Start of #Sharn buffer: Wed Dec 05 21:16:36 2007 [17:01:29] * Now talking in #Sharn [17:01:29] * Topic is 'Init: Loharath, Psychic, Phanos, Aurora, Aurelis, Marianysa' [17:01:29] * Set by Aurelis on Wed Nov 28 18:43:36 [17:01:52] * Yonjuuni (~dlarmour@wnpgmb02dc1-145-107.dynamic.mts.net) has joined #sharn [17:02:43] * Demota is now known as Aurora [17:02:57] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has joined #Sharn [17:04:07] * Darkheart (~spirit122@fl-71-54-173-242.dhcp.embarqhsd.net) has joined #Sharn [17:04:53] * Yonjuuni is now known as Marianysa [17:06:50] [After defeating the spellcasting, weapon channeling, insane wilder, the party moved on into the next room. However, when they tried to open the door into the room beyond that one, all the exits locked and the far wall in the hallway started to move toward them. Phanos's planthounds are currently trying to hold the door at bay but are having a hard time of it.] [17:07:02] [4 rounds until crushing death.] [17:07:07] [Session Start] [17:09:01] * Mechazawa (rustangel@ip-116-154.atvci.net) has joined #sharn [17:09:06] * Mechazawa is now known as Phanos [17:10:15] [After defeating the spellcasting, weapon channeling, insane wilder, the party moved on into the next room. However, when they tried to open the door into the room beyond that one, all the exits locked and the far wall in the hallway started to move toward them. Phanos's planthounds are currently trying to hold the moving wall at bay but are having a hard time of it.] [17:10:17] [4 rounds until crushing death.] [17:10:19] [Session Start] [17:10:32] * NovaSeaker is now known as Aurelis [17:10:46] * Aurelis closes his eyes and makings grunting noises. "rrrrhhhggg." [17:14:42] * Marianysa stares at Aurelis. "Now is NOT the time for...whatever the hell you're doing." [17:14:56] "Now's the perfect time for this! Rrrrrrrrgh!" [17:15:14] * Aurelis looks like he's trying to force himself to have an anurism. [17:16:11] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: ) [17:16:46] "Some-a body try an get dat door open!" [17:18:23] * Marianysa pushes past Loharath to the door. "There's gotta be a trigger somewhere..." [17:22:28] [Mari begins tinkering with the trap's mechanism.] [17:23:05] [3 rounds until crushing death.] [17:23:38] Just...buy me some time. [17:23:40] [The door hurtles another handful of paces, pushing the planthounds back a few paces, before halting again, stuck on something.] [17:24:33] [Everyone's Action] [17:26:06] * Aurora looks around the walls and ceiling for anything notable. Paintings, gems, oddly colored patches, etc. [17:27:38] [Aurora doesn't notice anything unusual beyond the moving wall of impending doom.] [17:27:42] [2 rounds until crushing death.] [17:28:03] [The wall hurtles forward twice as far as last time before becoming stuck again.] [17:28:34] [Everyone's Action] [17:28:37] * Phanos orders his hounds to keep pushing, since they apparently need to every round. [17:29:03] "Break de taffin' door!" [17:29:42] [2 rounds until crushing death.] [17:30:04] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has joined #Sharn [17:30:11] [The wall pushes Phanos's hounds into him, knocking all three of them prone on top of each other.] [17:31:14] * Phanos stands up, growling as he orders them to keep pushing [17:32:14] (that's 1 round to crushing death.) [17:32:20] * Loharath breaks out of his comtemplation of the situation. "There's only one thing to do." He begins hacking wildly at the door in front of him. [17:33:24] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [17:33:54] [Loharath widly slashes above Mari's head as she diligently tinkers away.] [17:34:08] [Wall Crushes Everyone After Their Actions.] [17:34:14] [Everyone's Action] [17:34:44] [The wall barrels into Phanos and his zombies, pushing them into Aurelis.] [17:35:06] "Ack!" [17:35:08] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has joined #Sharn [17:35:08] * Aurora picks up her mace and strikes the wall next to her as hard as she can. [17:35:36] [The