It takes some time to find Dinenen as he is walking back by the time you find him.
Jorne doesn’t unlock the door with his first attempt.
He keeps working at it until he jams it.
As the door gets broken you hear an explosion on the other side of the door. Once it is fully broken you find the following pathway scorched with ash. Jorne finds a trap at the end of the hallway to another door. Then works at disarming it.
On the third attempt he thinks it is disarmed. By now Dinenen and Quince return.
While waiting for Dinenen and Quince, he checks out the next door and pathway, .
He swears at the door and looks at Lykan over his shoulder, "Damn I jammed it. Well it's halberd time." He then begins to bash the door down with Lykan's help if he offers.
After disarming the trap he walks over it to double check that he was successful. Luckily nothing happens as he walks to the next door. He listens again, .
"Hurt and I should consider leaving the frontlines to you and slide in attacks from the side time to time. I'm more of a tracker and ambusher then a straight up combatant." the red hair looks ruefully at his wounds now healed up by their magical healing.
He scoffs and chuckles, then relays his thoughts, "I am actually a sniper! But I can easily tank for the group. Yes support me and let me take the hits."
As Quince and Dinenen return he asks, "How is everyone doing? Do we need to back up and rest or can we push on?"
"Winded, some, but I should be good to keep going for now. If I don't bolt again, anyway." Somebody is obviously not impressed with his own recent performance.
"Is anyone injured?"
Quince takes a moment and prays with a small wand close to his chest.
He tries to reassure the Elven monk, "It happens to the best of us, don't sweat it."
He then adds, "I am all healed up." Lycan didn't see any healing spells from Jorne to heal himself. Quince did not see anyone heal Jorne but was away for a stent of time.
"You are? I don't think I managed to get any healing spells out so far."
He offers, seeing Lykan's confusion, "I have fast healing, and as long as I don't get hurt a lot in a round, I should eventually recover. I also have a few channels to aid in the healing department."
The monk just slowly shakes his head.
He studies Jorne a moment.
"Hmmm That makes you a different sort of prey then." he states.
"Okay, so which way now?"
He winks at Lykan and offers, "If you want to think of me as prey that probably won't work out for you in the end. Come on we have a mastermind to find." He opens the door and slowly enters taking his time to search for any more traps.
After Jorne looks for traps you see the hallway snake around. You find stairs up just a few of them and then you find a strange room.
This octagonal chamber, which vaults to a twenty-foot-high ceiling, is composed of multiple slabs of opaque, white crystal fitted together to form a dome in the distinctive shape of an inverted eye, its gaze focused into the room below. This white crystal gleams with a subdued moonlike glow. The walls of the chamber are covered with arcane symbols, stylized line art, and images of cyclopes. A twenty-foot-diameter circle is incised into the stone of the floor directly beneath the great eye-shaped dome.
"Do you want me to make sure there is no traps or just a quick look?"
"No one wants to go slow but they want to blow up less. Search it out." He takes a moment to refresh his magic detection spell.
She offers her strategic advice but seems indifferent, "Take your time, unless someone has spells active?"
Taking a 20, it would take him another hour to clear the corridors and the room including the door.
At the door he listens for movement or tells.
He relays quietly, "There is sloshing of liquids on the other side of the door. Are we ready?!"
Quince steps into a fighting stance, "Ready."
He opens the door and slips into the next chamber.
A burbling fountain and pool that stink of sulfur occupy the center of this chamber. A shallow channel cut into the stone of the floor passes beneath a pair of bronze double doors, funneling the foul-smelling water out of the pool to the east.
Jorne continues searching the room for traps, another 45 minutes pass as he looks for traps.
The water seems fairly safe to drink. The pool is 10 feet deep.
The monk will fill some of the time centering himself after his recent emotional distraction. He'll perform a couple of long, slow forms. His breathing slows as he practices. About two-thirds of the way through the first form there is a conflicting burst of speed for a sweep and elbow smash, and then just as quickly a return to the sedate pace that he had been moving. Several transition stances during the second form show an amazing appearance of balance.
Quince looks around trying to make sense of the strange room.
octogonal room
Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22
You don't notice anything special that you didn't see before.
Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
There is certainly unholy and demonic symbols, but they are mostly smudged and covered by the cyclopean pictographs.
Knowledge History: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28
There is obvious cyclopean symbols here telling about their rule over the other races with their superior magic and strength. Though there is underlying message to the glory of the archdemons.
Knowledge Nobility: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22
Nothing about royalty or nobility.
the fountain room.
You think you see abnormal movement within the fountain.
The unholy symbols are not in this room.
Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (9) + 13 = 22
There is no arcane runes in this room.
You see more cyclopean pitographs but you are having trouble understanding them.
Nothing pertaining to nobility.
"Lots of cyclops imagery throughout both rooms here. Though the pictograms make it clear they have connections to demons. As if fighting that last creature didn't make that clear." He looks at the fountain, "Be careful by the water. There is some unusual movement there."
