Sitting up woozily, Suzumaru asks,"What happened to me? Am I all right? What is that creature up to? Why is it picking on me? So, do I have to destroy her to get all better?
Suzumaru stands up, dusts herself off again. Determination grows in her facial expression,"Lets go find those ne'er do wells and stop their invasion plans cold! We are powerful Pathfinders, lets go explore!"
Andross gives Suzu small smile. "It appears that you have simply fainted. No harm done. But I agree. We should be careful in our search, yet make haste."
Now that Suzumaru is awake once again, Raphael continues forward, searching the paintings as he comes across them.
Anyone else? Remember, everyone is moving at the same time each turn.
Suzumaru follows Father Raphael into the entry tunnel, with Harvey next to her. She does not pay particularly close attention while marching up ahead.
"Jean, Maxwell. Are you fella's gonna join us in here?"
Yes, just following behind, just in case someone triggers a trap up ahead.
Mark the exact square that you were searching Maxwell.
Okay, and Andross, as you are the only one at the time to be in that square, this only effects you.
As you are staring at the paintings, and continue walking forward, you suddenly feel the floor give way from under you and you go tumbling DOWN
...
Into a pit filled with large spikes.
No reflex save. The scenario calls it out that you only get one if you were carefully looking at the floor, which you, (observing the paintings) were not.
Oh... oh this is going to hurt...
And Raphael... as you land on four separate spikes, you get the strangest feeling that they are poisoned... and the fact that you have four of them inside of you means this poison is going to be tough to resist, even for you... Roll me ONE fort save.
So would you believe me if I told you you rolled the DC EXACTLY? DC 18+4x when x=Each spike above the number 1?
So 18+12=30?
Just saying, Sarenrae REALLY like you...
Thankfully, you're only taking Con Damage.
And as you cast that spell, you need not roll me a second save!
"If the target is a creature, you must make a caster level check (1d20 +caster level) against the DC of each poison affecting the target."
Give me a caster level check...
Everyone else? How are you reacting to your impaled ally?
And as your muscles contract in response to the poison, you feel like your muscles are convulsing, and your organs aren't faring much better. After a few agonizing seconds of this, you are able to cast your spell which though does not get rid of the poison entirely, gives you just enough strength to rip your way from the spikes that impaled themselves in your body. and fall beside them, gasping as your muscles continue to tense at random.
The voice bursts out in a hideous laughter. "Oooooooh, I do love when people fall onto those. We found the poison on earth: Strychnine. Have your ever seen a person die of the seizures it could produce? Hehehe you should consider yourself fortunate priest!"
Does anyone have a rope?
Maxwell will attempt to pull him out by hand if possible. If it is to deep, then he will call out again.
Rope. Does anyone have some rope.
You'll want to throw the rope. He's thirty feet down.
Raphael groans, briefly wondering what was more painful: the spikes or the commentary. He lays briefly on his back, staring up at the ceiling and catching his breath. He then slowly stands up, pulling some rope out of his bag and tossing it to Maxwell.
He then carefully ties his armor tot he bottom of the rope and takes his time to climb back up.
Once up on steady ground, he takes in the paintings around him while catching his breath.
You get back up to steady ground and look at the pretty pictures, but don't see anything.
After stretching slightly before trying to retrieve his ring from Jean. "I find I didn't do much that battle, so I would be willing to continue. Although if others need rest, so be it."
HAmish grumbles as he gives Maswell a hand with the rope in hauling Raphael up. "I'd port ya out mate but that'd just bring soemthing nasty in ya know?"
Suzumaru watches all this, though she seems very distracted. She keeps pulling on her hair and examines it. "Ah, Father. I'm sorry I'm somewhat distracted, can I help at all?"
You can help pull
The lot of you can pull him out with no problem.
Wiping the dust off his clothes, Raphael re-dons his armor. "Well, I could continue to walk along staring at the floor. But that seems likely only to result in me getting hit by something from a wall or ceiling." He begins tying the rope around his waist. "If I'm going to continue to go first, how about someone stand behind me holding this rope, so I don't fall into any more pits?"