wall stops shuddering.] [17:36:10] * Phanos looks to Mari. "About time!" [17:36:21] "No rushing genius!" [17:36:33] Whew. Alright, let's get out of here. [17:36:53] [The door is still locked, however. And now the room is uncomfortably tight.] [17:37:07] * Aurelis tries to climb out from under Phanos and his plantdogs.] [17:37:21] * Marianysa sighs, flopping to the ground. "A few seconds more and we'd have been having Aurora sandwiches." [17:37:21] * Loharath nods, not having moved since the wall started moving. "Good job, Mari. I knew you'd do it." [17:37:49] Hey, why me? [17:38:14] "I could go for a sandwich." [17:38:22] * Marianysa looks up and grins sheepishly at Loharath. "Thanks." [17:38:27] "I could go fo some free space." [17:38:57] * Loharath nods, focusing his Evil Vision on the door to see how malevolent it (Or things behind it) is [17:39:07] "Hey... didn't we find a key?" [17:41:11] Did we? [17:41:15] I think we did. [17:41:36] "Yeah. Phanos, didn't you find a key in that box after we killed one of those tentacled things?" [17:41:50] The hobgoblins? [17:42:09] "Those were the ugliest hobgoblins I've ever seen." [17:42:32] * Phanos pulls out the key, passing it down as he waits, cramped. [17:42:56] * Loharath takes the key and tries it in the door [17:43:01] [The slashes Loharath left put some serious gouges into the door, thick enough to reveal a layer of lead embedded between the wooden planks of the door.] [17:43:13] [The key fits and the door unlocks.] [17:43:28] [Suddenly the moving wall backs up to it's original position.] [17:43:52] It must be resetting itself. [17:44:08] Mari, do you see any way to break it for good? [17:44:30] (No, she didn't. [17:44:38] * Loharath frowns. "Lead. Whatever's behind here must be evil, or else they'd have no reason to line the door with it." [17:45:04] "It's the only door you've attacked to find out that there is lead behind it." [17:45:12] Stand firm and stay ready. I think we're about to find whatever's at the rotten core of this labryapple. [17:45:18] I could detect through the others. [17:45:30] * Loharath pushes open the door and keeps his sword ready. [17:46:04] Lead hides evil? [17:46:12] * Aurora puts away her mace, takes out her bow. [17:47:02] "Jes open de damned doors!" [17:47:45] [Loharath opens the door into another hallway. There's another iron-bound wooden door, maybe or maybe not filled with lead, to his immediate left. The hallway seems to curve back toward the north further west.] [17:48:00] Of course lead hides evil. It's the most deceptive of metals. [17:48:17] ... yeah, you're right. It's a lot heavier than it looks. [17:48:22] "Actually it's just so dense that magical emanations cannot pierce it." [17:48:35] "It blocks detect magic spells as well." [17:48:46] So insideous is its deception! [17:48:51] "...." [17:48:57] * Loharath heads down the hallway, checking the closest door [17:49:15] * Aurora follows Lohorath. [17:49:30] [The door immediately to the east?] [17:49:36] (Yes.) [17:50:31] [Loharath opens the door, revealing a ten by ten room, with a comfortable couch and a chandelier.] [17:50:52] Don't sit on the couch or stand under the chandelier. [17:51:37] That's what they want us to think. [17:51:42] [There is an 8-foot wide set of double doors on the southern wall.] [17:52:09] Why would they want us to think about not standing under the chandelier or sitting on the couch? [17:52:38] Because clearly the couch and chandelier is important to them. Why else would it have its own room? [17:52:40] * Phanos brushes himself off as he exits the narrow hallway [17:52:51] * Loharath heads to the south door and tests iit [17:53:43] [The double doors' handles appear unlocked.] [17:54:03] Good point. [17:54:23] * Loharath opens the south doors [17:54:36] * Aurora looks at the chandelier. [17:56:05] * Marianysa stretches, and draws her swords. "Whenever you're ready." [17:56:09] [Loharath opens the doors into what appears to be an arcane workshop of some sort. Tables with flasks, stained with