While spreading out to explore the room, each of you, save for Silen, have an encounter with a pit.
Thankfully, the falls are cushioned, turning the falls into non lethal.
After eventually getting out climbing, you notice one final pit in the center, where a small sack lies below.
Also of note, you had noticed three levers scattered across the room.
The levers look identical, but not too rusty or dusted.
The sack lies in another cushioned pit, and it has no remarkable features. But hey....it's a sack.
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"As tempting as it is to pull these levers at random, I will leave that decision up to someone else." The paladin backs away from them. Brayden will climb down into the pit, draw his polearm, and slowly push the sack using it, playing close attention to any traps or pressure plates that may be underneath it.
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After arguing a bit and brushing himself off, Maladash gets up.
"I thought it would be like old times. Minotaurs, zombie marathon, the sinking paladin... But this crypt is full of puzzles. I'm not dumb, but... Hey, Mr aristocrat. Maybe you have ideas what to do? However... No, I have another idea. Chaos... guide me!"
He goes and pulls a second lever.
Like Brayden, Licen slowly lowers himself into the cushioned pit.
The sack doesn't seem trapped, and after some poking from Brayden at it, Licen opens it.
Aside from strands of fabric from wear, there is a small note in it.
Three to open, but be quick, for the door will only open for those who work together..
Meanwhile Mykel and Maladash are playing with the levers, which go *click* and *clunk*.
Three of you pull the levers at the same time.
What follows is a firm sound of a lock twisting, and the door to the south opens.
Making it past the door through teamwork, you find yourselves at a fork, either west or east.
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Brayden sits on the ground at the center of the junction. "Back in Andoran, we would pray to the Goddess for guidance." He looks over at Maladash. "Quite the opposite of Chaos, I'm afraid," he laughs before stopping to close his eyes.
"Greatest Iomedae, guide us so that we will choose the correct path in this dark crypt.
I will guard the honor of my fellows, both thought and deed, and I will have faith in them." He is silent for a moment as he seems to be listening.
Opening his eyes, the paladin stands up and says nothing more as he begins walking west with Maladash.
Maladash up front, the evil crypt throws another fork at you.
Ahead, is a door, where faint frantic moans and rambling is coming from.
If you approach...
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The mournful wailing grows louder with each step toward the door at the end of this musty hallway.
There are a host of bones strewn on the floor here, many of which are cracked and broken.
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If you don't, the hallway to your right leads to another room.
As Licen introduces the door to his crowbar, the wailful sounds stop.
Despite the door's lock being busted, the door is barricaded from within, requiring some muscle effort.
With Licen having busted the lock, Maladash politely motions him aside.
At the first attempt at pushing, Maladash loses his grip.
...from a small crack in the door, the tip of something is aimed at him.
Maladash slumps onto his back, a bolt sticking out of his abdomen.
"Be...be gone...foul crypt dwellers, BE GONE!!!"
"Huh? Festivities....?...
LIES, tricks of the dead one, be gone foul creatures!...
[incomprehensible ranting]"
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Mercutio looks back at his companions, as if to communicate both 'back me up on this, guys' and 'it isn't me....'
"'Dead one?' Is there someone else in here that we should know about? We're not dead. Most of us here have gotten close enough before that we would know. Perhaps we could...do something about this dead one? We're capable fighters."
"No! You've tried that before!
Tricks, all of it!"
"Never...i'll never see a living soul again...."
Licen steps aside in time for the bolt to fly past him, as well as past everybody's heads.
Meanwhile..
Brayden's 1st attempt is no success.
By a missed shot follows.
Brayden manages to push forward on his 2nd attempt.
Despite Mykel's pulling on the attack, a weak shot hits Brayden in the shoulder.
On his 3rd attempt, Brayden succeeds again.
A failed bolt flies past his head.
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One more push....
Maladash (bolted)
Licen takes his spot, but can't get in yet.
Mercutio tries diplomacy, interrupts the rambling.
Brayden is going at it, and we are still currently at it.
With a final push, Brayden shoves aside some furniture and small crates.
In the room, stands a shaky, weary looking man.
Maladash wakes up, and will heal up to 7 hp, thanks to Mercutio's wand of infernal healing.
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"Who..who are you...what in Kassen's name...?"
Despite his question, he still looks panicked enough to be doing rash things.