The red haired elf steps into the room and brings the full bearing of his available senses in this room.
One cannot be too careful here.
Perception 23
You think you see abnormal movement within the fountain.
K Nature: Not sure what you are looking at...
detect magic does not make anything new appear.
"What kind of movement? Something in the water? Bunch of water bugs skimming the surface making interesting patterns?" Dinenen will head in that direction, but attempt to keep back a step or two while he looks.
"I suspect with all that we have encountered here. The water maybe the guardian." The red haired elf warns.
Looking into the fountain you don't see much movement except for the small spring that fuels the small channel. The water moves with the fountain but every once in a while the water moves more of its own accord. You don't see anything that is making it move.
As Jorne gets about 3/4 into the room looking for traps and anything unusual and Dinenen is adjacent to the fountain the waters move even more and collect into a body of some kind. This translucent creature’s shape shifts between a spinning column of water and a crashing wave.
init
Jorne
Quince
St. John
Lykan
Dinenen
Jezebel
Elemental
21 Lykan
18 Jorne
16 Elemental
13 Jezebel
12 St. John
7 Quince
7 Dinenen
After Lykan and Jorne act, the large water elemental comes down in a crashing wave upon Dinenen and the water below it. Water splashes up on everyone in the room leaving 2 to 3 inches of water everywhere.
Round 1
Jorne quickly responds by drawing his halberd, taking a 5 foot step, switching into aggressive stance and swinging for all its worth...
stance, acid, electricity damage
"Called it!"
He jumps into action as well, swinging his staff at it!
Quince draws his flaming sword and moves in.
". . . And I'm wet again. That wasn't nice."
Dinenen tries to calm the savage elemental, or to get it to stop attacking him, anyway.
Lykan hits the wall of water but how would damage look to a body of water?! Dinenen hits it as well, the acid seems to be having an effect on it.
86
Round 2
21 Lykan
18 Jorne
16 Elemental
13 Jezebel
12 St. John
7 Quince
7 Dinenen
As its initial target is still there it brings down two slamming fists at Dinenen.
"Beware!" the red haired elf calls out to his compatriot.
He then proceeds to bash blobs of water away from the elemental in front of them.
Quince drives in twice with his sword hoping the fire and acid will burn and dilute the essence of the elemental.
After that pummeling (42 HP of damage received), Dinenen will take a single parting shot before attempting to tumble out of the elemental's reach.
Round 2
Lykan yells out to warn the group and swings his quarterstaff, connecting with the first blow but the water just reforms after his staff hits it. Then he misses entirely. Jorne does his best to have his blade slice off or at least slightly deflect the blow of the elemental from Dinenen and water splashes onto the group from his strike. The elemental slams into Dinenen and even Jorne's efforts did not help. Dinenen is looking bloody, ragged, and slightly drowned. Jezebel commands the stone to attack the elemental as rocks from the walls pull free and form into a like image of Jezebel. They seem to have no effect upon the creature and Jezebel sighs. St. John runs away. Quince's attack is deflected and does not gain purchase. Dinenen's punch lands solidly but does not appear to have any effect but a bit of water splashing off.
66
Round 3
Round 2
Instead of taking a full round action he strikes as a protector of Dinenen. Still in his aggressive stance and swinging for all its worth...
stance, acid, electricity damage
At the end of his attacks he switches over to Valiant Keeper’s Stance: Thus even if the tumble is not effective Dinenen can get away safely.
Round 3
"I think it is immune to sneak attack and criticals, there is no discernible body. Hey big ugly mass of water come get some!" He says hoping that it will turn its attention upon him.
He takes a full round action he strikes at the elemental keeping his valiant form in case others want to withdraw safely and says so, [b]"I am keeping my valiant stance in case others want to withdraw safely.
stance, acid, electricity damage
stance, acid, electricity damage
Missing both times.
Quince moves forward toward Dinenen prayers sounding a soothing warmth surging from him as he lays a hand on the monk.
"Thank you, my lord. Now, if I could stand on the stairs, there, please?" As he speaks Dinenen is wrapping a cord around his arms and torso, preparing to use his rope dart to attack.
Round 3
Lycan moves away to let the others attack it better!
Jorne grins at the creature, knowing full well it will attack him next!
Round 4
Now with all allies away, he drops his guard into his aggressive stance.
He takes a full round action he strikes at the elemental.
stance, acid, electricity damage
stance, acid, electricity damage
Missing the second time as the first displaces a lot of water.
43
Round 3
21 Lykan backs off, Jorne swings and misses, the elemental attacks Jorne.
Jezebel continues making her stone objects give Jorne flanking in the least. Quince follows Dinenen and cures some of his wounds. Dinenen prepares for ranged combat.
18 Jorne
16 Elemental
13 Jezebel
12 St. John
7 Quince
7 Dinenen
Quince slides in to attack the elemental once more.
As Quince moves forward, Dinenen can step up to get the line-of-effect required to attack with his rope-dart.