sediment from long-evaporated experiments, bookshelves with missing books, and some sort of summoning circle in the floor and ceiling at the center of the large chamber. All of it appears to be centuries out of use.] [17:56:32] ... huh. [17:56:36] Fascinating. Absolutely remarkable. [17:56:38] What the hell is it? [17:56:51] It's gold and information, is what it is. [17:57:28] "Les dig around den!" [17:58:03] * Marianysa sheathes her swords and rubs her hands together, her eyes lighting up. "Oh wow." [17:58:05] * Aurora steps in and looks at the summoning circles. [17:59:05] [The summonig circles are etched into the floor and ceiling, and lined with silver so tarnished that it's barely recognizable as metal.] [17:59:39] * Aurelis steps in. [17:59:41] * Phanos steps in as well, stretching and looks around, searching the room for anything of interest [17:59:45] "Hmmm..." [17:59:56] "I'm not certain I would mess with anything here." [18:00:13] Yeah. It's not just probably dangerous, but old and unstable. [18:00:14] Oh come on. [18:00:22] "Here done messed wif us." [18:00:26] "Two wizard guilds and the Church of the Silver Flame destroyed the Closed Circle for studying forbidden magic." [18:00:43] Can the parts probably at least be salvaged for other uses? [18:00:58] "I'm not sure." [18:01:31] [Phanos, however, knows from his searching that most of the worthwile stuff has already been taken, and anything left is so stale, rotten, or petrified that it is worthless.] [18:01:53] "Dey done tooked everyting good." [18:02:18] * Marianysa sighs. "Figures." [18:02:32] * Phanos checks for a lair of dust on a floor that would mark little or no passage. [18:02:36] "Good. If anythign I'd hate to have two wizard guilds after our collective behinds as well." [18:04:26] So there's no chance this stuff coudl be used again for some nefarious purpose? [18:04:26] [The room seems to be about as well traveled as any other section of the citadel so far: dusty and worn but not completely abandoned.] [18:04:45] * Loharath is content to stand back and let more magic-knowing people root around. [18:05:04] "Non, but I tinks we ought come back heah to rest if we dont find no bettah place." [18:05:29] * Aurelis shrugs. [18:05:33] "Onward then." [18:07:14] * Phanos moves over to the door at the far end of the room, waiting by it. [18:07:34] * Loharath nods, and goes to open it. [18:07:43] * Aurora follows! [18:07:52] [Everyone position yourselfs on gametable.] [18:08:18] [done] [18:11:02] [As Loharath grabs the doorhandle, a minor tremor runs through his arm. A moment later there's a shuttering noise behind and above them. The summoning circle in the ceiling telescopes downward in a mechanical expansion, then a circle from the center of it dialates. A fluid with the consistency of human flesh poors from the nozel and puddles on the floor. Countels eyes and jagged-toothed maws swim and float on it's flesh-surface as it plops.] [18:12:17] [They all begin to chatter, syllables colliding with each other in a cacophony of madness.[ [18:12:20] [Init] [18:14:40] * Aurelis changes topic to 'Init: Mari, Aurora, Aurelis, Phanos, Loharath' [18:14:50] [Mari's Turn] [18:15:27] What the HELL!? [18:16:06] [Mari stands dumbfounded.] [18:16:10] [Aurora's Turn] [18:16:51] * Aurora draws an arrow and fires it at the thing. [18:17:37] "Gah!" [18:17:48] * Aurelis conjurs an arrow made of acid and fires it at the thing.] [18:17:56] * Aurora misses entirely. [18:19:13] * Aurelis then backs into a corner. [18:19:49] [Phanos's Turn] [18:19:52] * Phanos sends his dogs in to bite it, stepping aside 5 feet so they can both charge. [18:22:18] [Loharath's Turn] [18:24:17] [Loharath runs up and swings for a miss.] [18:24:37] [The creatures's endless mouths gibber incredibly loudly, infecting into people's minds.] [18:27:46] [One of it's mouths spit at Loharath.] [18:30:19] [The rest of them surge forward, two reaching for each of Phanos's planthounds and 2 for Loharath.] [18:33:52] * Nova (Novaseaker@pool-71-125-21-72.nycmny.fios.verizon.net) has