"Well, they aren't magical, that's for sure. I'm not sure if they might work the way you described, Ela, but they are not magical items."
"At least none of us got stuck on that glue."
After showing the boots and glove to his companions Elathras has an Idea, he places the boots and glove on, and holding a shield in his other hand he attempts to open the door and place the shield on the floor between the door and the doorframe, looking into the room.
the floor and walls of the room itself are all coated with an extremely adhesive alchemical glue.
You see a treasure chest on the northern wall across from the door, and a skeleton’s hand lying on the floor just next to the door, cut off at the wrist.
"Elathras, I have an idea. Don't look so surprised; it does happen. Just stand aside, I want to see if any of my magics can clear off some of that glue."
When Elathras is out of the way, Wdrozgrúk will fire one of his Fire Rays at the floor, to see if it might burn a swath through the alchemical glue:
And then, for good measure, will try to see if the Acid Splash spell does any good too:
Fire and acid do not burn the glue off.
"Hmph! No joy there!
Elathras steps back out of the way so Wdrozgruk can test his magic against the floor, once that appeared to be unsuccessful Elathras walks carefully into the room to look at the chest, to see if it is locked or trapped.
not finding the chest locked or trapped Elathras, using the gauntleted hand, opens the chest. "I'm going to open it Virgil, ok?"
It contains 500 gp and 1 silver piece.
The chest is bolted to the floor.
Elathras goes back to the door and empties his back pack saying, "spread this stuff out, the chest is filled with gold, I will put it in my pack." after emptying his pack he goes back into the room and carefully places the coins into the pack, he then returns to the group. Attempting to lift the shield out of the doorframe.
Unable to lift the shield Elathras reloads as much gear as he can and distributes the rest, then heading north-east, realizing the large area is where they first entered, he retraces their steps to the hidden door and heads south into the new area, as they enter the new area Elathras looks around carefully
seeing some kind of cube, Elathras says "Hey, there is some kind of cube Virgil!"
Initiative
Foul Jelly! Not for eating!
"There's always here, isn't there?"
Wdrozgrúk will shoot one of his fire rays at the (icky) cube
Kaz will move beside Dolgrin and tap him on the back giving him a small Strength surge. Tear through this for us, young man!"
Irenicus fires a bead of force at the cube.
"Not sure I like the look of that."
you will have to move, but go ahead and roll to hit
that is really odd not familiar with the type of creature they are facing, Elathras begins to rage, dropping his torch and grasping his Guisarme in both hands he slashes at the creature.
Gelatinous Cube Virgil.
Virgil steps smoothly into the fray, slashing his Falchion through the gelatinous cube. "Heyah!"
Mitleid does a ranged flurry
As the 'cube' turns into a puddle of goo, Elathras reaches forward and picking up the chainmail holds it up and says, "Look Kaztor! This should fit a dwarf!"He then picks up the other items and asks Virgil, "Virgil can I put these in your pack?" After the items a situated Elathras takes a good look around the room and then heads south to the next room, looking around in it also.
The walls of this room are made of mortared stones, but fossilized human skeletons poke out from it to varying degrees. In one place, a skeletal stone hand pokes out from the wall, in another place the skull and ribcage of a stone skeleton protrudes from the wall along with one arm holding a sword in its hand, and in a third place the entire left side of the fossilized skeleton is visible, with the right side embedded in the wall.
"I don't like this. I mean! What's the point of using bones to make walls with? Must be a trap of some sort. Seems to be enough of them here, that's for sure."
we should find out if the sword is valuable and chip it out of the wall if it is! noticing the two doors it the room, Elathras goes to the one in the north east corner and carefully inspecting it for traps or locks, opens it and looks inside.
finding a hallway with a doorway and a right hand turn going north to the glue room Elathras checks the doorway in the hall looking for traps and locks. If he finds none he opens the door and looks inside.
Looking at the remains of his arrows Mitleid sighs but then sees the found items and smiles his toothy smile."Ha... at least we won!"
As Elathras opens the southern facing door in the hall he steps on a freasure plate causing a Portcullis to fall, his way being blocked he turns to Virgil and says, "Lets go back to the creepy room and try the southern door there" Once Elathras reaches the door he checks it for traps and locks and opens it, and looks inside.
This room is relatively featureless, but it is an important discovery.
In the southern part of the room, there is a stairway leading down into
the darkness, flanked on either side by iron statues of cobras. Both cobra
statues are coiled, but with the head raised and the hood out, as if ready
to bite. Each of the statues sits upon a short stone pedestal six inches in
height
Elathras approaches the statues, and the stairway, taking a closer look at the cobra's to see if they are worth taking.
The snake attacks Elathras:
plus Fort Save
Roll init
"Oh man. Those are even worse than real snakes."
When able, Virgil draws his Falchion and charges the nearest snake to help Elathras.