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The group pick their way down the escarpment towards the road, with light provided by Jareen's spell. There are skitterings and the glimpse of eyes glowing with reflected radiance. Most are tiny creatures of the night - no threat - but some are larger animals disturbed by the crashing meteor. The group head down a steep defile, a wrinkle in the steep rock slope. The flickering gaze of potential predators begins to make everyone jumpy, the deeper shadows become possible sources of ambush, and the clatter of a rock skipping down the trail could be a monster preparing to leap.
Spoiler:
These bad feelings seem to be more extraneous than natural, perhaps an insidious psionic influence.
Arrows whistle through the air as Rolund and Bor open fire, but they fail to find their mark. Rodergo unleashes the radiance of the Silver Flame to scorch the unnatural monstrosity, but its inherent magical nature defeats the spell. But Ezreal's missiles are able to find their mark.
Janosz pops the approaching thing with a few arrows and then gets the hell out of the way.
The ground makes a violent convulsion, dislodging boulders from the tops of the ravines. At the same time, a searingly hot winds roars down the canyon carrying gravel like sling bullets and flensing sand.
The howling gale seems to go on for an age, but eventually it begins to moderate. It is then that huge chunks of rock, thrown up by the impact miles away, begin to return to earth.
The group of ill-matched travellers rests for the night, with pairs of them maintaining watch. Hours pass. A few small creatures make skittering noises in the night, but otherwise it is silent.
It is the darkest, coldest point of the night. Suddenly there is a flare of light in the sky. With a hideously loud hissing, roaring sound a ball of flame, trailing embers behind it, plunges out of the night and hurtles across the heavens. It is impossible to guess its size or trajectory at first, and for a horrible moment it seems to be heading straight for the cave and its stricken inhabitants. But that is just a trick of the eye and instead it is quickly clear that the missile is much larger and more distant. With a flash it crashes into the ground several miles away with a huge explosion that lights the canyon as if it were day.
Spoiler:
It landed roughly at the position of the bandit tower.
Spoiler:
That was a meteorite crashing into the ground. Anything that was at the point of impact or close to it will likely have been vaporised, and there will probably now be a significant crater.
Spoiler:
You have a few seconds to prepare for the shockwave.
A brief reconnaissance finds a shallow cavern in the canyon wall, with a good view down back the way the group has come. A quick checks finds it empty of other inhabitants, and the travellers settle down for the night. The sun dips and dusk gathers. The sky clears and one of the moons rises, casting a wan light amid a riot of stars. Shadows pool under the rocky walls and it gets very cold, very quickly.
The canyon-lands begin to peter out, the walls of the ravines getting lower and lower, until the path emerges on the far side. The estuary is out of sight on the other side of the twisting, maze-like uplands, but the road to Grak's Pool lies at the bottom of the valley. The group has also manages to evade pursuit and survive one day in the burning desert. But the shadows are stretching as night approaches.
Janosz hears nothing. He pushes open the door. Beyond, the room is pitch back.
Spoiler:
This room looks a similar size to the two previous. It contains heavy machinery - strange engines, forges and presses - bolted to the ground and looming out of the dark like crouched dragons made of steel and grime. Poking out from behind the nearest can be seen someone's feet, from where they lie motionless.
Another exit, an open doorway, leads north
Not bothered who takes what - it was simply a suggestion, you guys are the arbiters of that. And yes, the suit basically has to be destroyed before Gil can be targeted by anything. I flirted with the idea of maybe leaving the operator vulnerable to mind-affecting, visual effects but decided it would add a layer of complication and the operator's immunity could justified by several inches of adamantine. Note though, the suit is immune to effects that cannot target objects. Disintegtate requires a Fort save, but affects objects...
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