Aralu focuses and let's a cold wave of energy wash over the room.
The undead look at Aralu, waiting for instructions. But it's trapped into the cage so far.
Katara points to Zurka the pressure plate he walked on, making the cage fall.
Mary comes closer to the corpses on the table. Suddenly, an arm twitches and a dead hand hits her bottom.
"Hey....that's some lecherous corpse!"
Mary grabs her dagger and jams up the corpse' eye socket.
Baldrek sees Mary's movement with disappointment.
"Hum... better not to try to do the same... I like both my eyes and with them I can at least see if not touch..."
"Flatterer. Worry not, contrary to this corpse, we need you alive and well."
Meurasod hears the crash of the gate landing on the floor and rushes back to see what all the commotion is. "What is all the noise about? You trying to let everyone know we're here?!?!" the dwarf shouts.
Aralu answers deadpan "Traps, flirting and I aquired a minion"
Zurka glares at the dwarf. "I find it amusing a dwarf is actually concerned about stealth. Perhaps in the future you may check these rooms further."
A little songbirds briefly chirps, as Zurka makes a joke.
"With Aralu's newly aquired minion, we could potentially set off traps from a safe distance."
Mary lets the thrush fly near the door.
"Listen."
Katara just rolled her eyes at the dwarf yelling about announcing their presence. She would look about the room and the trap before taking note of how it looked different from the rest of the room. Maybe that would give them clues to spotting new ones. Also, she would look at the cage to open it up and let her have her minions.
"Baldrek, let us make sure to investigate each room as we go instead of just glancing in and moving on. It could prove useful."
She stated even as she made a mental note to find an ioun torch. If anything it let her hands be free.
The skeleton is still inside the cage, so it's utility is less obvious for the moment.
Maybe it could be helped out of the cage?
Zurka sighs softly as he turns to face Aralu. "Perhaps you would like your servant freed?" He asks in a soft tone. Not bothering to wait for a reply he walks over to the cage, motioning for some assistance. "Let us work together here."
Aralu turns towards the skeleton "assist in lifting the cage, afterwards wait for further instructions. "
It might be a subject of future amusement that the muscles-less skeleton seems more able to lift the cage than Zurka.
Nevertheless, the animated bones are still trapped inside.
The trush doesn't hear anything strange.
From times ot times, the corpses on the table twitch. A hand makes a rude gesture at Katara.
"Baldrek, would you be so kind and chop the heads off, from those bulky corpses, before they try to get up and attack us?"
Aralu takes a curious look at the inpolite corpse
'they move, but were not affected by my channel, maybe they are some kind of golem'
Meurasod moves over to the cage and sets his axe and shield down. He grabs ahold of the cage and tries to lift it.
Aralu orders the skeleton to repeat the last order it recieved.
Katara watches them struggle with the cage and moves over. bracing her foot at the base she would crouch and grab the cage pulling it up.
"Sorry but I have no means of doing it, Beauty... I have no sword or axe to dismember these corpses, just a hammer and even though I'd be able to destroy them, I think this room would be completely stained by blood and gore when I finish... Can you lend me your axe, Meurasod, or work on the corpses yourself?"
"Aye, here ya go lad" the dwarf replies as he offers Baldrek his dwarven war axe. He turns back to towards the cage only to see Katara showing her true strength. "Aye girl, keep it up. You've almost got it!"
Katara manages to rise the cage all by herself, in an impressive display of strenght.
The skeleton follows Aralu's orders and gets out of the trap, while Baldrek use Meurasold's axe on the corpses, sending a mix of ichor and blood on the walls, painting the room black and red.
Zurka nods approvingly as the party works together here. "We should get moving. Whoever set the cage trap undoubtedly heard the crash. We should not disappoint him."
"I think it is done... here, Meurasod, here is your axe back..."
Wary of any other traps, Baldrek moves to the door to the east, following Zurka's suggestion, and thoroughly examines it.
Aralu wipes of an errant drop of blood from her face "bevor werden go, there is one oddity in this room I want to look at " she points at the wall bulging into the room.
On the table, you find two vials with a greenish liquid, and a scroll tube.
Zurka looks over the items on the table. "Magic." He nods to the others.
Meurasod was slowly fuming inside, like a hot kettle of tea slowly boiling. He gave a curt nod as Baldrek passed his axe back to him. He gave it a customary practice swing and headed over to pick up his shield before turning to head back to the doorway. He glanced down the hallway to see if the welcome wagon had shown up yet.
Baldrek goes back to the former room and call for his companions.
"Looks like this secret passage here leads to another room... this curve here is pretty obvious... I'll look for a way to open the other end of this passage so when you are ready just let me know..."
Katara would salute Meurasod for watching their back as she peeks in to look at Baldrek keeping an eye on her entire group.
"This place is filled with traps and secrets. Maybe we should heal up Baldrek and let him take the lead. I can bring up the rear."
"The skeleton could be used to set off any traps ahead, save for doors and the like."
Baldrek, after a few tries, manage to find the opening mechanism.
All he need is a good push.
Meanwhile, the skeleton awaits for your orders.
"Then, shall we head forth?"
Baldrek enters a bigger room, smelling of ancient dust.
This large stone chamber contains two clusters of four stone caskets each. In the center of the room, between the two groupings, stands an empty, unlit iron brazier that is covered with soot and smells faintly of past fires.
Drapes of dust-covered spider webs cling to the ceiling.
Mary keeps to the back, preferably outside the room.
More outside the room in anticipation, actually.
Before the group heads in, she casts guidance on everyone.
"Cobwebs.....while fit for ample a joke, they work well when making certain potions. Good old great-gran's book of recipies, lovely days."
Baldrek enters the room, carefully not to make a sound and then examines the first casket.
[Pale guy in coffin opens eyes]
[Ah, hello, i am Vlad. Velcome to my humble abode...blah!]
Aralu positions herself so she can see into the coffin room, but is far enough outside in case something bad happens.
"dusty cobwebs are a hint of disuse, or a usefull hint where not to step"
Zurka cautiously advances into the room, rapier in hand as he keeps to the edge of the wall and the shadows it provides. He smirks slightly as he slips past Aralu's pet skeleton.
She must really treasure that pile of bones!
One of the potion is a Cure Moderate Wounds potion. the scroll case contains three scrolls.You cannot recognise the spells on two scrolls, and the last one bears a sigil.
DC 16 to identify the potion, DC 22 and 23 for the Scrolls, DC 15 Linguistic/know Arcana for the sigil
As Baldrek approaches the closest casket,a chill breeze arises from nowhere with an eerie howl.
The room seems to darken, and in the sudden gloom, scores of small
spectral eyeballs appear, drifting with the breeze.
They peer intensely before fading away.
Six skeletons get out of their caskets, ready to kill you and bring you back in their tombs to rot for the rest of eternity...
Always quick on his feet, Baldrek moves forward, between the northwestern caskets and swings his maul at one of the skeletons.
Aralu briefly curses( in Aklo), steps closer to the coffin room and unleashes another wave of dark energy
and orders her minion(s) to attack the closes(to her) skelleton not under her control.
The dwarf hustles past the others as he makes his way up to stand along side Baldrek. Axe drawn and shield at the ready, he waits stoically for trouble to approach.
Bob claws at the nearest skeleton not under his masters controll