"Can someone cast a spell of light on my crowbar? I'll push it through the hole and light up the other side. I don't want to teleport somewhere I don't know anything about."
Kjell gestures and Valorius's crowbar begins to glow with a pearlescent light. "Done! And I'll magick it in there to keep it from clattering around, too."
Kjell gestures and Valorius's crowbar begins to glow with a pearlescent light. "Done! And I'll magick it in there to keep it from clattering around, too."
With crowbar now in the other room you can tell its about a 15ft by 15 ft room with a door directly across from the wall of stone, your thinking of teleporting through, the door seems old and is made of wood and look real sturdy. Aside from that nothing else of interest is in this small room.
"I shall go in with you, Kjell. But the question is, how do we plan on getting out?"
"If I can get us in, I can get us out the same way. I've still got plenty of magical reserves for today. I'd also -- probably -- be able to get us back to town directly, if we needed it."
"Good then. I hope we'll find Kerfane's journal not too far from here. The sooner we're done with this place, the better."
"I personally think this is still a bad idea, but then again, my curiosity is getting the better of me."
Kara readies herself for whatever is going to happen, pulling out both a potion of Cure Serious Wounds and a potion of Lesser Restoration from her bag.
"Sure, let's go through the wall. But don't mess with the door just yet; I want to talk to this gnoll. He has to know something about what's in here."
"Alright, you all know the drill, link up hands and pray to go through the wall, not headfirst into it, haha!"
Kjell waits a moment for Val, Kara, and Whirlpool to link hands with each other and him, then chants the words to dimension door, aiming for the center of the room beyond the wall of stone.
After linking hands Kjell cast dimension door, you all wink out of existence and re-appear in the room on the other side of the wall of stone. The light enspelled crowbar cast light across the room. to the north is the wooden door.
With his scimitar in one hand, Valorius tries to open the door.
With his scimitar in one hand, Valorius tries to open the door.
In the room beyond the doorway you see a thin layer of dust covering the floor of this empty circular room. Nine shallow holes are aligned at perfect intervals about the periphery of the chamber’s stone floor. The room looks to be about 25ft by 25ft.
"Ah! This looks like the perfect place for a little quiet interrogation," McGoon whispers, rubbing his hands together eagerly. A faint sound of seagulls and dripping water sounds in the distance, and his clothing appears to float in an invisible current.
He scans the area for magical auras, then helps bring the gnoll inside. Once everyone is ready and the gnoll is tied up and gagged, he brings the hyena-man back to consciousness with a few spells of light healing.
"Sorry we had to knock you on the head, friend," he begins soothingly, "but we had to know that you wouldn't call out for help. We have a little proposition for you."
"Ah! This looks like the perfect place for a little quiet interrogation," McGoon whispers, rubbing his hands together eagerly. A faint sound of seagulls and dripping water sounds in the distance, and his clothing appears to float in an invisible current.
He scans the area for magical auras, then helps bring the gnoll inside. Once everyone is ready and the gnoll is tied up and gagged, he brings the hyena-man back to consciousness with a few spells of light healing.
"Sorry we had to knock you on the head, friend," he begins soothingly, "but we had to know that you wouldn't call out for help. We have a little proposition for you."
Kjell strides forward into the larger chamber in McGoon's wake gives the room a brief look-about, then sends a mental communication to Neifelbjorn.
"Alright people, gather 'round, we're going to take a little trip." Neifelbjorn announces back in the corridor. He waits for the others to reach out a hand to touch him, then mentally signals Kjell. Moments later, the party is re-united.
Kjell notices the holes in the 25x25 circular room are glowing magical, it seems it is moderately powerful enchantment of some sort.
"There's quite a lot of magic in this room. Try not to do anything to those depressions -- they've got enchantment magic all over 'em. No telling what they do. Dunleary, you wanna take a peek at them and see if they're some kinda trap?"
Will save: , +2 if it's a charm/compulsion
Kara sits and talks to Thropan wondering what is happening on the other side of the wall.
Kara sits and talks to Thropan wondering what is happening on the other side of the wall.
Dun's will save:
Jon's will save:
Jon's Horse's will save:
So Val and Jon and Jon's horse all begin to feel tingly everyone else notices they get this kind of far off look in their eyes, Jon's horse is the first to have a reaction he bucks and then kicks, until Jon's Bag of Holding falls of, strangely it begins to fall and then in mid-air is sucked into one of the nine waiting holes which "chews" it up, Val is the next one with that far of glazed look he looks down at his scimitar and shrugs and toss it at one of the other holes. It as well proceeds to be "chewed". Jon having nothing better to do himself takes Val course of action and tosses his flaming bastard sword into the next waiting hole.
They all seem ready to continues throwing in objects at the holes.
"Oh, gods, I hate arcane magic. Oh well nothing risked is nothing gained!"
Kara charges at Val, hoping to grab him and drag him out of the room, and the magical effect that has taken hold of him.
Kara charges at Val, hoping to grab him and drag him out of the room, and the magical effect that has taken hold of him.
"Oh no...." McGoon moans as the precious magical treasure is seemingly lost forever.
"Oh, for the love of..." Kjell mutters to himself, then swiftly touches Val, Jon, and Cornelius and utters the by-now-familiar arcane words to one of his spells.
After everyone takes a second to pick up there jaws off the ground after seeing both Jon and Val drop there wonderful swords into the holes that at the begin of the round spit back out nothing but gnarled de-magicked hunks of metal. Kara decides to try and tackle Val to prevent him from throwing anything else into the holes. She is able to grapple him quite effectively only to notice that the glazed over look seems to mostly have faded though he still seems quite confused about whats going on. Val then decides he is not sure why Kara is all over him and breaks the grapple on his turn and backs up a bit. Dun, Throp, and Niefel just stand there dumbfounded about what is going on and decided not to act this round. Kjell however thinks it would be a better idea to remove the effected people from the room and touch all three victims, before casting dimension doors. Unfortunately when Kjell finishes casting the only person who shifts back to the other side of the wall of stone with him is Val; as Jon and Jon's horse still seem unwilling to move from this room. During there turn Jon and Cornelius each shed more gear. the first tosses his +2 wooden shield at the hole which again begins to be chew. The horse begins bucking and kicking again and the lance that was stored on him falls off and flies towards an awaiting hole that starts a chewing.
Valorius pulls his hair, horrified at what had just happened.
"My blade! My precious charmed blade of beheading! I had to go through such trouble to win it, and now it's gone!"