"Good choice indeed, Sir Garret! Now only to find out if it is the correct one! Ha" Saren follows Garret into the room quickly and raps on the door at the far side listening for any signs of hollowness or other strange sounds.
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"Well, now that is taken care of. Let's move forward. Ten foot hallways don't scare me... except when then are full of invisible ghost things, then they get kind of scary."
"Well if we don't find anything dangerous with any of these doors... Well even if we do, I vote for the right one. Because left is never right which means it is always wrong.
"Ah finally, a bit of progress!" Saren turns to the rest of the group and flourishes his hand at the new opening, "Welcome to room number two." giving an over exaggerated bow at the end. "What say you Magi Gralamin, shall we continue?"
I'd say press on a bit farther since we still have about half of our resources left for the day... Unless I miscalculated somewhere or missed something.
Saren charges down the hallway, jumping a before he reaches the gargoyle to deliver a flying kick to the face of the beast. Followed by an attempt to tumble/propel himself to the other side of the gargoyle. _________________________________________________
"Oh goodie, a gargoyle. I have fought a few of these a while ago, though never one with four arms. How fun." Saren grins with a half laugh, he then quickly puts on a serious face and a fire lights in his eyes. Remember play smart, not fast. Saren pulls out his mage armor wand from his belt while moving back down the hall away from the gargoyle still keeping within 55 feet of Garret. "If possible try to keep a clear path between me and the gargoyle! Flying kicks to the head always worked well." Damn, I should have been more ready for this. I am so dumb. -------------------------------------------------
"Sounds like a solid plan, bust down the door with an expendable. Hopefully that mosaic is just a mosaic and actually a tormentor thing." Saren steps out of the hallway back into the fresh air.
BACK to the tormentor or through the arch. Garret is right, we have gone too far... maybe While Garret is messing with the stones Saren begins examining the mosaics on the wall more closely looking for any scenes that depict a tormentor of some kind.
Saren calls up a bit disappointed at his discovery, "Doesn't look like this door opens from this side, at least not from what I can tell. Looks like it is through the mist we go. You mind tossing down a rope to make getting out of here a bit easier?"
"See, easy enough. Now what would be nice if this door opened that easily as well." Saren looks for any triggers on the door, and attempts to open the door (pushing if no triggers are found).
"Nah, I'll go see what I can find down there. Could be magically protected from your kind of magic, that's what we got me and clanky here." Saren replied standing up and patting Garret on the back. Let's get this door open and I'll be there and back again before you can say 'Pharasma grant me this power.' Oh, and I'll need a light. Saren holds out another rock with a cocky smile. Getting through the OPEN door:
Monk slow fall against the wall,
Saren kicks back and relaxes while Gralamin does his thing, "It sure would have been nice if I knew how to do that seeing in the future stuff. Would have saved me a whole lot of trouble on more than a few occasions. I'm just a little jealous. But then again, I probably wouldn't have had nearly as much fun either."
"I agree Gral, no reason to use spells unless it is out last option." Saren gets up off the ground and dusts himself off a bit. "Alright lets take inventory of what we know and think.
[/ooc] If we find the door:
Saren yells back to the group, "I think I found our fortuitous fall! Got a door hidden here by spikes!"
If we find just spikes: Dissapointed Saren heads back to the others at the archway, [b]"How is that mist stuff coming along? And what is with this creepy face?" Saren looks at the devil with a puzzled look on his face.
Saren grabs a handful of rocks from the ground Miss Hollybigcentaurthing, would you like the honors of lighting these rocks for me? Once the rocks are lit, Saren throws 2+ down each of the pits. After he drops the rocks he gets down on his stomach and looks at the traps walls.
While everyone is at the end of the hall Saren is pacing back and forth through the where the light is visible. Mumbling a bit to himself.
Saren heads back to Garret with a smile on his face. "Garret, open all the other pits as well. I think the lever in the chest will open two of the pits to something. I can easily make the jump back to you guys or we can just put a plank of wood down for me to cross, but I think that everyone should be on this side (the side with the arch) before I trigger it. So we don't have to deal with getting back across."
If so...:
Saren pulls out a bolt and presses it into the catch opening the bottom. Hmmmm we have a lever here, smells like we have a trap within a trap. My vote is to move on. If not...: Saren pulls out a magnet from his backpack and tried to see if the needle is loose and will come out of the catch disabling the catch trap, if the needle doesn't come out then he calls Garret over to come disable the device.
