Solvi shakes his head in dismay. Bissi looks a little amused :-)
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The raven looks over the group, then shivers and continues to shiver as all its feathers disappear. In it's place stands an imp. It looks at the group, then says There that's better... no more fake squawking! Now, let's see.... I do enjoy suffering, so let's cause a bit more without lifting a finger! Due to your friends gracious offer, I'll let one...NO TWO! of you NOT have to sit in my chair! Who gets off while the rest of you hurt yourselves? Who doesn't have to sacrifice while the rest of you do? It opens its mouth in a toothy, too toothy grin.
The half-orc takes . The blood runs down rivulets down the chair and on to a pattern in the floor....
"Excellent. I thought we should have killed this thing long ago"
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Bissi also goes in
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Yasmin's yaw drops at the sheer violence put out by her teammates I better stay on the other side of that crossbow
She then searches the room for any secret doors
"Come on Gilraen, let's open it" Yasmin tries to open the secret door
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The room on the other side of the door is quite, and the door opens easily.
You enter a hall that turns twice. It stinks in here, and the smell get's worse are you go deeper. Ahead in your torch light, you see the floor drops away here as the corridor turns east, though a seven inch wide ledge continues along the south wall. The walls are very smooth, offering few handholds. The remainder of the passageway is filled with a five-foot-deep trough filled with foul-smelling, thick green sludge.
Solvi and Bissi will head in.
Bissi: "mrrooow. Mrow. Grr"
Solvi: "Yes, I know it stinks. Sorry, but you'll just have to hold your breath"
Bissi: "Mrow"
On a sightly more serious note, they advance carefully looking for traps and the like.
He'll try to see if he can figure out anything about the sludge. Detect poison on sludge and maybe a knowledge check?
+4 if nature (only knowledge trained)
"Hey, there is some green sludge here. No idea what it is but it smells bad"
Solvi: "Mmmrrrrrooooowwwwwwwwwwww"
Shriek studies the thing carefully.
If it does not seem dangerous, the half-orc advances carefully, inspecting the passageway as he moves up to the next door.
There he inspects carefully the door and then proceeds to open it.
As always Yasmin follows Shriek closely on the ledge, when it ends she looks around for any way to cross the green sludge without having to step into it.
If she finds a way to cross the sludge she will use it, otherwise she waits a bit for her more knowledgeable companions to identify it.
"Argh, this is going to be difficult with all this stuff over me" says Shriek fixing his shield to his back.
A bit unsure the half-orc moves over the ledge and using some run, he attempts to jump over the sludge.
He just hits himself with the border at the other side of the pit and attempts to hold at the other side desperately at the floor.
The half-orc fights with all his strength but fails miserably in the end, splashing all over.
The poor thing gets out of the pool stinking horrible to putrefaction "Well I guess there is no bath around, is there?" the half-orc starts to laugh at himself "I hope you do not leave me here alone now"
Shriek advances to the end of the corridor and opens the door at the other side if it has no dangers on it. He takes time to inspect it while the others end crossing.
Yasmin looks careful at the sludge and determines that a good jump should clear it. She takes her jump, stumbles on the edge and falls right in the stinking stuff! She gets out after Shriek and shrugs "Oh well, I guessed it was time for a bath anyway"
Solvi and Bissi both attempt to creep along the side
Sploosh
Bissi takes a 10 for a 20.
Solvi : "Darn it. I should have managed that."
Bissi : "Chuff chuff chuff"
Solvi : "STOP laughing at me you stupid cat"
Bissi : "Chuff chuff chuff"
Yasmin listens for a second and then tries to open the door.
"Whatever is the mystery of this tower it seems quite empty" states Shriek as he checks the door.
Observing there is no magical emanation after casting a detect magic spell, Shriek nods to Yasmin as she opens the door.
At the other side, the half-orc readies his weapons for any incoming danger while he helps the others inspect the room.
"Nah, it was silent. I do long for the sound of running water that would indicate this is a secret bathhouse"
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Gilraen and Ray will attempt to cross without being dumped into the nasty stuff.
Gilraen chuckles as she seems more sure-footed than her normally much-more-graceful-than-her companion. What's up, Ray? Still creeped out by that imp, eh?
As we make it to the other side, we check out the door.
Gilraen is too busy laughing at her wolf friend to do a good job checking out the door. Ray chuffs at her and sniffs around the door, but doesn't seem to find anything.
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You open the door, and find...nothing! It's a drafty, empty, dark hall.
You walk around the hall and eventually come to another door.
You carefully open the iron door as you have many more and see a small, barred window, revealing a plain, ten-foot-square room with a windowless iron door on the opposite wall beyond.
Before entering A10:
"Watch out. There is a pit trap in front, with a spell on it. Can one of you disable it?"
When Solvi raises the the alarm, Shriek abruptly stops at the place. Then when Orell attempts to pass to the room he attempts to catch him by the arm "No! Wait! It is trapped!"
As he fails in his attempt and Orell enters the room the voice spokes its words.
"I do not like this. How will we know the pass words?" says the half-orc "Perhaps the little bird knew them?"
"If the trap is a pit, then perhaps we can cling to the room walls while someone opens the door" says Shriek as he attempts to climb to the walls himself.
"Orrel, I do not like standing on a pit trap, waiting to say something that might or might not open it. Now what could the pass phrase be?"
Yasmin thinks for a bit and says "Didn't that prisoner say 'Good Baron Sarvo wills it!'? Could that be the pass phrase?"
"Well, we can certainly try" says Shriek as he comically attempts to cling to the wall of the room "At least sounds better that the Open Sesamo I would have tried"
"Shall I get in and try my passphrase? No reason for us all to fall down if my hunch is not correct"
Yasmin tests the floor of the tiny room, when it seems to hold her weight she steps in and closes the door behind her. With trepidation she says "Good Baron Sarvo wills it!"
"Sounds good Yasmin. Just do not make any crazy thing" says Shriek as he moves out to safety letting the elf to test her theory.
If the door opens, the half-orc goes in with the elf.
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As Yasmin says the passphrase, the doors open allowing you to enter the next room.
A single iron lever protrudes from the wall next to the door in this otherwise empty chamber's west wall . To the east, a ten-foot-wide hallway curves to the north.