.

"Let's chase her down!"

He leans forward eagerly waiting to be ushered into battle.

When traveling, remember to state what route (by room number) you travel through.

Here is the map of level one again.

Borimer and Kahan are in room 20a.  Esylia is (or just was a moment ago) in room 16.  The rest of the group are directly above Borimer in room 20b.

<blue><b>LEVEL ONE

The arrow by #18 references the area where the wall had collapsed in the future time before you traveled back.

Harak does what Kahan did by grabbing the stone with one dot, going down a level, and tossing it in the middle bowl.  "What a vulnerable way to travel," he says as he descends.

"It's quite handy now that we know how to do it." Kahan mentions as he leads Borimer through room 19 into 16.

Harak, Kahan and Borimer move down to room 16.  The Time Ark is unscathed, but the room looks otherwise just as you'd expect:  two of the gorgon's handheld bombs have scorched the place, putting scratches and carving pieces of rock out of the walls.

The door to the west is closed, but the door to the south is open.  There are also the stairs to the east.

The statue is also here, its body scorched and damaged by the two explosions.  Upon seeing Harak, Kahan and Borimer (as it is still in "Guard" mode and does not differentiate enemies, and as Flint is not in the control booth), it turns to attack.

Harak dodges the statue and swings at it with his scimitar.  "Flight or flee?" he says as he chops at it. "If the medusa gets upstairs, our friends will be in danger, but maybe she's just gone south or west.  Anyone hear any doors close?"

"We should keep on her-"

Borimer slashes twice at the golem's stomach.
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"Leave the golem. We have more important things to focus on." Kahan states, ushering Borimer south, hoping they weren't walking into an ambush.

Borimer and Harak attack the already damaged statue.  Harak makes two swift hits with his scimitar, and Borimer hits once.  The statue's leg snaps as it puts its enormous weight on the damaged leg, but it manages to strike out twice, hitting Harak once with its mighty metal hand.  (13 hp dmg.)

The statue is now a danger only to those in the north side of the room and you can escape it without risking further attack through the south or east exits, but the north and west exits will put you within its reach.

Borimer moves as fast as Kahan can guide him on the continuing chase to track and beat down the medusa.

Harak follows the other two south, averting his eyes but having his scimitar ready.

Harak, Kahan, and Borimer go south into the library, which is a dead end room from which there is no escape.

The library is scorched and burned as you recall.  This was, as you were told, the work of Androlus to prevent Esylia from getting the codes to send her to Allevia.  So there are bookcases where are only skeletons, made mostly of fashioned iron.  The books which would have provided sufficient cover from view are now gone, and you (well, not Borimer so much) see a form in the southeast corner.

Esylia sees you from her hiding place in the corner and squeals in anger.  She is removing another orb, which she holds in her hand as she approaches you.

(You have been aware enough to avert your eyes so far, so these are caught in the peripheral vision of Harak and Kahan.  Borimer, though, just hears her squeal and the approach of her as she rounds the bookcases.)

Flint and Malissin remain upstairs, apparently twiddling their thumbs.

Borimer lunges forward without a word and takes two hard swipes at the medusa.

Kahan begins casting a spell and pats Borimer on the back after he finishes.

OOC: Oi! I was the first one to suggest running her down in the first place...been a little busy recently!

Malissin suddenly appears in the back of the group but seeing the sudden hold up in adventurers and the squeal of a gorgon he wisely lowers his eyes before actually entering the room. He draws out his weapon and prepares to blindly attack...

For reference, you are all in room 17, and she is approaching from the far southeast corner around the row of bookcases.

OOC: I will assume Flint also follows behind but does not enter the room at this point to be sure he is ready to assist in case there are any statuary-related problems. :)