Rayhan casts Arcane Sight and takes a look at all the items.
Taking out the clay bottle she'll pull the stopper and sniff the opening, providing it isn't too unpleasant she'll then give the opening a quick lick to see what it is.
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If you are all ready, I don't think we should give them too much time. Khayal says sipinning his kukri in his hand. He turns to Rayhan and nods.
Bartan practically falls over when he IDs the wand. "This will be immensely helpful, my friends! If you'd allow me to carry it, I would appreciate it."
If no one objects, Bartan will take the wand and cast it on himself.
"It is a bit of harmless necromancy that grants temporary vitality. Unfortunately it only affects its wielder, so we cannot all benefit from it easily, but any of us with arcane abilities can make use of it."
Rayhan will cast Passwall wherever the Sphinx indicated the passage "used" to be before the Shaitan covered it over.
Rayhan casts the spell, and the granite stone floor opens up to show a circular hole going straight down. Steps have been carved the sides of the circular entrance - but strangely reversed. A person with spider climb could walk "upside down" quite easily on the opposite-pointing steps, but anyone else would surely slide down the otherwise slippery sides.
The shaft plunges into darkness further than the tilted sun in the sky allows you to see.
A breeze of air sighs past you from the temple's atmosphere, going below in a draft.
Rayhan casts fly upon himself. He then asks
Would someone like to Levitate down?
Ill take whatever means you have. It's either that or slide down. Khayal says in a way that makes it sound like he would not mind sliding.
"I would take a levitate, my friend."
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"The stairs look like fun." Nasir says as Yazi hands her one of the potions. Drinking it quickly, the dancer arches into a supple backbend, shifting into a handstand before bringing her feet up to the underside of the inverted stairway,the potion's magic taking effect.
Not to be completely outdone by his lady-friends, once Rayhan casts levitate on him, Bartan will sit down at the edge of the long slope down, pull out his cards, and begin shuffling them in intricate patterns as he slowly descends into the darkness.
Hajar says Well brother. The slide it is... with a grin and he slides down the stairwell
Rayhan casts Levitate on Bartan, then he flies down the stairwell.
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Khayal, not to be outdone by his brother does a front flip and attempts to slide down the ramp standing up. . But instead of landing on his feat he slips lands on his rear and makes his way down the slide in the most undignified fashion.
You accelerate dangerously as the shaft with the stairway goes down ten, then twenty, then forty, and even sixty feet!
You are catapulted into open air and free-fall after emerging from the stone shaft! There is nothing but darkness around you - wait, there is some faint light from directly below. And coming up fast!
You bounce off the - whatever it is - with the feeling of hard stone. You take lethal damage, landing prone.
You manage to use your hands, knees, and elbows to slow yourself down the shaft, taking only nonlethal damage.
At the end of the shaft you feel nothing but empty air, and your old arch-nemesis, uncontrolled free-fall, laughs evilly from afar. There is nothing but darkness around you - wait, there is some faint light from directly below. And coming up fast!
You bounce off the - whatever it is - with the feeling of hard stone. You take lethal damage, landing prone.
Rayhan flies down first, but the trip is anything but short, as the shaft goes down, down, down, more than fifty feet!
Hajar and Khayal race past him on the smoothed granite.
The two women take a normal stairway walk down the shaft, noticing that they are going quite the distance below the surface. Bartan follows at the rear, his levitate only slightly faster than a feather fall.
After sixty feet, Rayhan emerges into a very large area, the only light dimly coming from a floating block of something in the center. The two ladies have the choice of walking along the ceiling, or dropping down, if they're particularly nimble .
Like Rayhan, Bartan can levitate straight down, or choose to push off from the shaft using his hands or feet to go at an angle.
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After his ungraceful descent comes to an abrupt stop, Khayal quickly jumps to his feet before any but his brother can see him. Cringing with the pain of some bruised ribs, Khayal hides his grimace with a smile. As the others arrive, he tries to play it off like he meant to do that.
Bartan slowly floats down next to Khayal and Hajar, looking around using a light spell if needed.
Hajar groans in pain as he lands, his ankle snapping under the weight of the Paladin and all his armor.
He flinches in pain and prays to Sarenrae
Blessed Dawnflower, heal this one, your most unwise servant.
Then he says to his Brother
That was....enjoyable. But most foolish of us.
Rayhan touches down nearby and mutters something about Foolish boys.. but you can almost hear concern in the old man's voice.
Rayhan casts Light and then Detect Magic to get a sense of where he is in this place.
You see a bizarre, sixty-foot-wide chamber like two ziggurats placed base-to-base. The ceiling expands in 5-foot tiers, so that the shaft drops away in ever-widening layers. Where the two bases meet is a ten-foot-tall ledge, before the floor drops, amphitheater-like, in 5-foot tiers to a 10-foot-square base.
At the widest point of the room’s perimeter, where the two inverted ziggurats join, stand four large stones, not quite touching the ceiling. Hanging in mid-air in the center of the chamber is a blocky structure some twenty feet across, covered in a intricate lacework of glowing symbols. Looking closely at the floating rock, you are puzzled and surprised to see a strange exotic figure imprisoned in the bulk of the stone - a snakelike creature with a feathered reptilian head and delicate humanoid arms seems to have been fused into the block, coils of flesh and lengths of arms protruding here and there from the stone, its head partially encased with only one closed eye free.
A familiar ten-foot-tall redhead emerges from the South wall of the base in the room, just as if she had walked through a curtain of beads in a normal domicile, two ten-foot tall men following her. Each of the men have an otherworldly look about them, their skin glittering like diamonds, their coloring like amethyst or sapphire. While bare-chested, the men have desert-like armor on their arms and legs, and carry swords.
Iqilma hisses when she saw the adventurers in the chamber. "They are already here!" she exclaimed. Calling out loudly, Iqilma says "Guardians, attack these intruders!"
ROUND ONE
Init:
From his vantage point, Rayhan casts Blur on himself and moves to take cover...
The two male shaitans unsheathe their swords and don't walk as much as sink into the stone of the chamber, disappearing from sight.
Iqilma takes her wind fan from a sleeve, opening it with a snap. She looks up at the humans on the ceiling and in the air above.
The four "pillars" in the corners of the room shake violently, the rock falling off of them and revealing Large constructs made of jagged stone edges. The stone floor around them ripple and extrude spikes, almost as if the constructs were infecting the nearby stone with their presence. Red construct eyes look around the chamber.
Vardishal rises almost painfully to your awareness, the former Templar shouting in your mind The North Wind comes at you, genie-kind! He adds Beware their attacks from below and behind!
Hajar shouts The North Wind comes at you, genie-kind!
He climbs down one level and casts a spell of Righteous Fury upon himself
Khayal bounds up to Iqilma's level and slashes out with his kukri.
Khayal slashes into Iqilma's torso, connecting with a solid blow.
Bartan will enhance his deck with frost and seeking, take a moment to steady his hands, then ready a spell to cast it the moment he sees one of the two shaitans who melted into the floor.
=> 37: The Winged Serpent (Lawful Good, Wisdom)
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Bartan readies, Khayal cuts into the female shaitan, but notices his blades skittering along her skin. Nasir dances on the ceiling, and Hajar shouted a challenge. The red-head gave a start at Hajar's words, frowning.
ROUND TWO
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Init:
Hajar moves to engage the Shaitan shouting out
Surrender now and take us to Oberhak, stop this foolishness! We seek to save Kakishon!