Your fingers run over silky cloth but there is brittle bone under the fabric, the object that bounced off your thigh feels like a skull as your fingers prone the eye sockets.
The walls are so smooth your bitten finger nails don't even catch an edge, it is like the walls have been perfectly sanded. You start to wonder how long your survive inside this contained area...will the breathable air run out. Is that how the skeleton died? It does seem as if it is getting stuffy in the space or is that just nerves and emotion?
You don't hear anything when you thump the wall.
The skeleton has a necklace on that feels like it has some disc about the size or a large coin on it. The disc feel hard. The fabric is silky but worn.
Andrea stretches to see if she can touch the ceiling.
What is everyone else going to do?
Azreal reappears, "Daniel...I discussed the model of the house with Talbard and he suggested it was a spell focus that permitted the wizard to amplify his spells. Talbard believes there was a dimensional anchor in place and a false vision that was active since once the model was broken he could scry inside the upper floors." He takes a deep breath, "Protect that ash with your lives...it is some sort of key we'll need to smear in out eyes at some point."
He begins to pull out a few items from a satchel, "Here's are five flour bombs we came up with for the invisible people and for seeing footprints. Your brother gave me 4 daylight spells he was able to get and Areal sends these 5 (CSW) and one lesser restoration potions."
He looks around, "News is there is fleet on the way."
"Hey, where is Andrea?"
She disappeared after she open that door....
Before the paladin can finish his sentence the Hound grabs the handle and attempts to open the door...
The hound pulls hard at the door but nothing happens. He ends up standing looking at a door that won't open.
Andrea as you were searching the man you noticed that he is shoeless. Suddenly you are tossed against the wall and then the floor.
Not knowing what else to do, Andrea tries breaking the necklace, reasoning it might be a kind of shackle that keeps the place dark and silenced.
With the door, apparently not working, Azreal visualizes Andrea in his mind and attempts to GREATER TELEPORT to the cleric.
[ooc]What are you using to break the neckless? How are you going to try to go about this task?
Azreal blinks out then reappears a few moments later. "I don't need not have seen the destination, but in that case I must have at least a reliable description of the place to which I'm are teleporting. I have no idea where Andrea is located, plus it could be warded like the house was shielded."
With a little difficulty form the lack of sensory perception you eventually manage to break the link of the chain.
How much rations and water do you have on you for this urban adventure?
Make an intelligence check and a know -planes
Andrea moves away from the wall that was to her back and leans against a far wall. Her mind too scattered to try to learn what happened
Andrea take the broken necklace and feels the disc, trying to find any bumps on it. She also checks the feet of the corpse. Bare feet? Why bare feet? They took this person's shoes.
Your too frazzled to think clearly.
Andrea take the broken necklace and feels the disc, trying to find any bumps on it. She also checks the feet of the corpse. Bare feet? Why bare feet? They took this person's shoes. Could this be our ex-mayor? If this is the Chelish Crux, I am going to find out what Khazare felt
The medallion is hard, very feels like it could be a scale of some sort.
Andrea grips the necklace and tries visualizing the bedroom, the long mirror, the men's boots and the bed, Trying to will herself there.She..also tries putting her boots on the corpse's feet.
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Willing yourself isn't getting you there but you do realize that you are probably on the plane of shadows or an some dimensional space associated with the cabinet.
For the others make know: arcana if you have it, or know: planes.
Daniel bangs his fist on the door. Maybe it was a one time magic effect? My knowledge in the arcane is limited. Em, you are our sage, do you know anything about time related or single use items?
Daniel paces, frustrated. He looks around and checks the cabinet for a secret hole/false back or floor.
Em, detect magic in this room again. If it is some sort of Magical escape, perhaps it requires a key? Did Andrea take anything from in this room? Gerard, is there no possibility of a mundane hatch or something? Orsin, can we scry her at all?
Orsin shakes his head.
"Unfortunately, the closest thing I have is a scroll of clairvoyance, but it can't be used to find a person, only to scry on a familiar place."
As you contemplate your current position you are suddenly thrown against the wall. . You've taken a total of 14 HPs of nonlethal damage.
Orsin as you study the cabinet you deduce that it's a magical box....some sort of trap that apparently has some magic aura or nondetection spell masking or covering it's magic nature. Could be that she was teleported to another location or she could be inside the cabinet. Since Azreal didn't disappear, nor Daniel, when they tried open or bang on it it may only hold, or transport, one person at a time.
This is beyond my mundane arts.
But why boots? Some form of travel? Their magical aura may be masked, like that of the wardrobe.
Gerard removes his own boots and puts on the ones found in the room.
The boots are a high quality but there doesn't appear to be anything unusual about them, nor do they detect magic.
So, since it seems magical, Orsin or Em can either of you dispel it?
Daniel had learned enough to be called a dabbler in the arcane. Even learned 3 arcane spells. But this was beyond him. Whomever had made this would have been skilled and thought to ward the trap from detection. Could a simple dispel even work?
Orsin comments, "Perhaps we can pry the door open with blade or crowbar or even break the cabinet." He shrugs.
I am willing to try.
Before the paladin finishes his sentence, the hound is in motion, he pushes the tip of his Greatsword into the door seam and tries to use the heavy blade to lever it open...
Could destroy the gateway, severing the connection forever.
Andrea you feel a sharp pain and take 22 HP of lethal damage to your feet/legs. Then suddenly what you thought was floor cracks open and Azreal is there holding a bloody tipped greatsword.
Azreal when you jab and wedge the blade into the door seam you hear a snap as the door open. The tip of your blade is bloody. Andrea is laying on her side dripping blood from her feet. There is a skeleton in the cabinet with her, it is dressed in fine silk pajamas and he is without his footwear.
Andrea that necklace has black scale attached to it, the chain can be mended. The amulet provides: +2 natural armor, DR 5 against acid.
Seeing Andrea's present companion, Gerard is suddenly self-conscious and removes the boots from his feet. Returning his own to their rightful station.