"Easy girl."
Right I'll move to 32,27 and attack the other head/blob whatever
d20 18+7=25 I'll go with that being a hit
d8 6+7=13 B/P points of Morningstar mashing!!
The horrific face registers a brief note of concern just seconds before you smash it out of existence.
This room reeks of death, and the reason is apparent as Yod takes a moment to gaze down into one of the pits at his feet. At the bottom of a ten foot drop is a badly decomposed body. As you walk around the room, you notice that each pit has at least one body, and that some of them are naught but bones.
There is a second exit to this room along the south wall.
"Anyone we know down there?" Sari leans closer to said pits with the light.
I'll move to look through the other doorway
You'll have to climb down and wade through the ichor to inspect the corpses for identifying features. They're really in bad shape.
Yod, the corridor runs straight to a closed door. There's also a branch to the left about 25' down the hall.
I'll move down to the branch and take a look
Nope.
Hide 5+9=14 Move-S 4+9=13
"There he goes, wandering off again." Sari follows Yod down the passage way and stops around (32, 22). She has deemed this spot in the hall safe...or base, if we're playing tag.
Yod, the branch to the left ends in a stairway that spirals down to ruin. The entire passage has collapsed after only a couple of steps.
I guess its back and through the other door at 32,16
The door at the end of the hall opens easily to reveal possibly the strangest room any of you have ever seen. The room is a perfect sphere of about 15' diameter composed of red metallic plates. The plates are perfectly polished and reflect the light of Sari's lamp in hypnotic patterns.
In the center of the room several objects float in thin air. There is a wine bottle, an old moldy book, an unmoving black bird, a piece of parchment, and a twisted metal rod about the size of a wand with a curious forked end.
As the group stands in the doorway, a sudden crackle of black light ripples across the plates, coalescing just for an instant in runes before vanishing back into the wall.
"Decidedly unnatural!" I whisper.
Fort save 12+2=14
I feel good
So can I throw a rock up into the floating stuff and see what happens?
Anybody think that is a bad idea?
Spherical...as in round ceiling, walls and floor. If we walk in, we walk down?
Seriously, however...what does the door look like? If we stepped into the room and closed the door, would it be hard to spot? I'm not suggesting this move btw, just asking.
As Cha examines the door, another streak of the black light races around the room, then disappears in a flash.
So can I throw a rock up into the floating stuff and see what happens?
Anybody think that is a bad idea?
Ok I throw a rock into the area to see what happens.
"Uh, guys, what is going on in here? Did you see that?"
I got several rocks for Holloween so I have pleanty to throw
Yod tosses a small rock into the room. Its momentum takes it into the room, but not towards the floor. In the vertical plane the stone stays around the same level as the other objects, which is just about chest high. The objects are too far into the room to reach from the doorway though.
Sari's eyes are tricking her. Did it look like the rock stayed level and not fall down to the floor? She thinks to herself, "I REALLY need to get more sleep."
As with the rock, the rope end floats in the room among the other objects. There's not really any way to use the rope to hook the objects and pull them to you. If you want to examine the objects, you might have to try to get them first hand.
In any event, the rope is not in any way "stuck" in the room. It very easily comes back to you as you pull the end in your hand.
"Okay, I'll bite. Ishah, stay," and I point to Sari. I walk slowly into the room towards the center.
Cha, as you step down into the room, you are lifted up off your feet and float weightlessly in the air. It only takes a few moments to figure out that you can "will" yourself around the small room. The book floats by your face, its pages open to show stained pages covered in faded writing that you do not understand.
I test out my new found ability by circumnavigating the room and looking for anything more unusual than this. Then I move to grasp an object. I'll start with the wine bottle. If nothing happens when I collect them, I'll take them back to my compatriots one at a time until we have them all.
As you float closer to the objects you notice that the bird floats in a small cloud of little white maggots. The wine bottle floats easily to hand, as do any other items you wish to collect. Only the dead bird really seems sinister upon outward inspection. You take everything and return to the group?
I'll collect everything but the bird. I'll take a close look at it. Can I tell anything about the bird, how long it's been dead or what kind of bird it is? Do I know about what region the bird might come from? He obviously doesn't live down here.
The bird is a common crow. Certainly native to this and many other regions. It cannot have been dead for too long, unless the room has some preservative feature as well. It looks like its breast was defeathered and picked apart.
The wine bottle is corked and half consumed. The book is in tatters. The parchment is covered with diagrams and runes in some odd language that seems to share some roots with draconic. Either Sari can cast read magic, or roll a spellcraft check DC 20 + level of spell - 10 (unknown language) to figure it out. You also have the wand.
As you make your way back to your companions, the room is again illuminated by the crackling black lightning. It blinds you momentarily and leaves blue spots in your vision, but does not otherwise harm you. You make it back to the threshold and gravity again takes hold of your frame.
Sari casts detect magic on the lot. She would cast read magic, but she wasn't so hot on reading in school.
The wand and the scroll both radiate minor magic.
"By the way, the black lightning and floating is making me very uneasy. If we're going to examine this room any closer let's do it, or let's get out of here."
"Let's check out the cell room. Maybe there's something we missed by not going down the stairs. Then let's get back to the last door we missed."
Sari follows the wandering wild man with her light. She stares intently at his back as he walks and tries to think dirty thoughts. Since he actually is dirty, it's not a problem.