Shalissa looks at the skeletons and mumbles "It seems there is nothing left in this place but undeads..."
Davor steps across to the other corridor, muttering.... "Stupid animated bones again! I really need a better weapon!"
He switches to his club and calls out, "Let the boneheads come to us. They've no smarts for strategy...."
The Skeleton lurch forward trying helplessly to slash at Davor but missing utterly.
The skeletons lurch forward and Davor tries to slam his club down on one of them.
Gregor seeing a bottleneck, turns to go around and back Davor up.
"Let me try to soften them!" Shalissa raises her trident invoking the power of her god.
When Shalissa infuses teh air with gozreths energy, the skleton immediately crumble into a heap of bone.
UNfortunately you find nothing of interest in the room.
Shalissa smiles feeling powerful instead of defenseless for once in the island of nightmare "We brought peace to these long dead humans"
As the group finds nothing else of interest in this area, she points to the east "What do you think if we take the bridge and further to the east? We already cleared the bridge from the resistance here after all"
Davor hangs his club on his belt again and nods to Shalissa. "You were correct again. I'm sorry for the mistake diverting us this way. It brought nothing but trouble...."
Shalissa smiles understanding and takes her hand around Davor's one while they cross the bridge, trying to avoid looking down "The bridge height is scary. Do not worry Davor, we would have wanted to check that place at one moment or another. We would have faced the skeletons eventually"
Observing Gregor takes attention to something she halts her advance "What is it Gregor?"
"Perhaps we should avoid that area. Can we open the trapdoor to see what is below?"
Davor moves up to examine the trap once Gregor points out what he missed, "Well, usually a pit trap is set off by applied weight...." He presses on the surface of the trap, being careful not to over-extend himself in case the trap opens.
"Maybe if we haul any loose rubble, or those bones, and toss it onto the surface? But it will likely open just long enough to drop the weight through, then reset. Unless someone is ready and wedges something, like one of their broken weapons in the way...."
Gregor pulls the think chain off his backpack and standing next to the trap door, he holds one end of the chain and throws the other end out 5' away onto the floor, seeing where it drops folks.
in the walls of the pit are some fissures, which might allow a medium or smaller creature to pass. Although probably not Father Kerndrew in all his armor.
"Hmmm... I do not think we can jump that" Shalissa looks at his companions heavy equipment "And improvising a bridge is going to take us perhaps more time we want to invest..."
She looks at the end of the corridor, piercing the darkness, and points "I do see a set of stairs leading south. Perhaps it connects with the other tunnel there"
"Unless you have an idea on how to fly over this pit, we might wish to try the southern corridor"
"Do you have a rope?" Shalissa points down "We can climb down, then up. Our best climber can hold the rope here, then once we cross to the other side, he can be the first one to go up and hold the rope for the rest of us to make it back to this level"
She offers.
Davor thinks on it a moment, then points back the way they came. "I think we can return to the doorway to the entry room and go the other way. Remember the stairs there? Maybe it leads back up here and we can bypass this hole...."
"I'm a bit suspicious though. With an easy bypass there's possibly a similar trap over there. But there's also possibly some way to disable it without opening it...."
Even knowing what he is looking for, Davor almost misses the trap while slowly moving down the corridor. His foot already in the air he throws himself backwards bowling Father Kerndrew almost to the ground with him.
"Wow! That was close! Good reflexes Davor" Shalisa tries to help casting guidance on the group's trapper and using her good advice to point how to better proceed.
Davor grabs on to Father Kerndrew, trying not to fall and not to knock him down. "Sorry! That was sneaky even knowing what to look for!"
"Thanks Shalissa!" He moves forward, looking for any way to disable the thing, wedge it to a stuck position, etc.
Davor tries to wedge some pieces of metal into the gaps, but they are too tight and the metal too rusty.
Davor stares at his work critically.... "I don't think that will be any safer than the one that we opened.... Let's just try using some rope and climb across. Let me shed my gear and I'll try to do a running jump across...."
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"Can you maybe disable it now that you are at the other side?" Shalissa will give Verbal Instruction to Davor trying to help with the rusty mechanism.
If things do not really work, then Shalissa stays behind and tries to help Gregor and Kerndrew pass by giving instructions and bringing Gozreh's guidance on them before they try to jump or climb. Then finally, she is the last one to attempt the did "Farther of Lightning, give us wings to pass upon this obstacle"
Davor looks again at the trap. "I can try to jam it, stop it from opening...."
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Davor takes a running start and gracefully sails the distance managing to even land upright on the other side.
Enthused by his success Shalissa graps her chicken and lets herself carried by it over the trapped floor.
When you examine the floor on the other side, you notice a decayed corner on one of the floor plates, which allows you to ram a piece of bone in there and keep the plates from dropping on the right side at least. You test it with your own weight before giving Gregor and Kerndrew the signal to rush over.
When the heavily armored Iomedean crosses he almost drops when theleft side of the trap collapses but the right side is holding up well enough and you all make it across the dangerous section without problem.
Unfortunately the Creators of this evil place have not felt that two traps are enough and you soon spot a third one further down the corridor. Now that Davor knows what he is looking for he is able to spot a weak point and block the device.
