Mira fishes a copper out of her pack and tosses it into room to see what happens.
If nothing happens, she walks into the room herself.
If the coat turns into a floating object, she fishes out some rope and offers one end to her party. "Alright. Who wants to float? Tie this to yourself and I'll hold and anchor you and pull you back after you fish those things out of there."
If the coin floats, Ziel takes the rope from Mira-not realizing he might’ve snatched it a little too hard, and ties the rope around himself.
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Mira tosses the coin into the chamber and it floats with everything else!
The small black lightning runes that pop up here and there are slightly more concerning, but not likely dangerous. There seems to be an intelligence to them... almost like an echo of the past trying to convey a thought...
Assuming Ziel begins to float ...
Mira's eyes goes wide and she slowly shakes her head, "By Sarenrae’s flaming breath! He’s flying!"
Once Ziel begins to float, his sour face melts away into surprise, then the whimsy only a genius would get.
“It’s levitation magic!” he cackles, moving as if he was swimming, “I have no idea how, but it’s permanet levitation magic! Nethys knows how long this has been around!”
He goes to investigate the runes. The elf frowns a bit, checking his belongings to see if he carries his journal to take notes. “Damn. We need to return later. There’s a lot of things I need to take notes for when we’re done with this fiasco.”
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Ziel gingerly tries to make his way through the mess of floating debris, gagging as he passes through the cloud of maggots. All thoughts of that pass as he notices the label on the bottle of wine... Foxglove Vinyards, a nice vintage too! Not long after, he comes across the scroll which he notes has some arcane script, and the twisted iron wand looks proper magical! Finally, the book seems to be well-worn but written in a strange tongue. A quick tug signals Mira to pull Ziel back to the group. The magic will take a little time to identify, and you could use some time to investigate the book...
Ziel comes back to the group with a wicked glint in his eyes, carrying the bottle, the iron wand and the book. He clearly cannot wait to get back to the Rusty Dragon Inn.
"Strange room. Snag not sure if it a threat." Snag says with a distrustful look around the room.
"Snag say finish area before group head back. Too much danger to leave early." Snag says.
"Yes. Let's meet our doom."
Snag shakes his head at Anthony and says, "Group avoid doom. Snag not ready for doom."
"Why are we talking about doom?" Mira asks confused. "Let's just finish what we set out to do so we can be done with this place. I'm not ready to head back quite yet."
She urges them ever-forward.
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You make it down to the shrine and the double doors at the end of the hall. A quick look from Ziel confirms that the doors are not trapped.
Beyond the double doors is a huge room that looks like nothing more than an immense underground cathedral. Furthermore, the walls are carved with strange, spiky runes. In the center of the room is a large pool, with a ring of polished human skulls balanced on stone spikes arranged in a circle around the deeper midsection. At the far end of the room, a pair of stone stairways leads up to a pulpit on which sits a second pool, this one triangular and filled with churning, bubbling water that looks almost like translucent lava. Yet while wisps of what look like heat and steam rise from the strange orange liquid, the room itself is deathly cold.
Standing at the edge of the pool is a tiny demon creature that spins to shriek at you, You dare to intrude on the Mother's sanctum?!?
She quickly cuts her palm, dripping blood into the pool, causing it to roil and sputter! Immediately, you see one of those Wrathspawn emerge, fully armored from the pool! As it does, those of you more magically inclined notice that the glow emanating from the pool dim...
- Round 1
Anthony
Mira
Demon Critter
Mangrove
Wrathspawn
Ziel
Snag
Anthony summons a Celestial, Holy Weasel into the space of the Demon Critter.
The weasel Holy, piercing damage and ahold .
Mira sizes up the closer monstrocity in the fountain and dashes ahead, burying her warhammer into it as she closes the distance. After he swing, she raises her shield.
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Mira's hammer strikes true and the spawn staggers under her blow, but stands back up, its jaws splayed open in defiance!
The little demon slashes at the weasel clamped around her shoulder!
The weasel screeches and winks out of existence! The demon takes off into the air moving into the corner of the room! Then cursing, it mutters in some unnatural tongue and her wounds heal a little.
- Round 1
Anthony
Mira
Demon Critter
Mangrove
Wrathspawn
Ziel
Snag
◈ STRIDE:
◈ CAST: Courageous Anthem (Everyone +1 to Hit, Damage, and fear saves).
◈ RAISE SHIELD
"Darn it! Always something".
Mangrove moves further into the room, raising his shield as inspires everyone to push through this encounter.
The wrathspawn in front of Mira snarls, twirling its ranseur toward her, but fortunately for her it slipps in waters of the fountain, missing. Overconfident, she lowers her shield slightly, allowing the sinspawn to bury it's second attack into her chest. It swings again, but misses.
Anthony
Mira 25/34
Demon Critter
Mangrove
Wrathspawn
Ziel
Snag
Snag focuses and sends three magical darts at the demonic creature.
The Weasel splashes into the water, and
Anthony strides up to the creature in the fountain,
One after another, all of Snag's missiles slam into the demonic creature, continuining to wrack up the wounds on it.
The poor weasel flops about helplessly in the water, unable to help anyone including itself. So, Anthony does it all by himself. Waiting until the most opportune moment, he finds an opening and delivers a critical strike that finishes off the creature in the fountain.
With the sinspawn down, Mira charges up the stairs and slams her warhammer into the flying demon!
She criticall strikes the creature, nearly taking it down!
The investigator moves into the room and towards the only remaining foe, flanking with MIra. He ascends the stairs and buries his rapier into the demon, finishing it off!
With the demon down, the party uncovers a cold iron returning dagger, tiara worth 50 gp, black silk gown worth 25 gp, obsidian unholy symbol worth 10 gp.
Mira catches her breath, running around the room and up the stairs had her slightly winded. She turns to make sure everyone is alright before noticing she's the only injured party member.
She sits down on the top step, looking around the room and wondering aloud. "What is this place?!"
Anthony sits down next to Mira and bandages her wounds.
Snag looks around and says, "Snag not sure...but pool looks like portal for sinspawn creatures. Very dangerous."
"Thanks, Anthony. I don't know what I'd do without your assistance." She offers him a warm reaffirming smile before looking down to Snag. "Yeah? What can you tell about it?"