Kereek watches as the girl moves in, then shakes his head and moves after her.
Agnar follows, looking over the statues as he passes them.
Coterie looks around as she enters, peering closely at the cyclopean statues.
Not seeing any other obvious exits, Agnar will begin tapping walls, checking statues for signs of being able to move freely, etc.
Katerina also begins closely investigating the room's walls for oddities.
With Coterie and Kereek also helping, Agnar's able to find a secret door in the southern wall. Opening it reveals a bronze portcullis barring passage to a twisting stair that rises to the south.
Shrugging Katerina steps towards the portcullis. "Can anyone see any kind of lever?" She searches the walls for any thing that could be used to lift the portcullis. She even looks to see if she could just wriggle between the bars.
Katerina doesn't see a level but she does realize at the last moment the door is in fact trapped! On the ceiling are arranged 16 very cleverly hidden circular doors, each just under 5 feet in diameter. She thinks if the door is opened, the circles will open -- though she's not sure what's on the far side of them.
"Uh, gentlemen, it looks like we have an issue here." Katerina steps away from the secret door. She points up to the smaller doors hidden in the ceiling. "I am guessing, but I think if we open this door, those doors open and let something unpleasant at us. Maybe a flood, maybe more zombies?"
Katerina sets to open the secret door, pausing long enough that someone could stop her...
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While Coterie doesn't stop Katerina from her action, she does take this moment to mix together a few items into her iron vials, fitting them into the bandolier on her torso. Once she checked to make sure they were clear, that her weapons were clear, and that she felt she couldn't craft anything else in this moment, she drew a single Rapier and nodded to Katerina. Fully expecting something other than water to flood in from the ceiling.
Katerina pushes open the secret door. She does this slowly, hoping to feel any difference in tension...
Prazil scratches his head at Katerina's reluctance and the slow manner in which she approaches the door. "What am trouble? It am door, yes? Am you not knowing how to be for opening it?"
Kereek happily nods and taps his feet as he waits for Kat to open the secret door.
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As Katerina opens the door she just has time to see a portcullis that she had absolutely no way of even suspecting might have been on the far side slam down, along with one behind you that similarly came as a complete, utter and total surprise. Seriously, you guys can't believe their were portcullis' even considered in this complex, much less in this room...
Worse, the circles Katerina noticed in the ceiling open and a rush of water comes slamming into the room, which begins to quickly fill . You hear a further grate of stone against stone and see two more of the dread zombies emerge from alcoves back near the entrance to this room.
Agnar:
Katerina:
Kereek:
Prazil:
Coterie:
Antagonists:
Farkin shishkebabs! Katerina turns toward the approaching zombies, This has to happen now! She shouts, "Kereek, step aside!" She runs past him, set on making sure the zombies don't get close to anyone else.
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Kereek dutifully steps aside as Kat charges, then sighs and sends two scorching rays at the other zombie. for fire damage and for fire damage!
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Coterie felt the thump of heavy iron hitting the floor in her chest, hearing the ceiling grind open to let in a torrent of rushing water. 'Was afraid of that.' she thought to herself, glad she was prepared. She pasted an iron vial to Prazil, saying, "Drink it, quick!" before heading into combat with Kateria, chugging another vial and shoving the container back into her bandolier, stopping beside Katerina as her buckler seems to shimmer and ripple with some invisible force.
Parry Roll:
Riposte:
Prazil: 10*
Agnar: 8*
Kereek: 21
Katerina: 16
Coterie: 23
Antagonists: 13
As the water pours down, Kereek hopes out of Katerina's way and blasts the farther zombie, rancid smoke curling away from it as it's briefly engulfed in flame.
Katerina charges the second one, her rapier slashing deeply into its exposed muscle, while Coterie rushes to join her.
The swordswoman, finding herself beset by the two massive zombies, tries to knock away the first axe that heads toward her, but it proves simply overpowering for her rapier, slamming right through the attempt and into her flesh. Thrown off her guard, she's hit by a second axe and a meaty fist before she again finds her footing and ducks under her target's snapping jaws.
DZ1: 42
DZ2: 31
Water level: 1 ft.
" Ah! Prazil am for coming! Prazil am for coming! Hold on!"
Seeing Kat beset by a pair of nasty one-eyed zombie-things, Prazil forgets the elixir Coterie handed him just a moment before and the knightly kobold dashes through the hall quick as he might to help his beleaguered companion.
--Prazil--
HP: 58/58
AC: 29 (15 T / 26 FF)
CMD: 25
F/R/W: +5/+6/+3
Cavalier's Challenge uses remaining: 1/3
Tactician uses remaining: 2/2
Knight's Pennon uses remaining: 1/1
+1 arrows remaining: 19/20
-Ongoing Effects-
Banner: +2 morale bonus vs fear and +1 morale bonus on attack rolls made as part of a charge for all allies w/in 60ft
Challenge (top cyclops): +8 damage, +3 circumstance bonus for allies
"Definitely a flamin' tomb. The Osiriani could take tips from these people."
Agnar moves through the room until he can see the zombies, then raises a hand, blasting one with a ray of light.
