"None of them are magical at least, lets try east next."
Opening the door to the east you see a stair case leading down about 20 feet into darkness.
"Best we finish here 'fore we go down that. I want our backtrail clear if we need to retreat in a hurry."
"Agreed."
Gabriel wil go open the other door.
The crumbling remnants of several chairs and a long table clutter the floor of this room. To the south stand three stone doors, each bearing a strange symbol that resembles a seven-pointed star.
"Hm. That looks like what was on the book the statue back there was holding." Thorfinn checks the easternmost door, and if he doesn't hear anything he'll open it.
Gabriel will get in a good position to cover Thorfinn as he opens the door.
"Wasn't the symbol also in the journal?"
Opening the eastern door, there is little inside aside from the skeleton of a deformed humanoid, it appears normal except for having a third arm.
"One... two... three... Anybody else notice something wrong?"
Gabriel will once again cast detect magic, just in case.
If the skeleton doesn't move, Thorfinn will close the door and move on to the middle door.
After waiting awhile the skeleton doesn't move, closing that door and opening the middle you find another skeleton. This one has an enormous misshapen skull.
"Are these the freaks from the journal?" Shaking his head, Thorfinn closes the door and moves on to the last of the three doors.
"Hold on a sec with those doors, some of these papers are magical."
Gabriel will gather up the magical papers.
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"These look like they've been here since before whatever Tsuto was planning, Thorfinn, unless there was more necromancy in the works," Ioxeia says. While Gabriel looks over the magical papers, she moves to cover the dwarf, just in case. "Anyone care to venture a guess as to what will be wrong with what's behind this last door?"
Opening the last door you find yet another skeleton. This one has a rib cage that goes all the way down to its pelvis—a pelvis with stunted leg bones strewn below its strangely flat girth.
"All your my friend."
Gabriel hands the scroll to Chimaeryus.
"Well, lets check that one next"
Gabriel nods at the mysterious east door.
Heading to the east you follow follow a set of stairs down.
The ceiling of this strangely cold chamber arches to a vaulted height of twenty feet. The floor contains eleven wooden lids strewn haphazardly over eleven five-foot-wide pits in the ground. From the darkness within these pits echo up strange shuffling sounds and, every so often, a low moan. In the darkness you see an odd, mishappen creature that somewhat resembles a large goblin. It moves to attack.
Gabriel will move into the room and off to the side, to give his companions room while keeping a pit between himself and the creature.
He will take aim with his crossbow and let loose a shot.
The creatures moves through the room, avoiding the covered holes and moving to attack Gabriel, he stops though noticing the others and moves toward them instead. He opens his mouth as blood spews out in an unnatural arch, covering everyone.
Thorfinn ducks under the worst of the acidic blood stream, then chops out at the deformed goblin. "Fall back--give me some room to retreat, and we'll take it in the room back there!"
If we fall back then Gabriel will be trapped in the room with it! Gallus shouts as he tries to dodges the acidic spit.
Gallus steps up behind Thorfin and reaches over his head to strike out at the creature.
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Ioxeia doesn't duck quickly enough, and suffers the full force of the creature's foulness. Her shout of pain is choked by disgust.
Wary of the abomination, she circles around it while leaving room to disengage, if she can.
As she tries to get into position, she adds her brief opinion to the tactical discussion, "Let me know! I might be able to slow it down, but I'll need some room!"
Gabriel will begin inspiring courage and will move to flank the gobling thingy, drawing his dagger.
Currently traveling and having trouble with the map.
The goblin thingy attacks Throfinn with all it's weapons.
He slices into him with a longsword, brings a dagger around which Thorfinn avoids, but then leaves himself open for a slice from a handaxe.
Gabriel will continue to inspire courage. [5/10 rounds remain]
He will yell at the strange goblinoid in an attempt to demoralize it.
Clutching at his severe wounds, Thorfinn withdraws from the front. "Watch yourself--it's dangerous!"
Fall back Thorfin!!
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Ioxeia glances back to check on Thorfinn, then gauges the monster's progress down the hall. "Chim, Gallus!" she calls, "Throw anything you can at it and get clear! I'll try to stun it, but I don't want to blast anyone else!"
She braces herself and calculates grimly, No promises, of course. May we purchase glory at a cheaper rate than death.
The goblin looks very well wounded. It prepares for another assualt.
Gallus grips his glaive with two hands bringing it down towards the goblin as if to split him in half. Unfortunately, the low roof throws his blade off and he leaves a large furrow in the floor just beside the beast.
[b]Step back Chim so i can maneuver.
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As Gallus steps back, Ioxeia steps into the doorway, a pinch of coloured sand already in her hand. The pinch improbably grows into a handful and overflows as she calls out the words of her spell, before it blasts along the walls of the narrow hallway in a rainbow spray as she hurls it toward the monster.
Ioxeia braces as the dust settles in case the abomination was able to resist.