Rika comes up from behind, proffering the potion, as Adinomo strikes down the strange beast. Though its darkness persists. in the aftermath you find Uldar and feed him the potion healing him net 6 hp and bringing him conscious. You carefully bring everyone down the stairs, and eventually the darkness wears off. the odd conical , tendrilled beast looks hideous even in death. Lem reads his scroll of cure light wounds over Moose if no one objects, bringing him back to zero.
You all slump down in the twinkling motes of dancing light, and glowing belts, in a thirty by thirty ft. stone room. Old carvings cover the walls of this square chamber, thick with dust and cobwebs. Three sets of stone double doors stand in the three facing walls. Heavy bronze seals emblazoned with the symbol of Pharasma secure the doors against whatever lies beyond.
You have time to rest as you carry the bodies down the stairs, and snack, have some water. most of you are still injured, and you have time and relative safety now to tend to those injuries and speak with eachother. You see Uldar for the first time, no longer just a voice helping you out in the darkness, and can make introductions.
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After the battle Adinomo tries to use his wand on Uldar
Now what was that command word?
"Tervendarint!"
"Tervendamint!"
"Tervendamine!, Yes that was it!"
He then uses the wand on himself
"Tervendamine!"
And on Moose
"Terfendamine! Why don't you work?"
"Tervendamine!"
He then offers his small hand to the half orc "Hello, I am Adinomo. Thank you for helping us out there"
The little gnome is quickly investigating everything there is to see
, but in his enthusiasm does not see anything worth mentioning.
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"Hi Adinomo, I'm Uldar. Traveling performer, but I mostly travel between the different inns in Magnimar to be honest!"
"Be careful with that wand though! If you use it wrong it could break and we might need it if we want to get out of here alive! That thing almost killed us all 5 minutes after entering this damned dungeon!"
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"Thank you for the help, Uldar. You arrived just in time. I'm Rika. And thanks to Lem and Adinomo too, of course, for helping Moose. Go on and thank them, Moose."
Moose licks Lem's and Adinomo's face and Uldar's hand (because he can't reach higher).
"He still doesn't seem to be feeling very well. Do we have any healing we could spare or is it more prudent to give him my second potion?"
She'll wait until Moose is healed before taking a closer look at the room.
"I think there's something written on that wall," she points out from the other side of the room.
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"I can use my wand again Rika, I am sure it won't break"
Use Magic Device: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 "Tervendaminé!"
"Told you so..." Uldar sighs
Try Again: Yes, but if you ever roll a natural 1 while attempting to activate an item and you fail, then you can't try to activate that item again for 24 hours.
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After the first try Adinomo tries his wand again a few times
"Tervendamine, tervendamine, tervendamine!. I said Tervendamine!"
with a sad face he turns it around in his hands "That's weird, it stopped working! Can anyone else give it a try? The command word is tervendamine."
You might notice that Adinomo's ears turn red and he tries hard not to look at Uldar, but hands out the wand to Rika, Lem and Eleanor.
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"Thanks Adinomo." Rika points the wand at Moose. "Tervendamine, you said?"
"There. Don't you feel better now?"
If no one else asks for healing she'll hand the wand back to Adinomo and take a closer look at the graffiti on the wall.
"It just looks like insane ravings or something... Does this make sense to anyone?"
Moose grunts contently as he feels his wounds closing up. He'll take a sniff at the strange wall that his master is staring at, but the writing is too old to leave any scent for him to detect.
the stone feels cold, and the cobwebs, while cleared as your brushing on the old stonework to get better view of the carvings and rantings, don't exactly freshen up the place. you cough and hack a bit as the dust slowly settles again.
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Adinomo stops Rika when she tries to give back his wand "Nah, you keep it for now, it seems you have the natural flair of saying tervendamine that I do not quite master"
He moves to the walls and reads the text as pointed out by Rika.
"Hmm, that's all just mumble jumble to me. Shall we be bold and try the middle door first?"
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Eleanor looks up to the stairs and sees Adinomo running towards Uldar and sees Rika coming from down the stairs too. Adinomo excitingly tries healing Uldar and Moose, but once he starts trying to heal moose he suddenly forgets how to use his wand, so Rika takes over the wand and heals moose too
Well, that was quite a job, to get rid of that nasty monster. Now that Uldar and Moose are up again, maybe we should try to look around a bit more. Luca!! Come to me hon, you can sit on my shoulder again
She starts looking around a bit to see if she notices anything unusual, maybe a reason the darkmantle attacked them.
As she looks, she notices something though. There has been scrabbled something on the wall, looking a bit like graffiti, an odd looking sentence. What could that mean?
Something looks to be written there on the walls indeed Rika. I don't really understand what it means myself, my heart is beating on the wrong side of my chest?
Only now she notices that she hasnt even introduced herself to Uldar
Ohh, btw, hi Uldar, Im Eleanor, don't think I've introduced myself yet. This on my shoulder is Luca.
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Eleanor puts herself in front of the middle door, with her back to it to stop the party from going in.
