Amiri signal the party she's going around and walks to the other side, passing again through the stairs, aiming for the other door. She takes a moment listening through it, check the handle and open it if nothing seems amiss.
The contents of this room are not particularly valuable. This room contains mundane goods such as casks of fresh water, spare furniture, and
basic tools. Several large mirrors are also stored in this room, carefully packaged and covered.
|
Aerynne will wait on the rest of the party's searching before trying the door towards the north of the reception hall.
-Posted with Wayfinder
Terrill's spell detects something hidden in the pile of firewood. After poking around, a hollow log is found with two potions of levitate wrapped in wax paper bearing the cryptic message Shandon: Sometimes a fly can avoid a spider’s snares because he can fly. Be careful. –Dorvik.
Amiri listens to both doors, as Terrill sugested.
"So, should we drink these?"
Amiri hears nothing behind either door.
"Ok"
Amiri takes on of the potions and follows Aerynne, sword at hand.
The east wall of this wide room is interrupted by a projection containing a carving of a spider about two feet in diameter. Directly across from the spider, a section of the wall sits slightly askew, as though a door-sized piece of the wall were not quite flush with the rest.
Terrill detects magic on the spider engraving on the eastern wall.
Terrill detects two conjuration auras, one strong and the other faint.
Hmmm, Terrill looks concentrated, it seems he's going for two more rounds with that... Better wait...
Amiri moves foward into the room, taking care where she steps, while observing the room.
|
|
"Poor taste of decor," Aerynne notes sourly, keeping her pistol trained on the (apparently) magical spider carving as she follows Amiri into the room.
"Probably some kind of spell trap. Not much we can do about that unless you can dispel it, Terrill. Just keep away from it."
Aerynne keeps as far away from the spider carving as she can, inching along the far wall towards the door-like construction opposite it. Investigation is then, of course, in order.
Alas, the gunslinger is much more interested in saving her skin from her no doubt upcoming death by fireball trap (or something) than actually looking at the strange wall.
Per his request, Cairo feels the Dawnflower reach down and brush away some of the magic powering the trap.
Terrill's detect magic confirms that the lesser of the two auras has been removed.
That was good then. What if that's a dimensional door that leads to the spider's room?
I'm just saying. May I go there now or is there anything else you wish to do?
Amiri handles the Levitate potion to Cairo, and moves slowly to X7, examining each step before moving, checking for traps or anything worth of note.
Amiri pulls on the poorly hidden secret door and a couple things happen.
1) The doorway gets stuck after only opening another few inches, not leaving enough space for anyone to fit through.
2) Something *clicks* on the other side of the door and the spider motiff on the eastern wall glows brightly. A moment later thousands of vicious biting spiders fill the space, biting and crawling into every orifice.
Despite the many bites, Amiri tears the stuck door open allowing everyone to flee down the stairs.
Once down the stairs, the ocean of conjured spiders do not pursue. About a minute later, they disappear.
Damn, that hurts.
"Sorry Cairo, i just don't know what to do to help you"
This large room is sumptuously carpeted with large rugs, several of which bear runic writing woven into their patterns with dull metallic thread. A steep staircase ascends to the east, and a pair of imposing double doors looms to the west. Eight narrow passages extend from this room in several directions, each passageway soon turns to the left or right.
|
|
Aerynne spends the next couple of minutes shivering and shaking and angrily squishing any spiders that happened to come along for the ride. The poison seemed to have caused the joints in her hands to tense up, almost arthritic in a sense.
She glares suspiciously at the runes on the rug. "Trust nothing in this damned place! Terrill, can I get a magic check on that?"
In the interim, Aerynne completely avoids stepping on the rugs with runes on them. She disdainfully draws out one of her potions of cure serious wounds and chugs it down.
Amiri also is felling slow, a little numb maybe, but she stands with her sword in hand while the others recover. She says in a low voice:
"Please put yourselves together, I'll stand guard for a minute."
Terrill again detects two auras on the rugs.
Yeah, thanks Cairo, you're saving us. I'll not move on this rugs unless you say I should. DO you know what's next Terrill?
Terrill's cantrip detects a faint illusion and a moderate enchantment.