Justin will try and see if he can throw the grappling hook up near the top of the chain and hook something solidly. "Kilthan maybe you shuck the armor and get ready to climb? I don't know if this will work."
"Up I go."
Ingrid is 12' up the chain
You are now 20 feet up, 4 checks to go
Ingrid You fell with the 9 so that is an almost 30' drop for
Damage - Acrobatics DC 15 to reduce to 7 Damage
You can choose to keep the three rolls and be halfway up or let someone else climb.
Kilthan steps forward and says, "I've a mite more experience at such things. Allow me?"
Taking Justin's grappling hook and rope, Kilthan scurries up the rope with little issue. At the top of the chain you can see a passageway but you are at the edge of the light so you can't see much more then the edge without more light.
Also, @GM -> That's even with my low-light?
Seeing the archeologist demonstrate how the skeleton in the blue alcove likely ended up crushed, I quickly go to her and use my healing hex.
Healing Hex - CLW:
Hope you are feeling better. We need to think before we act a little more if we all want to walk out of here. Had you fallen from a little higher, you might not have been so lucky.
After watching Kilthan scamper up the chain: Nice work with the climb. What do you see up there?
Letting his eyes adjust, Kilthan peers down the hallway. A thin passageway extends into the shadows to the northeast.
after the catch, she looks into Kilthan's eyes and with a very slight, nearly non-existant, blush.
"Thank you Kilthan."
Kilthan smiles and says, "It wouldn't do to let you dash that pretty face against these rocks.", then gently helps Ingrid to her feet before taking breath and climbing up the alcove.
Kilthan looks as far as he can in the dim light, trying to ensure that there's nothing waiting to leap out at him if he lowers his guard a moment, Orc piss! Those stone-eating wolves still have me jumpy...
He then calls down to the people below, "Can anyone spare a light spell? It's darker than a Duergar's heart up here."
"I can."
she try's to find a stone on the ground and casts light on it, and then throws it up to Kilthan.
"Here you go, one light spell."
Ingrid takes 7 from the fall then is healed up 9 from Aarakess.
Perhaps seventy feet away, the passage ends in what looks like an enormous stone human face, its mouth open in an angry scream. The physiology of the face is identical to that of the near-human sexless figure upon the sarcophagus below. The screaming visage takes up the entire 20' by 20' wall at the end of the corridor.
Kilthan calls down to describe what he's seeing, "This passage ends in a face like the one on the sarcophagus, though this one appears to be screaming angrily. It's massive. I'm going to go take a closer look."
With that, he proceeds down the corridor, stopping just short of the face so that he can examine it in full light.
Kilthan, drop a rope so that we can climb up. You should not be up there alone, who know what traps might be there and you have no backup or healing. Ingrid almost died trying that climb and we need your help to get up there.
As Kilthan gets within 10' of the face, it animates and a terrible wind erupts from its wailing mouth. At the same time, the face's eyes spin with an hypnotic pattern that includes all the colors of the rainbow.
Kilthan please roll a will save
Kilthan The eyes are quite mesmerizing, and you find yourself staring at them, but you snap out of it. The wind coming out of its mouth seems to be getting stronger. What will you do now?
Kilthan walks quickly back to the ledge to lower the rope, frequently looking back up at the face to make sure nothing's changed as he finds a good place to hook the grapnel.
"You'd best hurry. There's wind coming from the thing's mouth, and its eyes are now shimmering with colours -- though not green or indigo."
Not green or indigo? Strange.
Kilthan as you walk back to the edge, the wind has continued to pick up. Its as strong as a very bad storm now, but not enough to push you (yet). It does seem like it is continuing to get stronger.
Aarakess Yes the indigo lamp is still lit
Kilthan says that there are two colors missing from the face, and we have two lamps lit. If we light the other 4, that only leaves red. Perhaps the red is hidden beneath the alcove.
Yelling: Kilthan, get down from there, that wind is starting to sound dangerous.
