**Breep?**
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Working together as a well-oiled machine your group has no problems navigating through the tunnels and overcoming the troubles you encounter on your way.
After riding the quick currents, you are spit out of the tunnels into a vast liquid space: the interior of the moon.
You see the mausoleum in the distance, a structure covered in glowing purple runes.
You still have to swim for quite a while in this unusual liquid.
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"Dammit I'm a vidgamer, not a triathlete!" Stiehle gasps as he swims through the liquid core of the moon, in the direction of the distant mausoleum.
By the time he reaches the shore, the operative is badly fatigued after the numerous exertions he has endured, gasping for air and promising himself he'll hit the gym more frequently after this mission...
You can neither run nor charge, and you take a –1 penalty to your Armor Class, attack rolls, melee damage rolls, Reflex saving throws, initiative checks, and Strength– and Dexterity-based skill and ability checks. The amount of bulk you can carry without becoming encumbered is reduced by 1. If you are fatigued, doing an activity that would normally cause fatigue causes you to become exhausted instead. After 8 hours of complete rest, you are no longer fatigued.
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It is a good thing Azara held back previously. It has left him with plenty of energy for this final stretch.
He pats Arratoi and Stiehle on the backs reassuringly. "It's all about your stroke. Do it correctly and you can go forever. Do it wrong and you're done in no time. I can give you some pointers when this is all over."
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As you look around, some of you with their hands on their knees panting for breath you see:
The mausoleum, a rough sandstone structure with 15-foot ceilings, floats in the center of the moon. The runes on the walls provide dim illumination in every room. This close to the moon’s core, the gravity stabilizes and is considered normal.
Up ahead you see;
This room shows obvious signs of erosion. Strange semifluorescent plant life has started to grow along patches of the floor and on the walls. A large hole in the sandstone lies to the west, and shimmering inside the hole appears to be a force field made of purple runes. To the south, a set of rough sandstone steps lead to another force field, this one holding back the liquid methane.
that sandstone is not a type of stone native to this moon.
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After Arratoi picks up a rock and tosses it through the forcefield it lands on the other side without any sort of effecting triggering that you notice..what ever it is..it doesn't seem to do anything to lifeless rocks being tossed around.
Sidor doesn't notice anything odd about the sandstone..other then that someone must have moved it to here for..decorative purposes?
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Skills that require special training are called trained-only skills and are marked as such in their headings. Unless otherwise noted in the skill’s description, you can’t attempt an untrained skill check to accomplish a task using a trained-only skill; you must have at least 1 rank in that skill to attempt a check.
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Arratoi looks on feeling a bit guilty as Sidor dives through. "Well, on the bright side, if that thing kills Sidor, at least I'll still be alive to give disarming it another try, right guys? Uhh... guys?"
Arratoi looks at the rest of the party hoping for some affirmation but is instead met with silence.
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Stiehle takes a breather as those with some knowledge of the arcane do what they can to disable the trap.
Once he's feeling better, the operative waits for Arratoi to try again, and then takes a look and then moves through if he doesn't spot anything and it appears their ally has sprung the trap already. "You OK Sidor?" He asks as he passes through the force field.
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Azara, Sthiele and Mincey look at the forcefield..but neither of them is able to spot any of the runes that you noticed before. Azara does spot some tiny magic sparks..but nothing that looks like the runes.
Aaratoi is pretty sure that he's correctly disabled the rune trap this time....but when you think about it, that's also what he thought a few second ago
Sthiele walks through the forcefield to check on Sidor after Arratoi does his magic mumbo jumbo dance and even though he feels a slight chance in air pressure as he arrives on the other side of the forcefield nothing jumps out of it to attack him,
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Azara also passes through the forcefield unharmed.
The inner wall contains some doors which are covered in mystical runes and locked..you tinker with them a bit but they are way too powerful for you to unlock.
Continuing your exploration you only notice empty rooms until you enter a room that looks a bit more interesting.
This chamber has not escaped the ravages of time. There are holes in the walls that likely once held doors, and the sandstone tiles on the floor are dirty and broken in places. Softly glowing purple runes cover the interior walls of the chamber, encircling a round altar covered in more runes in the center of the space. Out of shadow in front of the altar, a form slowly coalesces, taking the shape of an ebony dragon with red frills. Its body is terribly contorted and trails shadows.
With a voice like rocks scraping together, it speaks. “Who dares to break the sanctity of this holy resting place?”
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Azara steps forward with no evident fear and bows low to the dragon.
"O' Mighty dragon, we intend no disrespect or desecration to this place or who is resting here. We are emissaries from the Starfinder organization and were sent here upon the advice of the Whisperer of the Solar Winds. He requested that we find several fragments of a tablet...which it only now occurs to me is made of similar stone as that of this place," he says, looking around the chamber thoughtfully.
"To be honest we don't know exactly why the tablet was to be brought here, only that it was important, so if you could provide further guidance, that would be greatly appreciated," Azara finishes.
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Mincey follows the others through the barrier and into the room where the dragon awaits. "A dragon!?" the ysoki squeaks quietly to her comrades. "If weez broke sum kinda sancritree, den we'd bettah get tah fixin' it, quick!"
Approaching the creature, though remaining at some distance, Mincey bows and says, "Pleaz except our apolatrees for disturbin' ya."
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Stiehle's eyes widen at the sight of the creature... is that a dragon? Truly? It's like something out of one of his vidgames... but real!
The operative approaches cautiously, his hands well away from his weapons. "We apologies for disturbing you. It is true that we are Starfinders, and the fragments of a tablet have led us here. We seek a... well, it's a dreaming device of some sort. Or so we were told."
Cursing himself mentally for not asking questions about it, he doesn't even know what it might look like, he inquires of the dragon. "Have you heard of such?" Stiehle pauses after asking, wondering if perhaps they are being influenced by the device, if it is here. Could this be some sort of a dream?
This chamber has not escaped the ravages of time. There are holes in the walls that likely once held doors, and the sandstone tiles on the floor are dirty and broken in places. Softly glowing purple runes cover the interior walls of the chamber, encircling a round altar covered in more runes in the center of the space. Out of shadow in front of the altar, a form slowly coalesces, taking the shape of an ebony dragon with red frills. Its body is terribly contorted and trails shadows.
With a voice like rocks scraping together, it speaks. “Who dares to break the sanctity of this holy resting place?”
Under remote control, CRUD points an actuator at Sidor.
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What my ysoki friend there said. In case you have never heard of it, the Starfinder Society investigates the past, particularly what happened during the Gap.
Onda attempts to explain zee Kap.
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The ebony dragon bows his head at your words
"So you are the Chosen Ones. The Ones mentioned in the prophecy. You are here to return the map to it's Destiny as it was Foretold in Ancient times."
"Please, approach and place the map on the altar"
The dragon indicates with one of it's claws
You can see that on the altar there are three slots, one for each part of the map.