Irenicus nods to himself. "The yellow pool seems to have a beneficial effect on the imbiber. Let's try to discern it's full effect before concluding it though." He says to Virgil as he walks past. "Keep an eye on him. He might come around soon."
He goes to fetch some of the green liquid in the same way, and then slaps Jack lightly to wake him.
seems like all the bugs are dead, wonder what else is in there Elathras, retrieving his torch, curious to see what else is in the bug room goes in and takes a look around, torch and polearm in hand enters through the door he opened and looks around.
Four of the nests contain some shiny treasure that attracted the stirges’ attention: these are a necklace of small jade beads (100 gp), a shiny silver piece, a shiny silver mirror (200 gp), and a glittering little diamond (350 gp)
Elathras gathers up the shiney parts and takes them to Virgil, handing him the items he asks "What are we doing with the water? Shall we go find Irenicus? Or wait for him?"
Virgil lowers his suspicious (and half-empty) waterskin into the nearest pool (C - Detect magic), waiting for the indicative bubbling of escaping air.
"Jack seems to have made it..."
The Ranger pulls out the waterskin, offering it around... "Anyone? No?" Before taking a long draft...
Well, the water skin does not glow.
I think Irenicus said this one seemed beneficial willing to trust his friend Irenicus, Elathras stoops down by the golden pool and scooping it out with his hand drinks some.
Elathras reaches and stretches a little, turning his neck this way and that, finally smiles and says, "That was refreshing, you should all try it! It makes me feel..." he stops and thinks for a moment and finally says "tougher." Tired of waiting for Irenicus and his experements Elathras goes back out into the hallway and turning left continues the way they were going, keeping a keen eye.
Virgil shrugs. "This one didn't do anything." He pours the rest back into the pool, making his way over to the one Elathras suggested, repeating the process and taking a drink.
ok, anyone that drinks from that pool can read the spoiler.
Jack is getting, err rigid as time goes by and struggles less in his sleep.
Eventually he stops breathing and dies.
Not joining in Mitleid cleans the stirges nest before looking around to the next room [18]
Overconfident, Virgil makes his way over to the far pool (Pool B), cupping his hands for a drink.
"Right, where to now?"
The illusion conceals a shaft down into the darkness. Iron rungs are set into the stones to serve as a ladder which leads all the way down to the next level.
"Uh, guys? This one is a hole."
hearing Virgil say something about a hole, elathras returns to the water room and asks, "Shall we go down?" without waiting he sets his torch and pole arm down and begins to descend the rails, testing each one before he puts his weight on it, keeping a keen eye out for trouble
seeing that the ladder comes down to a hallway 10' wide. It is at the end of a short corridor that goes to a t-intersection, Elathras reclimbs the ladder rungs as he does so he grabs a rusty rung.
On the way back up Elathras grabs a rusted rung and falls 20'
ow getting up at the bottom of the pit, Elathras calls to Vigil, "Virgil, I do not like the rungs, would you drop me a rope and let me climb up?" after the party drops Elathras a rope he will attempt to climb the rope instead of the rungs. When he gets to the top he tells Virgil "It's a hallway Virgil, we have hallways up here, lets explore them first and then go look at the hallway down stairs." As Elathras is talking he gathers his torch and weapon and returns to the hallway.
Virgil drops a rope, Helping poor Elathras back up. "Brave stuff. And yeah, up here first, I guess."
as the team gathers ready to leave, Elathras point to the hallway to the south and says, "That one takes a couple of turns," then pointing to the west he adds "lets see where this one goes shall we?" and he heads down the western hallway, torch and pole arm in hand.
"West it is."
having gone up the hallway a bit to an intersection, Elathras asks "Stay by the hallway, I will see if the door leads to the stairway as the Orcs said, then we can check out this hallway and make sure it's safe" Elathras quickly checks the door at the end of the hallway,
Using a rope to climb down Mitleid joins the others.
after checking the door Elathras opens it t make sure it leads to the big room with the stairway.
after verifying the big room Elathras returns to the group and joins them going north up the hallway stopping as he the hall splits, he looks carefully both ways, before he continues
You come to where the orcs show you were the traps is in the hall.
Virgil approaches the trapped area carefully, pulling out the small collection of poles that came with his tools. Attaching them, he carefully attempts to disarm the trap.
Virgil sets off the trap, roll a Reflex DC 20. Elathras moves down the hall and finds his own trap rolling his own Reflex save DC 20.
Elathras not wanting to get caught in a trap flees the other direction, finding his own
Elathras falls 10' for
Elathras rubs his head at least it doesn't hurt as much this time, is that a good thing or a bad thing, picking up his torch and pole arm and tossing them out of the pit he calls "Would someone please drop me a rope?"
Virgil sighs, jogging over to the other pit. "What? Why are you even over here, man?"
The ranger sullenly lowers a rope.
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Elathras, lowers his head, looking sheepish, not wanting to admit he ran off when Virgil started to tinker with the trap, seeing the rope, Elathras smiles, climbing up he declares "Virgil is my friend, lets go look at the doors Virgil" returning to the northern hallway, Elathras checks the western door for anything suspicious
"Well, this has been fun! At least we don't have to worry about Jack any more. Where to next?"
after checking the door on the west hallway side Elathras shrugs his shoulders and opens the door, walking in the room and looking around
Kaz takes a gulp from the pool that the others said was beneficial. He doesn't take sips from any of the other pools unless given instructions from the others as to the effect. He wasn't good at identifying magic, and didn't want to risk it,
Kaz follows the others to where the orcs warned them about. After watching the others blunder their way through the traps made him just shake his head. He saw Ela bleeding all over. "Come here, boy. Let me patch you up," the dwarf grumbles.
CLW from sacrificing Protection from Evil spell
Elathras quickly responds when Kaz called him, a little embarrassed that he fell in the pit, he didn't want to say anything, when the dwarf was done healing him Elathras, moves his neck around and final says "Thanks, Kaztor, it feels as good as can be expected."
There is a pile of 8 skulls in the northeast corner of this room, which is otherwise completely empty and filled with dust and normal cobwebs. The skulls are normal, but each one has a small hole bored into the top.
that's odd Elathras picks up one of the eight skulls, looking at it wonder what caused that? he returns to the group passing the skull to them asking "Why would it have a hole?" as the group looks at the skull Elathras proceeds to the door ending in the eastern corridor and carefully inspects it.
"Huh. Maybe it's an altar?" Virgil shrugs.