joined #Sharn [18:33:52] * Nova is now known as NovaSeaker [18:33:55] * ChanServ sets mode: +o NovaSeaker [18:34:32] * Aurelis (~Novaseake@24.168.117.0) Quit (Ping timeout) [18:36:41] * NovaSeaker (Novaseaker@pool-71-125-21-72.nycmny.fios.verizon.net) Quit (Ping timeout) [18:36:41] * Aurelis (Novaseaker@24.168.117.0) has joined #Sharn [18:36:41] * Aurelis is now known as NovaSeaker [18:36:45] * ChanServ sets mode: +o NovaSeaker [18:36:46] * NovaSeaker is now known as Aurelis [18:37:55] [Mari's Turn] [18:40:11] * Marianysa babbles incoherently. Also gibbers. [18:40:28] [Aurora's Turn] [18:40:59] * Phanos was kicked by Aurelis (Aurelis) [18:41:22] * Aurora draws her bow and fires. hwoever, she's distracted by the gibbering and hits the ceiling. [18:42:28] [Aurelis fires magic missile.] [18:42:56] [Or he would if he wasn't babbling.] [18:43:08] [Phanos's zombies attack.] [18:47:53] [Loharath's Turn] [18:48:07] * Loharath spins and takes another swing [18:50:09] [Loharath's blade slides into the fleshpuddle and out the other side, not leaving quite as big as a mark as he thought it would, even with the silver fire.] [18:52:44] [From the gibbering puddle, an arc of acidic spit flies over and aims toward Aurora.] [18:54:03] Aaagh! [18:56:14] [A flurry of toothy mouthes and ragged lips spills out at Loharath and the plant-dogs, but the wave of flesh receeds and leaves them unharmed.] [18:56:17] [Mari's Turn] [18:57:01] * Marianysa shakes her head to clear it. "What the hell?" She steps forward to stab the mass of mouths. [18:57:39] [A pseudopod of flesh with a mouth at the end reaches over Loharath's shoulder and bites at Mari as she passes.] [18:57:48] [It misses horribly.] [18:59:57] [Mari's slash does less damage than expected.] [19:00:00] [Aurora's Turn] [19:00:32] * Aurora stays on her guard and waits for her vision to clear up. [19:01:47] * Aurora changes her mind and stumbles in the general direction fo Lohorath. SHe holds up her holy symbol and casts a spell of protection on him [19:02:39] * Aurora casts that on herslef instead when she realizes that she has no idea where Lohorath is [19:02:49] [Aurelis fires a magic missile for real this time.] [19:04:19] [Phanos's zombies continue their attack.] [19:05:46] [Phanos cases a spell to hamber the beast.] [19:06:12] * Loharath raises his sword about his head and slashes down onto the creature [19:07:20] [His burning blade buries itself into the thick mass, but the amorphous creature absorbs most of the blow.] [19:09:33] [The creature's gibbering takes on a threbbling hum and the very flagstone of the laboratory floor wavers. Suddenly, Loharath and the plant-dogs become mired in unstabled stone.] [19:09:54] (No game effect yet) [19:09:59] [Mari's Turn] [19:10:47] * Marianysa continues to slash at the blob, hoping she'll have SOME effect. [19:11:23] [A small portion of the creature's liquid body is sliced away by Mari's barrage.] [19:11:30] (Oh, Mari's in unstable stone too) [19:11:35] [Aurora's Turn] [19:13:15] * Aurora rushes up to Lohorath and pulls out a parchment of holy text. She speaks, and places her hand upon him. He's shielded from harm by the faith of the Silver FLame [19:13:50] * Aurelis pulls out a crossbow and fires it at the creature. [19:14:07] * Aurelis misses his mark by a longshot. [19:14:32] [Phanos's zombies keep up the attack.] [19:15:25] [Loharath's Turn] [19:15:34] * Loharath keeps swinging, having little other recourse [19:16:40] [Loharath's growingly desperate swings suddenly have effect when upon his last thrust, the creature deflates and starts to evaporate before his eyes.] [19:17:04] Good work! [19:17:31] "Did anyone see where my crossbow bolt went?" [19:17:46] * Aurelis moves over and starts rumaging around in the oozing mess. [19:17:54] I don't think that's healthy. [19:18:02] I'll buy you another one when we get home. [19:18:41] Now, how did this thing keep working? [19:19:06] Shouldn't the circle have been ruined by now? [19:19:06] Well, that's another freakshow taken care