"Hmm, an astrology sign, although i don't remember which one. Shows best when moons are in the new phase, although I am not sure when that might be. Judging by how old this structure is, it could have been anytime, probably." Quantos says, pointing at the constellation with his sword.
Tanira looks a little puzzled. "Stars generally look best whenever the moon is dark. Do recognize which star sign it is?"
Tanira circles slowly through the room, looking at the pieces of the puzzle before her. She tries to identify the kind of magic in the items she orbs, cube and the ring.
"Maye we should try using the ring..." She bends closer to the statue's finger, checks the ring closely to see whether there is any inscription and then carefully tries to first simply touch it and pull it off the statue. "Though may it's best if an elf does it", she says with a glance to Saronis.
Sorry i won't be able to help i don't know much about stars and constellations
The ring easily comes off the statue.
At this point the door closes.
Saronis on the other side of the door says in elven, "Stars". Then if the door opens he advances in.
The door opens to the command word and light comes back to the group as he comes back in the room with the orb above his head.
A strange thing though it looked as if stars adorned the ceiling when there was no light in the room.
Walking up to Tanira he seems to look at her in a strange way, at least you have never seen him look this way at one in your group.
Once beside her, he takes a breath and is about to say something when he takes the ring. He shakes his head and looks closely at the ring before putting it on.
Tanira sees through Saronis reaction but does really react, unsure what to think of it. "Careful with this." she says as she passes on the ring.
"It seems there is some kind of 'stars' on the ceiling... but you only notice it when it's dark enough." She sheathes the dagger with the light spell on its blade, to quench her light source.
Quantos likewise obscures his sources of light, wondering what the outcome of such an exercise would be.
Quantos notices nothing out of the ordinary about Saronis, not that it was even his place to, as hired help.
As Saronis puts on the ring a voice speaks, it is coming from the ring as it pulses with the Elven words, "Greetings brother, please take and use my wealth for your purpose, I only hope that it is for the betterment of our race. I only ask one thing of you take my journals to my family, the Liadons."
The words printed on the ring glow and stay glowing.
Saronis looks to those around him, and quietly speaks, "Another quest for us then."
He moves over to the East wall and touches it, an outline forms on the wall and then the wall comes out, revealing it to be a stone chest, which he opens to his amazement of items and below gems and gold. He then splashes over to the other side of the room and the same happens to the West wall.
A book is ontop of the treasure of the West chest. A strong leather cover keeps the book protected and the title is printed in gold, 'Aramil Liadon'.
As Saronis touches the book the clasp comes undone and he can easily peruse it. Soon enough he knows what each of the items are and produces them as he reads the journal.
Here are the items:
handy haversack, ring of deflection +1, wand of CMW -31- CL 5, three masterwork daggers (silver, cold iron, adamantium), wand of shield -32- CL 3, wand of mage armor -37- CL 3, elixir of swimming, feather token (bird), elixir of fire breath, preserving flask 1st, scabbard of vigor, a potion of mage armor(5), Sanctuary, Protection from evil (5), Enlarge person(3), shield of faith, protection from chaos, feather step, Goodberry, touch of the sea (2), hold portal, Fox's cunning, darkvision, Barkskin, bull str, prot. from arrows, obscure object, and gentle repose.
A ioun stone for each of you no more than 500 gp.
His armor was utterly destroyed and his weapon remains in pieces in a displacer beast leather bag.
3500 sp, 800 gp, 43 pp, 3500 gp in gems.
"Let us use this wealth to help vanquish our foe's and rid the land of those who fight the elves. Please speak up if such an item can help you now." Saronis says as he begins pulling out the items.
"I could use a wand of mage armor, but I already have one which is almost full of charges... does anyone else want it?"
She gets the wand of cure moderate wounds without comment and slips it to the others in her garter. "The wand with that... 'shield' spell is not useful to me in case you wonder... that is... not my tradition of magic." She clears her throat for she does not emphasize on the fact that she's a witch.
can will will probably use the wand of Shield . So what do we know of the Liadon ?
"Tanira take the wand of mage armor I want these items to be beneficial rather than just staying in our backpacks especially when fighting the ogre above. Jake you can use shield take the wand then. Liadon is the family name his first name is Aramil, we can take what we want but must use it for the betterment of elves. He died here before he could return home and had this tomb created before he fully died of a horrible disease. Quantos see how much of the coins and gems you can get in the haversack. Did anyone want the three masterwork daggers (silver, cold iron, adamantium), elixir of swimming, elixir of fire breath, or the potions of: feather step, Fox's cunning, or darkvision."
"Jake and Quantos each of you take a potion of Enlarge person."
"Jake take the potion of bull str."
"Cil take the potion of Barkskin."
"Quantos take the potion of shield of faith."
"Tanira you should take the potion of Sanctuary."
"Everyone take a potion of Protection from evil."
He pockets several items that he is sure would not be helpful right now nor anyone is speaking up for, the preserving flask 1st, potions of: Goodberry, touch of the sea (2), hold portal, potions of mage armor(5), protection from chaos, prot. from arrows, obscure object, and gentle repose.
"So we have these new items and such from this room but what is with the water, the cube, and the orbs, you say there is some magic to them?" Saronis asks wondering if there is something more to this room that could aid them.