Saren looks over every inch of the chest without touching looking for any triggers, should he see none he begins to poke and feel around it, "So we have a red herring chest here, or perhaps it isn't a red herring and actually contains something helpful to taunt us. I can see that, one: the demilich places it here and we skip over, he makes fun of us for dying to something that we could have easily done if we had whatever is in here. Two: We take whatever is in here, and then he taunts us when we die that he gave us a handicap and still failed. A classic narcissistic view. Either way, we should try and see what is in here."
"Watch your step there Garret, that tile looks out of place." Saren point out the tile he sees. What is the point of the red brick road, why can't it be yellow, I know where that one leads to.
"I very much agree with you Sir Garret, though I'm more of a soloist, though I do decently well with a partner. I do my best work when I have space. I won't stray too far until we know more about what we are up against. Think of me as a litmus test, I'll find out what is safe and what is acidic to our health. Then we can tackle it together. I'm not much for riddles though, I'll leave that to you smarter people unless I stumble upon a revelation." Saren peers down the central hallway taking in the simple layout and calculating the distance of the hall, the best way to get across and to see how the poison will activate.
"So lets get together an itemized list of what we know so far.
I might be able to get past the mechanical traps if we can't disable them from this end, but I would need the wooden doors opened first to make sure I have a safe area to get to. Did anyone see any Arches at any point? And what is a Tormentor?"
"The western hall's ceiling is latticework holding back loose unworked stone. You'd have to have the luck of Desna herself to not trigger whatever trap lies in wait there." Saren chuckles, "Hmmmm, Desna does indeed smile upon me, but I don't believe in going left unless necessary. I'm going to go check out the right one." Saren pulls out his Expedious Retreat wand and checks out the East entrance."Well looks like this one is trapped as well. Little metal ball in between the stone work, not sure what it could be. Not as obvious as a rock fall trap. You magic users see anything of note?" "If there is nothing magical about these traps I say we set them off and check what is on the other side of these doors."
Saren was lying down on the grass relaxing when the final earth elemental returned. From his position he speaks casually to no one in particular, "I second the notion of the elementals doing the digging. How much loner are they going to be of service to us? I'm not going to be of much use, unless you have another shovel in there Garret."
"Hmmm, I think you mis-summoned there Hollydiana, we need three, not two." Saren chuckles a bit jabbing her lightly in the shoulder, "Just giving you a hard time, I know how fickle magic can be when you need it the most... well I suppose now isn't the best example of needing it the most. Anyway, it is now Miss Sha-Shas-Shasadda's?? turn to bring one up." Saren's cheek tinge a little pink, "Sorry I can be bad with names from time to time."
Awww, gonna spoil all the fun Gralamin? Don't be so serious, that is what undeath is for. But I suppose you are right, let's see how this works out. Even better is if you can summon three. Get them all done right away."
"Is it smart enough to understand sign language? We could always play charades with it." Saren mimes out very exaggerated digging. "Think he'll get the point?" "As for which entrance to dig firrrrssst... I chooooose that one!" pointing in between the center and right one.
Saren explore's all around the hill looking for any clues to what had been caused the entrances to become buried. His crossbow out and loaded in case anything pops out trying to catch him off guard. Saren grabbed some dirt from around the entrances to study and closely looking at the plants for any sign of a specific contamination. Seeing nothing in particular of note he heads back to the party. A Harrow reading? I would usually say yes to one of those but I think I know my fate...
Alright Saren has been completely updated in the profile. I have A few wands in case anyone wants to use it throughout the dungeon.
Also Sir Garret, you get +4 on Crane Style because you have 3+ ranks in acrobatics
Mind-bendingly suicidal, perfect!
Aaron has a point! I want a set of OP armor, but I am stuck with no armor. :< Although that is more or less the point. Muwahahahaha
*Wriggle Writhe Squirm* Am I doing it right?
Time to kill me some Demiliches!
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Saren comes from a long line of Vampire Hunters. The Artimus family even runs a fairly successful business when ever undead arise and need killing. From a young age Saren was taught to kill the undead, but in a very peculiar way. His father, whom was a little loopy from past experiences insisted that most of the undead were much easier to fell with the bare hands. Using feint tactics to throw them off and lower their defenses and then strike at the opportune time. Though at first Saren had troubles accpting this beilief he found that this was actually a reliable strategy as half the undead he fought were stupid morons and couldn't adapt to his style. During the last few years he has been hired to many new things that aren't specifically related to the undead. More or less just killing things that people need killing. Or even investigating odd disappearances of "well known" people. Now Saren finds himself traveling halfway around the world to find a scholar that went missing, and he was hired to find out why and bring him back in one piece.
Saren Tetori Monk! I'll get things all updated and flashy in a bit for my profile! Lots of cool people on here that I would like to meet in person! :D
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