You return to town to relax and prepare for further exploration. Your honorary venture captain is fascinated to hear of your recent adventures, and encourages you to return to your exploration as soon as you are ready.
You wait long enough to make sure that any new gear you have ordered is delivered to the Fort Inevitable Post Office.
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Pig arrives, surprisingly not as noisily as the inches worth of newly forged iron surrounding his body might imply but still noisily. He grins at everyone. "Pig happy to be with Winter Strike Team," he says. "Pig get bored hitting baby men with sticks to make into men men--and women women. Pig mean men in sapient, anthropocentric-sense, not androcentric-sense."
The visor on the helm under his arm looks rather fearsome.
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Raga runs in, looking over her shoulder every so often before slowly and quietly closing the door and letting out a slight huff.
"Oh, thank goodness we're going exploring again. What with getting the orphanage up and running it's been non-stop since our last trip. I didn't realize that human orphans liked to grab tails." she shudders a bit as she pulls her tail in closer. "Oh, right! So you're all welcome to stay at Ragathiel's Home for Orphans up to the northeast of here. The locals had an old mansion that they had for sale cheap, and this IS the River Kingdoms so I got a bit of a break on the price and if we run across any folks who want to get out of the dungeon and do better things we have something they can do! Just... um... realize that we're still getting things up and running so... there may be a bump or two."
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A big man with a breastplate, a greatsword strapped across his back and an assortment of other objects stashed about his person walks in and nods in acknowledgement to the rest of the team.
[b]"Evening folks. I'm the callin. Aryxis is my name. I'm gonna help out for a bit while you are short on numbers!"[/b[]
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Stepping inside, Baku nods to the others as he makes his way to the desk. Nervously checking for his name on the parcels, he smiles broadly. "Ah good!"
Ripping the paper open, he tugs a necklace, handband, and belt free. Securing both the headband and belt, he turns to the others. "It's a pleasure to have returned to venture further with you. Professor Pig, as always, glad to see you again."
Pausing, he glances towards the door. "Umm...Herra's put on a pound or two, so please be courteous...she's a little self conscious."
Whistling loudly, he holds the necklace up.
On cue, the bird flies through the door and lands next to Baku. Patiently waiting as he places the necklace around her neck, it's quite obvious she has been well fed between adventures.
Glancing toward the group, she offers a soft "CuCaw"
You make your way back to the spire, and down through the levels.
On the first floor, a few goblins seems to mock Yroh, but are clearly afraid to do anything worse.
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For the first floor, Raga carries along a pig for the goblins to gnosh on.
She can't think of anything spectacular for The Cellars, but for Splinterden she brings along some quality of life items to be polite.
For GodHome, she brings along some scrap metal.
Then she gives a Pathfinder Journal talking about planar interactions for the water level.
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Baku makes his way through the levels as if he owns the place. 'None of these had the power to withstand us. Why shouldn't they bow to our needs.' considers the druid. His mind drifting slowly to the previous lives he's lived and he shrugs. 'I suppose others could say that about me...dieing is not my favorite past time....'
Offering a smile to the water people as he realizes there's no need to be a jerk..., he wishes them luck. "The planes are a fickle place. Be careful in your explorations."
As an afterthought, he adds "Any idea what we should be expecting in the next level?"
The friendliest of the three water dwellers looks at Baku. "Klarkosh lives in the level just below us."
She has already turned away from Baku to return to her research.
OK, please place your tokens in the starting room, and we will start in earnest tomorrow. (map is in the campaign header)
The long stairway ends in a small chamber. On the north wall, a panel with two bronze levers—one red and one black—is set chest-high in the wall. To the east, an archway leads to an alcove. Distant ticking echoes through the walls, as if several large clocks were operating simultaneously.
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Raga moves over to the levers and attempts to assess them for their capabilities and what they may be linked to. Of course, this research is hampered somewhat by the nature of the current location of the party. She does NOT throw the levers until she's finished her assessment, and just before she does she drinks a vial.
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Aryxis moves up next to Reynard and adds his own insights. Once Reynard has finished assessing the levers, Aryxis will begin an Occult study of them (without actually pulling them)
At 2nd level, an occultist learns how to read information from items he examines. Examining an item in this way requires him to spend 1 minute handling the item. If the item is a magic item, the occultist learns its properties and command word as if he had successfully examined the item using detect magic and succeeded at a Spellcraft check. This ability does not reveal whether the item is cursed unless the occultist’s class level is equal to or greater than the caster level of the item. If the item has any historical significance, the occultist learns one piece of information about its past (as determined by the GM). Finally, if the item was last used no longer than 1 day ago per the occultist’s class level, the occultist learns one piece of information about the last creature to use the item. This information might be a glimpse of the creature’s appearance, a brief vision of what it saw while using the item, or perhaps its emotional state when it last used the item. The GM determines what information is gained in this way. This functions like the psychometry occult skill unlock (see page 196), but doesn’t require a skill check and can be used at will.
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"Or if it's a cunning mechanism hiding a different means of access, etc, etc." Raga opines as she works out the switches.
"Also, would you prefer it if I appeared male, Baku? I could at least look the part convincingly if it was important to the mission?" This is offered with a bit of a smirk as she considers the device.
Raga does not think that either lever is a trap. She also finds that each lever is in it's central position, and could be moved up or down.
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Stunned by the development, Baku looks under Herra and glances towards Raga's undercarriage. "I...but....really?"
Blushing, he smiles. "Make no difference to me be you man or woman, just thought...well...the bump....anyway. Glad to have you with us, m'lady."
"So...uh...figure out the levers there? Which one's gonna blow us up?"