When you open the door you see a pitch black wall.
Anastasius takes Saulric's torch.
"Please, go ahead." he says.
Casius squints as he attempts to see through the darkness, then pulls out a torch, lights it, and tosses it into the room to see if it can be seen through the darkness. "Let's see if this illuminates the challenge before us."
The torch passes through the black wall as if it’s not even there, the sound of the torch falling to the ground follows.
Lazarus takes out a copper coin from his pouch and whispers a prayer.[/b]
The coin starts to glow. Lets see if magical light does the trick. He says as he tosses the coin in.
Casius stares nonplussed at the darkness he tossed his torch through. "So, this isn't a physical wall, and we would be able to pass through. Timeon, is this your life-draining darkness?"
The magical light of the coin repels the darkness all around as it falls to the ground. You can now see that the torch is still burning, in the center of the room there is obsidian globe atop a podium.
“Yes, this is the room,” Timeon says.
Kira stares into the strange room and mumbles to herself for a moment. Finally she casts a spell, pointing tot he orb as it starts to lift, "Stand back."
Saulric kneels down to give Kira her best line of sight and sets himself to attack anything that might attempt to inflict harm upon his party.
Kira’s magic hand lifts the globe.
"Nicely done, Kira. Hold it steady, please."
Casius focuses, then his eyes begin to glow as he scans the orb for any signs of magic.
Kira holds the orb steady as Casius examines it. "When you are done, I can move it towards or away from us as needed."
The globe is emitting a minor aura of evocation.
Anastasius focuses his stare on the globe.
Anastasius can tell that the darkness radiating from the globe is as per the Darkness spell.
"It is the orb which is responsible for the darkness in this room. Destroy it and it will cease. Carry it with us and we can use it when we need it." says Anastasius, searching in his book for answers about the orb's specific lore.
"Does anyone have a sack we could shove it in? That should stop the darkness and allow us to keep it whole. Otherwise, let's just shatter it and move on."
Saulric immediately offers his backpack. Don't know if it'll contain the magic, but doesn't hurt to try.
Kira begins to float the orb towards them until it is in within reach, then grabs it handing it to Saulric to store.
Saulric accepts the orb and puts it in his backpack. Timeon, carry this will you? He says while holding the bag towards the young man.
Anastasius’ magical knowledge brings up several facts of immediate note. Obsidian is known to react strongly to darkness based evocation. Using the volcanic glass for evocation spells will often result in the spell becoming permanently bound to even the most diluted of the material. The obvious drawbacks to this is that higher quality obsidian is needed to have the same effect for stronger spells and the smallest scratch will result in the spell being broken after a single day.
When the globe is stuffed in the pack the darkness goes with it, and when Saulric holds the pack out to Timeon a red mist descends and surrounds him.
Kira Petrilus's initiative: 21
Casius Flann's initiative: 18
Wade Willhelm's initiative: 15
Lazarus the Rat's initiative: 15
?’s initiative: 11
Anastasius Poli's initiative: 11
Saulric The Black's initiative: 9
Casius gapes at the red mist as it engulfs Saulric, then considers the room's lesson. ...burn thy adversary to ashes... Casius pulls out a vial of a volatile red liquid, then fixes it with a stare that insinuates its way into its consciousness - and causes it pain. He then threw the vial at it.
Lazarus scouls. That was a mistake. He fixes his eyes on the attacking... mist. It had a mind before, so he assumes it still does.
Withdraw. He commands the attacker.
Vampiric Mist’s HP 23/30.
temporary hit points.
The mist decides to attack Casius, which is proof that he managed to affect it.
Kira steps to the rear and begins casting. A burst of flame comes flying out of her hands consuming the mist.
Lazarus attempts to... stab? the smoke.
Saulric slashes at the misty foe without much hope of hitting.
Anastasius panics and throws a ray of cold at the mist.
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The mist creature is licked by Kira’s fire, and it dodges Anastasius’ ray. It does not, however, avoid Saulric as he swings his sword through the malleable creature, which appears to have been effective if the loud shriek can be taken as an indication of pain.
Kira Petrilus's initiative: 21
Casius Flann's initiative: 18
Wade Willhelm's initiative: 15
Lazarus the Rat's initiative: 15
?’s initiative: 11
Anastasius Poli's initiative: 11
Saulric The Black's initiative: 9
Kira pulls out her hand crossbow and loads it, beginning to take aim at the strange mist.
Casius steps back from the red mist that struck at him, feeling his blood drain from his body. I'm going to die here, he thinks, as he pulls out another alchemist's fire and hurls it at the mist.
Casius’ alchemical fire hits the mist, which appears to be ready to attack again fortunately for him though, William swings his scythe sprinkling the blade in tiny droplets of blood. It turns to Wade. Lazarus draws his sword and swings at the creature but misses entirely as it moves on Wade, sucking the blood out of him.
The thing wasn't attacking him any more, so Casius pulls out another alchemist's fire and throws it at the red mist thing.
Kira fires her crossbow, then quickly reloads it.
Unable to do anything else in such a fight, Anastasius tries to fire another ray of cold.
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Lazarus gets in on the action, to little effect. It's hard to stab a cloud.
After the latest barrage of attacks the Mist screams and flies back into the room and up towards the ceiling. In the ceiling, there are simple holes (one inch in diameter) at regular intervals.