As you enter carefully the next room you immediatlely notice An oval pool of what looks like softly rippling blood sitting at the center of this octagonal room, filling the air with a metallic tang.
Four round pillars support a ceiling decorated with crisscrossed supports and grooves, while ten two-foot-wide circular holes decorate the walls at chest level.
"Good job" Shalissa smiles and helps Kerndrew and Gregor pass. She also soothes the blue crested chicken "It's done now, we follow forward now"
As they reach the octagonal room, the elf halts to observe it calmly "This place has a strange disposition. We better open well our eyes" casting detect magic to scan the place.
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Father Kerndrew watches the nimble Davor and magical Shalissa cross the gap with clear jealousy, and clumsily crosses after they've fixed one side to not fall. This Iomedean skin seems sometimes more a curse in this place than a boon! Inheritor, thanks be that you've given me such friends to look after my lumbering form.
Davor readies his magical dagger before moving closer to the pool. As disgusted as he feels about what appears to be a pool full of blood, he wonders how it could still be liquid after probably years since it was filled. "Demon worshipers and their foul masters! I know it's not part of what we are here for, but I'd love to collapse this place so there's not even a memory left!"
With Shalissa's words he remembers the traps in the place and starts searching the room.
Shalissa notices a moderate transmutation magic in the ceiling. as well as another aura of transmutational energy around the pool.
When you step nearer to the pool you find that this a real bloodbath. You cannot imagine what horrible porpuses this construction served when the temple was in use.
You have barely begun to search the place when suddenly with a loud screech sheets of that strange metal crush down in front of the doors and block the way out.
Watching Davor maneuver through the traps was nothing short than art. Then they came to a room with a strange blood red pool...he paused in the doorway looking around, and it was then that a metal plate meant to seal everyone in came crashing down and he got caught underneath it. It slammed him to the floor and he felt as if a rib might have broken. He cursed under his breath &^#($_&*
Davor moves quickly over to Gregor to see if he can help the man get out from under the metal plate. "I don't have anything to wedge under it, but maybe I can help lift? Or I can help pull you if the Father can wedge his shield in the way?"
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Father Kerndrew spins when he hears the metal plate slam down on Gregor. "Are you okay? Can you breathe?" Once he confirms that the warrior is injured but not dying, he tries to assess the situation.
He nods at Davor. "Let's try our arms first; we can bring a lever into play if we see we need it. I won't choose the shield over Gregor, but no sense risking it if we don't need to."
Davor grabs the edge of the metal, but knows that his physical strength is not good.
All four of you pull up hard but the bronze sheet is heavier than it looked.
You set reset once more to give it a second try, when you hear a loud coming from the top of the room.
With horror you see a huge double bladed axe swibng from one of the grooves in the ceiling and catches Shalissa squarely in the back, leaving a deep cut and throwing her across the room, almost into the pool.
Horrified by the hit on Shalissa Davor stares up at the ceiling where the blade came from. It seems like a mechanical trap, possibly something that could be disabled with time, but that is something they just don't have. "The blades are swinging down from the ceiling. Get low either by the wall or by a column and be ready to duck it. The blade can't hit the wall or column so we can use them."
"It is better to support the lever in..." Shalissa is giver advice when the axe swings against her "Awww!"
Thrown into the ground, she quickly looks around trying to find the source control of the trap "They should have something to deactivate it when they are crossing"
"It would have to be something simple in case they needed to stop it quick. Not locked behind a secret panel or anything like that...."
Father Kerndrew looks over his shoulder at the blade with concern, then redoubles his efforts to free Gregor. He shoves the heel of his shield in the small gap between the metal plate and floor and puts all of his own weight behind it. "Gonna need your help with this one, bud. Get ready to heave; let's go... now!"
Gregor lay pinned beneath the heavy bronze door he struggles as they try and lift it and then the axe swings down to strike Shalussa he cusses and mutters through gasps ingeiuns $@#-_$ doors get blocked ...huuh axe swings cutting ...huh groves collect blood huuh and deposit in pool.
He tries to wriggle free
Davor crushes behund one of the columns to avoid the next blade coming, but the next one ios coming from the other side and catches him unaware.
When you turn on darkvision once more, you spot tiny bits of magic on the inside of the four columns. If you make another Perception Check DC 15 you find the buttons which deactivate the trap. Otherwise you can describe it to the others and they can try to make a perception DC 20.
"A bit to the left Kerndrew!" Shalissa sees the Father trying to free Gregor and gives some advice on how to make lever.
Standing up after the axe hit, she looks at the columns "Davor, I spot some tiny bits of magic on the inside of the four column. I think there might be something able to disable the trap there"
Hearing Shalissa's direction Davor moves to the inner side of the column that he is near and starts searching for whatever is there. He growls, more to himself than anyone.... "Crap! I should have readied my own detect magic spell. Then maybe I'd see it!!!"
"Gregor, I'm not leaving you! Hopefully we can reverse this trap and get you out. Stay with us!"
Father Kerndrew rushes to the far column and engages the button there.