Not used to dealing with such massive opponents Katerina finds herself driven to her knee, her free hand in elbow deep water. She has a flash of desperation - but just a flash. She snaps back up and gets her bearings back. Her sword up in a guard, she pushes her fear away, This is where I am, this is my now. With a softly exhaled breath she begins anew her work. Her blades movements are slower than normal, more precise, her footwork is perfect even in the water that is quickly rising past her calves. It cleaves flesh once but the zombie's tough hide deflects her second attempt.
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Kereek will slog forward, trying to find higher ground as the water rises!
Prazil: 10*
Agnar: 8*
Kereek: 21
Katerina: 16
Coterie: 23
Antagonists: 13
Agnar blasts the first zombie, his spell rocking and nearly disintegrating it before Coterie arrives and finishes it off with a swift thrust of her rapier. Katerina turns to the remaining zombie, running it through.
It keeps its feet, though, its blade again cutting into Katerina , though she manages to avoid its subsequent blows, her feet splashing up water as she dances across the floor.
DZ2: 58
Water level: 2 ft.
Huffing and struggling against the rising waters, Prazil keeps surging forward, trying to get to Kat and help her against the remaining giant. "Prazil... am... trying, Kat! Gaah!"
If able to get beside Katerina, Prazil tries to distract the remaining giant.
--Prazil--
HP: 58/58
AC: 29 (15 T / 26 FF)
CMD: 25
F/R/W: +5/+6/+3
Cavalier's Challenge uses remaining: 1/3
Tactician uses remaining: 2/2
Knight's Pennon uses remaining: 1/1
+1 arrows remaining: 19/20
-Ongoing Effects-
Banner: +2 morale bonus vs fear and +1 morale bonus on attack rolls made as part of a charge for all allies w/in 60ft
Releived that the thing is all but down, Katerina sets to work in earnest.
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Agnar looks around at the pouring water and the portculli blocking the party in. After a moment he makes a decision, moving forward towards Kereek, then casting a spell.
"When you're done playing with that one, Kat, we need to find ourselves an exit. Sweet as I am, I'm liable to melt in all this water."
"Working on it, Agnar!!!"
Prazil: 10*
Agnar: 8*
Kereek: 21
Katerina: 16
Coterie: 23
Antagonists: 13
Katerina, despite her wounds turning the nearby water around her crimson, is able to finish off the final dread zombie, which splashes into the muck around it.
Agnar casts, his muscles suddenly bulging as Erastil answers his prayers, while Kereek looks around as the water rises up ever higher to his chest.
"Why am Spike not here?!" he asks crankily, voice climbing slightly in worry, and then casts himself, rising out of the water into the air just as it would have covered his head.
At Coterie's instance, Prazil suddenly remembers the flask clutched in his shield-hand. Seeing that the second zombie has fallen before he could even arrive to help, he shrugs helplessly and quaffs the elixir.
"Whoa! What?! What am happening to Prazil?!" In just a few moments, the water seems further away as the kobold swells in size and girth.
"Ah! Ah! Prazil am big! Big like a bigfeets! Kereek! Look at Prazil!"
Larger and stronger than ever before, Prazil begins tromping through the waters toward the portcullis to assist Agnar.
"It looks good on you, Prazil. Now lend a hand, preferably two," Agnar says as he wades over to the portcullis, hunkers down, grabs a cross bar and starts to heave.
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"Being bigger probably am meaning he am dumber too as there am less blood for him little brain," Kereek points out.
"Cut the chit-chat, boys. Let's get this gate open!" Katerina knows she's a featherweight, but she is not opposed to leaning in and helping.
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With the last zombie gone, Coterie chugs the other vial she had prepared, shoving the iron container into her bandolier as it begins to take effect. She was far from a powerhouse herself. However, she could do far better with more limbs. Her skin turned slate grey and a second set of harms sprung forth from under her armor, wings sprouting form her back. She beat those wings and flew off towards the gate, flexing her new limbs and ready to help.
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Katerina sees Coterie change from her normal odd but two armed self into a stony four armed winged monster and thinks, Maybe smaller is better? She fingers her ring, she had only used the magic once before...
Kereek floats above the deluge, shaking his head at the absurd size of Prazil. When Coterie changes into a multi-armed gargoyle, he makes a soft Oo sound. "Kereek am for needed magic that am making him into new things, too. Maybe he am finding spell that am making Prazil into something useful... No! Magic am not that magic!"
Prazil: 10*
Agnar: 8*
Kereek: 21
Katerina: 16
Coterie: 23
Antagonists: 13
As the water climbs to four feet, Agnar and Katerina try the portcullis; it groans a little, but they can't quite get it up. A little more help should do it, most likely.
Katerina shakes her head, her wet-again hair beginning to fan out around her, and moves away from the portcullis. She is almost as much swimming as she is stepping. Triggering the magic of her ring, she becomes a brightly colored bird, reds and yellows flowing down the length of her new form. In an instant she darts through the portcullis, and up the stairs beyond. Adabar, please let me find an escape for everyone!
"Whoa! Kat lady am also bird lady!" Shaking his head at all the strange magics, Prazil tromps up beside Agnar and begins heaving against the portcullis.
Katerina doesn't find anything that looks helpful, other than the stairs themselves being higher than the water's level.
Kereek flies in to help raise the portcullis!