Carina bites her lip to keep from giggling.
It's not quite successful, as her shoulders are shaking & her tail is quivering from the effort.
Now that the adventurers are able to examine the room, they see that they're in what might once have been a shower room. Numerous drains near the tan shower pillars are totally clogged with debris. The pillars and central structure both contain non-functional shower spigots about eight feet off the wall.
There are two side chambers.
Tanith laughs and scratches at his stubble. ”Sorry about that. Olidammara always sounded like a woman’s name to me.”
After sharing a smile with Carina again, Tanith picks up his poleaxe. ”I’m gunna dip into the water and see what that red light was.”
Astraden empties her backpack, laying her gear out on the floor to dry. She also removes her scale mail, making a mental note to oil it later, and follows the others into the water.
Carina remains on the shore, eying the now bloody red water with suspicion. She wasn't certain she could be of any help underwater...
...well, that and she couldn't swim to save her life.
...well, that and she couldn't swim to save her life.
The light turns out to be coming from a red lantern. A burning rag has been stuffed within.
Tanith drags the ghoul's ruined bodies up to the surface one by one in addition to the lantern. "You think this is important?" he asks aloud as he pours the water out of his boots.
Carina takes a look at the red lantern.
"I'd imagine so; there was a lantern missing from back in the lantern chamber, wasn't there?"
"Let's search this area real good and then try taking it back to the lantern chamber", the big man says while slipping his soggy boots back on.
Farrukh slips into the water, a little more gracefully this time, and looks around the area.
(+3 vs traps)
"Take your time, guys. I've got some reading to do..." Carina says, taking Erip's spellbook out of her backpack along with her formula book, a quill & an inkwell.
She starts poring over the book, looking for any spell she could duplicate in her own book.
Detect magic... would be nice, but I don't think the reagents would react long enough to be viable... Protection from Evil? No. The ingredients wouldn't mix together at all. Shield...
She pauses at the shield spell.
"...yeah, I think I can make that work!" She whispers, taking her quill & beginning to scribe the spell into her formula book.
Admittedly, transcribing a spell into an alchemist formula isn't as easy as it sounds. It's quite difficult to get both sides of the chemical equation for the mixture to balance... but she does it. It takes her roughly an hour to do so, but she does it!
Tanith and Farrukh don't find anything in the flooded shower room.
"There's nothing else down here", Tanith says disappointingly.
Once Carina's done studying, let's head up to the lantern room."
Farrukh wades out of the pool, shaking himself somewhat dry.
"All right then, we didn't find anything. Let's head back up where it's dry, unless someone has a better idea?"
Tanith leads the way back up and tries to figure out the best way to hang the red lantern. "Tell me when it's level."
Tanith helps Farrukh in his searches.
Farrukh and Tanith pause before going up to check the two locker rooms. In one, they find a human corpse in masterwork red leather armor. There is a masterwork shortsword still clutched in its skeletal hand.
In the other room, a quick look through the lockers reveals a pouch containing 38 gold, 2 platinum, and 55 silver pieces.
Two of the suits of armor are moldy and worthless, but the third seems to have held together fairly well. It belongs to the ghoul Spiny brought down. Its wearer also has a shiny gold ring, Tanith notices, which bears the same eight-pointed Seekers star as the armors.
With the treasure sorted and packed away, Tanith leads the party up toward the lantern room.
Robin follows closely behind Tanith and mutters. "Thanks for saving me, old bean. Try to do it faster next time, eh?" He holds his bow anxiously, eyes more cautious.
"I drowned with good faith in your abilities, of course. Somebody has to do the work to make a girl fall for you." He nods towards Carina, chuckles, and strolls ahead. "Do try to keep up, lover boy!" He calls loudly, and laughs.
Tanith roars with laughter at Robin’s jibe and pats the water-logged hunter on the back heartily. ”Acts of courage and tests of strength are all parts of Kord’s worship”, the big man explains while flexing one mammoth bicep. ”If I look good doing it and catch the eye of the ladies, that’s all the better!”
”I’m glad you’re okay Robin.”
Carina's eyes widen and she turns a very deep shade of maroon. Her tail flicks from side to side.
"It was just a hug..."
Astraden helps the others search, then swims back, whispers a spell, and examines the equipment taken from the corpses.
"Robin, I'm glad to see you back on your feet," Astraden says. After watching the alchemist study for a while, she stands up and says, "I'm just going to pop into those other rooms."
She searches the two rooms she passed earlier, wincing when she enters the crypt.
Then, as Carina finishes up, she sits down and prays to Olidammara for about fifteen minutes.
Finally, she repacks her backpack, including whatever treasure goes unclaimed along with her scale mail, and ties the whole shebang to the end of the rope. She then climbs up and pulls the backpack up. She unties it, lets the rope drop for whoever remains below, and places the loot by Erip's body.
Farrukh remembers something.
"Astraden, can you take a look at these things we found earlier as well? A pair of goggles and some sort of rod or some such."
"Can do." She says something that almost sounds Flan, holding her hands around the items.
Detect magic: 1d20+5=9...
