Nuala only has 1 spell to recover, mage armor..
You proceed to room 1C-33 and start descending the stairs. Ten feet down, there is a stair that, if pressed, causes each step to flip over into a smooth ramp, coated with an almost frictionless substance that slides anyone down to the bottom of the stairs. You come out into a hallway going north.
Nuala will attempts to disable the trap.
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The passageway goes north 10' wide. Between 10'and 20' there is a side passage to the right, between 40' and 50' there is a door on the left.
"Side passage? Don't like leaving things behind me. "
Looking down the side passage, it goes 40'. Between 30'and 40' it turns south.
Makes sense to me. Let's check it out
May as well keep going
Once the first four get passed it a portcullis falls trapping the remaining two Lars and Aggrammar on the other side. And no, there was no perception check to spot it.
"What the...?" - Aggrammar grumbles - "I don't like this lads" - he adds, moving forward and placing one hand on the porctulis and testing it for resistance - "Ye watch yer backs"
He looks around, fully expecting some sort of follow up to this.
"This doesn't look good. " and he turns around with his back to the portcullis in case something moves to take the cut off members of the party.
Naula goes back and examines the portcullis for a way to lift it or open it.
"oh sh%/" as the portculis falls down separating Lars and Aggrammar from the rest of us. "anyone have any tricks or ideas on how to get through this thing? Maybe vials of acid to eat through the bars?
"
Checking around the portculis for any mechanism to raise or circumvent it If all of us try to lift it together would that work? Probably not I'm guessing
"Lars, Aggrammar what do you want to do? Maybe you could stay right there and the rest of us will try to find a way to you from this side. . It's up to you. My concern is that if you move from there we might not be able to find you"
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"I might have a plan, but it uses magic and might be best used as a last resort. We will need some rope though, and plenty of it," says Almon.
"Well we should try lifting it or breaking it. I don't like the idea of waiting here by ourselves while you folks get lost. "
I'd prefer to lift it or break it down if possible. I don't like the idea of us being separated either. Maybe Almon could cast that spell to make Darrien bigger if that would help. Almon..I do have plenty of rope if you need it.
In the center of the portcullis a demonic looking face has been fashioned onto a disk of metal; when the portcullis falls, the face issues a deep, amused chuckle before falling silent.
The gate chuckles again at the failed attempt and then goes silent.
Disabling this fiendish cackling lock takes forever for Sorek as he accidentally pokes himself in the eye with his thieves tools when the portculis cackled maniacally in the middle of his third attempt
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click. Sorek opens the lock and now you are able to lift the gate.
After the gate has been lifted and the group is back together Sorek looks around and says "that's the first time a lock has ever laughed at me. . I would have loved to pour acid into it if I didn't have to worry about permanently Disabling it in the locked position. . Shall we continue down this hall? "
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"Yes, I'd just as soon be away from that fiendish device. "
Nuala assists on his 24 roll and gets it then..
"Indeed.. Lets move on." She casts her prepared mage armor before continuing.
The passage turns east 15' to a door.
checking the door on the east
You find no traps on the door.
The floor of this room is five feet lower than the doors, and the entire floor burns with magical flames reaching to a height of two feet. In other words, there is a three foot gap from door level down to the top of the
flames, the flames are two feet high, and the floor is at the bottom. To anyone standing at the level of the doors, there is no heat emanating from the flames. However, if the characters reach down to test for heat, they discover that the heat starts one foot above the level of the flames and that the flames themselves are as hot as normal flames—the heat just doesn’t rise very high, for some reason.
Aggramar sticks in the corridor, waiting for the feedback from the scouts - "Anything in there?" - he whispers.
Each door has a button next to it on the inside of the room to the left of
the door. The button can easily be reached from the door without any risk
of falling into the flames.
In addition to the fiery floor and the buttons, the room has a third strange
feature: chains hang from the twenty foot tall ceiling at ten-foot intervals,
each chain fifteen feet in length. Thus, a six foot tall person hanging from
the end of the chain would have his feet approximately at the point where
the heat of the fire begins. It is obvious that one way of crossing the room
would be to swing across by using the chains (hold your feet up!), catching
the next chain at the end of each swing.
"I really don't see this going well. I am most certainly not a monkey. "
Aggy...We've got a barbecue up here and this dungeon thinks we're on the menu.
Looking at the buttons...I think I may have a way to deal with this.
Far Hand
Discipline psychokinesis
Level cryptic 0 (see note), marksman 0, psion/wilder 0
MANIFESTING
Display Visual
Manifesting Time 1 standard action
EFFECT
Range Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target A non-magical, unattended object weighing up to 5 lb.
Duration Concentration, up to 1 min.
Saving Throw None; Power Resistance No
Power Points psionic focus or 1
Psionics Expanded Update
This power is one of a few that was originally released in Psionics Unleashed, but has been updated since the release of Psionics Expanded to be a Psionic Talent. This changed a few details of the power, but it is still usable as such. For more information, please refer to Psionic Talents.
DESCRIPTION
You can mentally lift and move an object at will from a distance. As a move action, you can propel the object as far as 15 feet in any direction, though the power ends if the distance between you and the object exceeds the power’s range.
Augment You can augment this power in one or both of the following ways. Alternatively, if you expend your psionic focus when manifesting this power, the cost of the power is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 0), but the power cannot be augmented by either of the following options.
1. For every 2 additional power points you spend, this power’s range increases by 5 feet.
2. For every additional power point you spend, the weight limit of the target increases by 2 pounds.
3. If you expend your psionic focus when manifesting this power, the cost of the power is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 0)
Go to Far Hand
south
and while going across the bridge Sorek holds onto the chains as much as possible in case the bridge drops out from beneath him
There are 2 doors on the south wall.
1=west door
2 =east door
if nothing was found examining these doors... I will open the east door on the south wall first while holding onto a hanging chain
"Good work Sorek, I surely didn't like my changes making like a monkey. " and he will follow along on the bridge.
1=left
2=right
lets go left
checking the door
room 2B-34
This room contains five sarcophagi; the lid of each one contains a small dent where something has been dug out from the stone. The first three sarcophagi have already been opened and stand empty with their lids beside them. The fourth and fifth sarcophagi are still closed: