Olven finished the final skeleton.

Roisin's fireball dealt with the spectral minion.

The final spectral minion missed Ochre.

Roisin threw another fireball and felled the final spectral minion. She then promptly collapsed from her injuries.

Apparent exits: Door (Olven, D'aden). Door in the middle of opposing wall. Corridor to the right (Roisin). Corridor to the left.

Apparition: Down

D'aden: HP 14/14. HT = 5 (That swipe was worse and lowered HT permanently by 5, also affecting your HT-based skills. Only high level magic will be able to restore your HT back to normal.)
Olven: HP 16/15
Roisin: HP 8/0; FP 12/2; Unconscious, you get a HT roll at the end of every hour to return to consciousness.

[OOC: I'm covering two turns in this post, as there weren't many choices what to do with the final spectral minion.]

Olven Wolf finishes off the final skeleton with his axe, and then turns back to Roisin.  He drops by her side and checks for a pulse, then checks to see if he can administer first aid.

"It's a good thing she could deal with those spirits," he says.  "Our weapons had no effect on them, D'aden."

OOC:  Use First Aid to check on Roisin's condition.

Olven checked Roisin. She was still alive. Considering recent events, she was likely not sleeping or paralyzed. But he couldn't find out for sure if she was in a coma or merely unconscious.

But she was wounded and he could help with that. He took a minute and bandaged her.

Apparent exits: Door (Olven, D'aden). Door in the middle of opposing wall. Corridor to the right (Roisin). Corridor to the left.

Apparition: Down

D'aden: HP 14/14. HT = 5 (That swipe was worse and lowered HT permanently by 5, also affecting your HT-based skills. Only high level magic will be able to restore your HT back to normal.)
Olven: HP 16/15
Roisin: HP 8/1; FP 12/2; Unconscious, you get a HT roll at the end of every hour to return to consciousness.

[OOC: If you want to help Roisin restore additional HP, you can spend 30 minutes and make another First Aid roll to restore an additional 1d6-4 HP. Yes, even with a successful roll, that's more than 66% probability for no effect at all.]

"Roisin needs healing," Olven says as he applies first aid.  "D'aden, see if you can find a way out of here.  I'll see if I can do anything else to help her."

OOC:  Olven will use First Aid again and take 30 minutes this time to see if he can help with any of her other injuries.

D'aden went to the door opposite them, and attempted to open it. "Yeah, we got to get away from here. I don't know what that thing did to me, but I think I'ld prefer getting hit by a sword."

Olven started making Roisin as comfortable and warm as he could. And D'aden looked in behind the door.

D'aden looks back to Olven, and says, "I think we should bring her, and everyone else, in here. It looks like it was some sort of library, and was probably where those that passed these trials came to. If that's the case, we should be able to avoid further spirits in there."

"Is it safe to move her?"  Olven looks doubtfully at Roisin.  Then he says, "OK, I'll pick her up, but can you grab my spear?  I dropped it over there when I engaged the skeletons.  Oh, and here, carry my shield, too."

Olven removes his shield and places it on the floor.  Then, gently, he kneels down to pick up Roisin and carry her to the library that D'aden found.

Olven carried Roisin to the library. As it turned out, the library had been destroyed by fire and everything was covered by soot. The shelves were charred and empty. The reading table was charred and pocked, and supported a single book under a layer of soot. And there was a pile of ash in one corner

"This, ah, doesn't look like an ideal place for someone to recuperate from her injuries," Olven says, stopping at the doorway.  He looks for a place (hopefully not soot-covered) outside the library to gently lay Roisin's body down.  He then retrieves his equipment and sits down near Roisin to guard her while they wait for her to regain consciousness.

Olven cared for Roisin for half an hour and about half way through that process, Roisin woke up.



Apparent exits: Door (Olven, D'aden). Door in the middle of opposing wall. Corridor to the right (Roisin). Corridor to the left.

Apparition: Down

D'aden: HP 14/14. HT = 5 (Only high level healing magic will be able to restore your HT back to normal.)
Olven: HP 16/15
Roisin: HP 8/2; FP 12/2.

Roisin groaned loudly from the floor, as she regained consciousness, her forehead wrinkled in an expression of pain. She tested opening her eyes as she looked around the room "Ah....I see we made it. That was lucky." her hands reached out to pet Ochre lying lengthwise beside her, who was looking at her inquisitively "No, old friend, we need to get moving." She winced as she sat up, before giving up and remaining on the ground "Maybe in a short while."

"Get your strength back, Roisin," Olven Wolf says.  "D'aden and I will look for a way back to Grettanah."

Collecting his gear, Olven begins searching the room, looking for any clues that might lead them outside and back to where they last saw Grettanah.

Most is but ash and soot.

But Olven removed the soot from the book on the reading table and flipped through it.



Apparition: Down

D'aden: HP 14/14. HT = 5 (Only high level healing magic will be able to restore your HT back to normal.)
Olven: HP 16/15
Roisin: HP 8/2; FP 12/2.

Roisins focussed on trying to recover. She sat cross-legged, with Ochre lying across her lap. "A library? I could spend weeks in here." she said sounding excited. "So what to do from here? I think we're all too badly hurt to continue...right? I'm also pretty much exhausted."

Nodding his head, Olven Wolf says, "Yeah, there's probably a lot of stuff in these books that's worth knowing.". He flips through the soot-encrusted book on the reading table, and then examines the inside cover.  "Huh.  Here's something.  'From study.  Pass pillars three to the door.  Left and pass two.  Left and to the sanctum.'  I guess those are the three pillars we were messing with heifer we got ourselves trapped in here?  This should come in handy."

He reads through the passage several more times, committing it to memory.  then, in response to Roisin, he says, "I'm fine.  I think D'aden's more hurt than he lets on, and we need a place for you to recover.  Unless you can heal yourself?  And Grettanah is somewhere out there.  We need to get everyone together in one place."

Frowning, he looks around the library.  "I don't want to stay separated, but I know you aren't in any condition to move.  I'll see what I can find out about a way out.  Maybe Grettanah can come join us in here."

Olven leaves the library and prowls around the chamber outside, checking the exits from the room.

OOC:  Check for exits from the larger chamber.

Not counting the burnt out library or the two directions the heroes had come from, there was only one exit remaining.

"I have some poultices and herbs that might ease the pain. Staying here might be problematic in the long run. The sooner I get on my feet the better." Roisin rummaged in her bag, looking for anything that might help.

Going to the door in the opposite wall, Olven tries to open it and look through.

Olven opened the door and from appearance, it seemed that he had found another entrance to the magic corridors. ten by ten foot pillars ten feet from each other as far as he could see, which wasn't very far in the darkness.
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Olven turns around and retraces his steps back to D'aden and Roisin.  "It looks like there's another way out of here, back to that hallway that never seemed to end.  Do you two want to try to find Grettanah now, or should I try to go fetch her?  That hall is confusing, though."

D'aden levers himself up, leaning on his quarterstaff. "We should stick together. If I have to dance with one more of those crazy elf maidens, I'm sure I'll be completely done in."
He starts walking over to look out the door.

And as expected, there were columns in regular intervals, but because of the darkness, he couldn't see past the second in any direction.

Roisin stood up "I agree...we shouldn't go anywhere without each other. It's just too dangerous and right now I think a common housecat might be beyond my abilities to defeat. On the other hand, we need to find Grettanah. A real dilemma. Given that draconians are still wandering and may still pose a threat I suggest we be on the move."

The heroes left the library behind and gathered at the door to the magical corridors. Columns at regular intervals, but too dark to see beyond the second in any direction.
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