With the combat over, Bhookaaj searches the room.
”Well that was four all together. I hope they weren’t the personnel.”
The desk has a multitude of tools: chisels, files, lenses, scales, and a strange apparatus with a hose ending in a needle. There are also a few pieces of uncut quartz, and one very finely cut gem: a long clear spindle that detects as magic.
"Don't worry Ebirah, those things seemed more like flunkies than personnel."
Lorelei examines the gem. "Hmm, this thing is magical in nature, but I can't quite figure out its purpose yet."
Ebirah nods at Lorelei's observation.
When they find the gem he asks "Is it one of those flying ones?"
By way of explanation, Elia picked up the stone and set it orbiting about her head, "It sustains you without food or water," she said before recapturing it and letting it rest in her hand.
The tools were interesting in their own right as well.
"Cool."
"That may help explain how personnel are still in residence here. Perhaps there is another gem that grants longevity of some sort."
Bhookaaj goes into the room that Rhyfedd came out of and has a good look around for any interesting stuff...
"That may help explain how personnel are still in residence here. Perhaps there is another gem that grants longevity of some sort."
"Wow... not sure if that is cool or scary."
"Either that, or those guards went a bit strange over the centuries."
Ebirah stops and thinks before nodding.
Bhookaaj notes another 10 ft. metal circle inlaid in the floor, very similar to the ones in the hidden rooms.
Bhookaaj will inspect the new circle closely.
Bhookaaj finds nothing irregular about the metal circle. However, he finds that his magic amulet is now glowing a bright, golden yellow, while his machete glows a fiery orange-red.
Curious by the glow, Lorelei points her trident near the circle...
Lorelei’s trident starts to glow the same fiery color as Bhookaaj’s weapon.
"Those were all magical beforehand, right?"
"To the best of my knowledge, yes."
"Cool. So it's some sort of detection device."
Taking a bit of a (reckless) chance, Bhookaaj stands in the middle of the circle.
He's looking for any further changes to his magic items.
Bhookaaj’s magic items continue to glow their same colors, but there are no further changes.
"I guess we should move on and check the upper part of the tower.
"I don't think we can find much else of use in this room."
Ebirah nods and begins moving with Bhookaj.
The second floor of the tower seems to be a central room with a larger chamber encircling it. On one side of the room is a table with a number of stools. On the other side is a number of shelves that are mostly empty. Looking over the shelves is a skum that wears an assortment of items, as well as an elaborately carved glaive. Upon seeing the party, it yells something in an unknown, burbling language and charges forward, pointing its glaive.
Bhookaaj takes a shot at the new skum
This seemed like a good opportunity to put the new wand to use so, after moving to get a clear path for the spell to travel, Elia sent a fiery sphere rolling gently towards the skum.
Lorelei throws an icicle at the Skum.
"Ok, there is a lot of Skum here. Why would such creatures be authorized to be in here?"
”Wish we could ask, they just seem to want to fight.” Ebirah says as he marches over to meet the Skum.
The skum recoils from the rolling flames and manages to dodge around them, shifting the movement into a seaward slash at the advancing Ebirah. It manages to get past his defenses to draw blood, while using its glaive’s long haft to maintain a wide gap between the combatants.
Bhookaaj moves up by Ebirah and takes another shot at the skum
Snarling Ebirah steps up to close the gap and swings at the Skum.
Lorelei tries flinging another icicle at the Skum.
Too far to do anything about the creature, Valdern gets as close as he can. Rhyfedd follows the Channeler and stop just short of getting into melee with the skum.
Elia quietly directed the ball of fire to creep up behind the skum, aiming to divert its attention at the least, and set it on fire at best. Meanwhile, she closed ranks with the others, ready to provide support.
The skum again evades Elia’s flames, as well as Bhookaaj and Ebirahs’. However, Lorelei’s icicle plunges deep into its shoulder, causing the skum’s glaive to miss its mark.
Ebirah keeps up his advance on the Skum.
Bhookaaj tries tumbling past the skum to flank it wth Ebirah:
Valdern moves forward and tries to get a good hit on the skum. The tip of the spear head straight for a weak spot, but at the last second, Valdern lose sight of the target and he is unsure if he hit flesh or armor.
Rhyfedd's first attack hit the creature dead on. The force of the blow leaves a good mark on the skum's skin. The second attack, however isn't as precise.
Lorelei channels for her party.
Elia let the sphere continue to do its thing (such as it was), while acting to provide some protection to the others.
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