Brynn takes a five-foot step back towards the exit and aims her bow at the fire elemental just a few feet from her. She channels her magical powers into her bow and fires a pair of arrows at the creature, the first of which is icy cold!
Brynn is not quite sure what these are, though they look very similar to something that Grilnik summoned earlier.
Brynn's first icey arrow misses the creature through the arrowhead. The second arrow strikes true though
The arrow freshly pushed into the creature it steps forward and swings its firey fists at Brynn, but misses the quick archer.
Round 1
A2
Brynn
A1
Vors, Bethany <-- Here
A3
Grilnik
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Vors curses. "DAMMIT! How the hell am I to fight fire creatures with a fire rapier?!"
Then, an idea!! The roguish cleric takes out his waterskin, advancing on the monster attacking the dwarf and squirts it at the fire creature.
Having been caught leaning on a sarcophagi Bethany does not react quickly but when she does the familiar rage takes ahold of her. As her muscles strain she brings the hammer around, a smile growing on her lips.
Bethany charges at one of the small fire spouts and crushes it. It poofs into smoke and goes away.
Vor's dumping of water seems like it just sizzles a bit onto the creature. You are not sure if it hurt it at all.. Maybe just cooling it down a bit was enough.
Round 1
A2
Brynn
A1
Vors, Bethany, Grilnik <- Here now (A3 died)
Grilnik steps back and draws his Longhammer.
"You missed my singed beard, Vors."
He swings overhead, trying to aim between the edge of the doorway and Vors.
Grilnik misses the small flame spout.
The fire spout tries to slam down onto Vors.
Round 2
A2
Brynn <- Here we go
A1
Vors, Bethany, Grilnik
Brynn nimbly twirls away from the fire elemental...
Takes aim with her bow and chants an arcane incantation. As its completion she fires an arrow at the fire elemental, sending a icy arrow at its chest.
The small fire spout flahes with gold. They seem to negate eachother and it just puffs off in steam.
Round 2
A2
Brynn, Vors, Bethany, Grilnik <- Here we go
Grilnik steps back and goes for a wide swing this time.
His hammer smacks into the doorway that he just can't seem to work around.
With a shrill laugh Bethany spins away form her smashes target and attempts to do what a woman with a hammer always does. Hammer it!
Vors casts create water on his waterskin, immediately filling it back up, allowing the roguish cleric to try to douse the fire creature again.
The small elemental tires to slam down on Vors again.
Round 3
A2
Brynn, Vors, Bethany, Grilnik <- Here we go
beard searing nightmare...
"Vors, duck."
Grilnik swings his hammer over Vors's head, uncomfortably close to the height it is when he's standing tall.
Swinging too high, Grilnik once again misses the short elemental.
Brynn nocks an arrow and takes a step to the side. Then she waits.... ready to fire if she has a clear shot on the elemental.
Bethany takes a quick step to the side of the creature, smiling as she attempts an overhand strike.
Bethany crashes down onto the elemental and it bursts in a flash of fire and disappears.
The hall goes quiet again.
The 3 north small rooms remain still. Black pillars with dozens of small urns.
4 sarcophagi to the south. As well as another small room to the south with another staircase heading down.
Brynn re-examines the pillars, curious if the danger of their summoning magic has passed, or it might reactivate again later.
A quick scan of the pillars shows all of the urns. They look to have names on them. You can also tell that these fire elementals where bound to the pillars. Not quite a summon, but more of a bound creature. Since they are destroyed it is unlikely to happen again.
Though with your scan of the room you do get a better look at the dragon marking on the ground. It is a active trap that seems to recharge every minute or so. Which you think only has a few seconds left before everyone in the main room gets flashed with fire again.
Though as you all have a second chance to look around. You do notice writing on the floor now, glowing faintly.
"Red Azramo—Give the Dragon Her Due."
Azramo is a name of a dragon slain by Tula and her mercenaries.
Grilnik looks at the glowing writing on the floor while tapping a finger on his Potion of Resist Fire and steps off of the area that spouted fire just moments ago.
Please don't be money...
"What's a dragon's due? Think it could be fire?"
While the others look around Bethany catches her breath. Sure, there is a magic way to do this but she feels she her feeling of exhaustion is earned and enjoys it.
"Dragons due? Seems they always want blood and gold. I guess fire might be what it wants."
"Don't know. Maybe."
With waterskin still in hand, Vors squirts his waterskin at Grilnik, to put out any soldering beard hairs.
Grilnik jumps in surprise at the squirt of water, then he remembers.
"Thanks... anyway, it can't hurt to try some of my lamp oil. Maybe on the dragon art?"
Grilnik puts his hammer away, retrieves a pint of lantern oil, and waits for the others to step away from the red floor art.
Brynn tells everyone to get off and away from the dragon mosaic.
