Avendryl moves up and searches the door for traps and/or locks.
You cross the hall and Avendryl opens the door on the far side after the requisite checks. It opens to a hallway that heads roughly northeast at an angle. A short distance south is another hall that heads straight to the east (below Fezzik's position on the map). Still no sign of any strong evil.
Moves out into the hallway.
"soooo where to now? left, right, up the middle?"
"Doors, doors, doors! I say throw them all open at once!"
Fezzik follows the paladin to the north door, waiting for it to be checked for evil and traps before opening it.
No signs of evil or traps.
(120) This place is 20' x 30', with three doors in the southern portion — east, south in the west corner, and west. A high, broad fireplace with numerous side ovens dominates the north wall. The fireplace is large enough to roast a whole ox. The room is littered with broken containers and dishes, trash of an unidentifiable sort, and pieces of wooden tables, counter tops, and the like. Several skeletons are visible, including one which appears to be that of an ogre.
Anything magic in here? (or evil, since I'm sure our evil detector is looking)
"That's a damn big fireplace." Avendryl quips as he searches the doors.
Fezzik enters the room, carefully watching the skeletons in case they start to move.
"I am beginning to agree with my friend...do the doors never end?!"
You find no signs of evil or magic. Fezzik watches the skeletons, but they remain unanimated. Avendryl checks the doors and finds no traps.
Based on the minor fragments of remaining furnishings, you think this area used to be a kitchen, but it seems abandoned.
Zinnath resumes his perch on Fezzik's shoulder during the exploration phase of this adventure.
Tossing open the doors in the southwest, you find a pair of empty storage pantries. Once they may have held food; now, only dust and cobwebs.
Heading west, you enter a tremendous room.
(119) This huge place is over 100' long and 30' wide in the main portion. The litter of tables, trestles, benches, chairs, and stools scattered and heaped about the place show that great revelries of Evil were one conducted here. Bits of tapestries and drapes still hang here and there from the walls. Bones and whole skeletons can be seen on the floor and under the heaped broken furniture. A skirmish in the greater battle for the Temple was surely fought in this place!
The party: "Where to big guy?"
"Well there was that one door way back in the hall a bit ago..." Avendryl comments.
Avendryl's search turns up no traps on the door, nor are their evil or magical auras from it.
There's nobody on the other side of the door; Avendryl sneaks forward to check the next one.
About 10' from the next door Avendryl stops.
"Hold up folks, we have a pit trap here. Zinnath, you wanna fly over and take a look before I was a bunch of time and pitons disabling the mechanism?"
maneuvers to see what the fuss is all about. :)
As requested, Zinnath flies forward to check out what is beyond the pit. He does not land...
+1 vs traps
It's a pit, all right. Smooth joining mechanism giving it a false floor that falls away when you put weight on it.
Got a plan for what to do about it?
There's a narrow walkway along either side of the pit. You could move along it at a cautious speed, or run along it at the risk of losing your balance.
"Alright folks, without a bunch of pitons to precariously wedge this drop-floor in place I would say our best bet is to walk along the edge carefully." Avendryl says. "Well at least for those of us who don't fly or aren't huge anyway. Let's get that door open so that if nothing else Fezzik can jump across."
Fezzik wearily looks at the floor trying to see where the trap door is. "No want to fall in pit. Find different hall to go down?" he says as he hears Avendryl's plan.
"I'll be able to cross the pit without the rope and pitons once there is something interesting on the other side besides a 'door'."
I’ll take 20 checking the “door.” 28, 29 for traps!
Zinnath finds no other traps on the door on the far side of the pit.
Zinnath reports back.
"Hmmm...apparently we are going this way." Tronar points south for the party to see, and then happily moves away from the latest doorway of paralysis. :)
Bat goes with the flow, following Domeric and Tronar.
Zinnath perches back on Fezzik’s shoulder.
The hallway zigzags in a roughly northeasterly direction. Eventually you come to a wide, very long hall filled with bones.
For at least 100 feet of its length, this 20' wide corridor is covered with bones. Skeletons of humans and humanoids are mixed in a terrible jumble. Many skulls and loose bones seem gnawed. The complete skeletons, though, still wear sundered armor, dented caps, or sprawl by
broken shields. Bent and broken weapons likewise testify to a great melee having taken place here; a hundred, two, perhaps more... all met death here. Further progress along the corridor requires carefully picking a path between these grim remains of the Temple hordes. Nothing of value is discernable.
Domeric readily senses the faint aura of evil in the area.
Bataleigha raises an eyebrow when Domeric reports a faint taint of evil in the area. "If those bones start moving, I'll channel positive energy if things get crazy," she whispers to the others.
With the potential of skeletons, Fezzik sheathes his sword and pulls out his heavy flail.
A massive collection of bones fills most of the hallway (starting about 20' in from your end). The evil aura comes from there.
"Alright, so we have a bunch of bones and an evil aura according to Domeric. Bat's ready should things get dicey, so let's head on down and see what we can find." Avendryl says, stowing his bow and retrieving his staff.
Before we move, Zinnath will try to acid splash at some random spots of the bones...
vs touch
acid
*sizzle*
Moves up. "do we have any idea where the baddies are, or are we just in probing mode?"