When everyone is healed and Kyzen opens the door, Tamora tries what she done previously from her rear position; scanning the room for magic with detect magic, scanning the room for any spells or intent with detect alignments (good, evil, law & chaos) and using her natural senses to probe for traps, danger and anything notable (Perception (Take 20) - 30).
Tamora spends some time making sure everyone is back to top shape after the vision. Then Kyras moves into the secret room to look at the mechanism. He inspects and studies it, but he can't find exactly what it does. He is, however, pretty that there aren't any traps. Pulling on the lever, the mechanism start moving and a lot of noise can be heard. Some are far away and echo through the structure.
Eventually, those in the secret room hear a noise coming from the ceiling. Looking up, you see part of the ceiling opening and a secret alcove is revealed. Inside of it, there is a small dark cloud. There are two sparks that look like eyes lighting up and then two bolts of lightning stretch out from the cloud, forming long arms. It turns toward you, and you get the feeling that you will have to fight it.
Aiming at the dark cloud, Kyzen unleash a Kinetic Blast directly at it
The cloud moves down closer to attack. As it gets closer, Kyras is able to use the reach of his weapon to the a free strike against it. Sadly, the weird angle of the fight make him misses as his weapon swing in a upward thrust. The creature gets closer, and seeing the nice metalic armored dwarf standing there, swings one of its arm to attack. As it does so, the air around the creature hums and throbs with the promise of electrocution and the tangy stink of ozone.
Tamora drops her morning star and takes out her loaded crossbow to fire a bolt at the creature.
Tamora's bolt passes over the creature, hitting the wall behind. Kyras moves slightly away from the creature and attack with his fauchard. The blade passes through the creature with barely any resistance. If it wasn't for the fact that the creature made a noise has it did and that there is less lighting surrounding it, you would think that the weapon did no damage.
Hoga moves and attacks with his magic axe.
Hoga gets closer to the creature, eyes locked on target. With a powerful swing of his axe, Hoga slice through the creature. You hear like a thundering sound as it dissipates away. The room is now quiet again.
Take that, Boomer!
"Nice job Hoga... Now let's try to find out what's the use of this lever..."
Kyzen trying to pinpoint where the sounds primarily came from...
"Maybe we can lift Kyras so he could take a look at the secret alcove as to find any indications..."
Kakrish pulls back his greatsword, ready to knock the flying creature out of the air. But Hoga beats him to it. "Nice job!" Kakrish exclaims at Hoga's hit. Then he joins the others in trying to find out what the lever did.
"That was quick. Good work as always, Hoga."
Tamora tries what she done previously from her rear position; scanning the room for magic with detect magic, scanning the room for any spells or intent with detect alignments (good, evil, law & chaos) and using her natural senses to probe for traps, danger and anything notable (Perception (Take 20) - 30). Once it is done, Tamora gives a nod and help lift Kyras up.
You start inspecting the room and the alcove in the ceiling. While the room presents nothing new, Kyras find a small opening in the alcove. Inside, he sees a chain. From what he is able to see, the chain most likely connects the mechanism that the lever activated. The chain then runs into a crawl space to the west. You might be able to crawl in there and follow the chain, but you definitely don't have room in case there is something to fight in there.
"I can crawl in if necessary, but don't really want to if I don't have to... I didn't have a lot of success with our last encounter and wouldn't want to meet his friends in there... Maybe we can try to find where the chain leads from outside?"
Can you maybe summon something to go in there, Tamora? Hoga suggests.
Tamora tries what she done previously; scanning the aclove for magic with detect magic, scanning the aclove for any spells or intent with detect alignments (good, evil, law & chaos) and using her natural senses to probe for traps, danger and anything notable (Perception (Take 20) - 30).
You start inspecting the room and the alcove...
"Nothing from my magic. If no one wants to crawl through the inlet, I will call for some helping hands."
Tamora summons a celestial badger and tells it to activate the mechanism.
-IF-
Tamora summon a creature to crawl and check for any danger
-THEN-
Kyzen will wait and if there's no danger he will propose to go in first and follow the chain and see where it leads, suggestion that all or some of the party members follows, if possible due to space and weight limitations.
-ELSE-
Kyzen will suggest to the party to go back out and continu to explore the rest of the cells and at the same time try to see from the outside where the chain leads. In the same manner as before: Kyzen and Hoga first to secure the front, Kyras and Tamora to do there things and Kakrish to secure the rear.
-END-
Tamora summons another badger in the crawl space. The creature disappears from sight in second, running along the chain. You can hear the echo of its claws scraping on the stone. It takes less than a minute for the badger to return. It looks down to Tamora, waiting for more instructions.
