Zogar reached the door a moment later, and peered inside with his sword as ready as it could be when treading water.
Seeing as how the rest of the group was going down into the watery pit, Aranthis decided to stay up top. "I'll be up here if you all need me. I'll keep an eye out and make sure Horgus and 'Vash aren't unprotected."
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A spike pit trap opens as you enter the room threatening to swallow up the small group entering the dimly lit chamber. On the far side of the pit trap sits a humble chest. Inside you find a light
wooden shield, a ring, two scrolls, and two potions of dark vision along with 250 gold pieces, neatly stacked, rolled, and labelled.
Meanwhile, upstairs, as the pit trap triggers below you hear a grinding and notice a statue slide out of place to reveal an old, well rusted, ladder leading up.
Seraphine looks at the ring, and examines it critically while muttering a spell under her breath to determine if the ring has any magical properties. After success (or failure), she then turns to the scrolls, handling them with care as she tries to determine any arcane glyphs on the scroll.
"Well I don't know how you are dividing the treasure. But when we are done here we can us this ladder. It seems to go back up to where we started."
"At the risk of sounding crude, let us grab the loot and go"
"I hear you," Zogar agreed. He waited for the others to climb up successfully before leaving the oversized fish dinners to their own devices.
On reaching the top, he examined the ladder suspiciously, scrunching the scars on his cheek. "Aranthis, does your knowledge of metalwork tell you this pile of rust will hold my weight?" The hulking Kellid frowned as he peered up where the ladder went. "Would that we knew how to open this again should it close behind us."
Iomedae stuffs the loot in her backpack ties herself to the end of the rope and attempts to climb the rope.
First 10ft
Second 10ft
Falls 20ft
Once again embarrassed by her utter inability to climb Iomedae says "Ok, can anyone give me a hand?"
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Iomedae makes it splendidly up the rope for the first twenty feet before she begins to struggle. Luckilly, she just manages to hang on. The second invasion of the water seems to be all the gar are willing to take. They seem ready to attack to defend their beautiful mongrel munchies against anyone who cares to venture back in.
Allrianne will assist Iomedae to climb, using the cloudwalking scale to help them both up.
Iomedae sees the Gar becoming aggressive and pulls her longsword. "Somethings fishy down here."
Seraphine levitates upwards with the cloudwalking scale
"Ok, now that that's over" Iomedae struggles with her armor, but finally puts it in place. "Thank you very much, I will try to be less of a hindrance."
"Cheer up girl, we can't all do everything. That's why people come together, to share skills and be better than we are as individuals."
As each person comes up, Aranthis helps them get up through the opening quickly. "It's a good thing those fish had something to distract them. They're looking pretty vicious now, can't imagine how riled up they'd have been otherwise."
Upon Zogar's suggestion, Aranthis takes a look at the ladder to make sure it's safe.
"Mere fish are not worthy opponents. Give me a demon to slice apart!" Zogar proclaimed, emphasizing his words with a thrust of his sword.
"Well is it the ladder or the hole. My vote is the ladder."
"I'll go take a look, if you're following, at least give me a minute to take a look." Allrianne starts to climb up the ladder.
When Allrianne heads off to investigate the next room, Aranthis stops for a moment to clean off her blades, drawing each one from its sheath and wiping it down before re-sheathing it.
"I wonder how much further we have to go through this compound before we find the path back to the surface?" she says as she works on the blades. Stopping to gaze up at the ceiling she adds, "I wonder how the battle in Kenabres is going. I hope they've been at least as lucky as we have down here, they certainly need it."
Allrianne calls down quietly "It's clear." she'll then peer into the hole.
"I would like to know how that demon penetrated the city's defenses. We will not have a dragon to save us should it happen again." Zogar seemed to take it as fact that they would reach the city again.
He climbed up after Allriane, squeezing his bulk through the hole. He wrinkled his nose at the stinking hole, his sword drawn once more, and looked down the eastern tunnel.
Allrianne will use Dancing Lights when she's not in range of anyone else's light source.
Right after Zogar, Iomedae climbs up as quietly as she can.
At the top of the ladder she draws her longsword and shield.
Before heading up, Aranthis takes a moment to pray to Torag, calling forth a blessing of light on one of her blades. She thens climbs up after the others and draws her blades, using them to help light the area.
Seraphine follows up after Aranthis, pausing only to pick up a small stone in her hand. Once at the top, she whispers something under her breath, and the stone glows with light, before she hurls it into the darkness, lighting it up.
"Something lurks in that hole. Beware!"