After surviving the psychic assault, Gil pushes upon the door. Beyond is a short corridor ending in a large shadowy chamber. The corridor extends into a walkway running down the middle, either side of which the room drops down to a lower level. Motionless figures stand in these lower portions.
"Really? A catwalk for undead fashion plates? Lemme take a closer look at the audience." Janosz inches forward, peering into the gloom.
Janosz creeps forwards. On either side of the walkway are motionless undead - more of the bloated ogre zombies that they fought in the unholy chapel, and a few squads of the skeleton warriors they faced at the beginning of the temple complex. They stand up straight, mostly facing in different directions rather than military-style ranks, and they don't react to Janosz's presence. Ramps from either side lead up the the catwalk, and at the far end of the room the walkway ends at another door.
"See anything interesting!" Gelb yells at Janosz.
Kazadar looks into the room from his position outside the doorway.
"See anything interesting!" Gelb yells at Janosz.
"Really, a@!&*@&? I'm trying to... Aw, forget it." Janosz walks back to the party. "There's basically an undead army parked down there. Big zombies, skeletons, that sort of thing. They are just kinda scattered about, but there's a lot of 'em."
"The big question is this: will they animate and rush us if we walk across the walkway? Gil, do you want to send an illusory figure out to see what happens?"
[ooc]They are standing up. And you detect necromancy.
"They radiate necromantic magic. I'd say it is safe to assume that they will attack."
"The big question is this: will they animate and rush us if we walk across the walkway? Gil, do you want to send an illusory figure out to see what happens?"
"Undead often detect the actual lifeforce rather than the appearance. I have another idea. Is the catwalk solid enough to support the golem-suit?"
Ezreal grunts in agreement. "You have to store them somewhere when they are not in the field- at least the mindless ones. Impossible to say what their protocol might be. They must have bypass commands, but we have no way to guess what they might be. We will have to test it."
"Even if it will support the suit, what do we gain? One person across before the rest of us set them off?"
"No, I thought the wearer of the suit would set them off - and answer the question - while being relatively safe."
"I could plonk a zombie with an arrow, just to see what happens. If they rush us, we can fall back to a defensible position and knock this menagerie out once and for all."
"A wall of force could render them all unable to reach anyone on the pathway. Seems too easy. Perhaps they are a distraction from a greater threat." She studies the rest of the room, particularly the raised path, for potential triggers or traps.
Gelb gives the room a check as well.
"They don't seem particularly of note, excepting those bigguns of course."
"Seriously, let me shoot a zombie. If the come after us in strength, we'll pull back to the mirror room and defend the doorway there; if they come one by one, we'll destroy them piecemeal."
"Better that than waiting for old age to take us."
Gil nods, "OK. Give me a moment to ready the golem and you can retreat behind it if necessary. It should be a most effective wall."
With that, she heads back to the golem-suit, activates it, and climbs in.
"It is a storage facility for the mindless. Either they have active commands to defend themselves and attack anyone passing through without the appropriate bypass signal, or they do not. An arrow will let us know if they have a self defense clause. Other than that we will not know until we actually try to enter the room and they can sense a life force."
"Fire away Frogshanks."
Janosz gets into position and plunks one of the zombies.
"This is a bad idea," Gelb mutters under his breath as he readies himself for the onslaught.
"Now, this should be interesting. Gil, hold the door in your golem suit. Kaz, you're up front. Ezreal, can you summon allies? After that, you, me and Gelb will back up Kaz and Gil at range."
"Don't let them break into the room and surround us. Keep 'em contained, and we'll beat these abominations down."
Gelb unleashes his wand the closest ogre zombie.