It is a stone stair, cut from somewhat irregular blocks of...
Hmmm. Must be something I homebrewed. Limpstone. Irregular blocks of limpstone. You also notice a large pendulum blade hanging in a crack in the ceiling just beyond the cellar door.
No. you do not have darkvision. Newfangled stuff. You have INFRAVISION. Nevertheless, the stairs go down out of your range.
Now what? I am going to need a marching order. Or at least who goes first. Oh, and how tall the second person is.
I'LL BE SECOND!
I AM 6'6. DOES THAT MEAN I WIN?
COVERING BEHIND
Full BAB Rogue in Plate goes first to check for traps. I am third in line.
PROBABLY NOT.
Watch your language you babboon's rear. There are ladies present.
I'm talking about female patrons you cow chip.
As I understand it then: Nessy's familiar, Babby, AM H, Alissa, Nessy, Gas. What kind of familiar is that? Anyway, you walk down the stair carefully. A strange smell starts to get strong enough to notice it. A bit further down... hmmm... darnit, I need to know what kind the familiar is first.
Right. Babby goes first, and then AM H. There is a click as the second person steps on a pressure plate. A large nozzle appears in the ceiling in front of you. AM H, I will need a save vs Assorted Magical Utensils from you to avoid the spurt of acid.
Sure... Hmmm... Lessee... Resistance? I can't find that on your spell list... Or in the game. Must be something newfangled. Like, that "second edition" stuff. Everyone knows demons are demons. In my time, we fought 5-50 sahuagin as a random encounter, and we liked it!
I AM IMPERMEABLE IN MY PLATE ARMOR!
I cast Summon Bigger Fish in front of the cat. "Sure Gaz. Go right ahead."
Little help here?
Hey, who are you?
Big Fishy is apparently summoned monster today.
No more summoning from you, evil fish.
DEVOURS FISH
AM H, that issa failure. You take hit points, and your Charisma is lowered by 2 as your face is damaged. Fishy, you need to save against Horrendous Devouring at a -4, and that is after taking damage from Alissa's arrow, if it hits. The end of the stairs is in sight, a stone chamber below the stairs. Everything is very dark. Right, you had a lamp boy, didn't you? What are you guys doing next?
Hey, that is my servant. I am the only one allowed to abuse him.
I nock and arrow, ready to shoot the first rat I see.
IF I WEAR A PHANTOM OF THE OPERA-STYLE MASK, CAN I AVOID THE CHARISMA PENALTY?
HEY DID ANYBODY ELSE SEE THAT GHOST? CAN I TURN IT?
Big Fishy thought he had better Fortitude save than that. At least Big Fishy didn't suffocate.
That takes care of that.
As for your ghost, I think your mind is playing tricks on you.
AM H: You can avoid the charisma penalty if you wear any sort of mask. It needs to be a real mask, though. Putting a paper bag on your head doesn't get you good charisma. Perhaps you will find something somewhere. Nobody else seems to have seen the ghost. But it reminds you of when your grampa died. He said "Come here, AM HEALER, I need to tell you that" before dying.
Gassy: Big fish feels good to devour. You feel close to The Great Devourer.
You see the light from Nessy's coin hit the floor in the room beyond the stairs. A doorway opens to a shadowy corridor. The smell of rotting stuff mixed with bleach or something is stronger now. There seems to be only a small bowl of water in the floor. However, just as quickly, Babby runs into the room and snatches up the coin.
The lamp boy is the next into the room. Dwayne, are you doing anything?
What now?
Got it, Slim. Most of the time you are ethereal, I take it?
I AM A BIG BROADWAY FAN. I KEEP A PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MASK IN MY SACK. CAN I WEAR IT?
ALSO HAVE WE SEEN ANY RATS YET?
I think something happened to Dwayne. I look at the open door. What do I see?
AM H: okay. If you are a Broadway fan, it's okay. You have a mask of Christine Daae. (Which is not, nor has it ever been, a Swedish name, grumble grumble...) No, no rats yet.
Alissa: Something happened to Dibbley? Poor thing. Maybe he was eaten? By something horrible? There is no door down here, only the bowl, the stairs up, and the doorway further into the dark.
You all hear something big moving in the darkness ahead. The smell of offal and bleach is getting hard to bear.
I DRINK FROM THE BOWL.
I keep my eye on the doorway.
I BLESS BAB ROGUE
What? You actually went down the stairs? How funny...
AM H: The liquid there tastes like lemon curd. You feel your body grow lighter, then your feet lose contact with the ground. You are rapidly rising toward the ceiling.
Babby: Do tell little Methuselah I said hello. I missed him on father's day, the little punk. Don't tell him I said that last, ok? Regarding wallets, Alissa has a wallet. So does AM H, but he's floating or falling to the ceiling, putting it out of reach. If Gassy has a wallet, you don't see it. It does have a railing, though, if that helps. It waves its light fixture at you.
All of you see a massive white otyugh barge into the room from the doorway. It is flailing its spike arms wildly, holding its eye on the darkness behind it, screaming "AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!". I need saves vs stench from you all, or act at -2. Alissa, you've got a surprise round against it.
IT HUNGERS. ROAR BACK.
The white otyugh keeps roaring with its oversized, toothy maw. When it hears Gassy roaring too, it flips its eye tentacle toward you and stops. It keeps waving its spike tentacles.
Unless Full BAB has his hand down my cleavage, there is no access to my wallet.
I'M FALLING. I'M FALLINg UP!
ARE THERE ANY SPIKES OR OTHER DANGEROUS THINGS ON THE CEILING?
DEAR SWEET HEALY I'M PUKING.