Quantos will scoop the coins into the bag as instructed, then look around at the water/cube/orbs with Detect Magic.
Yes i told everyone to be careful with these orb they seem to be flickering with energy from time to time
"I'll take the silver dagger. " Cil says, grabbing her potion and one of the ioun stones. She tucks the dagger into her belt and tosses the stone up into the air , watching in delight as it begins to twirl about her temple.
Tanira slips the potion and one ion stone into her backpack, the wand of mage armor next to the one she already has into her garter and put the ring of deflection on her finger. She looks over everything else to see whether there is any magic in them where they would not expect it. While she is on it she also checks the mirror she found earlier, along with the blanket in which it is wrapped.
"I do have my own silver dagger..." She lifts the dagger with the light spell on it, made of alchemically treated silver. "So I don't really need one of those. I no one wants it I'll take the cold iron dagger as spare." Tanira looks around the room. "I think we have all for now, don't we?" She still a little puzzled with the meaning of all the magic props around here. "Shall we go on?"
I am ready when ever you are. I'll take the adamentium dagger as an emergency weapons if it's going to "rust" away in a bag he simply says smiling at his pun
The mirror and blanket are both non magical.
The hidden room does not appear to have any other exits.
Saronis hands out the items as asked for, knowing if someone wants one of them they will speak up later. "We can stop in here again once we deal with the menace above." He says as he leads the group out of the room. He draws his blade and holds it in one hand as he picks up the tower shield on their way back past the entrance.
He does not have much experience dealing with animals in the past and leaves the green canine alone.
The green canine licks its chops as the group approaches it. It whimpers as the elf passes it first.
More of the same can be seen down the hallway. Dead bodies and their equipment strewn around from the obvious violent end they met.
He glances at the creature when it makes a noise but leaves it for the others to deal with it or leave it.
He continues to keep his eyes and ears alert to movement, not worrying about gear or loot at the moment considering they have a mission to finish.
He stops after a while and indicates with his hand that he hears something and stops. He points to Cil and then forward. He stays next to a low wall and sets the tower shield down.
jake will whisper to saronis a few lightly armored creatures are going to try and ambush us about 40 to 50 fee away. Get ready
Tanira fondles the back of the neck of the creature and gives it a bit of one of her trail rations, even though her equally canine fox Zharon looks very warily at it.
When she hears how alert the others are she get the wand of sleep, strapped to her thigh in a magazine of wands that's starting to become seriously uncomfortable, out and looks around to see what they are talking about.
Ahead the bodies are fewer, but only the bodies of men and goblins can be found. A strange red orange rock and dust lays in piles along the way.
The green canine slowly chews up the dried fruit and meat. It seems to purr as she strokes its neck. Large gashes and wounds line its sides as if from weapons.
Saronis nods in response to Jake. Holding his blade in both hands ready to advance if needed.
Quantos tightens his grip on his blade as well.
Surprise round:
Jack will move up 30 ft
One of the goblins tosses a dagger over the wall at Jake and it bounces off his armor. The sound of a little creature making many footsteps in the distance, almost as if it was scurrying away.
Round 1
24 Saronis
14 Cil
13 Quantos
13 Jake
12 Tanira
8 Goblins
Go!
Round 1
He just follows Jake's initiative, "Let's find out what they are made of!" He double moves and at the last moment seeing a goblin he tumbles the last few feet.
Round 1
Jack will move up an other 30ft avoiding all the corps etc
and end up right next to saronis
and attack the goblin right next to him
The goblin looks at you in terror and falls to the ground spurting blood. The other two seeing how easily their fellow was felled are gripped by fear, they scream in terror.
That is what is going to happen if you insist in facing us ! he blankly tell the goblins
Round 1
The black bars are half walls, meaning they are about 4 feet tall and give cover if you squat behind it. Tanira I moved you up and from there you shouldn't have any problems putting the spell into play.
The goblins both drop their weapons and fall to the ground sleeping.
24 Saronis*
14 Cil
13 Quantos
13 Jake*
12 Tanira*
8 Goblins*
Round 2
Go!
Round 2
He steps forward and cuts down the sleeping goblin before him. Coup de Grace with PA blue goblin,
Round 2
Jake will move and just attack a sleeping goblin
The three goblins now lay on the ground amongst the other bodies in a bloody mess as well. The smell of the corpses could easily get to anyone... Fort Save DC 12 or be nauseated for 1d4 rounds.
Round 3
Go! Do a perception check before making any actions.
Round 3
Saronis hears the retreating footsteps and takes a deep breath in to steady himself, though instead he feels horrible smelling the rot of death and the smell of goblins, he is not sure which is worse. He grabs onto the nearest half wall trying hard not to throw up. He gets out a few words before focusing on his own body again, bringing up his scarf to cover his face. "Some more are out there."
Round 3
The goblins both drop their weapons and fall to the ground sleeping.
Tanira remains watchful and peers through the rubble, smoke and dead bodies. Should any other enemy come in sight she's cast her spell on those as well.
Round 3
The second wave of goblin are retreating a little farther behind he says stopping for a few seconds doing exactly the same as Saronis
Round 4
Go!
Saronis and Jake are doubled over and taking a few moments to recover from the smell of death and rot.
Not much movement can be heard and it seems to be mostly from your group, one goblin sleeps not far off from Saronis and Jake.