He takes the lead and goes through the offered door. On the other side he waits for Cil to check for traps and then follows.
Still on the same level you can see that the half walls begin again. Every 15 to 20 feet there is a halfwall coming from the wall on the right or left side, leaving just enough room for a medium creature to get through.
Cil taking her time finds a pressure plate and deactivates the trap. She then tells the group, "This seems odd, it is a spell of prismatic ray or something like it, the magic might be stronger but easier to disable. It is strange and it could take a while to disable all the pressure plates. We could try to just activate some of them with a rock from a distance and see what happens or see what happens to one of us?"
Before the group can decide what to do you hear a scream of a small person and then an explosion of colors begin off in the distance. More screams and more colors. The blasts don't get within 20 feet of the group.
Tanira lifts her crossbow and takes cover behind one of the half-high walls.
Quantos lifts a shield to guard himself and tightens his grip on his sword.
Cil listens to the detonations carefully, saying to the others "Seems someone wasn't careful enough..."
She then begins the tedious task of activating the pressure plates from a distance, throwing bits of rock and brick....
As Cil activates the next closest plate a barrage of colors hits the group. Will DC 12 or be hit by confusion roll a d100 to see the outcome and act accordingly.
Will save DC 12
Cil watches as the colours play over her body, then shrugs as they leave not effect.
vs DC 12
Saronis looks around at himself then the others, quietly he asks, "Did that affect you? Did 'I' resist it? Any clue what that was... magic people? They are pressure plates right? So if Cil just circles them in chalk we can just not step on them right?"
Well with my calculations, the next plate will be past the next halfwall. Which means that you could be 20 feet back next to the door that just got locked behind you. Though not all of you could be flat against the wall with crates and such on either side of the group. So Tanira and Jake can be in back and not affected since they are not in the radius of the spell.
"I am sorry, no idea what that was, but we rather stay away from this if we, by any means, can."
You believe the spell is confusion, you remember about the higher level spells from your studies even though it was beyond you at that time. Likely the trap was made much cheaper and is easier to dismiss. Not looking won't help, the colors are likely just a minor image going with the confusion spell.
d% Behavior
01–25 Act normally
26–50 Do nothing but babble incoherently
51–75 Deal 1d8 points of damage + Str modifier to self with item in hand
76–100 Attack nearest creature (for this purpose, a familiar counts as part of the subject's self)
A confused character who can't carry out the indicated action does nothing but babble incoherently. Attackers are not at any special advantage when attacking a confused character. Any confused character who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes. Note that a confused character will not make attacks of opportunity against any creature that it is not already devoted to attacking (either because of its most recent action or because it has just been attacked).
"This spell trap has some pretty bad effects. We definitely do not want anyone having a chance of being in the area. Shielding your eyes means nothing, the colors are primarily secondary." With that, Quantos moves away from the trap, as surely as he can be outside the area of the spell when the trap goes off.
Cil takes the lead marking the traps and setting them off at a distance hoping that will help.
About 50 feet in something strange happens.
Saronis
Quantos
Tanira
Cil
Jake
Goblins
Perceptions
Saronis
Quantos
Tanira
Cil
Jake
Goblins
Surprise Round
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
Round 1
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
17 Goblins
11 Saronis
11 Jake
9 Cil
Shield and blade at the ready, Quantos steps forward. "Be on guard, goblins ahead babbling. They might have fallen victim to the confusion spell. If so, they may sort themselves out. Anyone understand what they're saying?"
Quantos and Tanira hear something the others do not and quickly act. He to move forward to make sure nothing gets beyond Cil. Tanira...
Round 1
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
17 Goblins
11 Saronis
11 Jake
9 Cil
Tanira hesitates for just a heartbeat, considering whether she should use her charm spell on one of them. But since this seems to be going on and on she's not quite ready to cast her very last spell for today. It's just a handful of goblins anyway.
She throws her hair on her back, rests her crossbow on one of the walls, waits until she gets a shot at one of the goblins behind the walls and then takes it.
"Goblins" she hisses.
Quantos rounds the corner, and on seeing the creature, swings his sword in a horizontal arc even with his foe's over-sized head.
EDIT: crit confirm
"What? Goblins? where?" Cil asks as Tanira and Quantos pass her to the next halfwall.
She then joins them, crouching at the wall, waiting for an opportunity to strike...
Rising up she fires her crossbow ..
They are right up ahead Cil
Round 1
Quantos moves up and finds a sniveling goblin, he gets near and takes off its head with a great stroke from his blade. As Cil hits the torso with her bolt staggering the body back!
Round 2
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
17 Goblins
11 Saronis
11 Jake
9 Cil
Round 1
Saronis moves up making sure not to step on the chalk outlined pressure plate. He keeps an eye out and his ears listening for anything more strange.
