Batri nods, “Then let’s examine the door and hopefully it will be unlocked.  We can open it quietly and then rush the cultists.  Good plan?”

"Well it's a plan."

It's difficult to study the door, the carved shapes seem to twist and move at the edge of your vision.

Sitra Mor leans in to carefully look at the swirls on the door. "I don't think there are any spells on it but the metal is magical."

The metal has a matte texture and is dark gray in color with veins of purple and green.

Sitra squints as he follows the aching patterns on the surface. "I think it's origin is Abyssal."

“Is it going to cause trouble when I open it?”

"I... don't know.",

What the f-ck is going on up there?  Why we stopped?

"I'm not sure what the hold-up here is.  But we can't stand here all day."
Speaks With Ghosts attempts to open the door.

Athletics check (if needed)

17:04, Today: Speaks With Ghosts rolled 8 using 1d20+5.  Athletics check.

The doors swing open easily, the discolored veins in the metal distort and stretch out to where Speaks touches them, like an alchemists lightning in a globe.


A strange light, more akin to a glow, illuminates the area beyond the doors, a thin wooden platform hugs the wall, it's support beams dropping nearly 40' below into a massive cavern covered entirely in enormous mushrooms and strange fungi of all sorts.

The smell of saltwater, refuse, fungal spores and mold threatens to choke your airways and overwhelm your senses. The glow is coming from the vegetation below, the bio-luminescence of many hues is breathtaking.

The wooden platform wraps it's way to the south before widening and serving as the anchor point for a rope bridge that crosses the cavern and connects to what appears to be the continuation of the temple floor on the other side.

It is from here that the slow rhythmic thrum of chants can be heard and something else, a thin string of terror wends it way through the chant in the form of someone pleading, desperately, for...something. What that is can only be guessed at as it is quite suddenly cut off, leaving only the chanting.

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Speaks looks at her hands after opening the door.  "Hmmmm....that's probably not good." she mutters under her breath.  "So....shall we?"  Looks around at the others before moving onto the platform and looking around the room.

OOC: Is there any way across to the other side without using the rope bridge?
 not sure which to use, Perception or Investigation.

Perception Check

10:43, Today: Speaks With Ghosts rolled 3 using 1d20+2.  Perception. (yep)

Investigation Check


10:45, Today: Speaks With Ghosts rolled 7 using 1d20.  Investigation Check.

If she doesn't see any other way (which I am sure she does not), Speaks will cross the rope bridge.

There is no other way across.

What are the rest of you doing?

Sitra waits for Batri to start across then follows.

I am in the rear as guard.  If they cross the threshold into the room, and there is space. I will be the last one in.

Batri removes a rope from his pack and ties it to Speaks with Ghosts before wrapping it around himself and anything he can use to get leverage.  “Go across then brace yourself.  The others can use the rope for support then I will go last.  Hurry, we want to interrupt whatever they are doing.”

The party makes it across the bridge with relative ease and quickly find out why. Several corpses that look like they were once cultists are strewn about south of the bridge. All are covered in fungus like that in the cavern below.


A symbol of a woman's face with only a single eye in the center of her forehead is carved into the wall of the building next to you. A strange text is painted around the face and across the wall, obviously done by many different hands and at different times. It resembles chaotic and random graffiti more than any structured display.



The chanting is much louder now and is coming from the building with the carvings. The smell of foul incense and heavy smoke seeps out from the door in the south wall. The bio-luminescence from the fungus is pulsing in time with the chanting coming from the building next you.


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We need to stop that chanting, NOW!  The fungus is growing every time they finish a phrase.

OOC: Is there a way across to the door without contacting the fungus?

It is possible to leap over it with an Athletics skill check

“Well, we only live once I suppose. Though I fear we made a mistake with our one handed friend in leaving him behind us.” Batri adjusts his equipment before taking a final deep breath and leaping over the fungus with a running start.

OOC:
Athletics -06:05, Today: Batri Shom rolled 25 using 1d20+5 ((20)).
Like a fucking cat.

Sitra looks down the crevasse and sighs before steeling himself and making the leap.

Action: Focus on Sixth Sense.
Bonus Action: Manifest Precognition.

Athletics to jump across.

09:05, Today: Sitra Mor rolled 11 using 1d20+1d4 ((8,3)).  Athletics w/ Precognition.

Speaks says a silent prayer to her ancestors before leaping over the bodies.


09:14, Today: Speaks With Ghosts rolled 9 using 1d20+5.  Athletics check.

Beuren sings a happy song in his head and leaps. He rolled an 18 with a d20.

The door before you is solid hardwood bound with bands of the same metal from the double doors. The wood is carved with eyes from top to bottom. Acrid smoke slides out from beneath it before dissipating.

Like the double doors, there are no handles or apparent locks.

Well, whatever these doors do, I already got it.  Let's do this.   Speaks will push open the door.

Athletics check if needed.

11:57, Today: Speaks With Ghosts rolled 17 using 1d20+5.  Athletics check.