"Good thing you caught it,"Kor moves aside to let Valen pass,"I can carry a lot but a small mountain is beyond even me."
Alex: With that roll of 38, you just barely manage to disable the rather nasty trap.
William begins to speak up about the trap before being cut off by Alex. He then moves way out of the way before Alex disables the trap.
Very good job Alex. Now who is going in first?
Kor grins widely and stretches a bit, his plating fanning out and then resetting itself.
"Me, of course,"the trox centers himself on the door,"I'll need two of you to open the doors for me, slowly, please."
The barbarian lifts his hammer to his face and kisses it,"May our ancestors guide us and watch over us."
Kor takes a moment to recite the intonement in each language he knows and nods solemnly when finished.
Kor: The door opens revealing a wall of solid rock.
Izura steps forward and reaches out for the solid wall, muttering as she extends her hand. Thash dishapoididg. (That's disappointing.)
"The spirits here mock us,"Kor looks on dumbfounded by this turn of events,"surely there must be some way into this wretched tomb."
Kor gestures exasperatedly to the rest of the party,"What now, comrades?"
The barbarian storms from the alcove under the hill and breathes deep the evening air.
Accursed hellhole... A trap for naught but a dead end... This lich is more insane than I thought...
Zoren nods to Alex, "Excellent eyes. My father taught me much in the way of tomb raiding but this place it seems is beyond my skill set. Still, several sets of eyes are better than one".
Zoren will inspect the wall to see if there is some sort of way to move it or to determine if it is just an illusion.
Perception
(if Illusion)
Thats odd...
Zoren: You do not believe it is an illusion nor do see a way to move the wall.
Alex: You know it is not an illusion. It is a solid chunk of rock.
Checking for any obvious cracks or openings. Specifically any place that gaseous form could penetrate.
Does anyone see any cracks or openings?
William: No, It is a solid chunk of rock
Zoren looks at the walls to see if there is some sort of secret side door.
Perception
Zoren: You do not see any secret side doors
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"Well there must be an entrance somewhere on this hill. Perhaps we need to start over in a new location?"
Perhaps Zoren is correct. Let us remember this location, and go look elsewhere.
Alex: It is not unbreakable...but there is another factor at work here that I cannot discuss yet.
William: Lo and behold, after doing some more probing you discover another potential entrance
Hey guys, I think I found the door.
William is curious about traps so he trys a couple low level spells to see what happens.
First he shoots acid splash at the door to see what happens, standing 30 feet away.
William then casts mage hand, and trys to touch the door with that from 15 feet away. If nothing happens he try to push the door, then try to turn the door know if mage hand. Assuming there is a door know or anything like that.
William: What you found by continuing to probe the ground above is another access point(I have moved you all on the map). You can acid splash it until there is a hole large enough to crawl through. 10' below you can make out a dusty floor made of plain blocks of stone.
Once I can see the floor below, Williams casts light on a rock and tosses it down. William then pulls out his wand of mount. He summons a pony directly on the floor below.
William: Upon throwing some light below, you will see that the passageway is 10' high, 20' wide and 60' long and constructed from plain blocks of stone. At the far end you can just make out the outline of two doors.
Pic is on the map
I still want to cast mount, and send a pony walking down there.
Izura watches as William probes at the entrance with his various spells. She grabs her slate, gestures at it, and gets Kor's attention. My ponies was prettier.
William: Your brave pony makes it way down about 50' when all of you hear a loud grinding noise of stone on stone, upon inspection you see that a stone wall has completely blocked the hall 30, in front of the entrance...with no pony in sight
William gestures with his hands and pit appears beneath the stone.
Create Pit
10ft X 10Ft X 30ft deept; 10 rounds
Zoren watches William at work, "Nicely done. I shall wait until you deem it safe to inspect first hand".
William: Ah yes the create pit under the wall trick nice. Would you like your pit centered on the wall? Also the wall itself is 10' thick.
The trox barbarian nods absentmindedly at Izura,"Let me know when my strength is needed, milady,"Kor settles into what appears to be a meditative position, something they all wondered at in prison.
Strength of mind trumps that of the body for now...
"I will go in and look around to see if I can discover how to proced past this trap".
Zoren sheathes his sword and draws his Wand of Unseen Servants, he then lowers himself into the pit using his Boots of Levitation, he takes a look around the room to see what the group may be missing from the outside.
Perception
Perception
Zoren: The wall of stone is 10' wide, so it would take 2 pits to breach the wall as that would give you 5' on each side..
Zoren levitates out of the hole, "We will need a few more of your pits down here to bypass this trap William".
William conjures up another 2 more pits and place them where Zoren describes.Lets see if that does it.
William: I have drawn the pits on the map
Zoren: On the other side of the wall you see an empty room with the 2 doors at the end. You do not see a way to move the wall back to the east.
William is going to go through to the other side. Then cast mount again , to wonder the squares on the other side. Then he is going to start checking for traps.
William will also cast unseen servant and reach out to touch the door. First just touching, then pushing, and pulling at the door.
William: You can make out the pressure plate that set the wall in motion(I have it marked on the map).
You do not detect any other traps and the door opens easily revealing a solid wall of stone
Izura remains safely outside, letting the others poke around the strange wall. She motions at her board and moves next to Kor, holding it out to him. They haven't found anything?
Zoren follows William through to the other side and sees the solid wall of stone.
"This place is certainly a deadly maze. I will check to ascertain if there is perhaps another trick to the wall blocking our way".
Perception
Kor drifts back from his subconscious and glances down at the board.
"Soon, milady"he unfolds his legs and stands offering his hand to help Izura up,"I'm sure we have all the tools we need. Our companions are hard at work ensuring out entrance. I eagerly await the moment this unhallowed place spews forth its defenders. No lich of this one's power rests unguarded."
Izura: Ok
Zoren: There are no levers to move the wall, nor any traps. There may be a couple of cracks but nothing worth going gaseous for.
Kor: Poison Ivy, yikes. I remember about 20 years ago I goy poison sumac.
Lo and Behold, you all discover another entrance to the underground.
"This is a devious creature we are dealing with. Just getting in has nearly slain a few of us already".
Zoren draws his Wand of Unseen Servant and summons on of the minions to begin investigating the space. Touching walls and ceiling for pressure and switch plates.
Zoren: Just so I have this correct, you are not going down? I will put a couple of tokens below for the unseen suckers servant(s). Do you want 2 of them?
EDIT: No need for rolls at this time
Zoren: The two unseen servants begin walking down and
You hear the sounds of 2 trap doors opening and closing