The statue and room both radiate distinct Moderate auras.
Astraden identifies the helix-shaped wand as a wand of unseen servant with sixteen charges left, the glass panpipe-like wand as a wand of shatter with seven charges left, and the goggles as goggles of minute seeing.
She also notices that the chain shirt and pearl are glowing, too.
She's not sure what they do, though.
Astraden evaluates the humming auras and sets the magic items apart from the rest. "This spiral rod is a wand that will summon an invisible entity that follows the summoner's commands, the glass rod (which I believe only Tanith and I can use) causes a piercing scream that shatters objects, and the eyegoggles will improve the wearer's ability to manipulate fine objects like locks. The sword, mail, and pearl are also magical, but I can't tell what they do."
"Oh, and the room with the giant dead beetle has moderate magical auras, but I don't know what they do. Carina, you might want to take a look at them if we go down there again." Astraden checks for any auras on the gear she took from that room, as well.
She also examines the wands and goggles further, trying to figure out how much they're worth.
Carina listens as Astraden expounds on the magic items she has identified.
"Hmm... back in the room with the dead beetle, Cuetzpalli & Farrukh complained that as soon as you crossed the threshold of that room, you felt tired. You then kept feeling tired until you left." Carina shrugs. "I can't really help you with identifying stuff yet... I'll see if I can get my hands on an identify scroll the next time we're in town."
"So the goggles will make it easier for me to disable traps and unlock doors? Does anyone mind if I take these? It's a bit of a hobby of mine, and they could come in handy."
"Yes, I think they'd see the most use with you." Astraden steps back and lets Farrukh and the rest pick through the items. "I'd like either the glass wand or the chain shirt, though."
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Cuetzpalli helps the others search around, and listens intently when when Astraden describes the magical nature of some of the objects. He also sneaks off by himself while searching and reads Wierus's note. After reading the note he gathers back with the others to figure out what they're doing now. "I also wouldn't mind wearing that chain armor. It's certainly better than these hides."
I am fully healed now, I just posted my thank you before you edited in two more channels ;)
We can also use the wand of unseen servant to search the brown mold room. Tell it to go in there and bring any small objects inside back out.
Clockwise, the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
Astraden nods to Cuetzpalli. "Very well. You'd probably get more use out of it, anyway." She leans against the sarcophagus, idly tapping one foot.
Farruk settles the goggles on his face, trying to get them to set comfortably.
"I think the original owner's head was a mite bigger than mine..." he grumbles, but eventually gets them on properly.
"Thanks Astraden," the olman says, before changing out his armor with the chain shirt.
Cuetzpalli will grab the red lantern, climb back up to the sarcophogus chamber and hang it on the hook in its alcove. "C'mon guys, help me to get these lanterns set up for lighting. Do we have enough torches to spare to fill them all? I didn't bring any."
Tanith produces a torch and, after lighting it, passes it to the Olman.
He inserts it into the red lantern, then moves on to the next lantern. "We'll need four more sources of light if we use the everburning torch in one of the lanterns."
"I still have four pints of oil left, and a couple of torches."
"Can you fill four of the lanterns with oil and light them please? I'll stick the everburning torch in the last one. Did that sarcophagus carving have room on its fingers for a ring? Maybe those red armor guys stole one of the rings we found from the sarcophagus, and that's why its finger is broken..?" Cuetzpalli muses, scratching his chin.
Tanith does as he's instructed, lighting each of the other lanterns.
"Red, you wanna check out the sarcophagus?" the big Suel asks Carina with a rugged smile and a wink.
"Can do...just hope we don't need them to kill more beetle swarms."
Farrukh does as Cuetzpalli requests.
While the others busy themselves with the lanterns, Astraden puts her (still damp) scale mail back on and slips the glass wand into her belt.
"What is all this for, anyways?" she calls to Cuetzpalli and the others. "Will this open a new passage?" She glances back at the pile of treasure.
Astraden evaluates the humming auras and sets the magic items apart from the rest. "This spiral rod is a wand that will summon an invisible entity that follows the summoner's commands, the glass rod (which I believe only Tanith and I can use) causes a piercing scream that shatters objects, and the eyegoggles will improve the wearer's ability to manipulate fine objects like locks. The sword, mail, and pearl are also magical, but I can't tell what they do."
"Oh, and the room with the giant dead beetle has moderate magical auras, but I don't know what they do. Carina, you might want to take a look at them if we go down there again." Astraden checks for any auras on the gear she took from that room, as well.
These red leather armor suits aren't magic, either. The ring is completely mundane as well.
Appraise (wand of unseen servant): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11 Appraise (wand of shatter): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12 Appraise (goggles of minute seeing): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
"Can you fill four of the lanterns with oil and light them please?"
"Red, you wanna check out the sarcophagus?" the big Suel asks Carina with a rugged smile and a wink.
"Can do..."
Unless the missing finger curled upwards, there is no space for a ring to be placed.
Keep in mind the oil is gonna burn, like, really fast. I'm no chemist, but I don't think it'll last long without additional fuel. Can anyone back me up on this? Or prove me wrong?