Ragnir sends his spiritual axe after the odd spider-dwarf.
Round Five
The last Ettercap tries to strike Umlo, but the Ettercap either missed, or the Dwarf Fighter Rogue deflected the attack.
The unique humanoid moves to attack Umlo. One of Droja's spider snaps at the Dwarf-like spider woman. The mistress of the Ettercaps misses Umlo.
Ragnir moves the Spiritual Waraxe and slices into the unique humanoid with it.
Droja's last spider attacks the last Ettercap. It missed.
Kaos demonstrates his interesting trick, and is unaffected by the flames. He then pulls a throwing axe and manages to get it caught up in the webs.
Umlo makes a wild swing with his Battleaxe. The right to left stroke misses the Dwarf abomination. But his left to right back stroke cuts into the humanoid.
Ulfgard jumps off the stairs. On his way down he swings not once but twice at the unique humanoid. He misses with both swings of Agrimmosh. The webs slows Ulfgard's fall. When he reaches the bottom it is like taking a single step onto a flat surface. Ulfgard is unharmed.
As impressive as Leira's first arrow was against the unique humanoid, her next arrow barely left her bow before getting deflected by the webbing.
Anga casts Magic Missile at the Dwarf spider-woman. The missiles do not get caught up in the webbing. They strike true. The unique humanoid dies falling back into the webs. Her now lifeless corpse tears through the webbing landing next to the upright Ulfgard.
Ingrahild draws out her bow.
Haskyll loads another bolt and fires. It sticks into the last Ettercap. The purple humanoid falls unconscious.
Victory!
"Uoooe,that was fun. Now what to do with that poor sod? Question him or release him?"
Kaos will not find anything of value in the webs. He will only find the desiccated carcasses of small vermin and animals in the web.
Haskyll puts his crossbow away, and then looks down towards the others.
Can we clear some of these webs so I can bring our dragon lunch down without too much of a problem.
He then brings out a torch, and starts to ensure that the webs are far enough away as he leads the mule down towards the party.
Leira nods to Haskyll "Ok, I will advance while you clear up"
The young girl carefully descends the stairs, then faces the doors at their footing.
soooo. Any traps? Enquiring minds wish ta know. Anga says, looking over Leira's shoulder.
Webs stretch between the walls of the chamber at the bottom of the shaft, supporting two large, webbed cocoons hanging a few feet above the floor. A large circular stone disk stands in the eastern wall of the room, surrounded by a circle of Dwarven runes. Three more runes are carved on the face of the disk. The great disk is flush with the wall and has no visible hinges or handles.
Kaos will discover that the cocoons are setup in a way to honor the demon Mazmezz with bellies and mouths exposed.
Before Leira attempts to open the door she reads the runes. Written in Dwarven, the runes around the perimeter of the disk read, “Rest here until mine sons touch upon thy blessings.” The runes in the center of the disk are Dwarven symbols for “loyalty,” “duty,” and “strength.”
When Droja reaches the bottom, she will see the bodies in the cocoons. "Sometimes the dead talks to me. They answer my questions. Do you have any questions for these?"
I dinae know. Disturbing the dead smacks of necromancy tah me. Maybe we should leave them in peace
Droja looks at Anga and shrugs, "Sometimes the dead can help the living. But I understand. It is a dark art."
Anga scratches her head.
Loyalty, duty, strength. Dwarven ideals. Something about it...i dinae ken. Maybe three dwarves should touch the runes? Ah don't think a knock spell will help here.
On the strange part-Dwarf, part-Spider woman's body, Kaos will find, holly, mistletoe, and an a strange amulet of what looks a dragon's claw on a leather cord. He finds nothing else of value.
The amulet radiates magic.
Ragnir lets out a short hmmph Torag's children be Grundinnar, Kols, and Trudd, standin' f'r loyalty, duty, n'strength. Could be bein' we need t'stand on the spots, each havin' one o'us tha' be typifyin' those values? Strongest, loyal n'dutiful? Just me' thinkin'"
Ulfgard just nods."Sounds sensible. Well who is strength, who duty, and who is loyal. I mean more than th´others?`
These runes indicate some of the children of Torag.
Haskyll pauses for a second.
They are Grundinnar who is associated with loyalty, Kols with duty, and Trudd with strength.
I am sorry that it took so long for me to see these runes, as I had to drag this reluctant beast down.
He then shudders, Can we please get rid of those cocoons?? They honour a demon.
