Audi ibn Jad sighs.
The mold dies a bit more and after two more spells the mold falls dead and the door is revealed and able to be opened although it does have some symbol on the door pulsing cold now that starts to make the room much colder with the mold dead and gone...
Lilitu yells "Back up it's some sort of magic symbol. she backs up to the northern part of the room and in a normal tone continues "It's probably of the cold variety. If your vulnerable to cold you should retreat to the previous room. Jacinda, if we still want to go through this door, your magical hand would be very useful"
Jassie stays, being even more cold resistant than the usual Tiefling.
Given the instructions in the room, she will kneel and reverently say, "We serve our Lord Asmodeus through His agent Cardinal Thorn." and then attempt to open the door for hte telekinesis.
The door opens to another hallway which is particularly dark and which you cannot see in even with dark vision...
Is it still cold? Maybe now use the alchemists fire.
Seeing Jacinda's devotional display Lilitu joins her by dropping to her knees. She takes out her dagger and cuts her arm. Draining some of her blood she begins to draw a pentagram on the ground praying as she does so
"I call upon the great king of the infernal, emperor Asmodeus
I call upon the great red stream of infernal energy
of passion, lust, love whose name is Asmodeus
May we serve you and Cardinal Thorn well."
Once the door is open the cold starts to ebb away until it is a regular temperature in the room, however l, you do note that along with the symbol out in the dark a mist begins to form in the hallway from the warm air outside merging with the cold if the room.
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Someone check the zoos, some drama llamas have escaped.
Clarissa watched the proceedings with great interest, particularly Lilitu's devotion. She suggested, "I'll give you two guess where they'd likely hide a pit trap around here! If we have to go through that darkness, we'd better rope somebody up and send them in to scout along with something they prod the ground in front of them with..." Smiling broadly she asked, "Any volunteers?"
As Lilitu invokes the Archfiend's unholy name she becomes aware of a strange sound behind her... almost a... lapping sound akin to a feeding pup or kitten...
Like some human insect Wiktor crawls close to the ground and gives a hungry lick at the sanguine pentagram.
When the Tiefling turns her stern gaze toward the wretch, he pauses in the act before weakly smiling. Quailing before the devout Asmodean he reverently bows his head and scuttles backward.
Lilitu throws her head back and laughs. returning her gaze to Wiktor she says with a grisly grin"You only need to wait until I'm finished with my prayers dear, then you can lick it all clean." Standing up she turns to Clarissa and throws her arms wide "So. Who wants to tie me up? " She looks around then says "For the plan of course."
As the lady wishes.
Augier does something with a length of rope that has Lilitu very secure.
Audi ibn Jad approaches Lilitu.
The Ancestors would offer a boon.
The Witch casts Message on her.
We can communicate at a good distance should the need arise.
"I'm unsure why the priest is the chosen one to attempt to search for traps, as opposed to person who can actually disable them. Best of luck, however!" Talia says, clearly confused by the group choosing Lilitu to venture down the hallway.
"It's an act of faith." she says, and then follows Lilitu down, but with a little space. As she enters the darkness, she remarks, "This must be what night is like for a human."
Audi Ibn Jad smiles at Talia.
Don't get your claws in a bunch. We assumed you would be going also. The Ancestors have included you in their Message
All dressed up in the finest of ropes Lilitu marches to the north into the darkness. She did not fear the dark but she did tap the floor before her with her spear at every step.
Wiktor clicks his spindly frame upright with a bloody smile;
"Of course Mistress. Wiktor vas just... hungry..."
The ghoulish sorcerer stands, fidgeting as he awaits the outcome of Lilitu's scouting...
As you walk into the hallway you hear a voice in the darkness:
“Know your enemy. Shatter all that blinds you and then burn thy adversary to ashes.”
You walk by the measure of the rope about twenty feet south. You then find a wall and turn and move east twenty feet. You find yourself now moving north east another ten feet before the fifty foot rope runs out and you still have more hallway to go.
Jassie will feel the wall to try and determine what needs to be shattered.
"Get the alchemist's fire ready. We gots an adversary to burninante!"
Augier follows Jassie
"Did somebody call for alchemist's fire?" purred Clarissa, "I brew a batch earlier, for the greater glory of Asmodeus!"
Reaching the end of her rope, literally. Lilitu retraces her steps back to the group And says "If someone would Hand me some alchemists fire I will proceed. Or If someone else volunteers to take my place?"
"I'll go, as I said, I'm a bit more proficient in the use of such concoctions. However, if Lilitu or anybody else would like to accompany me as backup, I won't say no."
"I'm right behind you sister" Lilitu says as she motions with her hand.
Audi Ibn Jad listens to the two scouts from a safe distance. He relays any findings as they proceed.
Aaaggghhh and Wiktor will want to be by your sides if anything threatens you.
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I'll smash it into jelly so Wiktor can spread it on his toast.
As each of you walk into the hallway the voice calls with it's statement and you make your way in the dark thru the hall as before and to the North east and then the hall turns again north for twenty feet in the dark until you find a door in the darkness on east wall.
Jassie will start feeling the walls to see if there might be something smashable.
Jassie: Besides the catfolk and Lilitu both near you in the dark one might say you pet two.... Cats while those in front of you find the door locked.
"Hmm. We haven't come across any enemies or adversaries, nor is there anything blinding us. Well, expect for this darkness, and I'm not sure how we could shatter that. Unless somebody has a spell that creates light?" Talia muses while stopped before the locked door. She does not yet attempt to unlock it, however, and she will try to prevent anybody else from doing so as well. "I'm not sure we've completed this challenge just yet." She'll warn should another try the door.
When she hears the word light Lilitu says "Light. I can do that." She then mumbles a short prayer and creates Light on her armor.
The hallway lights up to a dim light and there is darkness behind you and the door before you.
Audi ibn Jad watches from the rear of the group. The witch will grant Guidance to any who wish it.
Likewise Clarissa wasn't going in first, that was something others more suited to the task would do. She tried her best not to think of them as the help.
Jassie will stand back and open the door telekinetically. Even though most of these rooms had given them a warning, they should never let their guard down.
The door unlocks and once more you find yourself peering into darkness and cannot gain any features of the room.
Those of you in front start to feel as if you are bleeding...
Roll init!
Something in the mist reaches out and slashes you Lilitu
Lilitu you see a thirty by thirty room with a black sphere in the center. Just as the door opens your light is extinguished. Other then this you see mist covering the floor like before.
Lilitu shouts "Smash the sphere in the center of the room!"
I'll smash it!
"Know your enemy. Shatter all that blinds you and then burn thy adversary to ashes!" quoted Clarissa, "Use a vial of alchemist's fire on it!"
Talia steps up to the doorway, and tosses a flask of alchemist fire at the rough area of where the sphere of darkness is.