Five shakes his head at the others and goes to inspect the display.
He presses a few of the symbols and to his surprise they move around. He tries a few sequences and nothing seems to be happening. Once Avizzi tries entering the room for a third time the door on the West wall breaks and dust comes from the seal. Blue shining light emits from behind the door which fades to show a humanoid at the door.
A large, heavily muscled man wearing a doctor's mask with a sharkface on it and ridiculous steampunk goggles stands in the doorway, lazily and repetitively smacking the wall with a worn rock. He looks over at the opening door, and turns back to what he was doing for a second before dropping the rock and wildly brandishing a large buzzaxe at the group.
as he grabs the axe and smacks the haft of it into his throat.
He staggers back, and in a lower, gravelly, and much less excited voice says, Sorry, it's been a while and the other one is bored. If you're not hallucinations, thanks for letting me out. Call me Creed. So, how are you?
After being frozen in fear for a brief moment, Jack with his transformed form and his Imakandi strength immediately starts gunning for the exit of the dungeon silently.
Avizzi shakes his head as Aannra tells him it wasn't real. "I dunno, looked pretty f*cking real to me..." He stares blankly as Jack dashes past and hooks a thumb at him. "Looks like that guy didn't like it either. You wanna get him?"
Once Avizzi walks into the room again, he carefully takes a look over at the pool...
...and after a moment's reflection, decides that it isn't real, after all.
Of course, when the wall breaks open and the buzzaxe guy starts shouting, Avizzi quickly drops into a fighting stance, knives in his hands. When his voice shifts, he frowns and grunts. "Ah, great. Another crazy assh*le. We needed one of those."
"he dos sound a little odd"
Aannra says pointing her gun at the big mans head.
"Are you a nice person?
She asks
Velden snorts. "The line is, are you a good witch or a bad witch." He corrects Aannra, as an aside. "So, you're nuttier than a fruitcake huh? Multiple personality, alien symbiote, or incomplete cyborg merge?" He asks the man, keeping his bow ready. Velden says in an aside to Five. "You really do manage to find the oddest things, maybe you should stay away from touchy feeling glowy runes in the future? Next time it might be a pygmy thresher with a dozen hungry babies." He says offhandedly. "Be glad when that claptrap and rebirth'd tech finish modding my bow for me." He adds, under his breath, watching the nut job.
He looks down the gun, and says after a bit, "Yes. Yes I am."
He looks to the bow, and says, "Yes? Maybe? I don't remember."
He looks to the ugly fellow with the burned face, and screams, you look a little worse for wear, I can mix up simple healing draughts for you if it would put your crew at ease."
Velden snorts. "I would have to say at this point... that the thought of drinking anything you mix up... puts me at the opposite of 'ease'." He says in a droll voice. "Velden, Five, Jellen, Annrra, Avizzi. Sniper, Spellcaster, Annoying, Biodroid, Sneaky Bastard." He hooks a thumb at each person in turn, twice.
Avizzi scratches his jaw and looks down at his nails before wiping them on his jacket. "Yeah, I get that a lot." He snorts at Velden's designation for him. "Get that a lot too."
Puts her gun away.
"Good witch, got it Velden"
She looks around
"Sooo what's next"
Aannra spots Jack has gone and go's after him,
"Jack it's not real it's a broken try screen"
"Yes the weirdest things do happen to me. A diminutive thresher would be welcome in comparison to some things I have found. Just wait for the next job, it involves a massive scag. You did tell me to figure it out." he says with mirth, then looking to the new individual.
In a calm even voice he says, "Its good to have a nice person even though you look like a bandit. Do you know where you are, about that room, or this place?"
He sees Jellena step in and act in that weird manner, he looks to Velden, "Ah crap, negative reinforcement with an illusion can set one of us to have the illusion inprinted on one of us. Now we have a new threat, thanks Velden. She might come to her senses when she thinks you are dead. Do you have any images handy?"
Jack gets to the staircase climbs it to the blast door and just waits there, with some coaxing and once the spell wears off about a half minute later, he accompanies Aannra back to the group. Walking into the room to see Five looking overwhelmed.
Velden chuckles. "I'm not an illusionist. I deal in concretes, blood, and death." He shrugs. "I suggest a resurrection if she tries anything... or replacement. Considering she's acted like a b&!@@ from the first time I met her, I would say the negative reinforcement is more of a feedback loop."
Seeing Jellena walk out of the room, Avizzi coughs. "Uh, anyone worried she looks a little too much like me? Like I said, crazy assh*les. We only need one, and I'm usually it. Gimme a minute?"
He draws his own switchblade, though he keeps it in his palm with the blade in, and steps out to where Jellena is. "Hey there, sweetheart. You looking to practice some moves or something?"
He looks to Five, and says, "Some corpse-rutting skagpuke who goes by Alec Faust told me I could find supplies down there shut up but he didn't tell me I would be sealed in. I want to get out of here and that doesn't seem physically possible sorry and have words with him. If he doesn't sing a sweet song to me, he can talk with the other guy."
The big man hoists his buzzaxe and says, "I want to get moving, I'm a wee bit anxious. Where to?"
Aannra looks at the strange new man.
