"Curses!"
Mayla would see it reaching out and touching her friends and since they surrounded it her spell was useless unless she wanted to tag them.
Growling in frustration but she would wait for an opportunity to cast her magic on him.
If the shadow still lives by the time Essa and Roguk go,
Essa Free action to handle animal(Roguk)
Essa Move action to get to shadow and flank
Roguk Move action to get to shadow and flank
Essa's magically enhanced club once gain delivers a crushing blow...
The shadow is no more.
"Huzzah!"
Still holding the charge of her spell, "Anyone hurt?" she asks shrugging.
"Nice work everyone!"
Tane hesitantly raises his hand, groaning. "It got me. I feel. I don't know. I feel weak like he hurt me but I can't see any wounds. I'm not sure how to describe it."
Tane shakes his hand as if it were asleep.
Essa's magically enhanced club once gain delivers a crushing blow...
The shadow is no more.
"Tane I know what you mean, he reaches his hand like THROUGH me and it felt so cold, like my life was being sucked out of me."
Mayla does indeed share their cheer in seeing the thing gone. "I don't know but we should be careful. My magic wasn't needed so we can use it for other threats. Good job everyone. If you feel weaker maybe it made you weaker? It could be temporary? I have heard of ghosts and the like taking the energy from people."
After the exhausting fight against the shadow, you search the room. Enev finds a scorched key into the ashes of the fire. Nothing else can be useful, and the two villager's bodies are too badly burned to be recognised
"Look guys, I found a key. It could be for the room where Roldare was?" Enev picks up the key carefully, it could be hot, and shows it to the others.
"Oh no! Three bodies now. This is terrible." Selene says at the discovery of the bodies. After taking a moment, she address Enev suggestion, "Perhaps, it might only take a second to find out, but I feel like we should press on an quickly as possible to find the other's that are missing."
"These poor souls...may Erastil gives them rest. Maybe Roldan could tell us who they were, and when we get back gave them a propel burial." Enev knees besides the bodies and prays for them, he will look for somethig like a sheet to cover them.
Mayla would take out one of her scarfs and at least covers their face. Once that was done she would straighten and looks around.
"Didn't Roldare mention needing a key or two. Could this be one."
Mayla would take out one of her scarfs and at least covers their face. Once that was done she would straighten and looks around.
"Didn't Roldare mention needing a key or two. Could this be one."
"I believe he did." Selene says nodding in agreement as she prepares to continue when the others are ready.
"We'll definitely see their bodies are given proper rights and blessings, but let's see to the living in hopes to limit the ones we must bury."
Mayla would straighten. "Let's head to the other hallway. Try that door. We may find others."
Nodding to Selene she would help usher people out saying a prayer to the gods of good that those souls are in their care.
Selene appears to move on as everyone else, but without warning she begins to shake, first as if she were afraid, and shortly after she begins shaking maddeningly. She falls to her knees, frantically swatting at herself as if she were trying to put out invisible flames. Tears pour from her eyes as her limbs fall to her sides and she lets out the most agonizing scream as her head looks upward.
Just as quickly as whatever just happened started, it ends. Selene's body stops shaking, her breath slows to a deep, heavy pace. There is still fear in her eyes. She stares at the floor in front of her, even as the light she carries in her shield begins to fade.
Tane nods to Essa, "Yeah, exactly like that, thats how I feel too."
Looking to Malya Tane says, "Alright, I'm in the front follow me." Tane begins to head out and looks back to make sure everyone is following. Noticing Selene shake and then fall he calls out, "Selene!"
The fighter pushes past the group to run to her fallen side. He looks her over and tries to find a reason for her woes. Unable to locate a wound he asks curiously, "Were you injured? Are you ok?"
Essa crowds closer looking on at Selene, concerned. Roguk peeks out from behind her.
Mayla also looks concerned as she goes to approach but Tane beats her to it. Mayla would keep a slight distance but when Selene looks at her she would give her a warm gentle smile.
With a slight stutter she would say in Celestial. "Its okay, we are here for you."
You regroup into the room whith the squashed bug, while Selene tries to calm her heart.
This undead thing could have done some grievous damage, but you managed to beat it, with a good mix a luck, tactics and magics.
You feel more confident, after this fight. You think you can master this place, the traps and whatever monsters may still live here (well, animated bones can't be said to "live" here, of course..)
It's more dangerous than training and practising in your garden, or in your houses.
But you've never felt so much alive.
