A few steps into the room, the pillar released a storm of arrows. Over the course of a minute, the arrows whizz past. Without the cover of the shield, Jurgen would have definitely been bruised all over.
With the arrows spend, the mechanism creacks for a moment longer, then stops. In the quiet you can hear a click from the door to the south.
Araklifest steps into the room. The mechanism rattles for a moment, but its payload is spend.
The door to the south is another sturdy wooden door. Not seeing anything wrong with it, Jurgen opens it. Behind it is a corridor, ending in a long room which has a continuous carving of mourners running along the walls,
leading to a staircase on the south side of the room
When the party enters the room, 4 skeletons step out of the rooms dark corners.
Initiative
Round 1
Zoma-Khat
Araklifest
Jurgen
Skeletons
Heir
Araklifest and Jurgen can act!
Jurgen: The Green skeleton crubles when Jugen manages to shoot traught trough its spine.
This is a bloody skeleton. They have DR bludgeoning, fast healing and Deathless:
A bloody skeleton is destroyed when reduced to 0 hit
points, but it returns to unlife 1 hour later at 1 hit point, allowing its fast healing to thereafter resume healing it. A bloody skeleton can
be permanently destroyed if it is destroyed by positive energy, if it
is reduced to 0 hit points in the area of a bless or hallow spell, or if
its remains are sprinkled with a vial of holy water.
Araklifest: Hits the skeleton clean trough the ribcage, and it crumbles into a pile of bones.
Zoma-Khat:
Skeleton: The remaining skeleton rushes Jurgen.
But its claw is no match for Jurgen's armor.
Initiative
Round 1
Zoma-Khat
Araklifest
Jurgen
Skeletons
Heir
Heir is up!
Heir: Sets up a flank with Jurgen, but the skeleton is still too fast.
Araklifest: Steps in closer, but also misses.
Initiative
Round 2
Zoma-Khat
Araklifest
Jurgen
Skeletons
Heir
Jurgen is up!
Jurgen: Even with the flank with Heir, Jurgen misses the skeleton.
Zoma-Khat:
Zoma-Khat blows the skeleton to piecies!
The bones sizzle and melt into a pile of ash when Jurgen sprinkles them with holy water.
One of the skeletons is wearing a tarnished silver necklace.
At the back of the chamber is a staircase that leads down to. Listening at the stairs, Jurgen can hear the sound of dripping water and a low, distant moaning.
The necklace is worth 200 gp. The necklace is of a style that is about 200 years old.
At the bottom of the stairs is a circular chamber with three passageways leading from it. In the center is a small stone pedestal. The sound of dripping water can be heard coming from the eastern passageway, while the stench of rot emanates from the west.
The pedestal might once have held something, but it is an empty platform at the moment.
The floor bears an inscription spiraling out from the pillar and written in Common. It reads: “To the south you might take your ease, to rest and reflect on Kassen’s deeds. To the east lies the wheel, to open the gate. To the west is the resting place of Kassen, hero of the Fangwood.”
With Araklifests and Jurgen's desire to check south first, the party carefully rounds the corner of the hallway.
The short passageway takes a bend before ending in a small chamber dominated on the far side by a silver fountain quietly burbling perfectly clear water. An inscription above the fountain reads “Kassen’s legacy lives on with his people. Drink and be refreshed.”
Leaving the room behind, the party goes east.
The corridor that heads east splits. Looking ahead, the one corridor ends in a door, on the other side, you can see the beginning of a room.
A strange blue fungus covers the walls, ceiling, and pillars of this waterlogged chamber. Its wispy strands stretch out from the wall like roots dangling in the air, twitching and swaying in an unseen breeze.
Floating in the water are four decaying corpses—three large rats and one giant frog—with strange burn marks all over their bodies.
The fungus growing on the walls of this chamber is a rather dangerous hazard known as azure fungus. As a byproduct of its growth, the
fungus builds up a charge of electricity that it releases in bursts into its surroundings.
The azure fungus is sensitive to touch and discharges its electricity if contacted.
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"Indeed. Stay away while I try something to take away the danger. If something hit me, use my wand to help me." When his comrades are safe behind one corner, Araklifest uses his big wooden shield to protect himself against the worse, while he casts prestidigitation to try to peel the fungus from the wall and drop it into the water.
The fungus crackles with energy as the magic starts slowly peeling it from the wall. Its clear its charged and could be set off by one wrong move...
In a violent reaction the moss discharges throughout the room. The shield offers some protection against the bolts shooting trough the air, but none against those travelling trough the foot of water Araklifest is standing in...
Smoking a bit from the tips of his ears, Araklifest falls over with a splash.
The moss has gone dormant.
Taking some time to make sure Araklifest is all right, you notice that after the large discarche, it takes about a minute for the moss to re-charge.
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"That entire hallway's flooded... can't really get close to the moss to tear it down without setting it off. But maybe we can trigger it from a distance to discharge it, then remove some moss, trigger it safely again, remove more moss and so on until it's dealt with."
Using Prestidigitation (10ft) and thrown pebbles Jurgen's going to experiment with that very cautiously.
With some experimentation, you find that throwing pebbles works the best. With the water reaching around the bend of the room, its hard to get a good line of vision. But standing at the bend in the room, tosssing a pebble, then make a jump for dry land seems to work.
The moss takes about a minute each time, so it takes quite a bit of work. Throw pebble, jump away. Moss discharges. Rush in. Scrape some moss off. Then back out of the room when you heard the charge build up.
But eventually, you manage to scrape the room pretty clear. The few scrapes left here and there dont manage to do more then put your hair on end with static.
Looking down the corridor, the left leads to another door, the right hand side leads to a bigger room.
This large chamber is partially flooded, with the south end just barely rising out of the stagnant water. A large wheel is set into the floor of the dry area, attached to chains that rise up into the ceiling. A thick layer of slick, black mold covers the carvings on the walls of this chamber.
The mold looks like your standard kitchen variety. Not dangerous unless you decide to actually lick it.