of. [19:19:18] * Marianysa gives Loharath a thumbs up. [19:20:03] * Loharath grins at Mari. "There's few problems the Purified can't solve by hitting it with a sword enough." [19:20:38] * Mechazawa (~rustangel@ip-116-154.atvci.net) has joined #sharn [19:20:45] Let's patch ourselves up then get a move on. We're still not to the bottom of this. [19:20:46] * Mechazawa is now known as Phanos [19:21:25] "It looked like the circle on the ceiling wasn't actually a summoning circle at all, but disguising some sort of... dispenser." [19:21:36] * Loharath concentrates and his wounds close almost entirely. [19:21:39] Is the dispenser empty now? [19:21:57] "Anybody still hurt den?" [19:22:43] * Marianysa takes a look at the ceiling. "Clever, I'll give them that." [19:23:36] * Aurelis inspects the dispenser. [19:23:43] "Loharath, shine your sword up in there?" [19:25:02] * Loharath reaches his blade into the dispenser [19:26:15] So whoever was here had a magic lab with a monster dispenser in the ceiling? [19:26:20] [The inside of the nozzel appears grimy beyond measure, but is mostly empty.] [19:27:20] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [19:27:33] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has joined #Sharn [19:28:16] "Well, looks like it's empty for now." [19:28:32] "Maybe all that sludge on the walls inside there accumulates and becomes sentient..." [19:29:00] "In any case, we should get going." [19:29:34] * Loharath nods [19:29:39] I suppose. Everyone alright? [19:29:50] * Loharath pushes open the next door. [19:29:51] "I miss my crossbow bolt." [19:29:53] * Aurelis frowns. [19:29:58] "Just wishin dese here whispas go away." [19:30:23] Nothing scrubbing my brain won't fix. [19:30:51] [The next room is another hallway, with, surpise, another door at the southern end of the western wall.] [19:31:10] * Phanos recalls his dogs back into flanking position, petting their heads [19:32:17] [They pant mindlessly, bits of oozey flesh dripping from their maws.] [19:32:18] * Loharath heads down and pushes the next door open [19:33:06] [Another shorthallway extends west, with a door at the far end leading north.] [19:33:35] I wonder what's at the center of this mess. [19:34:16] * Loharath opens that door as well [19:35:24] [That door opens into a long narrow hallway extending beyond his sword's light to the north.] [19:35:48] * Aurora keeps following [19:36:44] "I wondah when deys gonna make some wider halls." [19:37:00] [A door on the eastern wall fades into view as the light extends down the hallway, but there's still shadow obscuring the hallway's end.] [19:37:24] * Loharath continues his advance [19:37:58] [Loharath discovers that the hallway turns 90 degrees to the east.] [19:38:23] * Loharath keeps going [19:38:47] [The eastern bend ends in a dead end.] [19:39:27] Well... there was a door back there. [19:40:13] * Loharath nods. "Back to that door, then." [19:40:18] * Loharath opens it. [19:40:51] [Loharath opens the door to a large chamber stretching off to the north and south beyond the light radius of the spell cast on his sword.] [19:41:22] [Correction, he can see the northern edge.] [19:41:26] "Ya mon, a biggah hallway." [19:41:31] * Phanos steps into it. [19:41:46] [Init] [19:44:04] [A pair of those tentacled-hobgoblins bursts into the light radius, charging toward Phanos and his plantdogs.] [19:45:24] [Apparently intelligent, they lash out with their shoulder-tentacles, reaching over Fred to strike at Phanos.] [19:47:21] [One of the tentacles hits Phanos smack in the eye, while the other misses.] [19:47:46] "Ow!" [19:48:12] * Aurelis changes topic to 'Init: Aurelis, Phanos, Mari, Aurora, Loharath' [19:48:45] [Aurelis delays until someone meatier charges in.] [19:48:50] [Phanos's Turn] [19:50:42] * Phanos orders dukey to move in, taking a step back, chanting and letting the fires of his heart envelop his hand as his dog bites the tentacled thingie. [19:52:05] [Phanos notes that Fred has a more difficult time than normal tearing into the creature's rubbery