Tanira follows her comrades careful to not trigger one of the traps either.
Round 1
Jack will move in order to be next to saronis, walking in the same steps he took
Quantos rounds the next corner, and slashes at the next creature he sees... another cursed goblin.
Part of him felt bad to attack these creatures without giving them a chance to surrender... but their kind is known for taking such a chance to put a knife between your ribs.
Round 1
The goblin takes a moment to realize something is threatening it and screams but does little else.
Round 2
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
17 Goblins
11 Saronis *
11 Jake*
9 Cil*
Saronis moves forward slowly following Cil, as Jake follows him. Anyone else in the following line?
The goblin takes a moment to realize something is threatening it and screams but does little else.
Tanira follows the others.
Round 2
Quantos misses the goblin, and luckily no one springs any traps.
Round 3
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
17 Goblins
11 Saronis * (following Cil)
11 Jake* (following Cil)
9 Cil* (looking for traps, taking her time)
The goblin looks like it is about ready to bolt.
"That's odd." Tanira thinks as she lifts her crossbow to get a shot past Quantos.
The goblins seemed to be hardly in fighting condition. If they were standing guard here they were doing a lousy job... They might have planted the traps, but certainly not made them. Tanira wasn't so sure whether they were necessarily enemies in the first place, with all that confusion about allegiance around here. That didn't stop her from shooting, though. They were goblins after all, though the thought gnawed on her.
Zharon was following in her exact footsteps, which was good, because the last thing she needed was her little red friend being hurt by a trap.
Quantos swings again at the little creature.
we shouldn't be too far away for the main "event" Jake thinks to himself as he continue to follow cil
As the goblin is struck down Tanira hisses: "Don't move, there's traps all over." to Zharon. Though she does not understand her words he realizes the command and understands her concern, as she does understand his concern to be in such an unfamiliar, unnatural place.
Tanira keeps standing in place until Cil passes by her and tries to cover the area with her crossbow.
Quantos also remains in place, waiting for the trapsmith to work her magic.
With the goblin dispatched, Cil moves forward cautiously, looking for the tell-tales of a trap....
Perception
Cil misses one of the traps and continues on, then finds it with her own foot.
The spell goes off and everyone needs to make a Will Save DC 12 or act confused...
d% Behavior
01–25 Act normally
26–50 Do nothing but babble incoherently
51–75 Deal 1d8 points of damage + Str modifier to self with item in hand
76–100 Attack nearest creature (for this purpose, a familiar counts as part of the subject's self)
A confused character who can't carry out the indicated action does nothing but babble incoherently. Attackers are not at any special advantage when attacking a confused character. Any confused character who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes. Note that a confused character will not make attacks of opportunity against any creature that it is not already devoted to attacking (either because of its most recent action or because it has just been attacked).
Round 4
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
11 Saronis *
11 Jake
9 Cil (looking for traps, not taking her time)
(Everyone is following Cil, but now we need initiatives for the spell effect...)
Keeping his head as the spell washes over him, he looks at the others quickly pulling up his guard to be ready for anything.
vs DC 12
Cil has just enought time to think 'Oh no, Cil you know better, gotta take your time....
The spell washes over her, overcoming her senses....
Blinking, Cil looks down and sees a huge spider sitting on her leg. With a yelp, she brings the dagger she'd been using to probe the stones up and plunges it into the spider....which disappears, leaving Cil gaping at the wound she just inflicted on herself.
When the strange, confusing lights of the spell wash over Tanira has her trouble remaining sane. First she feels lucky that nothing bad seems to have happened and her trusty fox - who was able to avoid the worst behind the cover of the half high walls anyway - seems unaffected as well. But her comrades seem to have been not quite as lucky.
"Stop it! Focus on my voice!" she speaks out loud but doesn't shout, since she might attract unnescessary attention otherwise. "Cil, can you hear me?"
Saronis lets Tanira grab their attention as he takes a few steps forward ready in case something does come their way.
Luckily the goblins within the area have been driven mad, though that does not make them non threatening. As Saronis soon finds out with a goblin charging him... Saronis take your swing.
Round 5 and 6
21 Goblins...
20 Quantos
19 Tanira
11 Saronis* (with your action you gain a readied attack against the goblin, init becomes 21)
11 Jake
9 Cil
vs DC 12
Quantos will take the fill defense action, raising his shield in one hand and holding his sword out in a defensive angle.
Will Dave DC 12:
The spell continues to affect, Cil, despite Tanira's words bringing her out of her fog for just a moment.
Rooted to the spot, Cil proeeds to babble in a few different languages on the merits of washing dishes with rocks and metal shards....
The goblin charges Saronis and he slices its legs out from under him and the goblin does not move again. It wasn't even armed at least with a proper weapon, some strange bone club or possibly just a femur of some kind. No other threats appear but not everyone is back.