"Thank you Nino, want some beer?" Quinn hands him a skin of beer.

Nino takes the beer and pours it into his mouth. Yum! before handing it back to his friend. Nino was ready to go, so he walked inside the tunnel the party wanted to go through first.

Possessing darkvision as well, Kell moves up to walk beside his hirsute ally into the unknown.

Neliwen wasn't going first, but she would follow if everyone else went ahead.

Sonori fell in with the group, fine with letting Yacob leading them down the trail less taken.

With Yacob selecting the lest traveled passage, it led down the passage 60 feet and ended with a turn left, and to the right a stone door with a carving of a dragon with an open claw. in the opening there was an indentation, like something the size of a wallnut would fit in it.

Nym brought up the rear, trying to make sure no one was following them.

Kell compares the size of the indentation to the size of the earth stone.

Rivka kept her eyes open for trouble

"That does look inviting, huh? But, I have a suspicion that the stone we're looking for goes in there. Hopefully, a treasure vault."

Zell looks all around that area to find anything out of place or any writing that might say anything.

15:18, Today: Zell rolled 31 using 1d20+15.  Search.

Quinn, though not very useful at the moment, will help Zell.

Sonori cocked her head, looking at the carving thoughtfully. Then she chants a simple cantrip, one most magic users will recognize - detect magic.

Kell, on an impulse, removes the stone he had bonded with and held it in comparision. The hole in the door was larger than the earth stone.


Once Kell removed the stone, you saw Sonori pale and hunch over in pain, and heard a wail deep below

"Yep that was not a good idea. Impulse?" the former Dwarf asks "And if impulse you or the stone? Because one I don't see a major issue with the other try and keep that under control. Because we can't afford to waste another advantage. They know we are here and where I'd wager." he says as he picks Sonori up to get her to the back of the group.

Rivka had an arrow pointed towards the noise instantly, looking alarmed and apprehensive

"Well...at least we know we're on the right path?"

Kell rumbles "no compulsion. Just scholarly curiosity." He replaces the stone back in its sack.

Being a cleric was both a gift and a curse... You had a deeper connection to the God, and perhaps even to others. But that was both good and bad.

She breathed in deeply, waiting a moment for the pain to fade away. "It... they? Didn't like that... rage..." she said quietly.

She let Yacob steady her, but then said, "I'm okay. I'll be okay."

Neliwen was distracted by the wail from below and Sonori's cry of pain, as she tried to make sense of the implications. She had no stone or other item that would appear to fit inside the indentation, so she wrecked her brain to come up with an idea where the 'key' might be found...

 "Goliaths. Bah!" he says in what can only be said as frustration. "Not a mage. Magic door. Next time talk before you do. Or you know at least let Zell check for traps." spoken slowly.

  "Good Sonori, but rest for now we may only have a few minutes at best." he ponders.

OOC: So what I'm seeing in my head is a maybe 10 foot wide hall way that has like an s curve in it. Or maybe a T junction. Door is to the right of the T and an alcove to the left. Need to know if that is even close. And if the hallway is wider than that

Nym turned to look at Sonori when she cried out in distressed, but continued to listen for sounds of trouble in all directions.  He still had his doubts about how this would end, but he agreed to make this journey with his friends and would do anything he could to help them.

Nino looked around for whoever caused the pain to Ri Ri, but didn't understand what was happening. He looked everywhere around her and even sniffed her to see if there was bad mojo, but didn't find anything. In the end, he offered her some beef jerky.

Sonori didn't really feel like eating, but she smiled at Nino, knowing that was a good gift from him, and said, "Thank you."

She looked at the others, "I'm ready."

Despite looking around the area, there was no signs of danger....just the big door with a indent and the passage going to the left. The passage fades into darkness about 40 feet off.

Rivka looked around the passage, looking for possible tracks

OOC:  01:54, Today: Rivka rolled 24 using 1d20+12.  Tracking

There are no recent tracks, though there are places in the hall that have more dirt than others (the side of the walls)

Something had been here, but not in a while