Barlespin says to Morgan, "That's not necessary is it ...?" He then shrieks as he is attacked.
Waiting to see the effects of Sinna's spell on the creature, Zaraith draws his sword and looks at the shelled creature.
Watanabe grants Zaraith insight.
Morgan shoots at the ghelarn again and strikes it .
The eye stalks droop and lay upon the shell.
Combat Round 1/2 - Bold May Act
Morgan
Watanabe
Ghelarn -12 (sleeping)
Sinna
Zaraith
Barlespin -9
Zaraith moves up to the unconscious creature, raising his sword up before looking over at Barlespin. He holds his attack until the Grippli takes his actions.
Barlespin reaches for his polymer net, then shakes his head and instead pulls his dagger. By the time he does so, however, the creature has been slain. He nods to Zaraith. "Good work."
"Now we can continue!"
Waiting a moment to be sure the creature is dead, Zaraith then nods at Barlespin. "Thank you." He then wipes down his blade and holds it, ready in case anything else is in this room.
Sinna regards the now slain Ghelarn, her face impassive as she says, "While I am not certain why this creature had to die....what is done is done...Let us keep to the path, so that other creatures, including us, need not die needlessly."
She gestures for Barlespin to come closer, holding her hand over his injuries.
Again , tiny motes of light emerge from her hand, settling on the wounded flesh, healing...
Right as Sinna begins casting Watanabe says, "Wait." He concentrates and saturates the air with magical energy, super charging Sinna's spell. He then nods indicating for Sinna to continue.
"Guys, I suggest that we go south east." Morgan starts moving in suggested direction.
Morgan follows the path through the sandy room and finds that it leads around behind a rock formation. Here the walls become much more uniform and more "man-made"
Sinna give Barlespin a once over to make sure he's better, nods her t hanks to Watanabe for his arcane assistance, then follows Morgan across the sandy 'arena'.
Once around the rock formation, she nods, looking at Morgan before proceeding...
A crisp glow of light shines from the northern wall of this cavern, although no obvious source of the light is apparent.
Watanabe casts detect magic.
Morgan tries to open the door, but before opening he looks for the traps on the door.
Watanabe detects no magic on teh doors and Morgan detects no traps. However they both realize that the door is locked, but there is a small panel on it which looks to accept some kind of flat key.
Barlespin nods to Sinna and Watanabe as they heal him. "Thanks for your assistance." With the creature slain, he surveys the area around the Ghelarn, to see if the creature, glancing inside the shell since he is so close.
Once he has looked over that area, he follows the others. He assists Morgan in checking for traps.
If they locate a trap, he turns his attention to disarming it.
Watanabe takes out one of the cards they were given earlier and sees if it would fit, "A key perhaps? Not mechanical nor magical. Fascinating."
The brown card does indeed fit and the door slides open as if by some kind of magic, although there is no hint of actual magic.
Sinna looks from the unknown light source, to the door/card mechanism, then to her own hands, wondering...
Then looks beyond the now open door...
Barlespin has his polymer net at the ready as he examines the new area.
Morgan also looks inside.
This metal room is brightly lit by glowing panels in the ceiling above. To the left and right, complex machines consisting of spiral tubes and nozzles twitch and hum.
Morgan carefully enters the room and looks around.
Barlespin enters the room and begins looking in wonder at the various machines and glowing panels, trying to interpret their meaning.
Watanabe adds his eyes to the investigation.
The pipes on the wall hiss but nothing comes from them.
Morgan opens next door and enters.
The air in this room seems to buzz and hum with energy. Strips of glowing rectangles light the room from above, while strange flickering windows line the east and west walls. A large glass-topped circular table sits in the middle of the room. To the north sits a large metal desk covered with blinking lights, while a humming pillar of purple-and-black metal stands nearby, its sides flashing with tendrils of violet energy. A single golden panel flashes with a soft but incessant light on the side of this pillar. A thick layer of dust coats everything, diffusing the lights shining from the various surfaces, and many of the machines seem to be damaged, cracked, or otherwise ruined.
Watanabe looks about the room lingering on the pillar.
Barlespin looks at the various objects in the room, particularly the large metal desk and the circular table. On the desk, in particular, he looks for anything that looks like a drawer or other storage compartment. He also searches the room for traps.
The metal of the pillar seems unlike any that you have seen before. The table seems to be very flat and smooth, with no drawers or other storage places. Barlespin finds no traps.
Sinna wanders over to the desk as well, looking at the blinking lights, trying to determine if there was a purpose to them...
Watanabe dares to touch the pillar momentarily. If nothing happens he tries to take a shaving of the metal using his mechanical toolkit.
Watanabe touched the metal of the pillar and it feels cool to the touch, but other than that nothing happens. He takes a small scraping of the strange metal
"This is a rather useless desk ... Who would cast light on a desk or table? Lights flashing on a desk wouldn't even help you read." He shrugs. "Perhaps a custom of those strange creatures with the extra arms ..."
Convinced there's nothing to find in this room, he proceeds back into the hallway, heading toward the next room as silently as he can.
Assuming nothing comes up before they reach the next set of doors, he checks the remaining doors for traps and, if needed, disables them.
Morgan follows!
A large metal table is surrounded by odd-looking chairs in this room. To the west, what appears to be a transparent wall looks out over a strange desert valley. Four pillars support the fifteen foot- high ceiling, while dozens of crude images of a pickaxe made of a skull and bones have been painted onto the walls with some sort of ivory pigment along with several phrases in an unrecognizable language.
Also here, standing gazing out through the transparent window is a four armed individual
Watanabe will approach trying to determine if its still alive.
The head turns toward Watanabe.
"Can you hear me? Are you able to understand me?" Watanabe begins to copy the writings down to his journal. If common doesn't work he will go through the other languages he knows: Tien, Hallit, Draconic, Androffan
Barlespin tries.
Morgan enters the room. "Who are they?" asks Morgan.
The creature seems to hear you all, but not understand.