To the group once Kilthan is down. Lets try to turn the sarcophagus so that it is pointing at the red alcove. I wonder whether the lamp light be hidden in that compartment that rose in the yellow alcove.
"I believe we should not turn the sarcophagus yet,
and instead investigate the Yellow Alcove.
If the sarcophagus is a switch, it may only open one alcove's secrets at a time."
"Do you think the lamp is needed? Couldn't we, I dunno, try one of those light spells, see if that works instead of a torch? And if it does, just try lighting the bottom of a chain?"
"A simple light spells is doubtful to work... You would need the color which the colored glass provides. Only one casting of the light spell from a caster can be in effect as well. There might be another spell that might make different colors, I am not sure how effective that is." The woman says to Dryn.
She suggests, "Maybe if we had other lanterns and colored the glass with something that makes the color we need.... might work. Or we might continue looking at other avenues and hope to find a lantern that is missing."
She nods to Ingrid, "Lets see what we have then. And perhaps using a knotted rope on the grapple might make a climb easier, should we have to do it again."
Rather than be pushed off the edge by the growing wind, Kilthan unhooks the rope and shimmies down the chain.
"The wind grows worse.. I'm wondering what's to come out of there -- unless it's trying to blow out the light?"
We can investigate the yellow alcove. But, it is the red that we are missing. I was wondering whether if we pointed the sarcophagus at the red alcove, we might find the red lantern hidden within.
As Kilthan scrambles down the rope he can feel the wind howling harding than he ever has in his life. He is sure he he had stayed up there he would have been blown off the ledge.
Talking about the light spell, you are pretty sure you could use a light spell in place of a torch inside, but not in lieu of the lantern. In any case you won't be going back up into that hallway until the wind stops.
Justin moves to catch Ingrid, but Kilthan has much quicker reflexes, Justin manages to avoid interfering with Kilthan and stops short.
"I agree, the first place to look for the missing red lamp is the red alcove. I would be curious to see if there is anything to investigate in the red alcove without a lamp of any sort hanging from the chain."
"We ready to turn the sarcophagus again?"
"I say we don't touch the sarcophagus and investigate the Yellow alcove while it's still active,
and who knows it might get us the red Lantern."
As a refresher, the arrow is currently pointing to the yellow alcove. When it was moved there a small metal chamber appeared from below the floor. It would fit one medium sized creature or two small sized creatures. It is currently empty of anything.
"I think it is empty. Red anyone? Eliminating possibilities is valuable too."
"Let's investigate, not looks at a distance.
as Appearances can be deceiving."
she walks into the alchove and gets into the small metal chamber.
"I, uh, I hope you know what you're doing. Want us to turn this thing while you're in there?"
Hold on, let me at least cast one spell so that we can communicate.
I cast Message - if there is any open path between us that is less than 110 feet, I should still be able to communicate with Ingrid. Spell lasts 10 minutes.
I hope you are right about this. Remember, no matter what, we are not going to all be able to follow you as someone will have to move the sarcophagus to make the chamber drop.
The chamber begins to descend, then there is a sudden yell heard followed by DM Blood advising Ingrid that it is now time for another character.
"Don't touch the sarcophagus, unless I message you.
telling you to move it."
You cast message and then Ingrid goes into the chamber and immediately the doors close and the metal chamber recedes back into the floor leaving only the stone circle.
As soon as that "clicks" back in place you lose communication with her. Whether that is from the stone or something worse you do not know
You have the sense of moving down for a few moments and then when it stops, the doors open back up.
The walls here are covered in bas-relief images similar to the slender figure upon the sarcophagus lid in the chamber above. Nearly a dozen androgynous, hairless humanoids stand in poses of deference almost as if they are paying homage to the viewer.
About fifteen feet to the south, a dark passage extends from an elaborately carved arch. Only a little of this hallway is visible, however, as a large stone block obscures most of the passage.
You are currently in the metal chamber looking out into the room. The message spell does not seem to work
she checks out the room
taking 20
By checking out the room I assume you mean leaving the chamber and thoroughly searching?
yep