"Don't look at me, I just sail ships and shoot a bow once in a while. Crazy land traps in a death maze is a bit out of my normal." He stares at the situation, not having the deep connection the others did with the now dead man.
Dain scrambles up the stairs. He stops next to Tung, then gets down on his knees and examines the steps where Tilver disappeared, muttering to himself the whole time. From this vantage, he looks around at the floor, the walls, and the ceiling - looking for a bane that might have taken Tilver away.
"Dain, what are you doing? What did your spirits tell you?! We're wasting time if Silas is right. Who knows what danger Tilver is in!?"
Tung cries as the half-elf scrambles around in search of a bane.
With an impatient sigh, Tung braces and sticks his head in the hole to look for Tilver.
Dain spots the trap just as Tung sticks his head into the hole. With a loud explosion of sound, he too disintegrates!
If Tung fails he is also Stupefied 1.
Then, Tung is teleported to midair in the Banewarrens, over an apparently bottomless pit! He may Grab an Edge with a DC 25 Reflex save. Otherwise, you take 45 damage as he plummets to the bottom!
Also, you might land on Tilver...
Tilver, if Tung fails to Grab an Edge, you need to make a DC 19 Reflex save or take a further 45 damage when he strikes you as he falls. If he succeeds, you don’t have to make the save.
Isabel staggers as Tung sticks his head into the hole. "What? That was one of the...." she just starts muttering to herself. "Is there a trap? Should I try to dispel the magic? I hope they were just teleported and not actually disintegrated."
She casts detect magic at the hole.
Silas shakes his head at where Tung used to be. "Dain, did the spirits show you what is happening?" he asks as Dain was squatting beneath the hole when Tung stuck his head in.
"I don't know...maybe? But look here. There is some sort of rune that could be the...errr...cause?"
"I don't know anything about those kinds of runes. Can you disable it? If you disable it do you think they will return or be lost forever?" Silas asks warily.
"I can't. Isabel?" says Dain, shooting a pleading look at the mage.
Having braced for the worst, Tung was ready for the explosion of sounds and shrugs most of it off.
Feeling no ground beneath him, he snaps out a hand toward a ledge he spots off to the side.
Once Tung gets back to "safety", he calls out "TILVER! TILVER! ARE YOU IN HERE!?!"
"I think we're still in the Banewarrens, near the Room of Stairs. Heaven help us, did you go into that trap after seeing me disappear? It could have sucked us both into the Void for all you knew!"
Tung pulls out his climbing kit and anchors a piton to begin his descent. He tries to keep quiet as advised.
"I'll try." She moves to where she can see the rune and casts Dispel Magic on the rune.
The rune stops glowing brightly and now barely glows at all.
I will go and investigate, but if the rune was teleporting them I am not sure this will help find them." Silas will go up the stairs and into the hole in the ceiling, wincing as he enters.
Nothing happens as Silas enters the upper chamber which is bare save for a large red handle which can be in either the right or left position. Currently, it is set to the right.
"The only thing up here is a red handle. So...if I turn the handle do you think the trap returns them?" Silas asks as he eyes the red handle warily.
The chamber is a bare 10'x10' cube with a hole in the floor and a switch on the wall. You can't be certain what will be revealed if you move the stairs. But there is certainly room for more such cubes, yes.
Tung pauses before going over the edge and helps raise Tilver using the rope.
"Either pull it or get out of there, I am not planning on breathing my last breath in this mad house so we better make it quick.No telling what that bell gonna bring in to shore."
Silas grits his teeth and pulls the lever.
The lever won't move. It's not stuck, it just refuses to move out of its current location. Almost like something else has to happen first.
Hey Tilver - Anything about this situation remind you of something?
"The lever is stuck. Maybe we have to move the stairs before I can move the lever?" Silas says as he looks around the small cube.
It's completely bare but for the lever.
Dain looks over towards the central pillar. "Then we'll have to play with these levers." He shouts up the stairs to Silas, "You wanna come back down before we start...ummm...flipping switches?"
"I can cast fly. What do you think about me staying up here while you move the stairs from below? That should keep anyone from falling to their death if the floor suddenly falls out from under this room."
Silas will come back down, wincing as he passes the rune and hoping it's still inert.
"Well... we have a plan. Who wants honor of the first pull?"
Silas will pull the lever and see what happens.
Which lever? The one that wouldn't budge? Or did you mean the switches?
There are four switches. One is UP and the other three are DOWN. Silas tries pressing the switch in the UP position, but nothing happens. Choosing another at random, he presses it and it moves into the UP position while the other switch moves into the DOWN position.
With a rumble and loud clanking, the ancient ironwork begins to rotate around the central shaft. It moves ponderously so that the floor plate covers a different quarter of the floor and the ceiling to uncover a different quarter of the ceiling. Whereas previously the Northwest corner of the ceiling had been exposed, now the Northeast corner is exposed. Another small chamber can be seen at the top of the stairs.
Silas looks over at Dain, "There is probably a rune in much the same place. Can you check and see if you find it?
Tilver suddenly remembers a strange conversation he had only that morning.
Also, you two are now out of the pit and can go where you like.
"We should find the others. I imagine they would have followed by now if they wanted to." Tung comments as he draws his dagger and skulks forward.
He turns to Tilver. "We'd best be quiet until we can find the group."
Dain examines the spot on the stairs where he found the rune to see if it has reactivated, then examines the rest of the steps to be safe.
Isabel is still hanging out in the room that was open.