"You know you talk funny you know that right."
She then go's over to the door out of the room.
"This way?"
She places her drone down and lets it count ahead.
The room that the psycho named Creed came out of is made of white stone and blue fluorescent mortar. The floor and ceiling is made from the same materials. The room has no corners for where the corners would be are smoothed out to a less extreme angle.
You found an Eridian book that helps you find clarity and allows you to transcribe memories onto its pages. A shield which gives you DR 3/magic. Finally you found a strange snakelike creature which is pure white and wrapped around your wrist you still are not for sure what it does.
"Well fight with us to figure out what has desecrated the tomb and the sooner you will be able to face Alec Faust, he has secured this floor until we take care of the problem. It is necrotic in general." Five says simply knowing that with that incentive they will have another ally for now.
Moves in to the room the odd man came out of and looks around.
Velden steps to the doorway and examines the room over Aannra's shoulder.
The glowing room seems that several of the rocks on the walls extend into the room and have niches on them, perhaps a place where an item is stored.
With his rescuers not seemingly prepared to kill him if he makes sudden moves, Creed leaves his unexpected prison. He starts following Azzizi, keeping his weapons down and waiting to see what happens next.
"There where things on the stones but now they are gone, O look there is a another way out"
She gos around to the door
Seeing Jellena walk out of the room, Avizzi coughs. "Uh, anyone worried she looks a little too much like me? Like I said, crazy assh*les. We only need one, and I'm usually it. Gimme a minute?"
He draws his own switchblade, though he keeps it in his palm with the blade in, and steps out to where Jellena is. "Hey there, sweetheart. You looking to practice some moves or something?"
Jack stands and looks around the room wondering what else would spook him. He doesn't wish to make conversation here. Just wanting to see what Creed might do.
The portcullis seems to be awfully heavy and no one has approached it yet, it is in the South of the room.
"Hmm, some kind of countdown clock, looks like we have about 7 minutes before something happens." He points to the count down clock. "Someone go get Avizzi, he's our trap expert. We need to know if this is a '7 minutes to doomsday' clock or a '7 minutes until the vault reseals itself' clock."
Avizzi cocks his head to the side and raises... well, he doesn't have eyebrows, but that section of his face moves a bit. "What are you doing here, playing hide and seek? Or the 'sneaky killer' game for babies?"
Creed calls back, "It means closes and seals for a long time, definitely a countdown to yeah yeah strip the flesh salt the wound we got it, seriously don't stay in there too long."
Five steps around the water and comes up to Velden, then shakes his head. "I can't see what you are talking about but I trust you, Aannra you should grab what you want and come out quick, or just come out."
Looks around to serif there are any more artefacts
just a moment and I'll me out
There are hundreds of magical auras within this room. It seems if you want to find an item within you will need to use your normal eyes.
Aannra starts looking around.
Within a quick minute Aannra you have found several nooks that have an item within them. One is a black stone that has a glowing blue dot on it. The next item is a flat hexagonal clear crystal or glass with tech lines of simmering gold intricately laid throughout the object. The last object is a crystal pommeled dagger, the blade is cold to the touch. As you begin to leave with the items you selected you see a hollow tube that at the end absorbs light is laid along the inside of the room in the door jam.
false life emmiter, 1d10+2 1/day
hack the system - used to help analyze threats +2 on knowledge checks, if attached to a vending machine it reduces the cost by 50% for that day, any secret compartments are opened and 25% chance of bank spewing wealth.
cold iron dagger of frost, plane bane (vicious property x2 but only for outsiders of chaotic persuasion)
black crystal light saber
She heads out the door talking all four items, the Tube being the last, once past the door she hands the crystal pommelled dagger to Avizzi.
"You like knives Avizzi I found this one in the room, its blade is cold."
She uses detect magic/power on each of the others.
Velden will look around the room and grab anything he sees that Aannara missed before leaving.
Seeing the tube, he nods at Aannra. "Don't break the beam, it might set off a trap."
Avizzi keeps looking at Jellena for a few moments and then grins with a shrug. "Well hey, glad to know I'm on your good side, huh? Just hold off on revenge til we get outta here, though. I know it's hard..."
He trails off and looks to Aannra, and takes the dagger with a nod and a careful study of the piece. "Thanks, sweetheart."
Aannra did not miss anything.
+1 cold iron dagger of frost, plane bane (vicious property x2 but only for outsiders of lawful persuasion), with a slot for an ioun stone (akin to a Wayfinder).
"Hey Jack or Creed want to see if you can lift the portcullis, oh wait, likely trapped! Avizzi, Velden you mind checking it out first. Aannra find anything interesting or helpful?!" He starts off analytical asking for help but once he gets to Aannra he acts like a child in a candy shop.
"Over there Avizzi, the trigger mechanism is there." He points to the spot on the frame of the portcullis.
Creed follows over to the portcullis, and when given the all clear by Velden and Avizzi, tries to lift it.
Avizzi gives a small grunt of surprise when Jellena leans on him, but otherwise shrugs it off. He nods at Velden. "Just hold on to your willy, there. I've got it." Kneeling down before the device, he goes over it with his hands before taking his new adamantine switchblade to the mechanism.