With Ferrek's expertise and knowledge of the trap's workings, he's easily able to disarm it, ushering the companions forward through the hallway.
It leads forward just a short ways before ending with a door to the left. Opening this door reveals another room.
Rotted sofas, several thronelike chairs, small tables, braziers, vases, and dented, chipped, even broken urns lie in disarray about the chamber, as if purposely tumbled and looted. Only the tapestries, featuring weed-grown rocks and greenish scenes of undersea life, seem to have escaped such rough treatment.
"I like the tapestries...however..." Shadassa nocks a crossbow bolt and Detects Magic.
Isletta looks around..
The room doesn't radiate any magical auras but Isletta can definitely see the outlines of a door behind the tapestry that covers the westward wall.
"There's a door over yonder.. Probably trapped.."
"Well then Ferrek, we'll leave it to your expertise." Says Aviel, beginning to more closely inspect the rest of the room.
Aviel enters the room and begins to look around, and mere seconds after he enters it, the whole room gives one violent shake back and forth.
The wizard is able to keep his feet, although many of the objects in the room shuffle around or fall off of each other and break, and the tapestries shift from side to side with the motion.
Aviel can hear a subtle clicking noise coming from below him.
"Woah!" Garret says from the doorway. He blocked it with his arms, keeping everyone else back. He knew better than to grab Aviel. It was possible the entire room was some kind of pressure plate.
"Use that trick of yours to pop back into the hallway. Whatever's going on, it probably isn't designed to effect people who aren't in the room."
Garret looked around to see if he could figure out what was going on.
Ferrek moves up to the doorway and kneels down next to Garret to examine the floor. "Well, now we know why the room is such a mess."
Ferrek is able to divine that there is what appears to be a magical trap causing the room to shake whenever a person is inside.
With his keen sense, he is also able to determine that there's something fishy about those tapestries...they may not be what they appear to be.
"Anyone still flying? It might have something to do with contact with the floor."
"I can recast my fly and see whats up.." She uses her arcane bond to recast and extend a fly spell.. She will also use her staff to cast false life on her..
She will then move into the room and fly around, taking a closer look at things..
As Isletta enters the room herself, the room begins to shake after a few moments, but Isletta is in no danger of falling over. Flying around, Shade pinches her to stop and then motions with a claw at the westward tapestry - he can see the outlines of the door too.
The room continues to shake for as long as Isletta remains in the room.
"I can fly, but the trap is triggered by warm bodies, or sentience, not walking...er...tailgliding."
Shadassa activates her wings of flame and enters the room, still with a readied crossbow.
"Theres a hidden door behind the tapestry over there.."
"And when we lift the tapestry it turns into a giant adhesive manta ray..."
"Well that doesn't sound pleasant.."
Garret takes a look at the shaking room and decides even if it's dangerous, he needs to be in there with the others.
The sure-footed knight moves into the room with the rolling stride of a sailor on a ship.
"Or something worse, yes. It's definitely not actually a tapestry, whatever it looks like."
He takes a single step inside the room while Isletta is still inside, curious to see whether the shaking intensifies.
"I'm sure the shaking has some part to play in this, but I can't think what. Which just means it's even nastier than I can imagine. Can we just burn away the 'tapestry' from here?"
Garret chuckles. "Fine with me."
The shaking does not intensify with every person inside the room, but merely continues as the adventurers pile inside of it. Soon, only Aviel remains fully outside.
"I think i can handle that.." With a few arcane gestures Isletta sends 5 globes of acid streaking at the tapestry..
Isletta's acid orbs impact on the westward tapestry, burning away a hole that slowly widens as the acid does its work. After just a few more moments the tapestry is burned away and the door beyond is revealed - simply a mundane wooden door.
Isletta's force attack disrupts the tapestry's placement, and the thing sways back and forth for just a moment. Then its surface ripples, becoming slimy and gross. Then the tapestry's top rips and the thing flops downwards, covering calf of the room.
Shadassa is outside of its area of falling, but both Garret and Isletta are caught under it. The nimble paladin manages to dodge aside and outside of the area, but the drow wizardess is too slow and is coated in the disgusting ichor. She immediately begins to feel an intense pain as the stuff burns through her skin and her clothes.
The only way to remove it is either to quickly scrape it off, or, if too much time has elapsed, to burn or freeze it off.
Aviel wasn't amused by this at all. He turned and found one of his companions covered by some hideous acidic source.
"I'm afraid I will not be of much assistance with that." He says moving into the room.
She screams as the slime burns her flesh..
"Its Green SLime! Help me scrape it off Quickly!" She pulls a dagger a immediately starts to remove the slime..
Garret uncoils a length of chain from his pack and tosses it to Isletta, trying to drag her out of the disgusting stuff.
"Hurry, I don't know how long it will take that stuff to eat through the chain."
Isletta is able to begin scraping the stuff off as Garret successfully loops a chain around her and drags her out of the area of the slime. Although Isletta is able to get the worst bits of the slime off of her, both her dagger and Garret's chain rust and fall apart and crumple with the exposure to the virulent stuff.
Of course, the room continues to shake, displacing the objects and the one remaining tapestry in the room.
Shadassa purses her lips, pulls out a Reach metamagic rod, and casts Resist Energy versus acid on Isletta. "What can destroy it?" she wonders out loud.
"It just needs to be removed quickly.." If its not all off she will pull out her second dagger and continue scrapping it off.. Once it is all off she stands and uses her Staff to cast at the other painting..
Isletta is able to successfully save herself from the green slime, and then is able to destroy the other one with a burst of flame in short order.
Ability Score Damage, Penalty, and Drain
Diseases, poisons, spells, and other abilities can all deal damage directly to your ability scores. This damage does not actually reduce an ability, but it does apply a penalty to the skills and statistics that are based on that ability.
For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability. If the amount of ability damage you have taken equals or exceeds your ability score, you immediately fall unconscious until the damage is less than your ability score. The only exception to this is your Constitution score. If the damage to your Constitution is equal to or greater than your Constitution score, you die. Unless otherwise noted, damage to your ability scores is healed at the rate of 1 per day to each ability score that has been damaged. Ability damage can be healed through the use of spells, such as lesser restoration.
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"Alright. Odds are that other tapestry is going to do the same thing. Let's back up and get clear, then trigger it with some kind of magic.
Garret looks at where the second tapestry had been, and then down to the floor on the other side of the room, then around at the others who were staring at him. He sighed.
"I'm getting to old for this."
"What destroys them the most efficiently? Fiiiiire?" says the merfolk a little eagerly.
"The paintings are taken care of.. But I wouldn't suggest walking across that floor.. I can fly you all across 1 at a time if need be.. Does anyone have any restorative magics?"
The trapsmith shakes his head. "I've got nothing. Except these new boots you gave me. I can cross it, but I can't destroy it."
Shadassa lays a webbed hand on the drow. "I can be of help," she says, and focuses, murmuring quietly for a good 18 seconds.
She frowns. "Again," she murmurs, and resumes chanting.
Isletta smiles as her damage is healed.. "Thanks.. I can fly yall across.. I have a spell running that allows me to carry great weight so i can handle it.. Whos first?" She will taxi the non-flying party members across..