The double doors leading into this chamber are shattered and broken, one of them lying on the floor.
The room beyond is in an equal state of disrepair.
What was once a library is now a shattered mess with one corner being completely collapsed and dominated by a wide pool of stagnant water.
Thick fungus grows on most of the books that still remain on the shelves lining the walls.
"This place is ripe with fungus. Let's just hope some of them are ironblooms."
Corindus gingerly enters the room, again wishing he had a free hand to cover his nose.
He surveys the colonies of fungus, looking for the ironbloom mushrooms they need.
Darion follows closely behind distractedly because of the eerie feeling he got at the previous room. He bumps into Corindus and Kinshara halfway pushing them into the room. His worry slips away at the sight of the old books. Giddy like a school boy he prods the others onward while he glimpses the tomes “Now this is more like it” He says as prepares and casts Detect magic
"It's hard to imagine that any of these books will hold together, as old as this place is," Kinshara states as she moves into the room and begins to search for the ironblooms. "It's going to be hard to find the ironblooms among all the other fungus even if they are here."
You find a a single tome that has managed to avoid the destructive fungus. This book is written in Dwarven and contains hymns to Torag, The book is beautifully illuminated.
Roll a perception check.
Fort saves everyone.
And you don't find any mushrooms.
Corindus hunches over as he wheezes and coughs.
bad news
The Group feel's fine......
Kinshara waves a hand at the dust & spores that have scattered in the air about them. "Even if there are ironblooms here, we'll never find them in this. Let's search elsewhere."
Darion picks up a dusty tome and follows Kinshara out of the room and to the next one that she is about to enter
Corindus trails behind Kinshara, coughing the last of the foul air from his lungs.
He keeps close with his torch and cutlass as she opens the next door. He peers over her shoulder, looking for danger.
Darion grasps the dusty tomb in one hand and casts detect magic and then looks into the room Kinshara opened
As you exit the Library
and ready for the Next room Darkness suddenly envelopes you all.
Darion shouts ”What is this devilry that hides in darkness!”
Kinshara staggers into the library, withdrawing from whatever creature attacked her. "There's something here! Be wary!"
Corindus swings his torch in a futile attempt to disperse the darkness.
Memories of the battle with the hags, coupled with Kinshara's warnings about something lurking beneath the monastery, leave Corindus very jittery.
Nevertheless, he reins in the urge to blindly swing his cutlass, lest he injure his allies by mistake.
"What's happening?" he cries out. "Can anyone break this spell?"
Kinshara casts Light again, trying to restore their sight. When that (probably) fails, she will take a move action to try to locate their enemy.
"Some fiend has stolen the light and attacked me. We can still find this creature and defeat it."
”It’s a darkness spell and I don’t have capabilities to remove it we will just have to move out of it”
Darion attempts a full withdraw move within the darkness trying to feel along a wall until he is out of it
Darion: 2 HP left
Kinshara 8 HP left
Lucky or Unlucky
Darion and Kinshara feel the creatures let go some as if spooked and debating if they should abandon their potential meal.
"Can anyone see our foe? Should we escape outside?"
”Just keep moving along a wall until you can see again!”
Granted a moment's respite, Kinshara casts Cure Light Wounds on herself.
"I don't know, but something made them withdraw. I can't see anything."
"I think I like this less than the hag coven. At least then I could see what I was swinging at."
Corindus weighs an invisible scale: his facade of courage against the people of the Hollow.
"Let's keep looking. If we make camp, whatever that was will just come after us again. We'll either find the mushrooms or find our foe."
With his cutlass in one hand and torch in the other, Corindus waits until his comrades are ready then kicks in the door to Room 7.
This small chamber appears to be some sort of sitting room, complete with a single table and a pair of chairs, both in relatively good condition.
Resting atop the table is a half-eaten crow next to a crude knife and a cracked mug.
Kinshara moves up to the table and examines the body of the half-eaten crow. It must be the work of a more recent visitor to the monastery.
Darion’’s stomach growls at the sight of the half eaten crow. He casts detect magic and surveys the room. All of this is done while he gnaws on some dried fruit from his rations
He chuckles to himself ”Maybe we all should eat some crow”. His little joke is to much for him to keep the laughter in and he lets out a muffled laugh
Kinshara and Darion
Reflex saves
You both avoid a trip line.
Kinshara examines the bird more closely to see if there is anything that she can determine by looking at it.
And look around the room as well, checking in particular for the ironbloom mushrooms.
”Kinshara leave the dead bird alone if you want to heal something how about me I’m bleeding from just about everywhere”
[occ]I’m at 3 of 9 on HP. Seriously though I don’t care that you are examining the bird[/ooc]
Kinshara finds the tripwire rigged to a simple trap that drops stones from above.
Bird was food for something small.
"Be cautious of the tripwire in the doorway. This room is trapped."
Kinshara notices Darion's wounds for the first time and touches her holy symbol. "Iomedae, bless us with your strength as in the Seventh."
Channel Iomedae 2/3
Kinshara's HP: 13/13
Darion feels quite a bit better after the healing and scans the room more thoroughly including casting detect magic to notice anything that might emanate magic nearby
”Kinshara! Thanks for the healing”
Corindus tries to piece together a pithy remark about their enemy "eating crow," but lacking the wit to make it work, he opts to remain silent.
Instead, he carefully steps over the tripwire and keeps an eye on the door in the opposing wall.
Kinshara will open that door with weapon drawn.
”Onward to victory my friends or whatever else may inspire you!”
This small cramped chamber holds two beds (one of which is covered in bird bones), a small sack, and an array of old tools.
The other bed looks recently slept in.
"Whoever would dwell in this haunted ruin, sup on nearly raw crow, and bedeck their bed with the bones is not the sort of deranged mind I would want to meet," Corindus whispers with muted apprehension as he scans the room.
While he ostensibly looks for colonies of Ironbloom Mushrooms, he is also wary for hints that the room's resident could still be near.
He next leans closer to examine the tools, turning them over with the tip of his broad blade.
Could someone be trying to rebuild this fallen place?
Kinshara will come into the room to help search as well.
On the spare bed is a complete set of masterwork artisan’s tools useful for making Craft (stonemasonry) skill checks.
In addition, there is a small sack containing 62 gp in assorted coins and a single ruby gemstone
"Well I'll be deviled. Mason's tools and a tidy little treasury? Maybe someone is actually trying to fix this place? But given your warnings about it, Kinshara, that's probably not a very good idea. Then again, I'm still not convinced this person is of sound mind, anyhow."
”We’ll the easiest way to find them is to take there stuf and see who comes after it. Of course that likely results in a fight”
"Thievery does not add to our cause. If this person is nearby we should find them without giving them cause against us first. We should continue our search for the ironblooms."