dm xing:
"wow, it's so gorgeous up here, it tells a story, oh how grand it must've been before the crash. What should we do now xing?" Can we see a hallway or door to go trough, like do the footsteps lead anywhere useful and are they big or different sizes?
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Lianna:
When Akasha realizes that your hand is still on her thigh, and now you're pointedly talking about how soft her skin is a faint blush creeps up her neck. "I don't do anything special. Excuse me." She stands up and begins gathering her things before heading to the door to glance out. "He's not in the next room."
Silian has a sly smile on his face and his eyebrow is raised as he watches the interaction between you and Akasha. Vannevar slips past Akasha and disappears from view. He comes back a moment later and says that the hall is clear.
Ayumi:
There is a hall leading off to the right of the room.
Dm & Ayumi:
brandishing weapon and sheild walks slowly down halway.
Xing & Ayumi:
The hall wraps around in an arc before stopping at a closed door.
dm & Xing:
"let's follow these footsteps, down this hall and see where they lead?"Can I hear anything?
DM:
Balthazar feels the wall where the door once was. "What the?"
Screaming woman for the moment forgotten, he looks for any seam in the wall that might hide the entrance.
Balthazar:
You are unable to find even the tiniest hint that there was ever a door there. It's simply gone. You can't hear anything from the other side, either.
Ayumi:
You make out no sounds aside from yours and Xings footsteps and breathing. The hall wraps around in an arc and ends at a closed door.
dm n xing:
"how about you detect magic on the door xing, then if all good knock I'll stay readily behind you with my bow and cover you if needed"
Dm & Ayumi:
"Ok well let's see what here." eyes glow. Small words spoke under breath If no magic I step to the right of the door and try to open it. If there is magic I step to the left and try to open the door.
Ayumi & Xing:
Since the building is inverted, the door is also upside down making it a little difficult to reach but as Xing stands up on her tiptoes she is able to push the door open. It swings open with relative ease and reveals what was once a bedchamber. The furniture now lays in smashed piles. It is hard to see where the footprints lead to amongst all the debris. There are two closed doors, one directly across from where you are and one to the left.
dm n xing:
"hey xing, see if you can hear anything on the other side of the left door then the one across the room, I have you covered."going to search room or any trinkets or jewelry that might have been left behind even broke peices
Dm & Ayumi:
Walk carefully to the door across the room listening close the door . Then to the other door .
Ayumi & Xing:
You hear nothing from either door.
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DM:
Silian rolls his eyes. "You fanatics really know how to impress,[b]" He says in the Common tongue. [b]"I was hired to find an object, not save damsels... as there are more of you than there are of me, do what you must, at least with an end to her screaming I might be able to get more rest this evening." Silian stands with his blade at the ready, but does not advance, wondering what in the Hells is going on.
dm n xing:
"let's see what's behind door number 1 on the left?!" "I'll cover you!;)"
Dm & Ayumi:
"Ok let's go" Opens up door. Brandishing sheild and sword.
Silian:
They pay you no mind at all, the man with the dagger raises the blade above the woman and plunges it into her chest. She stops struggling a moment later, her eyes taking on a glazed look as blood pools around her body and dribbles from her mouth. The man who just murdered her now collects her blood in a ritual bowl before raising it above his head.
Suddenly the room grows incredibly bright and you hear a loud popping sound followed by thousands of smaller cracking sounds. A deep groan comes up from the building itself, the man continues to chant but the others seem less keen to die as they turn and run for the exit. The file out past you and just as you think that they will surely acknowledge you now, one figure shoves another to get through the door you stand near and when he falls, he passes through your body as if you weren't there at all.
The room begins to tremble and tilt. More loud cracking and popping, louder than any thunder you've heard and then you see it, the first crack in the wall spreading out like a spiderweb. The statue of the angel rocks forward and then crashes to the ground, shattering to pieces. Even you cannot maintain your footing as you are thrown about the room. You hear a final loud, long screech... and then you are falling.