There are still other rooms to explore
After some time, Selene looks up at everyone, trying to put on a brave smile and standing, she replies to Malya after looking like she didn't understand Tane.
"I'll be fine, rarely does the past visit in such a manner. Let's continue, not another worry for me, we must find the others that are missing. Something sinister is at work here."
After a moment longer she seems to be able to understand the common tongue again.
"Which direction should we go? Are you sure you are ok Selene?"
Looking at the others. "That hallway we passed before getting to this one, and Roldare's room. That one. Tane, I thought you were leading us. Selene will be fine. Her concern and worry for those here just overwhelmed her a little." She would point them back to the passageway *north* of the one they currently were in. If Tane didn't take lead again she would until she got to the hallway leading to the passage.
"Alright Tane show us what you are made of."
"Speak common guys, what happened to Selene?" Enev looks at them when they talk in Celestial, he should've learned that when he was studying with Father Prasst,
"I can help Tane with the lead" Enev volunteers showing his shield and sword, "You have a nice dagger but the shadow got you, you are ok on the lead?" He asks Tane.
Tane nods along to Selene and Malya in celestial, thinking he gets the basic gist.
Tane cracks his neck and clears his throat as he stands. "Right. I'm uh, yeah, I mean of course I'm fine Enev. Thanks. Let's go."
He leans in to Enev and whispers, "Girl talk."
I think it was at least.
With that he leads the group back north and then west to the door which he stubs his toe into my accident.
"Do you see something?" Enev is on the lookout for anything,
Tane grinds his teeth trying to ignore his throbbing toe, "It's a door. Closed apparently
"Anything I can do to help?" Takeshi says, while looking up from his violin.
The door in front of Tane seems to be stuck.
There's not even an handle to open it.
Enev knocks on the door, "Is anyone in there? We are here to help" Enev places his head against the wall and yells to see if anyone is listening in there.
"Maybe there is someone with a barricade in there...we could try destroying the door?"
Tane nods, "Smashing things down? I think that is something I can do. Stand back."
Tane backs up and throws his shoulder into the door three times. After failing to accomplish much of anything except a bruised ego he turns back to Enev and shrugs, "It's a really strong door. Perhaps we can go all the way around to the other entrance from the first room we entered?"
"Is it a magic door?"
"Perhaps those levers open and close the mechanisms for these doors as well? Did we try using them?"
The door looks strong, but a good few blows could bring it down. It would probably warn whoever might be behind the door, of course.
A quick spell by Malya detects no magic from the door or in the vicinity.
"Move Tane, this is work for small muscle" Enev backs up and rams the door trying to open it up,
The sturdy door resist the valiant paladin's assault.
"You think there is an opening on the other room?" Enev ask Tane while holding his arm, the door was harder than he thought,
"Or maybe destroy it? If there is someone in there, they should have heard us..." He knocks on the door again.
"Let's just break it down? Do we have an axe or a pick?"
Malya would ask. "Is there a key hole or something?"
She would also look along the walls and such up and down the hallway to see if she noticed anything.
There is no key hole on the door, and Malya sees nothing strange around the hallway.
You have a small hammer- the same hammer you used on the pitons to block the previous door, in the maze room- but no pick or axe.
"Do we want to try those levers? Just an idea." Selene's mood lifting a bit as Enev tries knocking again.
"Yes, lets try the levers."
You go into the maze room, trying a few combinaison of levers for the next half hour.
Unfortunatly, nothing opens that other door, even if it was a good cooperative exercise.
The west side of the Crypt might hold the solution to your problem.
"Well, sorry. Thanks for giving it a shot. Looks like we'll have to do a little back tracking."
Mayla nodded. "Anything is worth a shot. Alright, was there a door back at the beginning we missed?" She asked even as she headed back to the entrance area to look around and see if there was since they were next to it anyways.
With everything that went on she wouldn't be surprised if she missed it, or forgot about it.
Theres is another door in the first room of the Crypt, on the west part of the wall.
And this door opens easily.
The room seems quiet, peaceful, even beautiful.
In the center of this room is a large pool of clear water, fed by a fountain on the wall above it.
The fountain has a stone statue of a weeping maiden holding the slain body of Kassen, but his head has been broken off and is nowhere to be seen.
A voice booms out from the darkness, saying, “Magic is the key.”
The voice slowly fades, leaving a dreadful silence.
Mayla thought about it and would cast detect magic scanning the room. She would move to the fountain and statue first since those were the most prominent features in the room.
"Hey you guys, Over here. I think I found something."