Ulfgard, Strength. ye are the strongest of us. Haskyll, duty. Your faith and duty supports us. Ingrahild, loyalty. Ye never gave up on your brother. All of the party show these qualities, in great measure, but someone must stand.
Anga gestures at the markings.
Let us see if it works. If it doesn't, we'll try something else.
Anga casts detect magic, and examines the runes, to see they change when touched.
Surprisingly, Kaos is unable to identify the magic properties of the amulet.
Anga detects magic on the large standing circular stone disk.
Ingrihild will walk up to the Dwarven runes for "loyalty," she speaks just under her breath, "Grundinnar." The runes begins to glow.
"My I be of help?" asks Leira to Kaos, she timidly takes the amulet from his hands.
"I fear I cannot tell more..." she explains.
After listening Haskyll's explanations, Leira walks to the duty rune and tries to pronounce with dwarven accent "Kols!"
The Dwarven Rune for "duty" begins to glow.
Ragnir raises one brow over an eye, giving a one-eyed squint at Ulfgard, "Well lad, be ye waitin' f'r more of an invitation?" Ragnir crosses his arms over his chest, and mostly hides a grin.
Haskyll then walks over to the last non glowing Rune.
Trudd
May Torag give us a pass on this.
The Dwarven rune for "strength" begins to glow.
The circular stone soundlessly begins to slide into the surrounding stone. You can see a chamber beyond.
The tightly spaced pillars that line the walls of this wide chamber gracefully suspend a vaulted ceiling; walls, ceiling, and pillars alike have been cut from the surrounding stone. Centuries of dust coat every surface, and the air is stale. A large translucent panel is set in the center of the floor. On either side, a stone door sits inside a low arch.
oh my!
Anga starts to move into the room, then stops.
ah, Trapfinder first?
Haskyll looks with awe upon the chamber.
Let us give it a bit of time for the air to not be stale, then we can go in. Plus this gives us a moment to see what we can see from here.
"Aye, we sounds good!"
hmm?
With detect magic still running, Anga looks at the amulet Kaos is holding.
+2 if evocation
Leira smells the air.
"I guess we can go on now"
She then checks the translucent area in the middle of the room.
And after the area she double checks each of the stone doors.
Anga will look at the Amulet. She will easily determine that it is an Amulet of Mighty Fists.
Leira carefully enters the chamber. She does not find a trap. She checks the translucent glass. It is only translucent because of grime and a layer of dust coating the glass. She studies the glass for a moment, and realizes it is safe to touch. She cleans off a section of the glass.
Leira recognizes that she is looking down onto Nargrym's Selpucher and his sarcophagus. This chamber was designed to be a viewing room for visitors. But nothing has visited this chamber in a very long time. The sarcophagus has been opened and its lid pushed to the side, offering a glimpse of its occupant: a crumpled corpse dressed in a suit of scale mail armor. While the view is centered on Nargrym’s sarcophagus, Leira notices a large, broken cage in an alcove off to the side.
Leira will find the right or south door to be trapped. The left or north door is not.
"Boys, I fear we found Nagrgrym's corpse" comments the girl, placing his hand to close her nostrils in disgust.
To avoid the hard view, she decides to check the doors and soon she is preparing all her instruments "There is a broken cage in the alcove, in case you want to check out while I work in the doors"
Using ranged legerdemain to work at safe distance, the young girl tries to deactivate the right door, then the southern one.
She pin points to the southern door "This might be good enough to start with"
Haskyll moves over to where Leira was.
I can see that Lass, and I can see something was into his casket.
Haskyll looks around.
It looks like there have been grave robbers, and I cannot tell when.
He then mutters angrily about leaving the ancestors to rest while he moves over to join up with the group dragging the mule with him.
When we have time, we will set him tah rest peaceful once more. A maybe get at those who defiled him. Anga shakes her head, and mutters a short prayer.
Leira disarms the traps.
Kaos will not perceive anything additional.
There is a door to the north and to the south. There is also the glass floor.
Aye lad, let's be gettin' on wi' this. He follows Kaos to the door. Might'n we'll be findin' who it is wot be disturbin' Nagrgrym's rest.
Leira holds his bow high over Kaos shoulders. When under the tension of entering the northern door her chest rubs Kaos back she bubbles "Sorry" and makes a mess of her bow.
The girl has to kneel to recover the arrow she just lost, then join back the team.
Haskyll reloads his crossbow, and then stows it.
He then grabs the mule, and follows along with the others.