What? of course your not Haleen. oh and like just woke up this morning and said gee wouldn't it be great to get killed by a wad of snot lying the floor? of course I'm not going try and get hit by one of those again
Once he got himself together, he tells Rauve Haleen is an old friend that used to always be there when I needed her back when we were groing up in the orphanage
ha looks around the place
this place seems out of place, I wonder if it is original or was converted recently
"Definitely doesn't look like a temple of Sarenrae, even a splinter group. Glad you're ok Bahram. You might be right, maybe a later development. Let's see what else we've got here." Beinir helps to continue searching the area.
"Well, it may once have been a temple to Sarenrae..." Saresha clanks back onto her feet, apparently relieved that Bahram is alright. "But even her temples may be corrupted by the unrighteous." Saresha isn't a paladin of Sarenrae ... but that doesn't mean she isn't incensed that anyone would use her holy places thus. Her reddish face is stern.
There is nothing more of interest in the laboratory most of the instruments were destroyed or stolen and all that remains are broken objects, and mold.
"Doesn't look like anything else here. Since Bahram seems to be all right, should we go back upstairs?"
Saresha has clunked over to that door to check it out.
do you guys need me to check things out at the door? I have learned a few tricks in my day and I would hate to have something like that hurt your pretty features
Bahram will take 20 checking the door for traps for a 24
Saresha snorts at Bahram's comment, but does step back to let him look over the door.
Ghirhuk tosses the useless papers over his shoulder and makes his way to the door. What you find? Oh! Street Rat not dead! Good.
Beinir joins everyone else congregating near the door, ready to start swinging his hammer again if trouble emerges.
Rauve replies to Bahram in a sardonic tone, "Oh, you think I have pretty features? Well, I'll be, I am just totally speechless right now." He blinks his eyes rapidly for longer than necessary. Rauve then looks back at the laboratory rolling his eyes a sigh coming from under his breath.
What is it with good looking people?
I was talking to the lady, but if it makes you feel better I'll call you pretty also.
he then returns to the task at hand.
The double door in the room is simple a wooden door, without any kind of trap, it is actually half open. Beyond it you see a wide stone corridor, littered in the floor are skeletons some still with their clothing other naked. Once you advance trough the corridor you find a series of ten-foot-wide rough-hewn passages dug in a double-cross formation. An eerie silence pervades the cool subterranean network, you have found the monastery crypt which must contain the bodies of scores—if not
hundreds—of honored worshipers of Sarenrae in shallow niches carved into the walls of the east-west passages. Many of these skeletal remains have been roughly tossed from their niches, and countless bones and skulls line the floor.
Saresha goes marching into the main hallway, clanking. She doesn't even bother examining the skeletons for valuables, scandalized as she is that they've been disturbed. Looks like the Paladin is stopping here to put them all in order. She even sets her sword down.
Ghirhuk knows better than to mess with Red-Hot's faith. He waits nearby, ready to blast any danger to her that might arise. If she's willing, he'll hold her sword to let her do her thing.
Saresha lets Snowball hold her sword, though the greatsword is comically oversized for the Kobold. She carefully rearranges what skeletons she can find, and tries to put them back into their nooks where they belong. Again, though she doesn't worship Sarenrae herself, she does feel the sacrilege to the noble dead quite keenly, and she does respect all goddesses ... particularly those that support Paladins as hers does.
"There is something strange that has happened here. Not just grave robbers. A fight. Saresha, I will help you reconsecrate this place, but let's see if we can learn what happened here. It may provide clues to Kelmarane. Or at least what happened to the monastery."
Bahram carfully examines the remains on the floor at least the best he can as red-hot is returning the graves to normal.
he even assists where he can
Beinir you notice two types of skeletons in the ground, the priest of the temple, and what seems to be the skeletons of a mob of villagers, since they are wearing different cothing, including some poor others wearing rich silk.
Ghirhuk does not disturb the rest of the dead by taking their final possessions. Most of his energy is channeled into keeping the sword off the floor for now.
Saresha doesn't take anything either, too busy putting them to rights.
