No doubt a little wake up call for meddling adventurers.
"Last one down is a lame duck." Abomentolor states and magics himself and the golem down to the bottom of the shaft.
A ten-foot-wide, fifteen-foot-long hallway extends from the bottom of a deep pit, ending at a massive pair of black metal double doors. The faces of these doors bear a detailed carving of a vast mountain range under a night sky—an eerie castle of immense size crowning the tallest of the mountains. The doors are made of adamant.
Grergif air walks down so the others can take the quick trip via dimension door.
Seeing the Door Grergof says:
Well the dragon for past so there must be a way to open these. Any traps, magic or locks?
Darius looks at Spugnoir to answer that.
"That stuff is expensive, isn't it?" Abomentolor states looking at the doors.
[Ooc]I can deal with this when I get back home after work [/b]
A door like this has "Lair if the Big Boss's written all over it. All it needs are spikes with spiked skulls
Hmm..I thought it was trapped but it isn't. Pretty surprising.
"Shall we destroy them, or do you want to pick the lock? It would be a pity to destroy them. That stuff is worth a lot. If I had an idea how to move them, we could make a fortune."
The door indeed has a lock, for those who dare open them.
No doubt pretty hard to destroy and we'll need someway to transport them since they no way a ton.
We probably should get all of our magic protections up.
It is too late. As Spugnoir tries his luck at the door he sets off the trap.
Yikes! Are you ok Mr Spugnoir?
"Such a chill wind. And it didn't even open. What will happen once you succeed?"
Abomentolor hits himself.
Owwwwwww!
90-16=74
Grergof heals himself up after the explosion.
"The door still isn't open." Abomentolor points out the obvious.
Sigh... Spugnoir tries again
Spugnoir instead opens up a gate to Hell.
The trap is of the annoying kind as it sends another gust of cold wind over the whole room.
Guh. How about we just pass this one up?
Do we have another place to go? This seems to be the only path.
"We could improve this situation, in that we don't stand in the way while Spugnoir tries to unlock the door."
"Come on, three is the charm."
Spugnoir hits himself with the wand of CMW
Everyone get back
The door is unlocked, but again, the cold wind blows through the room. Then the door opens. A vast cathedral towers here, lit by flickering blue lights that dance in the upper reaches of the yawning space. The floor is of a sickly blue stone so polished and reflective that it almost serves as a cerulean mirror. To the west, the ceiling is a mere fifty feet high, but as the cathedral widens to the east, the ceiling rises to twice that height. Stone pillars support the space above, while to the west, six alcoves containing statues of winged women with empty faces stand guard. A twenty-foot-tall stone double door sits in the cathedral’s northern wall, its face carved with a depiction of a vast mountain range capped by a towering castle. Far to the east, a series of steps rises up to a wide pulpit on which crouches an elephantine faceless sphinx carved from black stone.
"I could use some of that too." Abomentolor states as he comes back from hiding.
Darius heals himself and then Abomentolor. "That looks interesting. Does any of what we came through look somehow related? Or had they a competition where everyone got to design one room."
Spugnoir eyeballs the sphinx to see if it has the marks of being a golem.
Well the faceless angels looks similar…. What looks magic?
Abomentolor casts detect magic.
Above the pshinx hovers something strange. It flickers and shifts, passing from visibility to invisibility in a seemingly random pattern and often not wholly at once. What is seen is covered in roiling winds and ugly.
The obvious question to ask about this creature is 'does it burn?'. And there is only one way to answer that.
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
This reminds me of something...hmmm..... Spugnoir splashes everyone with Haste.
The creature is wounded by the fire. The ugly thing becomes extra spooky in its looks.
Also it causes a wind that sucks everyone towards it. This wind slows all inside this wind. All while keeping hovering at 30 feet height.
Abomentolor surprisingly resists the influence of the monster.
Darius moves closer to the beast to be able to hit it with a dismissal.
Grergof starts to move slowly but the haste magic washes that slowness away. So he moves closer to the beast rising into the air as he does so.
Spugnoir has the Eye of the Tiger!
Seeing that it worked once Abomentolor throws some more fire.
The fireball washes over the creature with no effect.
Spugnoir advances as well
The abomination keeps up this strange wind. . In addition it hits the group with an explosion of air. Also everyone is blown away by the explosion.
Abomentolor is annoyed and tries something else.
Darius casts dismissal.
We need a better way to do this or it will just keep smacking us away.
Grergof resists that effect and uses his boots to speed himself up to get closer to the thing.
As he moves, Grergof calls on Sarenrae for aid against this thing.
HP 69/110
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 and the golem split up and start running