I was going to ask that question as well, how many feet do you have left Nowzai? I can get some as well
Dalamus has 1 DD available, but he can only bring one person with him. I don't remember, was there a way to open the door from the other side?
Should we rest for the night so that Nowzai can regain his spells?
Ma'puande raises her hand "What do you need to open the door, it sounds like a spell is needed, perhaps I have one." She adds, sheepishly "I feel a bit like a third teat"
"'Flesh to stone'," Nowzai replies.
Ma'Puande thinks for a moment, then she bends down and picks up some dust from the floor, she then spits into the dust and grime on her hands and makes a bit of mud and smears it on the locking mechanism, then starts casting Bear's Endurance on the mud.
Magma's hammering on the door is akin to taking a hammer to a wooden door not a metal one as shards of the door fly in all directions.
The going is slow as the door is extremely large and thcick.
Ma'puande gets an idea and pushes Magma aside and puts all her effort into tricking the door, and the addition of burning spell magic aids a bit, but not enough.
Collapsing in frustration, she leans up against the wall for a moment and then notices something odd. She feels a slight shimmer in the wall to the north of the door and hears the very faint zapping of the rays, but it feels right behind the wall, not in the northern room.
We can go west....what is the worst that can happen :)
Let's go west then. We might find something useful.
West it is. We will probably have to rope down.
Ma'puande agrees "do we know anything about this place?" As she follows the others, she starts looking around at her surroundings. "Do you think the Eye creature built this place?
Nowzai nods, "It appears this creature carved its lair into the very bedrock below Cauldron, but we had no idea it was here. We came into this place from the Mayor's mansion in the city above. The evil plaguing our city has proven elusive and deeply rooted."
"I can feather fall all of us safely to the bottom, but getting back up will require a different plan. That is, of course, if we must return by this route."
The spirits have shown me a spell called Levitate, I have enough energy left to cast it 7 times today. Would that help?
"That should work! Let's get through before this door closes and we can't go this way at all. We need to move fast, maybe we'll get lucky and it will think we teleported out!"
Jenya, in a rare moment of taking charge, starts ushering everyone through the western door and waves at Nowzai with her fingers, "Cast the floaty spell. Let's go!"
Shortly after Jenya gets you through, the door rolls shut behind you.
With Nowzai's spell, you feather fall down to the bottom of the shaft where you find two more doors. The western one is emblazoned with a ruby and showing a depiction of a man inside a heart. The eastern one has an amber gem and depicts a snail.
Epik scratches his head as he looks at the depiction. "The heart would seem to indicate love or attraction. Could this door require a charm spell to open?"
"I can get us through the snail most likely, but I don't have access to charm"
"Ugh....Another set of trick doors. Maybe the eastern door is some sort of slow spell?"
I don't really understand these doors, does it have to be the same spell or can a spell from the same school of magic work?
I have a few Enchantment and Transmutation spells, but not any Charm or Slow
"I have the requisite spells," Nowzai says, drawing another scroll. "Time will be limited before the door closes itself. Be ready to move quickly." Nowzai then casts a spell on the western door: charm person.
Nowzai hits the door with a spell and it rolls open into a dome shaped room. Moist cool air hits you in the face. A foot below the opening to the door, the room is filled with blackish water that gently laps on the sides of the room. Another beholder door is in the north, a deep red garnet set in the design, engraved with another heart, but with a dragon inside. The heart is exactly the same as the one on the door you just came through.
"Charm... dragon?" Nowzai asks aloud, clearly confounded. "That is not a spell I am aware of, and more specifically, not one I have read among a beholder's arsenal of eye beams. It is clear this creature is some variant, so perhaps it has some other spell-like abilities as well."
Epik scans the room and detects evil. "Let's clear the room."
If there are no obvious threats he moves in for a closer look.
"I have no means to open that door. Shall we try this one behind us instead? I have a slow spell prepared on scroll."
Epik hesitates at the thought of swimming in his armor. ”Yes, let’s try the other door.”
"Yes, let's not waste any time with a door that we know we can't open"
Nowzai nods, casting slow on the other door.
Nowzai casts his spell and the door rolls open expectedly. A blast of foul air, rank with urine and animal smell hits you as you enter a room strewn with gnawed on bones, stray bits of straw and animal feces. You spy no actual creatures.
The irregularly shaped room has three circle doors. The eastern one directly across from you is the other side of the door at the bottom of the eastern shaft. The black onxy gem and image of a skeletal finger are the same here. The northeastern door has a blood red garnet and an image of a blade dripping blood. The southwestern door holds a topaz gem with an image of a prone man curled into a ball, head resting on his hands.
This room contains one other oddity and that is a set of bronze double doors emblazoned with a flame on shield symbol.
Epik detects evil in the room and scans for danger. "Dalamus, you had better make sure there are no traps before we enter."
Dalamus nods and starts to check out the room
Perception
Disable Device
Neither Dalamus nor Epik detect anything in the room, but Epik hears movement through the double doors to the northwest.
"The room looks clear, let's check out these doors"
Dalamus enters the room and head to the Northeastern door and check out the blood garnet and dagger. He will closely study them.
Perception
Epik points to the double bronze doors to the northwest. He whispers to the others "Someone is there. Let's deal with this first."
He moves to the door and opens them when the others are in position.
Dalamus will ready his weapon, and try to find a place to hide around the perimeter.
Stealth
Its not.
Nowzai moves to the back and nods ready.
Epik pushes open the doors and is hit with a wave of heat. The temperature on the other side of the doors is not one that a human could last in for long.
Sconces shaped like stony fists protrude from the walls of this twenty-foot-high chamber at regular intervals, each one grasping an everburning torch. A great, fire-scorched throne sits at the north end of the room. The throne is carved in the shape of a fire giant.
In the middle of the room, a tall woman with hair like flames swings her greatsword at unseen foes, seemingly oblivious to your presence. Her body is covered with a layer of rust-colored fur, and her eyes smolder. She is clad in a mithril breastplate, wears metal gauntlets, and has a large shield floating beside her, moving as she moves. A pink, rhomboid-shaped stone orbits her head lackadaisically, and she wears a red-lacquered armband on one upper arm. As she cleaves the air in front of her, you see that fire plays across one edge of her greatsword, ice across the other.
Across the room from her lie three massive ebony furred wolves that lie on the ground, heads on paws. All three train flaming eyes on you as you enter, but none move. They wear scroched mail barding and jewel-studded collars.
Suddenly the woman stops, looking barely out of breath. Casting a baleful glance at you, she walks over to the throne and sits down. From behind the throne emerges a normal-sized sneering wolf with flame-colored fur and red embers for eyes. Surprisingly, it is the wolf that speaks
“Flameless Ones, have you come to pay tribute to Ti’irok Coalfire?” the fiery wolf hisses.
Dalmaus will attempt to sneak into the room (using Epik as a distraction), and once in he will cast obscuring mist.
Stealth
Epik looks skeptically at the wolf. "We have come to save the city of Cauldron from the tyrant Vhalantru. I pay tribute only to the Inheritor, but perhaps we can find common cause. Why are you here?"
He detects evil on the wolf and fire giant.
Sam starts to prepare some defensive spells while Epik tries to be diplomatic.
Long Arms first and then a greater invis if there is time.
Nowzai casts communal stoneskin, giving himself, Epik, Dalamus and Sama'el protection.
Heads up, casting spells and using abilities are obvious actions.
"No, brother, they've come to fight," the woman on the throne leaps up with her sword as the party starts casting spells, "Dreadful, Heinous, Malice ... Gak'tor!"