The slide end in a small circular room lit by a pair of brasiers. A set of large bronze double doors, each carved with images of tigers chasing other tigers in four adjacent circles. At the center of each circle of tigers, a snarling tiger head looks out.
Mai checks the doors before opening them.
Donagar lays his hands on the door, using his Gloves of Reconnaissance to look beyond the door....
Beyond the door is a large circular room with statues of men and women with animal heads around a large fire.Many different passage lead out of that room you don't see anyone or anything that moves.
The doors seem safe and you open them and nothing happens.
Mai checks for traps
Donagar looks at the fire and statues why put this here it is just like having the garden....maybe they ran out of room in the garden above and had to expand to underground......
***snorts****
Drakus looked a the many exits out of here.
"Great. How are we supposed to know which way out of here?" He said, disgusted.
He started prowling around the room, looking for structural clues.
"I say we pick a direction, kill everything that way, then come back and pick another. Until we find who we are looking for, of course."
"Well let's be assured were dealin with no magic here."
D casts detect magic....
There is a lingering magic over the entire room. Abjuration and divination.
The statues are of rakshasa.
The rakshasa is an evil spirit that cloaks itself in the guise of a humanoid creature that it might walk unseen among its prey. They embody what is taboo among most societies, and in the shape of those it seeks to defile, a rakshasa gorges itself on these hideous acts. Were they human, these acts of cannibalism, blasphemy, and worse would mark them as criminals condemned to the cruelest of hells.
When not disguised as a humanoid, the otherwise humanoid rakshasa has the head of an animal. Often, they possess the heads of great cats (such as a tiger or panther) or a snake (like a cobra or viper), yet other heads are not unknown—apes, jackals, vultures, elephants, mantises, lizards, rhinos, boars, and more are possible. In most cases, the type of head a rakshasa possesses speaks in some way to its personality—a tiger-headed rakshasa is stealthy and ravenous, while a boar-headed one might be gluttonous and crude. These changes rarely impact the rakshasa's base statistics, although there are more powerful variants of the standard rakshasa that possess multiple heads, more potent spellcasting powers, and additional deadly and unusual special abilities.
"Lots o magic lingerin here, abjuration an divination, so I think tha someone somewhere knows we err here, tha other is abjuration magic."
Knowledge planes
Know. Planes untrained.
"So what do we do? Just pick a door at random?" Asked Drakus, waiving his hand at all the exit doors.
You cannot aid on a knowledge check.
While your pausing to decide there is a deep rumbling and the room spins slowly 45 degree clockwise. Blocking some passage and opening some new ones.
Drakus grabbed his head.
"Abadar protect us! It's a damn puzzle! I HATE PUZZLES!" He declared.
"Random is as good a direction as any. Let's just grab a door and rush through it. What's the worst that could happen," Crain grins broadly.
"Egyptian gods maybe, I doubt any is as good as any other! Did tha heads remain tha same?"
Donagar looks for a pattern in the heads, kind of animal head, direction it is facing, etc....
"Mai what yah got?"
"I have no idea what that thing is, most likely a foreign god, or some type of angel or devil."
Mai checks the new passages
In one direction Mai can hear running water like a waterfall. The other passages seem more or less identical.
Crain was tired of waiting and talking about a decision. If Mai points out the sound of water, Crain steps through the doorway, intent on finding out what was going on in this place.
Iffen we ave naught else to guide us tha sound like water must do."
"It feels kinda like the sewers down here, best we be careful and not attract the attention of what is down here."
"One direction has the sound of water running."
Also tired of the indecision, Drakus followed Crain into the new passage.
Using his dagger, he puts a small scratch on the inside of the passage as well as the outside doorway. Up high where you can't see it (if you're normal sized), but you could feel it if you reached up and brushed your fingers over the area.
You go north towards the sound of running water.