If no danger, Kyzen goes in and follow the chain to the end.
Tamora instructs her badger to protect Kyzen and frontline for him.
The badger moves back into the crawl space. Then, with help from the group, Kyzen climb in. It's tight, but he is able to move forward, following the badger and probably hoping that summon creature don't have a functioning digestive system. There is a serie of turns that make it hard for Kyzen to orient himself. Once in a while, he also feels that the stone under him aren't the most stable and that he could maybe bash his way out. Eventually, he gets to the end. The chain seems to be attached to another mechanism there. He doesn't see any other exit.
Kyzen doesn't speak fluently "Bagder", but he tries to let it know is intent before bashing a big enough hole so he can see through and examen where this as lead him...
Before bashing a hole, Kyzen listen through to see if he hears anything
If all seems clear, he makes a hole and examine inside
Oupsss forgot, Kyzen will use his Basic Geokinesis Class Ability to control the falling debris so that they won't make any noise falling to the floor...
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You can move up to 5 pounds per kineticist level of rocks, loose earth, sand, clay, and other similar materials up to 15 feet as a move action.
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"You want me to climb up in that hole?" Kakrish laughs out loud. "First of all, there's no way I would fit. And second of all, no." Kakrish shakes his head at the suggestion but then Kyzen clambers up.
Where's the chain go, Kyzen?
"I don't think it's sensible for all of us to wait here. The passageway, before we can into this room, continued west. I'm going to go see if I can see where Kyzen comes out." Kakrish heads back to the passageway and peers down the passage.
Don't go wandering off all by your lonesome, Hoga says.
He follows the dwarf to the hallway.
Tamora's badger helps Kyzen by digging whatever walls the obstructs him from advancing with its natural burrowing ability.
Kyzen tries to see what the mechanism does exactly, so he will try to pull/push the chain and see what appends before going back to inform the party...
In case strength is needed...
While Kyzen crawl in the small space, Kakrish and Hoga walks back the way they came. Peering down westward in the corridor, they see nor hear any sign of where Kyzen could be at this time.
Curious, Kyzen still wants to have a better look before going back... So he ties his silk rope to the chain and climb down...
If possible he wants to do a quick recon of the area, so he's not going to open any doors, but will listen if possible. Then he will climb back up and go back to the party with the Badger...
"What is taking him so long?"
Tamora moves close to the hole, on four, looking back at the remaining three in the room.
"I am going after Kyzen."
She crawls after him.
"Don't see anything. Let's keep going down this hallway." Kakrish beckons Hoga. "I'm sure the others will catch up. I'm wondering if Kyzen crawled through some sort of tunnel or something."
So Kyzen goes back to inform the party of his finding. When he arrives, he waits until everyone is there to inform them about is findings...
"Sorry it took so long, when I reached the end of the chain, I climbed down to have a better look and saw a corridor who seems to go north and turn left after 30-40 feet. Part of the floor is missing and filled by some sort of awful smelling sludge. Also part of the ledge as been splashed with the sludge and it looks like walking on that would be very slippery. I'm guessing that the mechanism as something to do with it. I tried to activate it from there, but was unable to do so. It needs to be manipulated from here..."
As he finish is sentence, Kyzen goes to the lever and activate it...
"Also to the south, the corridor ends at a door. I didn't notice or hear anything special and it doesn't seems to be trapped..."
Turning back to the group...
"So do we go back through the crawling space or do we continue exploring from here? We will probably find our way there either way..."
"I rather choose the standard way."
Tamora follows whoever is leading the way.
Kyzen then suggest that we continue exploring in the same manner as before with Hoga and Kyzen securing the front, Tamora and Kyras doing the searching of every room and Kakrish securing the rear. We do this until something catches our attention.
"Kyzen, I like your plan." Kakrish smiles cheerfully at the hobgoblin. He falls in behind the others as they start to walk down the hallway. "What about these doors?" he says as they pass a couple more that are set into the north wall.
Regrouping in the room with the level, Kyzen explained what he saw. The group then decides to continue with the section they were in already. They explore each cell, one by one, finding nothing the long forgotten skeletons. As they get to the end of the corridor, they find another secret door. Again the passage of time made it rather easy to find.
After a throughout examination from Kyras and Tamora, The group opens the door to find themselves near where they started. You inspect the last four remaining cells and find these ones empty like the first ones you saw. Finally, with only one place left to go, you follow the last corridor to the end of it.
You come to the last door you haven't opened yet. going through the usual motion, you search for traps and Tamora scan for magical auras and others. She detects a very faint lawful and an evil auras.