”Beware of the door? What does that mean? Is there something beyond the door that we don’t want to see?”
Well what if the door is a jar?
It's probably easier if I show you
Winter takes you on through this part of the complex (B8). The hall ends just beyond a dingy curtain, but the wall here suffers some sort of otherwordly parasitism. A mass of stringy, yellow fungus stretches across the stone blocks. At its heart bulges and blinks a watery eye the size of a wagon wheel
That is very disturbing. Should we smash it?
”Have you tried any magic or force against the wall? Is the eye a sensor? Is someone spying on your group?”
We've tried magic and attacking the door, it just causes it to scream. There is some puzzle to opening it, some answer to its question
Domeric casts detect magic, to see if he can glean any further information about this anomaly.
The door does not detect as magical, rather you think it may be a sophisticated form of a haunt.
It has a question?
If you attack it, it cries out Who am I become? It seems like it really doesn't know.
"Have you talked to it?" Akukho asks quietly. "Or have you tried to show it? It doesn't seem like a riddle - perhaps you should simply show its own reflection?"
Chakam approaches silently and closes his eyes. He then reopens, muttering a quick prayer.
When we try to talk to it it doesn't respond, we haven't tried to show it its reflection.
Chakam it does detect as evil
Anyone have a mirror? If someone does, Trevor shows it the mirror.
No one in the chapel has a mirror, however you could use the back of a blade if you want to show the door its reflection.
Trevor borrows Chakham's greatsword for a little bit for the substitute mirror
Chakam approaches the evil door, and slowly twitches his greatsword trying to reflect it.
As you hold your great sword in sight of the eye, it catches its reflection. As soon as it sees it there is a change. The yellow fungus and the eye itself start to shrink and turn brown, this disease quickly spreads and as it does so both the eye and fungus crumble to dust, soon the door is just a regular door again.
”What in the Nine Hells did I just watch? This place s out of cntr9l. Winter, do you know what lies beyond this door?”. He looks closer at the now regular seeming door.
Perception
The door appears to now be a regular door.
Beyond the door should be the admin wing, certainly the main entrance is there, somewhere in that area is the records office. I confess I don't really know the layout. The place went crazy not long after I came here.
Trevor spurts some blood Would some healing be available here? Maybe have a lie down?
Atajay heals the warrior yet again.
Clw
”If we could recuperate here, that might be for the best. My healing is used up for the day, I can just tell.”
"Agreed. Let's rest here, and continue when we're ready," Domeric said.
Very well, my friends. - says the paladin, touching the floor with his greatsword - I can take the first shift. Just let me know who wants to be on our second and third shifts.
"I can take the last shift," Domeric stated.
My thanks for the healing. I will take second shift. Trevor lies down on the floor and sleeps rather uneasily.[
You rest for the night. Winter suggests you rest in the chapel (B5). Improvised pallets are clustered beneath sculpted divinities, and cooking fires burn beneath cracked windows in this chapel. Panes of violet and blue stained glass form spiraling patterns between prisonlike bars, while dozens of candles flicker from modest alcove shrines.
Let us head through the door where that weird eye thing was.
White tile, spiderwebbed with cracks, line the walls of this cathedral like hall. A prominent, oval desk faces staunch double doors, while hard benches and portraits of sombre doctors line the walls. Regal stairs ascend towards a second floor, but rubble has crushed the upper flights, blocking passage. Lofty windows, gridded by bars, reveal yellow mist seething just beyond
”Obviously we can’t go up these stairs. Let’s ex0lore this whole floor as I bet there will be more stairs. And we have to find that office...to find out more about ourselves.”
Indeed. You point, I pound.
"Sounds like a plan," Domeric agreed.
A long desk, several chairs, a sideboard and numerous once-stately landscape paintings partially barricade the door of this sombre conference room. A toppled wall opposite the barrier undermines the room's defences, a point driven home by the masked bodies littering the ground.
These are weird bodies. Trevor peers at the bodies. I wonder if those dopplegangers killed them
I don't know, my friend. This place becomes more and more depressive by the minute. - he replies Trevor.
The paladin then enters the room. Chakam breathes deeply - sad for all the death on this place - and mutters a quick prayer. Finally, he reopens his eyes and tries to sight signs of evil.
Finally, he goes at the bodies to inspect them, and search for more clues of what happened.
It looks as if they were strangled by what looks like human hands. There is evil coming from outside the main doors, and also to the south east [C4
Domeric scans the room with Detect Magic.
Perception:
You don't find anything magical. However, on one of the bodies you find a suit of padded armour, a sap, two thunderstones and a golden ring worth 150gp
Domeric takes the two thunderstones and the ring. After all, they might be useful.
"Well, where to now?" he asked of the others.
How about the double doors to the south east?
Atajay nodded. The south east sounded like as good a direction as any. He gestured for the group to lead the way.
As though it had been plucked from the halls of some warm country estate, this room is filled with inviting furnishings, a hearth ready for a fire, artwork populated by picnicking families, and a mansion-shaped cage with colourful taxidermic birds inside. Large windows might have once looked out over colourful flowerbeds, but now show only yellow mist. A battered corpse is impaled on the antlers of a stuffed elk, head above the hearth.
"Strange mist," Domeric commented, glancing at the yellow mist. He searches the area, casting detect magic as he does so.
Perception:
Something had to be pretty strong to get that body up there. Trevor sticks close to Domeric as he searches the room
The mist is thin enough to reveal a garden path leading from the door to another part of the asylum.
Three items on the body detect as magical
"There's some magic on that body. Think we can get it down?" Domeric asked.
_•If you lot will try to hold me up, I’ll try to pull the body down so we can figure exactly what happened here.”
Very well. - says Chakam, moving to help Atajay.
A chair might work better. Trevor gets a chair.
As Trevor touches the chair the stuffed birds in the cage start to chirp pleasantly.
Atajay 22
Chakam 18
Trevor 17
Domeric 8
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