Dragox waits for the more clever to tell him exactly what happened to the Mage. "Sargon, are you okay? What the blazes happened to you?"
Sargon who's hair is sticking straight up, combs it back down while mumbling under his breath something about muddies and patience.
Sadly Dragox, patience was never one of my strong suits, I can assure you that after that nasty shock, I will put more credence into it.
"W.w.what are you doing?" As Sargon walk by him.
Fireballs on a demon! Men have no patience. You've gone and gotten us in it now general. The entire tomb is covered in a forbiddance spell, and to boot, it's backed up by a special little bit of abjuration that's gonna close the door in less than half a minute. All ashore who's going ashore! We've no time to waste, if we're going in, we've gotta go now, and we'll have to figure out another way out of the tomb later on. If I'd had time, I might have been able to figure a password, but no such luck now. We're going to have to suffer the consequences. Reyondelee gathers her skirt and tumbles her way across the threshold, setting the precedent that a girl is ready to take the pain in order to further explore this tomb.
Come on boys! It'll only hurt for a minute.
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Ow-ow-ouch! Damnit that hurts. Whew! Nothing like a strong jolt of magic pain to get you up in the morning. Best make a dash for it boys, that door's about to close, and for good! Don't worry, Rey's got something to sooth yer pain just as soon as we're all inside. Now move!
"Blast it," as the dwarf grabs Clank, "time t'move it or be left behind." the dwarf tumbles into the room.
"Ok..." he waggles his finger, "you're no longer Trigger,"pointing to Omar, ""HE' is fer setting off stuff b'fore thinkin'" the dwarf announces with a bit of irrational in his voice clearly directed at Sargon.
You've gone and gotten us in it now general. The entire tomb is covered in a forbiddance spell
Yowzeh, that was one rude awakening, definitely shook the last of the cobwebs out of my head. Please accept my apologies.
The rogue closes his eyes in thought, he contemplates this forbiddance spell.
He spits, then tries to activate his ring of blinking. Hoping it works, but he is not surprised if he can not blink to the ethereal plane.
Upon hearing that the 'door' was shutting soon, Dragox fought through after shoving Gauthier through before him. "Here goes nothing," he mutters through gritted teeth, as he prepares for the shock to hit him.
Will save
The ring of blinking doesn't work.
The door slams down with a dismal tone of finality, sealing the group within the tomb.
"Remember what I said about how easy the Mage had made it to get into the tomb. I'll go ahead and take that back now, thank you. And now I've got a personal reason to take a little pleasure in finding this guy. It's not just about the gold any,ore...its personal."
"Remember what I said about how easy the Mage had made it to get into the tomb. I'll go ahead and take that back now, thank you. And now I've got a personal reason to take a little pleasure in finding this guy. It's not just about the gold any,ore...its personal."
"You stand in front...drawl the attention, then let me cut the hammystring." The dwarf mutters.
T'wich blinks dumbfound like at the old man, "Ain't no spell t'cure ya from those mind lapses or did y'just forget that part of the bless'n" His thumbs now rubbing on his temples. 'Grizzly Bear did y'hibernate a bit too long and fergit it?' He exhales.
"Ok Twitch, let's see this famous scouting you brag so much about. I don't want to wander ahead and set off a trap that does all of us in."
Reyondelee summons her instrument with a few waves of her hand, and plays a soothing little ditty that eases some of the pain of walking through the forbiddance spell.
She then casts Detect Secret Doors, and while concentrating to maintain the spell thoroughly examines the entirety of this foyer to the tomb.
Reyondelee then also examines the building materials of the tomb and taps her knowledge of construction to see what she can learn about it.
Reyondelee focuses and spends a good amount of time studying the structure and environment of the foyer, and as she does so the rest of you have time to take a closer look as well.
The twin long pools are full of clear liquid, and appear to be about five feet deep. Their bottoms are densely covered in bleached white humanoid bones, a tangle and clutter of skulls, ribs, femurs, vertebrae, tibia and more, stretching the entire length of the room.
The small square pool at the room's end appears to be quite deep, and also filled with a clear liquid. Reyondelee notices a small, black key wedged into a crack at the very bottom of the pool.
No secret doors reveal themselves.
Finally, examining the nature of the building materials reveals an interesting fact: the stone blocks are bonded together with a unique cement containing a large amount of adamantium flecks. Reyondelee surmises that this might lead to two effects: one, the walls must be incredibly difficult to damage, and two the walls would probably be react as adamantium and not stone when subjected to magic.
Sargon takes a few steps toward the pools and stops in his tracks..Umm He clears his throat. Would anyone like to go checkout the pools and the bell?
The twin long pools are full of clear liquid, and appear to be about five feet deep. Their bottoms are densely covered in bleached white humanoid bones, a tangle and clutter of skulls, ribs, femurs, vertebrae, tibia and more, stretching the entire length of the room.
The small square pool at the room's end appears to be quite deep, and also filled with a clear liquid. Reyondelee notices a small, black key wedged into a crack at the very bottom of the pool.
Sargon will attempt a Mage hand to remove said key
No secret doors reveal themselves.
Finally, examining the nature of the building materials reveals an interesting fact: the stone blocks are bonded together with a unique cement containing a large amount of adamantium flecks. Reyondelee surmises that this might lead to two effects: one, the walls must be incredibly difficult to damage, and two the walls would probably be react as adamantium and not stone when subjected to magic.
Sargon's Mage Hand plucks the black key from the depths of the pool, and brings it glistening to the surface.
Omar get's an eyeful of the morbid ossuary, which seems to be composed of countless human and demi-human bones. No items however lies within the jumble of bones.
Sargon will follow along having put the key in a safe place.
"Those bones got here someway or the other. I'd watch for something we can't see, and guard our backs. Something is waiting," the paladin grumbles as he looks around the room.
He focuses on the bones, testing a theory.
The bones radiate no evil.
"Well, those bones aren't any kind of defense trap that I Can see. They don't have the taint of evil about them. They must have been from innocents who blundered into this place. The Inheritor bless them..."
The pools are utterly still. One could almost say limpid. No flow, no drainage, no grates or gates of any kind. Perfect rectangles preserving these gruesome bones for what might be all of eternity.
The ceiling is smooth and without feature.
"Songbird, yer voice is quite soothing on me wounds. Thanks."
T'wich removes a piton form his leather belt then knees next to the first pool. He dips the tip it the pool t see if it reacts. "Wonder if the liquid is blanch'n those bones." He will begin with the long pool on the right, then go to the pool on the left before waling up the center between the pools to check out the center pool. Each time using his piton and dipping the end.
The water has no effect on the piton.
I rarely take 10 or 20 on my rolls. I like the randomness of dice rolls.
The dwarf mumbles,"The liquid isn't corrosive to me eye."
Satisfied the liquid is not corrosive he walks over to the bell and examines it. "Seems like we should ring it. He waits for the others to comment.
There appear to be no traps on the pools or bell.
Satisfied the liquid is not corrosive he walks over to the bell and examines it. "Seems like we should ring it. He waits for the others to comment.
** spoiler omitted **
Now, Now Twich, no need to alert every single thing in here of our arrival. Sargon says I promise later on you can ring the bell to your hearts content, but for now let's try and keep our presence hidden
As you look around, you now notice one more detail: on the side of the door facing into the tomb through which you came, is a single symbol. This symbol and three others are repeated on the west side of each of the four pillars by the front of the hall.
Know. Religion to identify anything about the symbols.