"Look here. Some of these bodies are clearly not from the monastery. It looks like a mob of villagers descended on the priests here." He looks up and sees Saresha tending to the skeletons. "Saresha. Would you bury those who destroyed the Sarenraens side by side with them? You may be inadvertently sowing evil in a holy place. Torag preaches our patience. Please, we will reconsecrate this crypt. But let us do so properly."
You work in putting the bodies taken of alcoves back, then putting the priests in their resting place, finally leaving the villagers. You can either bury them with the rest, or you can explore the rest of the temple and remove them later with Almah's party so you can bury them elsewhere.
Saresha listens to Beinir, acknowledging his wisdom. Hers is always somewhat lacking when she's angry about something, and nods, following his lead on where to put things. She thinks the villagers, mobbing priests or not, should be buried properly, too, but she'll save that project for later.
The dark corridor leads you to a cloister with a series of archways lining the north wall, looking in on the monastery’s massively overgrown courtyard. The southern wall bears a bas-relief sculpture in the form of a triptych. In the first scene, a heroic-looking bearded figure takes leave of four similarly attired companions, who rise off into the heavens, leaving him to stand vigil over the large mountain in the background. The next scene depicts the bearded figure in battle with a flaming half man, half snake creature wielding a spear. The fire spirit transfixes the bearded hero with the spear, seemingly striking a killing blow. In the final scene, the hero appears twice—once on the ground with a wound in his back and once standing over this form, looking down upon it sadly.
Saresha is still too distracted and agitated to look too carefully at the reliefs. She stumps around the courtyard, mostly making sure nothing is going to attack them, and lets the others investigate.
After promising Saresha to help bury the villagers properly later, Beinir joins the others upstairs. He takes great interest in the triptych sculpture, curious about the story it represents.
Bahram enters the courtyard surveying the area. stooping down to examine the overgrowth. looking like a hunter tracking his prey.
He moves about the courtyard a bit scanning the ground until he apparently found something.
Bahram quickly starts to dig.
You either follow Beinir along his exploration of the cloister or go see what is Bahram doing, your choice.
Ghirhuk keeps an eye on Saresha and follows her. He's a bit out of his element with all of this.
The grumpy Paladin has trailed along after Bahram. She looks at him a bit oddly as he starts to dig, but then is quiet and curious as he uncovers the sword. When it seems to possess him though, she startles into action, too late to knock it out of his hand. She blinks a few times, "What just happened?" She asks sharply of the rogue.
Bahram at first looks a bit confused. but when others question him.
he turns to look at them Tempest
rauve asks about his skill huh? I didn't never learned to use this style blade. maybe it just comes naturally. he looks back at the blade i don't know
suddenly Bahram remembers something.
He hurries to the pile of branches he noticed before digging. looking to investigate
You discover that the pile of branches is a nest with three white eggs large as watermelons.
bird eggs.. bahram leaves them where they are.
Saresha peers at the eggs, has no idea what they are, and shrugs similarly to Bahram.
Meanwhile, back in the cloister, Beinir has become consumed with looking over the carvings. He slowly makes his way through each of the ordinal directions, barely registering that Bahram and others have made their way into the courtyard, "Fascinating." he murmurs. "This Vardishal..." he goes on still failing to notice the others have moved on. I'm not familiar with the whole story, but he was some sort of genie, part of a group called the Templars of the Five Winds, was slain in a great genie war that took place in this area hundreds of years ago." He pauses to look further. "But, he came back. Either risen from the dead or more likely as a servant or saint...yes, it must have been as a saint of Sarenrae. He continued to provide guidance to the monastery for many years. Right up to whatever happened here thirty years ago. I wonder if he knows what happened. I wonder if there is some way we can reach him." Excited, he turns around to see that everyone (or most everyone at least) has vanished into the courtyard. Moving through the closest opening he looks around for everyone else and calls out. "Where did you all go? I think I've found more about the history of the monastery. Perhaps even a way for us to figure out what happened here thirty years ago!"
Bahram looks to Beinir What did you say?
Now there are just a few rooms yet left to explore in the monastery its chapel, and two rooms which you caught a glimpse off while eploring the courtyard and cloister, one seems to bea vestibule with another door in the other side, the other seems to be a shrine.
Ghirhuk scurries into the shrine, convinced he saw something glittering inside. It doesn't even dawn on him that he's left his meat shields behind.