Ayumi & Xing:
Dm & Ayumi:
Ayumi & Xing:
dm n xing:
"let's see where the door across the room goes"
Dm & Ayumi:
"Ok let's go." Walk across room carefully to the door pushes it open.
DM:
Balthazar steps back 10 feet and throws a bomb at the wall where the door was to his dead friends.
Splash Damage = 4
Ayumi and Xing:
The door leads to a closet, and in the closet is the one thing in this room that looks to have survived the fall of the tower--or perhaps it was placed here since. A slightly banged up blackened steel chest sits in the closet floor. It is marked with the sigil of House Vadalis.
Balthazar:
The bomb hits the glass and explodes, sending chunks of glass through the room, somehow you manage to avoid being hit by any of them. A part of your mind knows, that with as thick as these glass walls are, your bomb shouldn't have even been able to do that much damage. As the smoke and dust clears, you see that you've indeed created an opening. It is rather odd--perhaps unfortunate--that the opening does not lead into the room you just spent the night in, but instead to a staircase that shouldn't possibly be able to be there.
Dm&Xing:
'Hey, xing lets both pull this out of this closet and check it out I'll grab the right side on the count of 3?'
Dm & Auyumi:
Grabs left side of chest " Ready Set Go" Try's to pull it out of closet with Ayumi help
Ayumi & Xing:
When you place your hands on the chest you both receive a painful shock.
Dm&Xing:
Dm & Ayumi:
Ayumi & Xing:
The chest remains where it was, and you sustain no lasting damage from the shock.
Dm & Xing:
"Let's not do that again, What else could we try?"
Dm & Ayumi:
Look around at the chest . Eyes glow slightly angry, Words wispered under breath . "Wonder why this was left here"
Xing:
Dm:
Xing:
Dm & Ayumi:
"Well I am unable to tell how to open this. Lets just leave it and go through the other door" Walks to the other door.
Dm &Xing:
"Well, I am out of ideas, so I suppose this time I'll give up and lets go see whats behind door #2 on the left!"
Ayumi & Xing:
Dm & ayumi:
DM:
Balthazar walks to the top of the stairs and looks down, listening to see if he can hear anything.
Xing and Ayumi:
Balthazar:
You can't be certain but you think you might hear voices, and there might be some flickering light.
Dm & Ayumi:
Xing and Ayumi:
DM:
Balthazar looks around perplexed. "Well then," he thinks to himself. "Either I'm going crazy, or something is trying to draw me away from this place."
DM:
Balthazar looks around the room and thinks to himself:
"i'm going to open that other door, the one we never touched."
Then he goes and does it. Because he's a boss.
Balthazar:
Balthazar opens the door and finds... another staircase. Leading down.
Perception DC13 for Balthazar:
You definitely hear chanting, you definitely see flickering light, and you're definitely sure that the staircase should be upside down like the rest of the building but it isn't.
DM:
DM:
Balthazar picks up a nice sized rock and throws it down the staircase trying to see if that disrupts the chanting or elicits a response of any kind.
DM (if it doesn't):
Balthazar will throw a bomb at the remaining wall
Balthazar:
The chanting doesn't change in the slightest. You throw a bomb at the third wall and it has the same effect as the first bomb. The glass cracks and shatters, sending shards across the room. Somehow you manage to avoid being hit by them and when the dust clears, it reveals an identical staircase in every respect. Clearly this place is trying to lead you somewhere. One exit remains, by all respects it should lead you back into the hallway that curves around to the kennels. Nothing right now is behaving as it should, though, and you begin to be afraid that if you open that door you'll only find another staircase.
DM:
Balthazar rejects this reality and substitutes his own.
He sits down in the center of the room full of spiral staircases and waits.
Balthazar:
After a few moments of stubborn waiting, Balthazar begins to fall into a trance of sorts. Even though his bottom stays rooted to the floor, he feels as if his mind has stood up and is headed towards the staircase.