There is a chamber some fifteen feet across, circular with a door in the far wall. Water ripples quietly in a circular stone pool lined with skulls in the centre of the room. Smears of what looks like blood mar the pool’s rim in places.
Thanadros quietly searches the room, and then searches and listens at the door..
Stealth
Perception
Perception
As Thanadros rounds the fountain he sees an odd bundle on the ground that twitches and then flaps up looking for all the world like a severed demonic head with it's huge ears flapping as wings. It opens a fang-filled mouth to utter a devastating shriek ...
Gornak squawks in surprise.
"What in the world?!" Aylmora exclaims, clapping her hands over her ears.
Fort
"Erastil preserve us. What is that thing?"
"By the ladies!" Albrecht exclaims as he is shocked by the noise.
Thanadros slightly flinches as the thing appears and screeches.
Fort
Round 1
With a frown at the unsightly thing he draws his bow and begins to shoot at it...
Initiative
Focused Close Ranged Longbow | Damage | Crit: 20/x3 }Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Psionic Shot
Round One:
With a cry of surprise Aylmora raises her hand to point at the shrieking creature. With but a thought the young woman focuses her will to fire a ray of freezing energy at the flying head.
Seeing the others react, Albrecht rushes forward and attempts to slice it open with his blade.
init:
"Ugh! Get away!" Gornak grunts as he swings his giant hook at the creature.
Initiative
The creature does not get a chance to do more than shriek before Aylmora's bolt strikes it. The three warriors attack undaunted, although none connect.
Initiative:
It lunges and snaps at Thanadros.
Attack: Damage:
[ooc]Another Fort save from Thanadros please.[/dice]
Thanadros uses his resistance power to grant him a bonus on saves until his next turn as an immediate action.
Fort
Not sure if he can use Resiliance as well, but if he can, he negates the damage as well.
On his action, thanadros takes a 5 ft step back and blasts the thing.
Focused Close Ranged Longbow | Damage | Crit: 20/x3 }Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Psionic Shot
Gornak swings wildly again.
confirm?
Vaclav watches as Gornak swats the head. What is that thing?
Knowledge(religion)
Thanadros shrugs off the damage and nicks the flapping thing with an arrow. Then Gornak's hook spears the flapping creature through one eye and pins it to the wall. It expires with a surprised look on what passes for it's face ...
Gornak yanks his hook out of the wall and lets the head-thing fall to the ground with a sickening "plop".
"Ugh. What the heck was that thing?" he asks as he wipes off his hook with a bit of rag. "That was no goblin!"
He concentrates for a moment, willing his hook to be extra-deadly and then recovering his focus.
Aylmora's hand drops to her side as her mouth hangs open in shock and awe.
"That was... VERY impressive!" she compliments Gornak's prowess with his ogre hook.
"Right, so remind me to never startle you..." Albrecht says as he walks past Gornak and his kill on his way to the next door, where he stands next to it in case anything else heard the horrendous shriek and is running towards them.
"Killed it good..." Thanadros says as the head thing falls to the ground. He then continues his search of the room, checks the head thingy, and then gets himself in position to attack anything that may be on the other side of the door.
"Aw, it was just a lucky shot, is all," Gornak says dismissively. "It's nothing impressive like shooting fire and ice with my mind. Now that's something!"
There is nothing else e room, although the blood smears are relatively recent and the water is fresh and clean. The far door is not locked or trapped.
"Aw, it was just a lucky shot, is all," Gornak says dismissively. "It's nothing impressive like shooting fire and ice with my mind. Now that's something!"
Aylmora blushes at Gornak's compliment as she steps toward the unopened door. Flanked by Albrecht and Thanadros, Aylmora presses her ear to the door to listen for any movement on the other side.
The young woman then steps back as she quietly relays her findings to her companions.
Unless he hears an objection, Gornak opens the door and steels himself for more ear-piercing screams.
Beyond the door, a short stretch of passageway and another short flight of steps lead to ... yet another door!
