Ziera shoots again.
Antonio steps up to the salamander, moving to interfere with it's attacks against Gray.
The acid (cold) arrow continues to chill the salamander do Damage.
Edmund sends a simple acid splash at the creature.
acid
Vince eagerly strikes against the exposed back of the Salamander.
hit
hit
crit not-confirmed
Gray hissed as the creature wounded him, the heat from the thing turning his cheeks an angry red color. Still, he couldn't help but grin at the pain, his leer turning wider as Vince's weapon hit home on the salamander. When Antonio shouted and their foe's attention was diverted ever so slightly, the inquisitor struck again with his chain, but the surprise that came with the invisibility was gone and the creature was expecting it.
Payk, now focuses intently on the salamander, streaks two arrows deep into its flesh.
Ziera casts Cure Light Wounds on herself.
Is anyone else hurt?
She then walks over to the Pedestal, taking a look.
Payk drinks a potion. “I should be good. ”
Vince nods, feeling at his ribs and wincing. “Yeah, that tail was faster than i thought. I got a potion though. ” He pulls open his pack and starts digging through it. After a moment he curses. “What kind of idiot doesn’t have potions with him. I must have forgotten all my training before i lost my memories. ”
He looks back to Ziera. “I, uh, could actually use some healing. ”
Ziera retrieves the contract, and unless she blows up or something from doing that, she hands it to Edmund.
Edmund will check it out, though since that wasn’t an animagi, he’s pretty sure it’s a fake. If it is, this time he rolls it up and keeps it.
”Might come in handy to have a convincing fake on us,” he suggests.
"Whew. Still, we can never be too careful. On to the next, then?" Antonio asks.
"That's a fine idea, Edmund. Of course, we'll have to rely on if the fakes we've been picking up are even similar to the real thing - they could be very different."
When they leave the room, they make sure that all of them are not on the bridge at the same time, and cross to the next door. Ziera marks it with acid only once, but way up at the top, so it is clearly different than any of the other doors.
Then she casts Open.
This looks like the way we came in. Remember what this door looks like for when we want to go home.
They go back (if everyone agrees) and ride the carousel bridge again.
Gray followed Ziera and the others mutely after the brief fight with the salamander, disliking the game that was being played with the whirling bridge. Still, it seemed as though there was no other way to gain access to the contract the group was looking for, so the inquisitor proceeded along with the rest, nodding his agreement with Ziera when she mentioned remembering the way back out.
Ziera again marks the door she is facing uniquely, and proceeds to cast Open on the door when everyone is ready.
Ziera activates her halo.
Edmund will bring back the dancing lights and send them spiralling into the corridor and beyond.
Ziera walks up to the end of the hall and looks inside the room.
I'm going to bet on traps. Definitely traps." Antonio notes. "Or something invisible. Gray, could you sweep the room?"
Paranoid as ever, Ziera says Maybe the contract is invisible.
Gray nodded to Antonio's request, the lack of a scroll puzzling. Surely they hadn't already been in this room? The inquisitor crept forward, testing carefully for pressure plates as he swept his keen eyes about.
Ziera moves after Gray.
If she sees nothing, Ziera will pull up Detect Magic, to see if there is something she is missing. If the Pedestal has a cover, she removes it, in case it is blocking their senses.
It seems wrong to her paranoid senses, but
Um, could it be possible that there just really isn't anything here? I am not getting any magical auras at all. Nothing has come to kill us--there isn't anything in this room. It seems very strange. Any ideas? Or should we just go to the next room?
”I would suggest that we probably have very little to lose by trying the other door and, if there is another decoy, returning here to find whatever has been hidden. It is possible, however, that the designers of this complex did in fact leave an empty room in the hopes that any invaders would expend valuable resources to find out nothing.”
As the others come and thoroughly search the area, Gray has the good grace to not be irritated by their unspoken assertion that his keen eyes might have missed something. He listened to some of the arcane members of the party discuss why the room might be empty, and shrugged as Edmund offered that the room might just be a decoy. It was a possibility, for sure. Unless anyone had anything else to add, the inquisitor followed the others and proceeded across the bridge to the opposing door, waiting for Ziera to scorch a unique mark upon it and then open it before proceeding through.
Ziera scorches a unique mark on it and casts Open.
Feeling a sense of deja vu, Ziera walks to the end of the hall and looks around the corner.
Gray followed closely behind the aasimar woman, keeping his weapon out and his eyes sharp.
Edmund casts acid arrow and flings it at the elemental approaching Ziera. He takes extra time to cast the spell, adding a bit of extra power to extend its duration. The acid slams into the elemental, dissolving aspects of the rock that bind its essence.
Round 1 of 4
Ziera draws her sword as she takes a step out of the way so that Gray will have room to swing his chain.
Calling upon the Dark Lord for his guidance and inspiration as he sees the greater number of foes this room has to offer, Gray smiled grimly as Ziera stepped aside to allow room for him, rushing forward and whipping his wicked chain at the animated pile of earth with relish.