Afraid I don't know. Spugnoir shrugs.
We really need to have someone smart that we can talk with. I miss Mr. Truthseeker
"Yeah, he wasn't only a truth seeker, he even was a Truthfinder. I wonder where Stam is. Probably sitting at a camp fire talking to his ox. Ned was it, right?" Darius muses.
"We need something that we can use to talk to people far away and that allows to have them see what we see. Teleport of the mind or something. Don't you have something like that?" the gnome inquires from Darius.
Yep. Hauled carts like a champ.
The vast hallway comes to a sudden end, looking out into a vast underground lake. The dark waters ripple thirty feet below the jagged edge of the hall’s end. A series of intermittently-spaced stone pilings extends south, indicating that at one point the hall transformed into a bridge that extended south over the lake, but the bridge itself must have collapsed long ago.
I can fly across, although the golem will have to walk along the bottom.
This vast cavern’s limits recede off into darkness, as do the inky black waters of the lake that takes up the chamber’s extent. The ceiling rises to form a cathedral-like space above. Stalactites hang here and there, some of prodigious size, while two irregular rows of stone pilings lead south, out across the waters. The sound of gently cascading water echoes through the cavern.
"I could magic us all over the lake with dimension door, but I'd need to have an idea where to."
I can see in the dark and fly with alchemy wings. Give me some torches and I can light the way over.
"And get eaten on the way?" Darius comments.
"You can have a light for a minute. I don't carry torches."
Grergof pulls out his Ioun Torch.
Want thidd so floating around your head?
Or…. You know, Father Redgrave cast air walk on himself an me. We could walk over there and I still have potions of fly. You could use one Mr. Goblinburner. Not sure about the golem though.
"That thing doesn't take well to any kind of magic. Otherwise we could simply airwalk or fly over. But if you and Darius go ahead and I follow with the rest later, the chances of the scouts getting eaten are lessened."
I can leave the golem here if need be,
"I think it's nice to have it along. It's big and sturdy and can stand in the way of harm."
Darius casts light on the ioun rock circling his head. "I'm good to go."
Shall we scout?
Darius and Grergof walk through the air exploring the lake. As suddenly Darius feels like his mind gets attacked.
There is a gargantuan sea monster hiding in the water.
Darius casts greater angelic aspect and sprouts wings. "Something is attacking with magic!"
Huge beast under the water!
Let's go back. We are going to need that underwater stuff, unless you can make me able to breathe and swim?
Assuming The answer is no, Grergof will head back with Darius to find out what the underwater stuff is.
I could fly over it and drop bombs.
Abomentolor readies a fireball for when the beast shows.
The beast emerges from the water and exhales a cloud of foul-smelling, narcotic breath.
Spurgnoir's hump shifts around and suddenly two batlike wings emerge from his back. Taking a running start, Spugnoir soars off over the lake
Grergof resists the breath then activates his boots so he can quickly move down and smash the thing. He mutters a prayer of protection as he flies.
Finally he smashes the thing with a huge overhand strike.
Does Grergof know what this is?
Abomentolor throws glitterdust at the thing.
Grergof hits the creature hard. But the creature can obviously take it. And it attack the paladin with all it has. Darius hits the creature with a destruction spell.
Grergof barely avoids the worst of the attacks and slides right out of the tentacles that try to grab him.
HP 91/110
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/19 with Mutagen)
Saves F13/R13/W9 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:
Special effects:Heroism(+2 attack/skills/saves) Level drain(-2 attack, skills,Saves),See invisible (150 minutes),Countless Eyes (15 hours),Shield Varsk(15 minutes),Freedom of Movement(150 minutes, Self)
Bombs:18/21
Spugnoir flaps over and drops a holy bomb on the nasty
Skyrat to Dirty Bird, payload delivered!
The bomb adds to the wounds of the beast and it looks beaten already.
Darius hits himself.
Seeing that the thing can take a hit and was using Necromancy on him, Grergof goes into full juggernaut mode.
Sarenrae guide my hand!
Spugnoir gets splattered by calamari.
Grergof stirs the thing into a seafood soup with little left to identify it. The mauled remains sink into the black depth of the lake.
Moving on straight ahead, leads to a barren, rocky isle that rises from the lake waters. Atop the island’s thirty-foot-high peak lie the cracked foundations of a long-crumbled structure of some sort.
Not much left to identify stuff here. Is anything magic?
"Shall we come over?" Abomentolor shouts from far behind.
Darius checks for magic. "Yes the center of the floor of this rock is."
Sure, just watch out for the gnome eating ceiling spiders!
Abomentolor takes it as a bad joke and dimdoors over to the rock island together with the alchemical golem. "That looks just like another dead end."
Looking at the magic he concludes "No idea what that is. Have you tried to poke it with a stick?"
Grergof puts away his normal Flail, then pulls out his crowbar and pokes at the magic area.
The ground at that place simply isn't there. The crowbar goes through it. That doesn't change anything about how it looks though. No disappearing illusion or such.
May be a pass through. Do we go in?
Abomentolor kicks some rubble to the hidden opening.
It sounds like a really long fall.
"Any volunteers to check what's on the other side?"
The 20 feet square shaft hidden beneath the illusory floor drops 300 feet down.