"I got no idea. Not sure if it even can be disabled from out here. You're welcome to give it a looksee Triba. Maybe we can lasso the statues from out here or something. "
Binx, points his finger at the eastern statue, but it doesn't budge. He is unsure if it due to being magical or if it weighs too much.
Binx, takes another look at the idols on the pedestals in the warded room. The look like exact duplicates of the idols he "procured" from the stands just minutes before.
"So we planning on doing something?" Dolgrin asked when he saw Binx doing some spells.
"Doesn't seem safe to go in there and I can't do anything about what's trapping it so, unless the hocus pocus crowd has a solution, we might as well move on. "
"If you insist", Dolgrin took the statue and walked back into the room.
Dolgrin takes a statue and walks into the room. Much to his surprise, he suffers no ill effects as before. He can see the two similar Dwarven protection statues, one on the eastern alcove the other on the western alcove.
He searches the room, and finds nothing of importance other than the two statues.
Dolgrin walked back into the hallway. "It seems to be safe to enter if you have one of those statues with you. Couldn't see anything in the room other than 2 more statues. So if you insist on having those as well, be my guest."
He offered the statue back to Binx.
Binx, holding onto the other Dwarven statue, heads into the room to check everything out. Upon entering, he gets slammed in the chest by pure force.
. Will save DC 14 half
After getting slammed in the chest with force, he notices the Dwarven statues flanking him on the east and west alcoves begin to shake. Everyone can hear the obnoxious loud sound of stone grinding on stone. To Binx and Dolgrin, it sounds as if the sound is coming through the eastern wall. Triba, it sounds as if it is happening just a few feet away.
Triba pokes her head around the corner near her, and sees a stone slab, moving from the south to the north, creating a bridge for them to walk on.
After about 10-12 seconds of uncomfortable grinding, and a little bit of ringing in your ears, it ends. The east and west alcove statues stop shaking, and come to rest.
"What just happened here?" Dolgrin said after the grinding stopped. "What do you want to do now Binx?"
Oooh, a secret bridge! We have to take that!
"Best be on our way then." Dolgrin said moving to the secret bridge.
Marvin will resume his usual post.
The group, leaves the room with the statues, and heads towards the now accessible area beyond the bridge.
Dolgrin, looks at the bridge, and knows that it is very, very secure and is not going to budge.
He and a few others cross the bridge, and at the end, there is a quick turn west and there is a stone door greeting them. Upon the stone door, are openings to fit objects. There is a square, a circle, a triangle, and a hexagon. The base of the 4 statues picked up from previous rooms, appear to have similar bases to be able to fit in the openings.
"It seems obvious what we need to do here, but it's also clear someone went through a lot of trouble protecting this area. We better make certain we're ready to open this door." Dolgrin said when he inspected the stone door.
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Marvin, as usual, is bringing up the rear.
"You want me to check it for traps?"
Eb pulls out and reads a scroll of mage armor while the others prepare to open the door.
Dolgrin prepared for what was behind the stone door.
Binx, put the four statues, rather reluctantly into their proper spots on the stone door. After the fourth one is placed, the four statues shatter, and after doing do the door begins to open upwards through an opening in the ceiling.
Behind, the door, you see a pair of columns of rock. Both stretch from floor to ceiling,. They are Dwarves, wielding greataxes, each in a defensive posture. Between the columns of rock, is a intricately designed chest, a sturdy lock is keeping it secure.
The fiendish , puppy sniffs around. It enters the room when commanded to, and nothing bad happens to the pooch.
"Those are some big statues. I do hope they're just there for show."
"Hey Marvin, do you think this is trapped?" Triba goes around assisting him in trapfinding.
The puppy puts its paws on the chest and nothing happens.
Meanwhile Dolgrin and Marvin find no traps of interest.
Dolgrin looks at the statues. Nothing springs to mind about their relevance to history. They don't remind him of anything of religious importance. They appear to be your garden variety guardian statues. There have been other races such as elves, humans, Drow that have similar guardian statues in their catacombs.
"Triba, Marvin, do you think you can pick the lock on that chest? Or do we want to go look around for the key in one of the other rooms?"
"Let's see what we can do..." Triba takes out her set of tools.
Triba steps up to the chest, and with nimble fingers disables the lock on the chest. Unfortunately, after hearing the click of the lock, a battleaxe cows crashing down towards her head. The axe nearly decapitates the poor Halfling, but she manages to escape with her life and the top of the chest pops open as she stumbles back.
Triba gasps in pain as she falls back, gaping wound in her collarbone. She sits down, looking at Dolgrin and speaking softly. "You wouldn't happen to have any healing left, would you?"
"I sure do lass. This should help" with that said, Dolgrin started weaving his divine magic, pouring positive energy into Triba which slowly began closing the wound.
includes +1 to find traps
Triba, gets some Dwarven healing. After she is patched back up a bit, she looks inside the open chest, muttering that there better be something good for all this trouble.
Inside there is:
1000 gp in coins
240 gp in gems
200 gp in onyx
Get the loot and check out the next area I suppose. Not really sure what remains to be explored.
"Let's get the items before the axe resets." Dolgrin said.
When everything was gathered he would lead the group to the door they walked past on their way to the bridge.