The gear doesn't seem to impede your progress, instead taking the place of the stairs, and you make your way down. Once you reach the bottom, you notice that the chamber where you confronted the kytons has changed immensely. The walls bear more than a passing resemblance to the Tower of Chaos' and the floor looks different yet oddly familiar. The secret door to Vencious' chamber lies open and you see the far wall is gone.
"I sense...something...someone...nearby," Pandi whispers.
Sādhanā draws Oblivion.
Flying down the stairs, Rhadaya hovers beside Tesia looking around for any sign of what Pandi might be feeling.
Tesia draws her sword as she follows Sadhana. Staying alert as well and actively looking for trouble as they go.
The far wall of Vencious' chamber appears to have been a false one, the disruption in the tower knocking it over. You come into a laboratory immediately after passing it. A horrific scene lays before you: mutilated and tortured bodies lie on tables, clearly Vencious' handiwork. You see three cells against the left wall.
Pandi points at the cells. "There."
She makes no movement toward them, clearly ill at ease in this room.
"By Desna," Sienna utters. "I'm glad that creep is dead..."
Taking a deep breath, she tries to swallow down the anger and bile she feels coming up. Letting it out slowly she moves towards the cells, "I wish we could have killed him twice." She says as she takes everything in before closing her eyes and concentrating on her breathing before opening them and concentrating on the cells.
"I'm just glad hes gone." Cyna says.
She nods, "Yeah, not being able to hurt anyone else is definitely a plus. I'm sorry...I'm just trying not to be sick. I've never seen anything like this before."
"When we're done here, we'll burn the bodies, both to put them to rest and prevent anything dangerous from arising. Gods alone know what he was doing to them." Sādhanā says grimly.
Rhadaya rests a hand on Tes' shoulder to steady her. She herself and seen scenes like this far more often than she cared to think about, but she could remember what it was like coming across something like this the first time.
Tesia looks over at her wife with a grateful expression, her wife's presence the calm to the storm she felt rising inside of herself. It was hard for her to believe that anyone could be this evil and depraved.....but they had seen a lot of stuff over the last few weeks so she wasn't sure why she was finding it so shocking. She was just so glad that she wasn't here alone...the whole place just creeped her out. Turning her head back towards the cells she keeps looking for what might be causing the feeling that Pandi was getting.
"The link betweeen the three towers on the different planes may have been damaged when the upheaval happened." Sādhanā says as she moves forward. "According to Oblivion, it could be irreparable."
Looking back at Sadhana she says, "After we figure out what or who in these cells and deal with that, we can take a closer look at the damage here. If it is something that's beyond us, we'll just report back to Barclay and when we go to Lysse I'll speak to father and Rivell about it. It might be something that the green circle will have to work together on."
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Clara absently runs her fingers along Celia's arm.
One of the cells is empty, the second contains a scarred male tiefling with a single horn on the right side of his face taking shallow breaths, the third contains an emaciated female nagaji whose scales look ashen. She barely acknowledges your presence, looking at Tesia and Sadhana with glassy grey eyes.
Looking at Fae she asks in a shaky voice, "Are you able to detect evil Fae? Just as a precaution before we heal them?" She pauses for a moment, "We're going to help them...I just...I just want to be careful okay?" She says, feeling a little timid. Who knows what horrible unspeakable things they had been through and they were going to help them however they could, but before they did that she just wanted to be sure that they stayed safe as well. They had no idea what they were walking into, even though she was pretty sure that they weren't a threat.
Sādhanā nods as she studies the unconscious tiefling first, before checking on the Nagaji woman.
"I can check." Fae summons a Lantern Archon and asks it to check for Evil as Tesia requests.
Sadhana realizes that the tiefling is a native outsider, while the nagaji is neither outsider nor undead. The archon tells Fae that neither occupant is evil.
"Well?" Ylrhea asks.
"They seem harmless." Fae answers.
"Can you understand me?"Sādhanā asks the nagaji woman.
The nagaji nods almost imperceptibly. "Are...you with the Green Circle?"
She looks at Cyna and Sadhana, unsure of how to answer her.
"A few of us are or have been, though the Circle itself has gone through changes in leadership." Sādhanā answers.
"Are you here to rescue us?" the nagaji woman asks.
She nods, "Yes we are. Would it be alright if I examined you to see how best we can help you? We also have food and water."
"As you will," the nagaji woman says. "These cells are locked. I know not where the key is."
She looks at Ylrhea, "Do you think you can get them open Ylrhea?"
"I'll see what I can do," Ylrhea says, inspecting the locks of the cells.
Ylrhea doesn't find any traps.
Ylrhea gets her tools out and begins to work on the locks, starting with the nagaji woman's cell.
Ylrhea barely manages to open the first cell.
Ylrhea gets to work on the next cell with the tiefling.
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With her extra effort, Ylrhea gets the second cell open.
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Pandi steps forward. "Samael...Scessa..."
The nagaji looks up at Pandi. "Pandi...it is you."
"Yes, Scessa," Pandi says. "It's me."
Sienna shrugs slightly. "I don't know either of them."
Tesia steps inside the cell to examine the woman first.
Tesia figures out that the nagaji woman is suffering from malnutrition as well as a strange toxin that the druidess is unfamiliar with.
Tesia looks from the woman to the others, "Well, there are two issues here. First the obvious one, malnutrition. The second is a little more difficult. She's been given a strange toxin that I'm unfamiliar with and I don't know how to treat it."
Sādhanā shifts her vision into the arcane spectrum, the blue of her eyes glowing intensely as she seeks to determine if the toxin might be magical in nature.
After she's done examining the woman Pandi called Scessa, she goes to the man's cell to examine him as well. He seemed barely alive, so she really hoped they could help them. Getting close to him she says, "I don't know if you can hear me, but my name is Tesia and I'm here to help you. I'm just gonna look you over and see what we need to do to help you." She then proceeds to examine him so she can assess how to help him.