"Devil NO!" - Tessai immediately approaches the door and tries to open it.
"Devil? where did he go? Tessai wait!"
Aemon then reaches out to try and get Tessai away from the mirror.
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Tessai disappears. (Tessai, read BD's spoiler)
Black Devil touches the door, and he disappears.
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How far is the slumped corpse from Tessai? Can she reach it with her longspear?
"Devil, where did you go, how did you get back? Are you ok?"
"I touched the door. And touched it again, from the other side. ... Where is Tessai?"
Figuring it out, Devil says, "It's a hallway, alcoves, a body... Count at least twenty before you touch the door again, please."
And he touches the door.
"Tessai what's happening? how did we get here?"
Aemon looking around trying to pick out anything.
Detect Magic picks up anything?
"Has to be some sort of magic effect Aemon - either we are actually somewhere else, or we merely think we are... Give me a moment - can you discern what killed that one over there?"
"Stab wounds?", Devil suggests.
What's going on!? Where does everyone keep disappearing to?
Teleportation magic! They could be going anywhere.
"I'm not sure, but we should really watch ourselves here."
Aemon step's up to the dead body an checks the elf's body.
Looking to Kyle with a grin "Dare you to touch it too."
He waits a moment for Devil's return
"Aemon, you're not being careful.", Devil cautions. "You should both try to leave, very soon. There is great worry on the other side. Come out, and let's come in as one."
Devil tries to return to the main party. Again.
"It appears we can return. But it's also obvious that can change.So we should go in together. I've asked Tess and Aemon to come back through."
Aemon step's away from the body and to the door. "Tessai we should go back and regroup, Devil is right. He wait's for Tessai if she goes back through he follows.
"Ready when you all are ... is there any iminent threat on the other side that you could tell? Any sense of where you ended up?"
"That bag is magical" - Tessai comments as she draws her longspear, while focusing on the remainder of the hallway for magical auras.
Does the portal lead somewhere else in the house?
"Ready when you all are ... is there any iminent threat on the other side that you could tell? Any sense of where you ended up?"
"Nothing threatens obviously. Shadows dance in the corners, perhaps imagined. A fallen elf, his nails ripped away and scabbed over as though he'd been digging without tools, lies just inside. Starved, dying, but killed by a blade. Obviously, he was trapped. So we could be. We should go together, it's our best odds. If they don't exit before we are all gathered, weaponed, and briefed, we go. But I hope they do; they'll have insights I lack."
"I would guess... this is the Asmodean Knot."
Beppo looks highly confused. Just tell me when to- wait, trapped? How do we know we won't get trapped?
Knew I should have paid more attention during Avanced Use of Wizards.
Well... we don't I guess. And if that elf is anything to go by it suggests we probably will get trapped. the alchemist says miserably.
Still, we're not backing out now are we.
He steps through.
"Trapped? How do we know? We don't know we won't. We do know we might. Choose whether you want to tell grandchildren tales of other's glory, or have grandparents tell tales of yours."
Devil's golden orbs gleamed as he smirked at Beppo. "I know how you'll choose.", he said, tapping on the door.
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On the far side, Devil arrived and said, "Beppo and the rest will be along momentarily."
Sure that the corpse of the elf would be disturbed soon, and surer of his own defenses than any others, Devil declares, "Stand back, would you all?", and takes up the scroll and backpack.
Corellon shrugs, looks over at Beppo and says, "Well, we'll see what happens." and walks through the portal.
Beppo shrugs back at Corellon and follows him.
"I only ushered at the door.", Devil answers Kyle from where he's crouched at the fallen elf. "We haven't gone further yet."
Devil takes the scroll from the corpse's hand, sliding it free. He tosses the bag to the first of the others to meet his eye when he swings it to hint of tossing it. Then he casts a spell.
Devil tries to read only the title of the scroll.
"Well looks like we all made it in. What's in the bag Tessai?"
Aemon say's still trying to keeping a watchful eye out.
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Does Tessai look in the bag?
BD, you look at the scroll. It's empty. There's a faint residue of magic on it. You believe it may have been a magic scroll, its magic now spent.
We are going to try something a little different with this area. I've put two files in the shared folder called "Asmodean Knot" One is a .psp file. Do not attempt to open that one. The other is a JPG. That one, you can open. You guys are coming from the north, and you see a set of double doors to the south. As you move forward, I'll uncover and upload more of the map. We'll see how that works, for now :)
Poor soul... Brandon says simply of the elf.
He draws his silver Morningstar and heads toward the double doors. He reaches out to push them open, thinks better of it and says;
Corellon, perhaps you'd better lead. This place could be one big trap for all we know.
Tessai turns the bag opening away from the group, just in case anything nasty pops from within, and she opens it.
"Wait!", Devil calls to Tessai, from behind the empty scroll. "This elf is a trap. Well laid. But still, a trap. And the bag, or something in it, likely the sting." Gesturing to the elf, Devil narrates, "Poor trapped thief, explorer, prisoner... starving. Summons his own doom, and sits for it to kill him. One scroll, a second scroll, lie on the ground near him, and a third in his hand. The third is only bait. Because at the end of your life, would you re-roll a scroll to hold in your hand? An empty scroll? No..."
Regarding Tessai with his golden orbs, Devil continues, "It was meant to seem a testament. So... the bag is the lure, the elf, dressing for the lure, and in the bag... is the sting."
Tessai nods as Devil speaks, and stops her actions placing the bag down in one corner - "Perhaps we should study it further before attempting to open it - Corellon, would you be able to discern if this is a magical trap?"
Seeing that his friends haven't followed him to the double doors, Brandon heads back. He sees Kyle examining the bag.
May I take a look?
A handy haversack. Very helpful. Well, not for this poor.chap obviously.
"Still... can it be turned out, gently? Or does the magic require a reaching in?"