He then moves forward, casting a cure spell on himself, to look at the next set of paintings.
IF you do that, I would say you could walk forward without penalty or worry of falling in. Just make sure two people are holding onto you.
I think you all will attempt to determine where all the pit traps in this hallway are, so I will mark them.
At the end of the long, painted hallway, the tile "path" split in two. One branch leads towards a 7 foot stone archway decorated with an opaque, swirling mist. The second path heads towards the southern wall where it ends directly underneath a large mosaic of green tile in the shape of a demon's face. It's mouth forms a large gaping hole in the wall about 3 feet in diameter and dead black. (In fact, on the lower righthand portion of the map, you can see a representation of this demon face. It's the compass).
"So swirling mist of death or demonic face of death?" Hamish muses to himself. Picking up a couple of stones he throws one first through the demon mouth than one through the mist from around the corner.
Both disappear :3
They both simply disappear. The one that went into the mist looks like it blinked out of existence, while the one that went into the mouth... went into the mouth, though you cannot see past the blackness.
Hamish considers the demon mouth for a moment. "Oi, do any of you lot have a way to dispel magical darkness?"
Raphael moves to join Hamish, glancing briefly at the images on the walls as he walks past.
"I can dispel magic, but it would be my casting ability against the caster of the magical darkness. And somehow I get the feeling that the spellcaster in question is significantly more powerful than I am."
Raphael then picks up his own stone and makes a few gestures over it, causing it to glow brightly. He then tosses the stone in to the mouth.
"I don't really like the look of either entrance. If indeed, they truly are entrances. I could summon something and send it through, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to give us any intel as my summoning is pretty weak."
Raphael, your results are the same. The rock goes into the mouth and is enveloped by black. NOTHING can be seen, seven though you cast light on the rock.
"You can tell if your spell ends right? That'll tell us something."
"It ended the light spell. Perhaps we should try something a bit more low tech? Does anybody have a torch? Between my ioun stone and light spell, I figured I wouldn't need one."
"Don't think you'll get that torch back less you tie it to some rope. We got a couple long sticks from outside? Toss them both so they cross the thresh hold but not all the way hear me? That way the poor sod holdin the stick doesn't conduct the other end get me?"
"We could always just look inside?"worries Suzumaru. What is happening to me? Why now? Maybe I haven't been reckless enough?
Suzumaru walks the path that everyone else has and then sticks her head in the demon mouth thing to see if she can see anything on the other side.
If that doesn't help my condition, nothing will!
The rest of you watch as Suzumaru sticks her head in the Demon's mouth... And seems to be instantly sucked inside.
Hamish looks absolutely stunned for a moment. Gulping, he slowly turns to see the goats reaction.
Everyone wait for Harvey's response before acting.
"Baaaaa... baa baa. bleehh"bleats Harvey. As you watch, his coat looses it's luster and his almost glowing quality of health seems to change to that of an ordinary goat. He then wanders off looking for something to chew.
"Suzu!!! What hap... baaa baaa behh."
"That mean anything to anyone else?"
You hear the high pitched laughter of Fukuopicus. "In all my years, that never gets old! Every single dimension someone decides to stick their head inside the sphere of annihilation! One player has been ejected from the game! Such a shame too, I was having fun tormenting her, what with the 'Bleaching' she was going through. Does shun green, mean NOTHING to you all?"
Raphael frowns and sends a quick prayer to Sarenrae to guard Suzumaru's soul. And to look after Harvey...whatever it is that happened to him. He then pauses in a moment of respect for their fallen ally.
Shaking his head again, he attempts to continue in a business-like manner. "Well, I guess the remaining question is if this gateway is an entrance, or if it's another false opening." He then summons a celestial dog, ties a rope to it, and has it go through the misty gateway and then immediately come back.
The arch features 3 large cystals: a yellow crystal on the left base-stone, a blue crystal at the top of the arch and an orange crystal on the right base-stone. As the dog approaches the archway, each stone begins to glow brightly. The hound is able to jump in and jump right back out.