A ten-foot-wide, two-foot-tall well rises from the center of this circular room. Inky water fills the well nearly to its rim, obscuring its depths. A stone statue of a rearing snake rises from the center of the well. Along the length of the serpent’s body are carved dozens of arms crossed over the creature’s belly—each arm grips a long curved blade(scimitars). The statue’s serpentine head rises ten feet above the surface of the water, gazing down coolly to the south with amethyst eyes. (your coming in from the south)
A DC 30 Knowledge (religion) check identifies the
many-armed serpent as a statue of the obscure Vudran
deity Diomazul, the Serpent of Eighty Blades, a god noted
particularly for its ruthless fury and cruelty in battle.
Knowledge religion
Donagar scratches his head....and then his beard
"Iffen tha first statue was any indication o wha tah expect this one is probably one in tha same as tha first one. Jus another Vudran god tha makes fer a fine tale over a pitcher o ale."
"Tha water looks like a stout an dark brew, though I am not wantin tah drink from it."
Donagar casts on the strange fountain.....
Nothing radiates as magic in the room but the magical auras from before are still present.
"I don't see any reason we should allow that statue to keep its amethyst eyes. We weren't told that we couldn't take anything."
"Those Eyes may have a non-magical trap rigged to them...
So do you still what them...."
You can try for the eyes or go around and down the passage on the other side of the fountain,
Crain will leave the eyes for the time being, but intends on pocketing them on the way out, at least.
"let's head around the other side of the fountain then. Don't want to set off any traps, I suppose."
Drakus grunted his assent and followed Crain around to the other side of the fountain.
Donagar goes along as well noticing the hallways and discussing armaments...
Donagar readies his heavy steel shield and his battle axe. Usually he swings his dire flail with both hands...likely he believes it the better option for the current area...
"Let's get to it."
Unfortunately as you go to move around the fountain you step on a pressure plate. The entire room is a trap. Steel bars drop down blocking the exits and the snake statue rises up out of the water revealing many more arms holding swords and it begins to spin faster and faster and it's arms begin to slowly extend to fill the room with spinning blades.
It will takes 2 rounds for the blades to fill the entire room so if you back away from the statue you have two rounds to act. If you move within 5 feet of the statue now you need to made a dc 15 reflex save or take 8d6 damage.
Drakus stood ten feet away from the statue and used his bardiche's reach to attack the statue. Power attack.
for a possible slashing, silver and magic damage.
for a possible slashing, silver and magic damage.
"Not sure yer even dentin tha ting Drakus, ken anyone see a way tah get a bar err two out o tha way, we best be gone afore tha ting reaches us."
Donagar looks at the bars in front of him and casts detect magic on them....
Also looking to see if the have any substances on them, such as oils, slimes, goos, etc....
Whilethe others look for a way out, Crain figures that bashing the statue is the best idea. He uses his adamantine weapon for maximum effect.
Attack
Damage
Attack
Damage
Assuming he doesn't have reach Crain will need to make a reflex save.
The statue is damaged from the attacks but figure it will take a few more rounds of bashing at it to destroy it. (hardness 10 150 hp)
Reflex
Crain takes dozens of hits from the spinning blades while striking at the statue (31 damage)
Donagar takes a different tact he bashes one of the bars trying to get beyond the reach of the trap...
Adamantium morningstar
attack
damage
"Keep at it boys I em werkin on a back door!"
Again, Drakus stood ten feet away from the statue and used his bardiche's reach to attack the statue. Power attack.
for a possible slashing, silver and magic damage.
for a possible slashing, silver and magic damage.
Mai manages to slip under the blades and access the mechanism at the bottom of the statue and jams it to stop the statue from spinning.
"Do you lot want me to destroy this god awful statue? It might activate again if we don't destroy it right now, you know!"
"Nah! Help with tha door out o here."
You can smash the gates or the statue or both and you can safely grab the gem eyes now.
Crain grabs the two gems set in the eyes of the statue, and thumbs his nose at it as he does so. "And this is for slicing me up," he growls as he grabs them.