The group swings open the door on the tiny cylinder, releasing a thrashing Scuttles, who vomits a puddle of gel on the floor.
Haer Kul will go back to the door and try to figure out how to open it.
Haer Kul finds no handles or levers anywhere on the door, but he finds the blinking green circle beside the door very distracting. He also sees that the door is made of a combination of stone and a chitin-like material.
While Haer Kul was away from the door, Bardos detected no magic in that direction.
Petronicus puts his hand on the green circle.
The door slides into the wall to the right with a slurping sound.
Beyond is a rough, unlit hall with many doors. It seems to circle a central room.
Thorthal looks at Petronicus, and then at Morgrom, and back to Petronicus, and then around the room for anything that could heal his wounds.
Haer Kul will join Thorthal in looking around the central room.
. Cautiously. He'll look around the bend on the left before going further in.
At the end of a short tunnel, Haer Kul sees another door similar to the one he recently passed through. The green disc on the wall beside it is flickering, and an occasional spark falls out of the wall above it.
The door on the cylinder room hisses shut, with Petronicus, Morgrom, and Bardos still within.
We will come out to the hall.
The door re-opens with a push of the disk, and closes once the rest of the group have joined Thorthal.
"Hmm that one doesn't look terribly safe."
"Hmm, mebbe nae this way."
Thorthal will investigate the five branches on the hall, see if there are any distinguishing features on the doors or otherwise.
Each of the doors down the remaining hallways looks similar to the one in the room where the party woke, with a slowly blinking green circle to one side.
The doors to the central area are the same, but with a double door.
There are some of the metal plates attached to the ceiling like in the cylinder room, but they are not emitting light.
The walls are not the good dependable rock that Thorthal is used to, but contain an organic component.
Thorthal detects the occasional vibration in the floor.
"I do not know whether these doors will block magical auras like metal, but it may be worth attempting to detect magic through each door. If we are lucky, our equipment may be behind one of these doors and we may be able to detect it."
"I shall give it a try", says Bardos as he concentrates on the doors one by one, starting on the right.
Bardos frowns.
"No magical auras sadly, but there are noises beyond the first east door and the north door."
"That does not sound good. We are not dressed for company." Haer Kul will listen at those doors.
First east
North
Morgrom looks at his make shift club, looks at the rest of the party, gives it a couple of good swings, "I'z ready. Don't be chicken."
"I hear nothing." Haer Kul looks carefully at Bardos with a faint smile, "Are you sure those noises were from behind the doors, Mr. Bardos?"
"Let's leave those doors for last just in case. I am curious about the small room in the center. Is anyone else?" Haer Kul will listen at that door as well. .
All is silent beyond the central doors.
"Sae, th' first door oan th' left guid?"
"Let me check for traps first." Haer Kul will go up, search for traps, , then move away.
Haer Kul finds no traps, but hears sporadic clicking in the wall near the green circle. Perhaps the mechanism is malfunctioning somehow?
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Haer Kul thinks they should try turning it off and back on again.
As Thorthal presses the disc, the door shudders open with a whine.
Beyond is a roughly rectangular room containing shelves full of various pieces of equipment, weapons, and armour.
No other exits are visible.
Is this our gear? Anything else there?
"This seems too convenient." Haer Kul will look into the room, looking for any threats. If not, he will approach the shelves and search them for traps. Finally, he will look through the shelves for our equipment and anything else that's useful. He will then try to look carefully for any hidden compartments or recesses that may hide the really good stuff.
Petronicus, Scuttles, and Haer Kul proceed into the room and begin examining the shelves. They quickly see that each of the group's equipment has been sorted on to an individual shelf.
In addition to party equipment, there are four shelves which each hold a suit of leather armour, a scimitar, a longbow, and a quiver of arrows. Another shelf holds a well-made short spear and two potion vials.
Haer Kul will attempt to identify the potions . The leather armour is appropriately sized for the canine captives? If so, Haer Kul suggests returning it. (But yeah, we will take everything.)
Thorthal proceeds into the room.
The armour does look like it probably came from the dogfolk.
If there's a functioning green circle inside the room, we should all get dressed in here. Armored types will take longer so it might be better to be out of the high traffic area.
Then we should try identifying the potion vials and then bring the gear to the dog men.
Morgrom will retrieve his equipment keeping his sword close at hand in case trouble arises before he can finish putting on his armour.
As Morgrom and Bardos join the others in the room, the door jerks its way closed.
There is an audible click from the door as soon as it stops.
Bardos grabs his gears and puts on his clothing and armoured coat. He looks around with a far-away look in his eyes.
"There are spirits here, most unusual ones, though rarely are they usual. I believe a seance is in order, and I believe you should all join me."
"I will join you this time. I am, how do you say, curious." Haer Kul finishes dressing and arranging his gear.
"You won't regret this my Gnomish friend! Anyone else?" says Bardos as he gets out his strange writing tablet.
The ominous click from the door does not seem to have resulted in gas seeping into the room, or water pouring from hidden pipes, or the walls closing in, or snakes falling out of the ceiling, ...
"Oh yes I can not think of a more appropriate time for an exploration of the macabre occult arts.. but perhaps I should finish preparing my spells for the day.
"I'll watch th' door."
Thorthal will finish putting on his clothes, armor, and shield.
Haer Kul is happy to do the seance first.
"Morgrom, would you consider providing Mr. Petronicus with a little healing, once you have your spells? Or he could use one of the healing potions here", indicating our gear.
Morgrom looks all cock-eyed at Bardos with his mention of a seance. "I'z don't needz no stinkin' seance."
Once he has donned his armour, he will take some time to recover his spells.
Bardos sighs.
"Suit yourselves, but I really think you'd have liked this one, and just a quick note, if get a bit... bossy, please play along, or the spirit will leave and we'll lose the benefits of his influence."
Bardos gathers the party members interested in participating and he begins. He writes furiously on his tablet, gazing into space. Strange breezes and temperature fluctuations occur in the room, and the party swears they see a great captain, with strange constructed limbs and an eerily glowing eye stride towards Bardos and vanish. After about an hour, those the participated benefit from the seance:
Your damaging spells deal an additional 2 points of damage of the same type that they would normally deal to each target.
You gain a +2 bonus on all non-spell damage rolls.
You gain a +1 bonus to CMD.
Your healing spells and abilities heal an additional 2 points of damage to each target. This does not affect healing conferred by magic items, nor does it add to fast healing or similar effects.
Choose one skill when you gain this seance boon. You gain a +1 bonus on skill checks using that skill, and that skill counts as a class skill for you.
"I think you are right, Mr. Bardos. Mr. Blade would have enjoyed the results, if not the experience. Myself, the nightmares I am sure will be worth it. How long do the effects last?"