Dex feels the warmth of the spell pass through him, unlike the gentle warm ministrations of Mitra, the healing power of an Asmodean burns like fire. Dex nods to him, "Thank you Counselor".
He then heads to the door and begins to examine it, "Quite the little maze here".
Perception for traps on the door.
Following behind the others, Isabella draws a dagger as they head further into the basement-dungeon. She nods at Dexter's statement. "How many more 'lessons' do you think the Cardinal has for us?"
"If we are to assume that there is a lesson for each chamber and we passed through two of them, then there are seven more lessons to learn," Lukasz stated calmly as they waited for Dexter. "Of course, that is assuming that what we seek is in the final chamber for recall that our ultimate goal is to find a medallion."
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Leekoo perked up at the mention of the number nine. Nine? How many was that again? If anybody were to look at the goblin captain, they would see him looking at his hands in confusion. [i]'One...two...seven...nineteen...eighty-one...eleventy-five...nine?'[/b]
Holding up seven fingers, he looked over at Izzy and asked, "Leekoo Weekoo hold up nine? Leekoo Weekoo not make mind."
Dex doesn't find a trap. He does see the inscription Know your enemy. Shatter all that blinds you and then burn thy adversary to ashes.
Dex shrugs and tests the handle on the door.
"Let us see what it is that blinds us shall we?"
The door is unlocked.
Dex turns the handle and pushes the door in holding position in front of the door to peer inside first.
On the other side of the door is darkness.
Allyson will place a hand on Dexter's shoulder. "Be careful, there are holes in the floor." Calling to the others behind her, "The room looks to be trapped. Do any of you have a light?" Noticing the clue inscribed above, she adds, "May not be a bad idea to have a torch ready anyways, since we will obviously need fire in this room."
With the request for light, Lukasz pulls out a silver piece from his belt pouch, gripping his holy symbol as he states, "The Prince can reveal that which is difficult to see to those willing to look." With his prayer completed, light floods out from the silver piece which Lukasz then tosses into the room.
You all see a pedestal with a black sphere on it and many holes in the floor. They are spaced evenly and will be impossible to completely avoid.
Isabella stares into the magically-lit gloom, uncertain about how to proceed without triggering the trap hidden in plain sight.
"Leekoo, fly around the room and see what you can through the darkness. Stay off the ground."
Leekoo is unable to identify the sphere as anything other than a big pretty jewel.
Doors holes jewel and pedestal
"Is there anything in there to shatter Leekoo? The clue says we have to shatter something".
Dexter holds back, wary of the darkness.
Dex, Lukasz threw a light in. You can see the sphere on the pedestal
"The sphere seems the obvious answer, but I fear what lurks inside the sphere. "Burn your adversary." My thought would be some tiny creature or ghost like apparition that can only be felled by flames. Allyson also holds fast in the doorway, weary of the holes in the ground until whatever "adversary" they are to face shows itself.
Nothing in the room moves except for Leekoo flying on his bat.
Staring intently at the most likely candidate for shattering; Isabella calls out to the goblin "Can you open any of the doors from the air? I think you should smash the crystal, Leekoo."
Isabella doesn't know the object, but is able to identify the spell darkness affecting this room.
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Payn pipes up. "Everyone please stop talking. You are letting your fear of death cloud your judgment. Leekoo, please come back."
She takes a knee and takes out from her backpack five flasks of oil. She cuts off five short lengths from her silk rope and stuffs them all into the flasks, letting the oil soak the silk. She holds four of them out, keeping one for herself.
Then she cuts a sixth length, and, with her flint and steel, sets in slowly burning.
"We need to burn something in the second step, and this should prove a viable avenue. But in the first step, could we try throwing things at it? I could try throwing spells, if you like. Or does any of us have a bow? Either way, if we all could be outside of the room that will shortly contain the thing we'll need to set ablaze, that may prove useful.
Unless getting set on fire is your idea of a good time. I'm not one to judge."
Allyson looks confused at the psychopath as to what purpose the rope was to serve.
"If you have spells then use them. She does little to hide the disgust for the half-elf in her voice, growing impatient and frustrated with these "tests."
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Leekoo came flying back, shaking his head in the negative. "Leekoo Weekoo not find stuff. Leekoo Weekoo just find fluff," he said as he picked up a bit fur from his armor and tossed it aside. As he looked, he noticed Spooky starting to assemble a boom device and became animated. "Leekoo Weekoo make a boom! Leekoo Weekoo blow up room!" With that, he pulled out his alchemy kit and started messing with the various fluids inside.
As the others prepared Lukasz remained focused on the first part for he had no fire with which to enact the second. "Patience will likely be a quality asset as we continue. But we should push forward nonetheless. If no one as a way of breaking the sphere form here, then two of use should move in, smash it and then move out of the way for anyone throwing fire at whatever reveals itself in the room." Lukasz prepares himself to be one of the people that rushes the pedestal, drawing his longsword out and readying to charge.
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Payn frowns. "We have no ranged weapons among us to even try to break the thing from here? Perhaps if we could even just knock it of the pedestal it would break?"
She fishes another flask from her back and holds it out to Ally. She asks, breathily, as a damsel to her champion, "Brave warrior, will you not be our knight errant and cast this object forcefully! And so slay the vile sphere?"
You can only make one bomb at a time.
The arrow flies true striking the orb causing it to hit the floor
with a clunk. It's now out of sight behind the pedestal.
Isabella lets out a single huff of air as she gently pulls Leekoo's arm back and walks into the room, mindfully noting the holes beneath her feet.
As she carefully walks around the pedestal, Isabella raises one hand and points three fingers back towards the others, gaze shifting from Allyson to Leekoo and locking on Lukasz before she brings her dagger down on the sphere.
A mist rises from the holes near Leekoo as you shatter the globe. With the tinkling of the obsidian orb the darkness winks out. An ethereal tendril lashes out at you.
The mist sinks back into the floor
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Payn smiles. "This looks like one of those problems that can be solved with fire."
She takes the flask back from Ally and moves to the door, brushing fully against Dex without a word. With her flaming brand, she lights her flask of oil and tosses it into the room, just to the right and ahead of Leekoo.
The oil lands where Payn wants it but doesn't ignite.
Seeing the creature work, Lukasz quickly sets his analytical mind awhirling. Then, with a thought in place, Lukasz calls, "For those with fire, ready yourselves to use it as soon as the creature reveals itself."
Lucky
Izzy
Leekoo
Allyson
Payn
Dex
Mist
The mist flows from the floor in front of Isabella a claw made from bloody red mist extends swiping at her and hurting her before moving back into the floor.
Hit twice before she could react, Isabella staggers as the strange mist drains her blood again and sinks back into the floor. Guess we know what the holes are for. She thinks wryly, retracing her own steps back to the others in the hall.
"Don't let it touch you." She gasps after downing a vial from her belt. "Any longer in there and the damn thing would've sucked me dry."
"If you do not have fire magic, then we should just run past the thing. Pick a door and go to it. The mission is to get an amulet not pass these tests." her opinion spoken, Allyson will move across to the far door and push it open.
As she runs Allyson realizes to her horror that a beam prevents the door from opening. It will move without too much effort. (A full round action.) A quick glance reveals the same of the other door.
Seeing the bar on the door Allyson will pause taking a defensive stance watching the floor.