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Sam drops his crossbow and stabs at a skeleton with his longspear but hampered by having the stab around Aviendha he is unable to stab his spear hard enough to deal any damage to the skeleton (He doesn't hit the skeletons AC+4. When making a melee attack against a target that isn't adjacent to you (such as with a reach weapon), use the rules for determining cover from ranged attacks - so Aviendha provides the skeleton with a +4 AC bonus).
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Merrick+Lasher, Calistan
Skeletons
You guys
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Aviendha finally manages to hit one of the skeletons with enough force to knock it's skull clear of the rest of it's body
The skeletons carry a short bow, a rusty scimitar and some very old, rusty and rotting armor
The exit to the north leads to another room, looking through the doorway you see;
A terrible stone idol stands on a small dais in the center of this crossshaped chamber. The idol depicts a demonic being with a birdlike
head and writhing serpents for legs; the eyes are fiery orange gems.
Ornamental pillars surround the chamber, and open archways lead from this chamber to the south and the west. An eerie soundlessness enwraps the entire chamber.
You identify identify the idol as a depiction of Abraxas, demon lord of forbidden knowledge.
When you look around this room (with detect magic) you notice that the blue glow coming from the bottom of the pool is magical.
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Samuel gives out a sigh of relief as the last skeleton is felled, quickly restrapping his light mace to his belt and redrawing his newest longsword.
"That proved alot more time consuming than I anticipated."
As the Andoran looks through the doorway he casts his eye across the statue.
"That looks unpleasant. Any suggestions how best to proceed?"
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The magic is coming from the bottom the 5ft deep pool. There are some bright blue tiles on the floor that radiate with magic, it's hard to tell with the water in between you and what you are looking at..you are only able to tell that it's some sort of magic aura..but you have no idea what it does...or did.
(What do you want to do?)
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The tile is actually worked into the bottom of the pool..with some effort Sam is able to find a crack in the bottom of the pool ...it takes about a minute or 2..but Sam is able to retrieve a shard of cracked tile. It doesn't glow anymore when it leaves the pool. It's just a brigthly colored blue piece of tile.
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Sam notices the same lack of sound that Samuel did, with his greater knowledge of magic he's able to figure out (after moving out of the room and conversing with the other magic users in the party) that it's an magical silence spell that's linked to this room.
And just to repeat the room description give above;
A terrible stone idol stands on a small dais in the center of this crossshaped chamber. The idol depicts a demonic being with a birdlike
head and writhing serpents for legs; the eyes are fiery orange gems.
Ornamental pillars surround the chamber, and open archways lead from this chamber to the south and the west. An eerie soundlessness enwraps the entire chamber.
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Nothing else can be found in this room.
As you move towards the other exit and look in you see;
A large stone dais in this chamber supports a great sarcophagus. The lid, once carved in the image of a sleeping ancient warrior, is cracked into two pieces and lies askew.
The dead bodies of several adventurers lie crumpled on the floor: a man with a shaven head wearing battered scraps of leather, a dark-haired woman in scholarly robes, and a yellow-haired elf in hide trappings.
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Aviendha studies the corpses. What killed them. Do the still have valuabls on them?
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As Aviendha moves closer to take a look at the corpses she notices that they slowly start to rise up from the floor.
Two of them look like walking corpses only wearing a few soiled rags, with flesh rotting off their bones as they stumbles forward, arms outstretched.
The other one seems a bit more scary; The flesh of this walking corpse is rotting and putrid, its body skeletal in places and its eye sockets glowing with red light.
Two of them look like the flesh is rotting of their bones, the are zombies.
The one with the fiery red eyes is a wight..it can drain levels
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You guys
undead
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Samuel moves forward and use his sword to slice a rather large chunk of flesh from one of the rising undead.
Sam moves forward and unleashes a sheet of flames which washes over the undead as they rise from the floor as he does so his fingers start to turn into claws.
Only one if able to twist to the side enough to avoid some of the fire.
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Merrick+Lasher, Marcel, Calistan (+Aviendha with a different standard)
Undead
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As Calistan's holy energy washes over all 3 of the undead you can see the dark essence that's animating them get blown away by the positive energy..their bodies fall down to the floor before they can rise, for good measure you beat on them some more as they lift a bit of the floor....before getting slammed down again for good.
The corpse in the middle has on one of the hands that you managed to chop off is a silver signet ring. It has an emblem on it, most likely representing some noble house
The ring is worth somewhere between 125 and 175 gp
The corpses have no other possessions and the sarcophagus with the broken lid is empty.
Even when you do a thorough search of the room you don't come across anything else of interest to you.
As you look down the corridor towards the next room..you see that it's cloaked in shadows..it's quite dark and unnerving.