Wait. If the doors look all the same, isn't it possible, that that writing on the wall, could indicate some kind of riddle? We should at least think about it a second or two.
Eleanor starts breaking her head.
Wrong side... or is it right?... Right as in, directional or opposite of wrong?...
Is Left right or wrong?...
Who's hart is beating?
Well..., she starts speaking a bit doubtfully, my feeling and thoughts say we should go left, but if someone has a better answer.
Adinomo strikes the chime. a crystal clear note resonating. For an instant you can almost see a pale blue light shimmer across the door, and then gone.
The enchantment on the door seems gone. He checks it, and the door swings open. So he pushes open one of the double doors.
Beyond, your light falls on age-yellowed linens in alcoves lining both sides of a wide corridor. Thick cobwebs hang from the ceiling and drape the walls of the crypt; everything is coated in a thick layer of dust.
Moose sniffs the stale air of the tomb trying to find some more recent smells as he follows Rika.
Rika feels cautious here, unable to shake the feeling like something is wrong. Almost like someone is telling her, in her own head, "Rika. What are you doing? You're breaking into a crypt. You're a tomb rober, a looter. A no good vagabond.
you get about halfway down the corridor, moving quietly down the dusty hall, when Moose alerts at one of the corpses interred in the alcove to the right, maybe smelling something. rika, and eleanor can almost hear something that feels like a hollow echo of scratching of some sort but can't pinpoint it.
something scuttles, and one of the corpses shifts a bit.
something crawls along the floor, Rika sees it, reacts to it, but it has her flat footed as it crawls up her a little, and stings her with barbs on the ends of its tarantula like legs. The Tiny little thing was barely noticeable a second ago.
another crawls up the wall, and hops onto Moose, attempting to sting him
[r1]: [20: Something], [19: Uldar], [11: Adinmomo], [11: Rika], [11: lem], [6: Eleanor],
[r1]: [5: Adinmomo], [5: Rika], [5: lem],
[r2]: [20: Something], [19: Uldar], [6: Eleanor],
Eleanor steps back, realizing there's some on the ceiling, odd little tarantula like things with bodies that look like skulls. they look like Skull Spider, their poison known to eat away at muscle and flesh, weakening the victim before it decides to take up residence in the skull like a hermit crab.
Uldar calls out to attack them, and Eleanor fires at one, damaging it but not killing it. Knocking it off the ceiling enough for Luca to swoop up and attack it, biting through the skull and detaching several legs. it falls to the ground spasming as Luca hovers, looking for what to attack next.
Moose takes a swipe at the spider in front of Rika.
they jump and dodge, managing to avoid getting crushed and smacked by Moose.
One on the ceiling leaps down onto Luca, well trained at catching small insects and birds while hunting though, Luca naturally catches it in its mouth and crushes it.
Moose gets hounded by two of them. they scuffle, moose smacking the ground where it was, as they scuttle along the floor under moose's reach, but fail to sting him through his fur
[r2]: [19: Uldar], [6: Eleanor], [5: Adinmomo], [5: Rika], [5: lem],
[r3]: [20: Something],
[r2]: [19: Uldar], [6: Eleanor], [5: Rika], [5: lem],
[r3]: [20: Something], [5: Adinmomo],
you shoot, the bolt sinking in and splintering the little skull, as rika flinches from the bone shards falling near her
Eleanor watches as Adinomo shatters the one on the ceiling, and takes aim at one of the ones pestering Moose, missing anyway. then directs luca to move up, it grabs one that's attacking moose and shatters it with her bite, inspired by Uldar's words.
Uldar smashes the last one with a well places sling, shot at only one left standing hounding Moose.
having a chance to look around more, you see these remains are very ancient. the bodies that these spiders were inhabiting have crumbled to dust due to the disturbance.
double doors that look as if they haven't been disturbed in centuries lie at the end of the hall. they don't appear to be locked, but bear some carvings, concealed as much of the alcoves in this room are, in dusty spiderwebs.
I can't pinpoint them either. Shall we check out what is beyond the doors?
Lem opens the door, sending his dancing light ahead to illuminate the room. This cavernous chamber vaults 20 ft. overhead, the doors letting out to a stone bridge with elaborately carved railings, which arches over the chamber from north to south, joining two sets of massive bronze doors at either end. Looking down, forty feet below, you see the central part of the room contains an inlaid spiral symbol, with a raised platform ten feet above that, joined by eight staircases leading up to the wide platform. On this ledge stand bronze doors to the east and west, as well as eight larger-than-life statues, standing upon the ledge as well, evenly spaced around the room's circumference - seven carved from white stone, and the eighth carved from black stone.
lem strolls out onto the bridge, pulling out his flute, and playing a few notes, sort of listening to the way they echo back and appreciating some of the majesty of this chamber.
Haven't the foggiest, can't see the statues well enough from up here. You really want to climb over? we can try the bronze doors over there, Lem points to the bronze doors on the opposite end of the bridge.