"Not sure I want to find out what it wants," Brynn replies to their talk. "Let's forge ahead, shall we? Before the dragon feels like breathing fire again."
After a few seconds out of the range of the dragon mosaic it bursts into flames again for a short second. You can feel the heat, but you are out of the main path of the fire.
The room goes quiet again. You know it will reset in about a minute, then trigger a few seconds after walking on the floor. Not sure what the words mean what do you want to do?
There are stairs to the south, in another little room. These lead farther down.
"Right, let's get going before my braids come undone."
With that, Grilnik jogs across to the southern stairwell.
"Stairs sound good."
Bethany quickly follows behind Grilnik.
Satisfied that the proper people -- anyone but herself -- is in the lead, Brynn follows the others down the stairs and deeper into the tomb.
As your group quickly moves over the floor again, you can feel the trap activate at this point. But you are able to move past it fast enough and down the stairs.
You enter another small room. Near the east wall of this oval chamber is an alter, the front side of which is carbed to resemble a winged eye. A chalice and a small leather-bound book sit atop the alter.
This is an ancient alter to Aroden, the dead god.
It does look like the chalice and book would be worth something.
There are also a set of double doors heading north from this room. That is the only exit out of this room.
From her place near the entrance, Brynn examines the area with her magical sight.
"Wow. Aroden stuff." Vors says as he walks around the altar. "That could catch a decent copper in a bigger city."
The half-orc scans the room for any more religious iconography.
As the others look around the room, Grilnik conserves his last two spells by using the team's wand of Cure Light Wounds on himself and Bethany.
"The dead god Aroden? By my beard..." After taking a look for himself, he gives Vors a look. "Also, let's not sully our beards by trying to trade it for 'decent copper', confiscating ill-gotten gains is one thing, but grave robbery is another. Let's stick to what Bassy said could help us..."
At the mention of being a grave robber Bethany blances. Well... I had not thought about this that way. Grilnik is right. She simply nods and follows the others, hammer at the ready.
There is no magic in this room, but the two double doors to the north show the rooms continue.
As you open the new room (carefully and checking for traps of course).
The floor of this great, domed chamber has a coppery metallic sheen, save for three mosaics of blue dragons made of polished blue glass. Chiseled into the north wall is an inscription, and the air smell slightly of ozone.
The message on the north wall reads "Baesterogh, Alamitatus, and Vernegash - each dragon slain by Lady Tula of Belhaim and the Slayers of Nazilli, Battle of Blue Note Hill, 3668 AR."
There is a door to the West that can be seen.
Vors taking in the mosaic. "Nice."
The half-orc then examines the double doors for traps.
There does not seem to be any traps on the door. Though the floor in the room does seem a bit suspicious.
As soon as Vors notices the floor, he immediately barks, "No one move! I need to check the floor!"
The half-orc then carefully examines the floor for traps.
Though you don't see any trap mechanism. You take a good look at the floor and it seems to be a think sheet of copper. Every few seconds, semi-randomly the floor seems to be surged with electricity.
The glass dragons seem to be fine though.
Brynn contemplates taking the prayer book anyway, but decides to leave it be. It wasn't worth the argument. With a shrug she follows the others.
After an examination of the room, Vors postulates, "Well, the floor appears to be electrified in some way". Looking up to the dome, the caydenite continues. "I wouldn't be surprised if the dome holds the trap mechanism... or the doors." Audibly sighing, Vors gingerly walked back over to the doors, taking special interest in the door's hinges.
While Vors looks for hints in the doors, Grilnik wonders aloud.
"Hmmm, I wonder if we can jump from dragon to dragon...
If all else fails, I can give at least one of us protection from electricity."
Eventually, Grilnik decides to skim the book for clues.
Grilnik looks over the book. It is a very old religious text for the dead god.
No real information for the room. Seems like Tulia worshiped Aroden, but had her own system for protecting her legacy.
"If I ever get to make decisions on towers, lairs, tombs or anything like that there will be less traps. This all seems a bit overkill."
Giving up on Vors's investigation as well as his own, Grilnik begins rummaging through his things.
He finds the party's ten sacks that he's been lugging around in hopes of hauling more treasure, and has an idea.
"Hey, think these sacks will be thick enough to protect us from the floor? Vors, you want to test it out so we can share any discomfort fifty-fifty?"
The dragons are glass and so are not conductive. The rest of the floor is. Like Grilnik said.
Vors tests a theory and leaps to land on one of the dragons.
With a small running start, Vors jumps and is able to land on the blue dragon in the center of the room.
----Acrobatics DCs----
With 10 foot running start
DC = feet wanting to travel
Without 10 foot running start
DC = 2*feet wanting to travel.
10 feet to get from entrance to dragon. 5 feet to go from dragon to dragon. The door you can see is 5 feet from the left dragon. But the door is shut, so someone will need to open it.