Arishat pulls out her Everburning Torch, and follows carefully some way behind Lynore.
The passage is rough hewn but serviceable and offers no sign of danger beyond a growing sense of menace and a bone-aching chill. Ahead of you, Lynore suppresses a slight noise.
Lynore
Lynore whispers, "Something just happened, I am not sure what. I feel weird, and there is something up ahead. I hear voices and wind."
Thom hurriedly scans the area for magical effects in the corridor.
Can I see anything ahead? Perception
Both Thom and Lanthair go on the alert. Lanthair peers ahead and sees that where Lynore is standing, the fabric of the building has changed. No longer rough hewn, the walls are finest marble. Now that Lynore has called his attention to it, he hears a faint, horrible chorus accompanied by the sound of fierce wind up ahead.
All Thom's arcane senses twang with the reek of wrongness.
"I think we ought to proceed carefully," Lanthair says, stating what is rather obvious.
"Yeah, something just happened here, and I am certain it was not for our benefit."
Barel attempts to proceed with caution.
Lynore's footsteps lead her onwards and upwards as the corridor slopes to the upper level once more. All the party can now see the fine stonework and hear the horrible chorused voices and Lynore can see the the chamber ahead is a chapel. To what appalling deity it is dedicated, she cannot tell.
Arishat moves into the chapel, staying close to the back wall. .
Thom resists the urge to move next to Arishat for protection , and takes a position on the other side of the doorway.
The singing grows louder and more persistent. It seems to be some kind of hymn. As Thom and Arishat enter the chamber, they become aware that the walls they are leaning against are made of stone-flecked ice and their chill fills the room.
Lynore creeps forward to look down the aisle.
Lanthair heads to the middle of the room.
The companions assemble and look about the place. Nothing stirs and only the unholy music disturbs the peace. The rising and falling cadences make prickles rise on the backs of your necks, so unpleasing is the sound.
Lynore advances cautiously, her senses twanging with unease, but seeing no movement. Holy symbol held high, Tavar follows, preparing to blast whatever horror awaits the party.
Lanthair proceeds cautiously up the center aisle to G10.
Thom stays put, and again reaches his arcane sense out to determine where the wrongness is emanating from. He will first concentrate on the altar.
Something large and so far, formless, seems to be flickering on the edge of Thom's vision as he gazes at the altar.
"I don't like the looks of this..."
Barel moves confidently but slowly to the center of the room, with a weather eye out for anything out of place.
Tavar will keep close to the center of everyone and move to E11.
Arishat will move forward as well, down the left hand side of the room.
Lynore continues her cautious advance and spies a corridor leading from the chapel. Everyone is grimly aware of a slowly forming monstrosity on the altar. Composed of singing heads marked by evil, they will soon take full form.
"If we dash through, it might not notice us."
"What, and leave it behind us cutting off our escape?"
Lanthair too creeps forward and watches as the form solidifies and floats towards the door. The singing heads turn to Lynore and she shudders as their gaze sends unwilling dread rushing over her.
When the dread creature appears, Barel heads over to it immediately and swings his hammer at it at once!
"Well, I suppose we'd better kill it." Arishat moves towards the monsters and weaves a pattern with her spear, attempting both to injure it and stop it moving away.
Arishat ranges alongside Lynore and jabs expertly at the undead, showing Barel a possible weak point.
Move to K11 and throw a Lance of Faith at the mocking ghost.
attack vs reflex, , damage = radiant
Lanthair gets a +2 on her next attack.
Lanthair moves around behind the beast before launching his attack.
Lanthair darts around the Caller, hoping to cut it off from the archway, but narrowly fails to hit it.
Thom clutches his Foe Stone and focuses on the Caller. He then calls on the power of the Celestial planes to light up the Caller's day.
Thom hurls a flicker of light towards the Caller and watches in satisfaction as the light blooms around it, blinding the creature.
Lynore throws two graceful loops of shadow over the dreadful faces as she teleports clear and drags her blade deep into the thing's body.
The Caller flies into the doorway and out of the blinding light, blocking the exit. It turns its attention to Barel, marking him and then bites at Arishat with one of its spectral heads.
Barel is powerless to prevent the first attack against Arishat, but after the first bite, Barel pulls the creature towards himself and away from Arishat 5 feet with a visible effort of sheer bullheadedness.
Barel first forms the familiar ice over his shoulders, siddles up to the creature and then swings his hammer again.
Frost forms over Barel as he attempts to keep the Caller off Arishat. He is only partially successful, but manages to drag the hellish choir away from both the tiefling and the doorway before landing a major blow on the creature.