Stepping forward gingerly, you test the floors and walls; you decide there are no pit traps to threaten you and move about with more confidence.
Variel stands back and lets those familiar with this stuff go ahead. He was fine with charging forward into a fight should he need to but this strange stuff was too much. turning to Rhaym, Do you think we are still going to be in time for a rescue? How we are to find him in all this is beyond me considering I don't even know where we are at this time.
"Hope. We need hope." He points to Flynn, "You can hope I don't kill us cause who knows what this stuff does.' He points to Celest, "I think we all hope its worth something." He points to Variel, "Keep hope we find this guy and more important we get the torch lit before the League torches Torch."
Do they look like they are worth anything?
Do you think we are still going to be in time for a rescue? How we are to find him in all this is beyond me considering I don't even know where we are at this time.
Doctor Rhaym shook his head.
"We have no way to go but forward. Into... this." He waived his hand at the mysterious mechanisms."We have undertaken to find him. Whether we are in time or not is in the gods hands."
Looking over the place, you see three groups of devices that scream 'touch me!'.
One is the table with the softly glowing opalescent surface, with 5-6 glowing buttons, and a dozen more dark.
Another is the metal table with the hundreds of buttons, five percent glowing in various colors.
The last is the transparent pillar with the glowing stream of light down the center and the glowing yellow touchpad on the side.
Celest draws a dagger and moves to pry the glowing gems from the table's surface.
Cheshire is dumbfounded in awe and steps into the space and look about.
[dice=perception]1d20+1= 20
[dice=knowledge engineering]1d20+9= 15
Should Cheshire need help with anything Variel will be there for support but until then Variel is content to let the gnome drool himself into a frenzy over the shiny buttons and glowing 'things'.
Celest is disappointed when the first couple of glowing jewels she pries from the table no longer shine. They're just a dull grey now.
As for the room itself, you think the glowing pillar is important somehow, like maybe water is through a waterwheel. That yellow touchpad; does it turn it on or off? Or something else?
"Well we seem to be reasonably secure here. Does anyone need to rest before we continue?" Rhaym said, relieved that nothing was trying to shock him.
"Ah, Celest, should you be prying into those machines like that?" He asked uneasily.
"Yeah don't pry them up . . . yet."
Cheshire tries the yellow touch pad to see what happens.
"Hey Jerry, it's my party I'll pry if I want to."
Cheshire shrugs continuing to study the panel. "Well if you get one loose and it kills you its more money for us to split. . . who's Jerry."
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't wreck that! It controls something and isn't worth dick all destroyed! You trying to strand us down here?!"
You see nothing happen to Celest as she pried out the glowing gems (then not glowing gems).
When Cheshire touched the yellow panel...
The room around you suddenly whirs and hums with the noise of activity.
A series of muffled clicking and buzzing sounds echo through the walls, and a moment later, the circular table in this room flares to light, right in front of Celest!
A glowing picture of a three dimensional overview of a desert terrain magically appears over the desk. It looks oddly familiar.
Numerous panels on the wall fill with static, and the pillar of purple metal flashes and begins to pulsate.
"Alright then. That did . . . something." Cheshire studies the 3d display.
Seeing the expanse of desert hovering there Variel asks Cheshire, Is it a map that we can use to know our location and our destination? He remains in the hallway though keeping a lookout should any foes approach.
Cheshire scratches his side burn, "It does look familiar."
"Who made all this stuff? Looks like some serious magic went into all this."
Playing around with the glowing buttons, you are able to zoom in on a section of the desert with several sets of footprints, and one of them feline. But it seems as if one of the buttons Celest pried out controlled zooming out again.
After a couple of hours, you realize you cannot learn anything more here.
"Look here cat tracks. This is definitely where we just were. I don't know there is more we can learn. "
Very well then, where do we head next? Do we just start opening doors to see what is inside each of them? Either that or we rest a bit to recover for the next stage in the journey. It does not matter what we do to me. I still look for your direction down here but feel that we must pick up the pace in our decisions or we will never find our missing person.
"I had a late night, and the whole sewer thing has killed my appetite but I'm ready to hoof it. I guess it's up to the Doc and Lil."
"Hm. Well, if you're still willing to travel on, I have a whole rack of cure potions left. I don't see what else we can do. The trail across the desert led here after all." Doctor Rhaym commented.
"Right."
Variel will gladly accept a potion to heal him up to full. Once that is done then he looks at some of the other doors and sees if there is a plate or something similar that Sheshire used to open it up.
Opening the door again, you step out into the corridor and step around the corner into the stretch you haven't been down before.
Following a gentle curve to the left, you come to a set of doors both ahead of you and to your right.
The plate on the door ahead of you shows a brown circle with a diagonal brown stripe through it.
The plate on the door to your right shows a black circle with a diagonal black stripe through it.
"Great. Pictographs. Had I wanted pictographs I would be adventuring in nice warm Osirion."
Brown or black which one should we try? Then if no one answer soon enough Variel will touch the plate with the black symbol first and see what happens.
Nothing happens when you touch either plate with your hand.
"Try one of the dohickies."
Cheshire pulls out the card and looks at the card and the pictograms.
Cheshire tries the brown pictogram first.
Waiving the card at the plate next to the north doorway caused the brown colored pictogram to vanish and the door to go "CLANK".
Variel looks at Cheshire, I don't think that was a good sound. Try the other door and see what happens. Otherwise we might have to try a different route or see if we can force this door open.
Cheshire uses the card again trying to hear an unclank.
Waiving the card at the plate next to the north doorway again caused the brown colored pictogram (the circle with the line through it) to reappear on the plate and the door to go "CLANK" again.
You think that indicates its locked again.
"So these plates are like keys?"
Waiving the card at the plate next to the north doorway caused the brown colored pictogram to vanish and the door to go "CLANK".
"So get it to do that again." Celest demonstrates with her hands.
Cheshire scratches his sideburns. "But it sounds locked again?"
Cheshire attemps to see if he can discern an unclank on the brown side then moves to the other side hoping he has better luck.
"Open dangit."
By playing around with the card, you realize that when the circle/slash pictogram is up, the door is solidly locked (Clunk). But when you touch the pad with the card and the pictogram vanished, the door is unlocked (Clank) and all you have to do is touch the pad with you hand (or even finger) for the door to open without aid.
Cheshire demonstrated with a finger touching the pad, and the door whooshed open vertically.
You see THIS standing in the door!
With a hissing growl it lunged out at Cheshire to attack!
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
Auto hit for piercing damage.
nope, ordinary hit.
for a possible piercing damage.
Round 1_____________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Variel moves up and past Flynn to the right of the creature as he hopes to make solid contact with his rapier. As he moves he uses Cheshire and Flynn for cover to keep the thing from attacking him as he moves.
attack for
Cheshire goes down clutching at wound to his gut.
Fuzzles moves forward lunging at the creature.
"Well this is certainly new."
"Hummm, hey I could unlock this with----Waaaaagh! What the f#~@! Is everything in this place hostile?!"
Flynn leaps to join the frey.
"Flank it! Flank it people!"