Aylmora moves to listen at the new door.
Thanadros keeps his eyes out for any traps and such as they enter the cooridor.
Perception
Suddenly, nothing happens as you advance on the door! There are no sounds from behind it. Opening it reveals a spiral staircase leading upwards but choked with rubble. Once this may have lead to the surface, but no more.
"Lets return to room with statue. There was a door." Thanadros says after taking a good look up at the rubble. He turns and starts to backtrack to the statue room and listens at the door.
Perception
"There was also that other passageway further south that led eastward," Aylmora suggests.
"Aw, we might as well try the door while we're here," Gornak agrees with Thanadros.
There is no sound from behind the door, and it takes Thanadros a few more moments to confirm there are no apparent traps.
Gornak opens the door, then.
Vaclav follows the rest of the party.
Thanadros readies his bow and scans the room as the door is opened.
Perception
This large chamber has a floor sunk below the doorway, which opens onto a rickety wooden platform overlooks the room, with two flights of stairs descending to the prison floor ten feet below. A five-foot-wide wooden walkway runs from the northern edge of the platform to a passageway to the east. Around the perimiter of the lower level are nearly two dozen cells - obviously this room was once a prison. Above some cells to the left of the entrance a brief investigation reveals the end of the tunnel that has broken through there.
Thanadros starts to search the room and cells carefully. Seeing if anything or anyone is lurking around.
Perception
The chamber is empty save for old bones and rusted chains, and while rickety with age the platform is hardy enough to hold the party's weight.
"This place just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Aylmora comments to no one in particular, standing on the platform above the chamber floor as Thanadros searches the room.
"I wonder what's down this hallway?" she muses as she traverses the wooden walkway toward the passageway to the east. The young woman pauses to listen for any noises that may be emanating from the eastern passageway.
"I must agree; why is there a prison down here?" Albrecht ponders as he follows Alymora down the eastern hallway.
There is no sound from the passageway to the east, although you can dimly perceive that it opens out after about twenty or thirty feet.
"I dunno. Maybe there's a whole goblin city down here!"
Vaclav gently disagrees. "I don't think so , Gornak. Goblins wouldn't have left the statue intact. I think these finished rooms are dwarf or men's work. I do agree, it's odd there are cells down here. "
"I don't think so , Gornak. Goblins wouldn't have left the statue intact. "
"Maybe, but before yesterday I never heard of a blue goblin either. Those little buggers might surprise you! (No offense to Gob.)"
Thanadros puts a hand on both Vaclav and Gornoks shoulders. Well, maybe not Gornak's shoulder, but his lower back... Come, Let us go... Maybe we find more... get answers. Bring the light... Thanadros says, and makes his way towards the others.
Perception
The passageway extends twenty feet into a small chamber with two doors. This room contains several ancient relics of what appear to be torture implements, although their function and style seem strange and archaic. In one corner sits a spherical cage with spikes protruding inward from its iron bars. In another stands what appears to be a star-shaped wooden frame, its surface studded with hooks. And in the center of the room is a long table covered with leather straps and a number of cranks that seem designed to rotate and swivel. All the devices are old, rusted and blackened with age.
Aylmora's expression twists into a grimace of distaste upon seeing the various instruments of torture filling the small chamber. "This place is really starting to give me the creeps, Em," she mentally comments to the psychic presence that is her constant companion.
"I know what you mean," Emyralda's silent voice replies as the emerald pendant partially hidden beneath Aylmora's collar flashes with a green light. "But we need to check out this complex and make sure it doesn't pose a danger to the rest of Sandpoint," the voice silently reminds the yound woman.
Emboldened by that reminder, Aylmora moves over to the door on the chamber's southern wall and listens carefully for any noises emanating from the other side.
There is no sound you can discern from behind the south door.
Looking around with a bit of a horrified look on his face, Albrecht sees Aylmora approach the southern door, and upon learning of no noise beyond, he opens the door, watching for what is beyond the entryway.