The rest of your night is relatively peaceful, excepting for the dwarf who upon awakening discovers that a small scorpion decided that his beard was the perfect nest... As you all awaken to the rays of the rising sun you see something you missed last night, on the horizon you see a set of ancient ruins...
Something stirs in your mind upon seeing these ruins...they feel "familiar".
"these ruins seem familiar. Perhaps from my visions... or before.."
With extreme prejudice, Artor knocks the scorpion away and crushes it beneath his foot.
"the gods must be testing me to have sent me to this forsaken land. Everything wants to eat me."
Ormak rises, feeds the scorpion, and stands beside the metal man, peering at the ruins in the distance "Investigate?"
"Aye"
Artor plants his halberd warily glancing at the cousin of the creature that decided to defile his beard.
"yes, I'd say. Too suspicious not to."
The sun has been blistering but you have made it to the ruins, they are truly the ruins of giants. The door itself is massive, designed to accommodate a fifteen foot giant. The door also as it so happens appears to be locked in place, you can't immediately see a way in...
Artor begins scanning the rocks carefully
+2 for anything relating to the stonework.
Ormak peers around the ruins, and also sniffs the air, trying to pinpoint anything of interest or possible threats.
You see the faint outlines of some sort of door near the larger one built for smaller creatures... Yet you cannot see a way to open it...
You see a door near the larger one, it must have been built for slaves or so forth. As far as you can tell the door does not have a handle to open it with... You also see swirling, alien runes and so forth cleverly disguised in the granite, perhaps they mean something?
Artor moves closer to the door to investigate more thoroughly. He takes 20 on his perception.
The druid slowly walks up to the door, and when he is about thirty feet away, he invokes the spirits of nature to show him any signs of mystickal energies around the door
You can take roll twenty but it will take at least an hour to do so... I am ruling that it won't take you an entire day as an RP bonus (dwarves and stonework)
The door does glow with energy but it is nothing like what you have seen before... The energy is not magic as you know it, neither wizard nor priest was responsible for this...
If we don't have a better idea of what to do I will take 20.
As Artor examines the door his fingers hit something and he starts to glow like a torch except that the flames be purple in blue...
You lucky devil, roll a fort save and a will save...
Fort +2 if it is a poison or similar
Will
The light surrounding Artor's body dissipates...
An angry screech sounds through your mind, in your mind the image of the strange half breed abomination from the warehouse shows up... Judging by the look of outrage upon her face you have angered her deeply, she lets loose another angry screech this time it hurts more then your ears...
Wis damage to Artor...
As Artor sinks to his knees in mental agony you all hear the sound of metal on stone, like an army marching...
what direction does it sound like they are coming from? within, or without?
"Perhaps we should not be at this door when that force arrives."
"Perhaps we should leave a decoy here, so that when they destroy it they will stop looking for us."
Kyrso prepared to summon a group of animals...
"That could work. They might think the animal tripped the alarm. But then how will we get in after them? Perhaps if we can draw them far enough out, I can sneak in and hide, to open the door later."
"When I touched the door I saw flashes of the half-breed creature we encountered at the warehouse before we left. It didn't seem happy."
Ormak nods at Kyrso's suggestion. "Makes sense"
"So... the plan."
Kyrso summoned a celestial wolf.
You have hidden in a dense section of prickly plants and dense, hardy desert scrub brush... Out of the door march no less then ten Warforged, they could act as body doubles for Unmarked... Behind them comes the creature you fought in the warehouse back in Stormreach... The Warforged easily slay the celestial wolf by surrounding it and cutting it to ribbons... The strange tentacled women scans the area, her eyes trying to locate you...
perception
stealth check
Unmarked will expend his psionic focus to manifest Create Sound off to the side about 30ft away, the sound will be that of a few humanoids bumbling through underbrush and trees, with indistinct mumblings of anger for bumbling the sneaking. The sound will recede, as if the humanoids were fleeing.
Unmarked will then briefly meditate to regain his psionic focus.
As befitting somebody who is one with nature, Ormak effortlessly blends into the undergrowth, effectively disappearing from sight.
will save
The abomination easily detects that the sound is psionically generated and false... Her eyes turn towards your bush, while it seems that she does not notice most of you it is clear that Artor's plan to use his beard as camouflage has failed spectacularly...
The abomination points at Artor and the warforged prepare to pursue...
Unmarked manifests untouchable aura on itself and tells the others in a low whisper "kill one, take it and run. I'll replace it and get in."
Let's see what these creatures can do!
Initiative
mass initiative
Unmarked will try to hide and move. If he is hidden right now, he will sneak away from the group. If he isn't hidden, he will move away and try to hide. The overall intent is to circle away from the group with the eventual goal of pretending to be one of the 'forged that came out and heading back in when they go back in.
Artor will brace
Kyrso summons a hyena which attacks the nearest enemy!
The hyena fails to get a bite at any of the warforged or their leader... They move in to attack, unaware of so many who are hidden...
perception roll to notice Unmarked and Kron...
You all see that the warforged are tightly clustered around their tentacled leader...