" Just cut them down next time we see them. Valtyra's area is quite wide... though the mists make them annoying "
Val sends a prayer to Seranrea Then, cluching her holy symbol, she sends a wave of holy strength out at the undead.
You can hear ghastly screams as the holy light strikes out into the mists and blasts the undead with divine radiance.
Yvell cheers, " That's it Valtyra! They cant escape your warming light! Do it again. " Though he seems slightly annoyed that he had no ability to contribute and used his ear to try and draw them closer to the area as clearly these creatures were trying to prevent them.
Yvell sees nothing in the mists or the space between the mists.
You move deeper into the canyon. Rocks fly at Yvell, Valtyra and Uriah from beyond your sight. The hand sized rocks strike at your armor or shoot past your heads without hitting you.
You continue to push forward and see a building half buried in the ground. It seems to be angled slightly, with a pair of glaucite doors standing open.
The air is unnaturally cold in this empty atrium. Metal doorways yawn to the north and south, and the slanted floor is strewn with strange bits of rubble and twisted lengths of metal. The ceiling is badly damaged here, its gray metal shells shattered in numerous places, exposing coils of rusty, mold-covered cables and wires.
Uriah glances around.
This place...I have much less power here. These things..have no mind.
"Is anyone having trouble seeing? I can provide a little light if needed." Val says as she moves forward into the wreck.
Yvell moves in alongside Valtyra and attempts to make his blade glow for the moment.
" Stay close.. I expect the welcoming committee was a how of things to come " He tries to push through the door. Looking around for anything of import.. they were there to find some explosives.
Light enters the room and the hallway beyond. You can make out three doors (somehow the northern one also) and see an open door to the north, south and east.
Yvell goes about this systematically; he starts with the northern door. " I'm about to open this door, brace yourselves. " Once people had gotten into position he tries to open it.
To the North: The northeastern wall of this blasted chamber was obviously super-heated at some point, for here and there, the walls ran wax-like, forming slag that cooled into puddles of steel all along the floor. Debris litters the floor-it might once have been tech of great value but now is mere scraps of unsalvageable, half melted junk.
To the East: The eastern half of this room is a tangle of gray metal, strange engine parts, and rubble, all of which was subjected to great heat long ago, judging by the metal’s melted and scorched surfaces. Here and there, softly glowing residues are caked onto bits and pieces of the metal.
To the South: The air in this compartment is choking and stale. The dust here is inches thick-nothing has disturbed this area in years. To the west, the wall is partially crushed and melted, leaving a five foot-wide, two-foot-tall gap that opens into another chamber beyond. Four large coffin-shaped objects made of glass and metal sit against the walls-one to the north and three to the south.
The northern pod and the central southern pod are partially broken. Each contains a skeleton clad in fragments of strange, bulky armor. The other two southern pods appear to be only slightly damaged. The air is thick with a rancid scent, like old meat gone bad.
Yvell is feel wary about this entire place and thought on the situation. There were no barriers and even if he they had something along the means of a ghost would walk through. The skeletons were not a good sign and on the basis this place was as haunted as they said it was better to be safe than sorry. He turned to Valtyra, " All of these rooms are open, and there are skeletons south. I'm sure i remember you hating that particular type of undead the most and this place was deemed haunted. I would ask you bask all these areas in your holy light just to be sure as they would have no area to hide. If there is no response fro evil then we explore the hole that seems to be made in the south room. Regardless stick close."
Yvell gripped his blade again and breathed deeply, haunts and undead were the worse to deal with.
If nothing else, Yvell goes into the Southern room as the creatures in suits disturb him.
As if in answer to Yvell's statement a loud clatter issues hrom the rubble on the east side as a cascade oh small engine parts clatter down after Aeron had prodded some of the glowing residue with a metal pole pulled from the same area. She spins on the group and freezes in place as if she would be invisible if she just stood very still. She offers an apologetic smile pulling the pole behind her as she snaps to attention, then not so subtly drops it creating another clatter drawing another wince from her accompanied by a moment of awkward silence. Without a word, she moves back to the group head bowed in what seemed like shame as they moved on.
Aeron sees a glowing skull shape floating in the eastern room for a few seconds before it disappears.
Yvell sees three skeletal figures in glass pods. They are wearing a strange armor, with broken glass on their helmets. There appears to be a passageway to the west.
Yvell sighs as Valtrya seems unresponsive and walks through the west passageway. He scans with Detect evil as he does so.
Uriah follows behind Yvell, most disturbed by this place.
Yvell sees an glaucite door. Unlike the others, this one is closed.
All of you feel the ominous feeling inside the building (ship) increase in pressure, weighing down on you with its malignancy.
" A closed door.. and this one isnt open.. with the power down it is going to be difficult to break to say the least.. unless we can disable it. My Harness doesnt have many charges either. "
Yvell's sense evil does not penetrate the glaucite door. However, the faint feeling of evil is all around him.
Aeron notes the skull from the eastern room but dismisses it as merely a curious spirit. She had no real dealings with such creatures in the past and figured "since it didn't attack her or the others, it must be harmless". She re considered that thought when she felt the atmosphere shift. she moves over to inspect the door of some sort of release as she mentioned what she saw in a very nonchalant fashion. She didn't even look back from her work,though she hoped someone had some sort of useful information on the things.
"Do we have anyone who can unlock it? Otherwise we may need to find a way around." Val says looking at the door with Yvell.
"You know, there are legends about swordsmen skilled enough to cut down a wall such as this with three strokes that appear as one to the untrained eye." Muga glances over Yvell's shoulder at the wall.
"Pity I'm not one of them." Muga shrugs.
Yvell sighs, " You actually could.. it just requires some work. About 10 strikes with you and I working in tandem it would take about a minute. I see no other way at this time to get past this and there is likely no way around. "
After some inspection, Aeron pulls out the necromancer's book, then takes a look the door hoping for sort of weakness.She squats down pulling the necromancer's tomb out and gently opens it flipping to it's center. she then pulls out a hand full of components . She drapes the tomb across her knees and gently caresses the pages. Then, in a startling movement, she stands bolt upright, tearing the pages free and clapping the parchments and components together hard toward the door as she completes the casting, arms straight out toward the door.
Aeron casts the spell from the impromptu scroll, and breaks apart the rusted bits keeping one side of the doors from opening and closing. The "scroll" burns apart in the android's fingers.
Yvell tries to Pull it open.
Yvell takes some time and wrenches the door open. It screeches against the wall, ceiling and floor.
A massive black window, spider webbed with hundreds of cracks, graces the western wall of this chamber, half-buried under rubble and twisted metal. Curved consoles of strange controls line the walls, with three chairs made of an unidentifiable off-white material facing them. A figure dressed in red fabric of an unusually fine weave sits slumped over the console in the western most chair.
Before you can enter the room, a dark shaped ghostly creature appears in front of the chair. You feel the malignancy in the building increase. The glass cracks from the pods in the other room and the strange skeletal figures stir.
1. Valtyra
2. Enemies
3. Everyone
The skeletal creatures break free from their pods. The dark ghost creature reaches for Yvell with an ethereal hand. The half elf feels a force of air painfully groping the inside of his gut draining his life force.
Yvell grunts not harmed much by the being but clearly upset by its touch.