"What is your obsession with fire. You *do* know that there are beings immune to fire, right?"
Rurik enters the small antechamber and immediately a booming voice proclaims
Rurik seems slightly taken aback by the booming voice, but recovers quickly. Where might ye be? There was an attack on the tower ye be apart of an we be lookin fer survivors an assessin if there might be another. Ye hurt? Rurik then looks around as best he can, "failing" to remember to close the door.
Davin places his hand on Kara's shoulder and gives it a squeeze.
"Lets move on and see who or what owns such a booming voice!"
Hack steps forward with the others.
Vakase catches up from behind hoping she hasn't missed too much.
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"WHAHA!" Kara jumps three feet and let's out a loud *squeek* when Davon puts his hand on her, but the flame that leaps to her hand is extinguished just in time to not light his crotch on fire...which most people find inconvenient.
"Oh! Um, yeah, ya. Tot-totally. But we're only doing this because I'm so very brave and not at all afraid of the big scary, blood-curdling disembodied voice that is going to pluck out our nibbly bits and devour them slowly.
Yep. Not afraid of that at all.
Absolutely
positively
without a doubt
no fear.
Not even a little bit.
...
You go first."
Rurik, Hack and Davin enter the room. Rurik asks the air a question, to which there is no immediate response. Vakase comes up from behind and meets with Kara who is reciting poetry while Kartoss could care less and is twirling his hair in a "very masculine" way.
A few seconds after all this, a rapid series of clicks is heard in the room.
the voice booms as the floor gives way
Rurik and Davin manage to scramble aside but poor Hack drops 10 feet into the pit trap!
Hack takes damage from the fall.
"You see a way to go down there Hack?" calls Kartoss from the hallway.
Hack looks around the pit for a way out.
I could use some light! I am also beat up after that fall.
Toss me down a rope.
Hack climbs out and pulls his battered body over the lip of the pit.
Rurik leaps back, frowning over such a rude reaction. Then looks around quickly, partially confused by the voices he hears. Whispering to himself, he mutters Sarenrae bless me, an ye be using those ah helped ta aid us. before he calls out to the disembodied voice, Good Baron Sarvo wills it! He wills that we check on his tower, ye hear! Then he turns to the others and shrugs sheepishly.
the voice booms and the eastern door swings open.
The party enters the next room.
A single iron lever protrudes from the wall next to the door in this otherwise empty chamber's west wall. To the east, a ten-foot-wide hallway curves to the north.
Directly in front of the hallway a four-armed metal construct blocks access to the eastern corridor. This clockwork servant stands on three jointed legs. A large, metallic key floats in the air next to the clockwork. A moment after the the heroes enter the room, the construct whirs to life and speaks in a tinny voice:
"Please present the crest for passage."
Sure, Kartoss remembers the Crest, he just passed it back where the heroes slew the Imp Harzogopas.
Hack moves to the lever, opposite the metal construct.
Kara, can ya check that thing for traps or how to grab that key? Thd rest of you want me to pull this lever?
Vakase steps up, looking as menacingly at the construct as she can. With her eyes glowing and fangs bared she yells to it.
"How about we make a deal? You forget about the crest and just let us pass, and we don't take you apart? As you can see, we outnumber you."
"And we're really itching to take something apart right now." she snarls.
The Golem remains still, merely repeating itself after a brief passage of time.
Please present the crest for passage
[b]"Indeed Kara. I can go back and pick it up. It was pretty heavy if I recall correctly and all brass? Do you want to come with me Kara?"{/b]
Davin will retrace the parties steps and gather up the crest and bring it back.
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"W00t! Field trip!" Kara yells as her short legs scurry after Davin. She gets out a strip of jerky from her pouch and chomps on it noisily as she talks. Oh, yeah, there is talking.
"Hey, did I ever tell you of the time Shiela totally said that I talk too much? Like, it was during our eleventeith year of sorcery school. We were the fighting tigers! But it was kinda dum 'cause none of us were powerful enough to summon tigers yet so they really should've called us the fighting eagles or the fighting giant ants or or the fighting larger-than- giant-not-not-as-big-as-an-actual-giant-giant-giant-smaller-giant-fighting centipedes....."
Kara does her duty to keep up Davin's spirits since he won't be able to talk while carrying the heavy thing on his own so she keeps up a running monologue the. entire. way.
Hack waits patiently at the lever for the return of the others with the crest.
Davin smiles as the halfling tells him a variety of stories and jokes making the journey pass by a little quicker.
"It was worth a try. Sometimes I'm scary." Vakase says with a wounded tone as she follows along.
Athletics:
Athletics:
Athletics:
On the return trip, the unbalanced weight of the crest causes Davin to lose his balance while crossing the ledge by the green goo (oh no!!!)
Vakase manages to keep her balance as Davin stumbles.
Davin approaches the Golem with the upraised Crest and without a sound it moves aside. The curious floating key moves with it.
The Heroes turn the corner to see a heavy iron door at the end of the short corridor. The Crest of the Canticlure family is on the door.
"Some kind of weird magic around that key, but damned if I know what it is."
Vakase stops to examine the door, peering into the keyhole and looking back toward the golem and the floating key.
"I don't see any traps. That's a good sign. Looks like the door's locked, and it's about the right size for that floating key. Or we could try smashing it."
I'm yer guy for smashin'it, just make the call.
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"Bah! Oh you think-types with your word-speech are adorable. We've got a key, we've got a door, let's let those two crazy kids get together and makes sweet, passionate lock-n-key rusty-grinding-gear love.
Hold a tic."
Kara stands under the key and start jumping up and down. Alas, even her best efforts can't get her above a normal human's head.
"Nah just...urrrrgh....I got dis just....oorph...gimme a sec....blah!"
She keeps trying, tho.
Davin reaches down and, placing his hands on the halfling's waist, lifts her up to get the key.
"There you go sweets. Now lets see this key-lock love you described."
Kara precociously snatches the key and is rewarded with a whirring and clanking from the Clockwork Servant. However, it doesn't move.
The key fits the slot in the door and it opens to reveal.
An area along the south wall is enclosed in a cage of thick iron bars that extend from floor to ceiling. Within the enclosures it seven black iron chests. To the north, the stone wall has collapsed, revealing a rough-hewn tunnel.
"That tunnel looks pretty fresh. Something getting in or getting out?" Vakase puzzles.
"I'm also curious about those chests, probably from hanging around Kara too long."
She examines the gaps in the bars and sizes up her halfling friend.
"So, this looks like a trap."
Hack examines the bars for traps and if he thinks they can be bent.
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"Nooooo!" Kara cries as she rushes to the bars, stretching out her hands uselessly toward the chests. "How could they be so cruel and put these cold, unfeeling, and totally-not-flammable bars between us?? Don't cry, my dears, we'll be together soon. Yes, then we shall merge, as one, in the tender way."
She bows her head and sobs softly into the cold steel ba--
"So, do you think I could squeeze through them?" she cheerfully asks Vakase, standing by her knee.
Hack grabs the bars and attempts,to bend them.
The bars are made of 1.5 inch unflinching metal. It would take someone of incredible nigh magical strength to bend them. The bars are also set mere inches apart, so Kara's attempt to squeeze would be in vain.
Vakase, your Raven is alerted to something lurking in the tunnel. It caws loudly.
"I guess we'll figure out how to open the cage later. Something is out there."
Vakase walks up to the tunnel entrance sends her raven to fly forward so she can get a better look.
"Come back the first sign of trouble, Elsa."