thick hide.] [19:52:23] [Mari's Turn] [19:55:01] * Marianysa dives past one of the hobgoblins and Phanos' dog. [19:58:23] * Marianysa rolls to her feet, attacking the hobgoblin from behind. [19:59:39] [She comes out of her roll a slight bit too unbalanced to connect.] [19:59:43] [Aurora's Turn] [20:01:56] * Aurora pulls out another parchmet of holy text. It's conmsed in silver flame, and she touches Phanos, protecting him. [20:02:17] [Loharath's Turn] [20:02:45] * Loharath steps into the room and his third eye flashes. Space distorts as he slashes at the wounded monstrocity [20:06:02] [The second tentacled thing hunkers down into a wide stance and resolutely continues attacking, holding his entire body steady but for the flailing tentacles.] [20:07:09] [Aurelis moves forward a bit and pears around the edge.] [20:07:14] [Phanos's Turn] [20:07:20] "Oh, you're doing fine." [20:07:26] * Phanos has dukey step over the corpse of the first monstrosity, fred biting at the second. He mutters a curse under his breath and hurls the tiny fireball at the thing as well, another appearing in his hand afterwards. [20:09:41] [Fred continues worrying the thing's rubbery flesh with it's ossified teeth.] [20:09:44] [Mari's Turn] [20:10:15] Right, you're going down. [20:10:39] * Marianysa sidesteps, slicing at the still living monster. [20:12:37] [Aurora's Turn] [20:13:41] [Loharath's Turn] [20:13:53] * Aurora looks at Aurelis next to her, and shrugs. She takes out another scrap of holy text (where does she keep those?) and casts a Shield of Faith on Aurelis. [20:14:54] * Loharath swings again! [20:15:57] [Loharath's burning blade slices a gouge into the creature's chest. He backs up against the wall.] [20:16:36] [Defiantly, he lashes out one last time at Loharath before falling to the floor in a pool of his own putrid blood.] [20:16:51] Good riddance. [20:17:05] Come on, let's hurry. The Silver Flame's protection won't last too long. But first. [20:17:08] [His last pitiful attack is so poor Loharath doesn't even have to move out of the way.] [20:17:10] * Aurora walks up to Mari. [20:17:20] [Aurelis walks in.] [20:17:34] "Oh hey." [20:17:34] * Aurora pulls out yet another scrap of holy text and casts the spell on her. "There you go." [20:17:50] "That one's amulet and that one's armbands are magical." [20:18:05] ALright, let's take them. [20:18:14] Thanks for pointing those out [20:18:29] Thanks, Aura. [20:19:19] "Alright then." [20:19:57] [Further inspection of the room reveals that the south is a cul-de-sac dead end, and the north end has a door around it's bend that leads south.] [20:19:59] * Marianysa eyes Aurelis. "Yeah, thanks for helping with the looting." [20:20:27] * Aurora picks them up and puts them wherever the group keeps the rest of the stuff [20:20:47] * Aurelis grins at Mari with an "I'm Helping!" expression. [20:21:28] * Marianysa rolls her eyes. [20:21:32] * Loharath looks down the cul-de-sac, sighs, and heads back to the nore northern door [20:22:05] * Phanos touches his chest, his hand glowing green beneath the flame as he heals himself. [20:22:35] Whatever they paid the architect, it was too much [20:23:14] [Loharath opens the door into a 10 by 10 room. This appears to be an outhouse.] [20:23:44] [A door leads further south.] [20:23:53] ... let's move on through quickly. [20:23:57] * Loharath frowns, steps carefully across, and opens the next door [20:24:08] * Aurora steps through. Carefully. [20:24:15] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [20:24:17] "What's that smell?" [20:24:43] * Loharath (~CharlesHB@c-75-68-53-181.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has joined #Sharn [20:25:00] The outhouse smell? [20:25:10] [Loharath's light extends to the south and seems to bend to the east, but he's not quite sure.] [20:25:31] "Is this what an outhouse smells like?" [20:25:57] ... is it? [20:26:15] (I don't see anything on Gametable) [20:26:26] "I wouldn't know. I grew up an heir to the Mark of Storm." [20:26:32] (Reconnect?) [20:27:07] Yes, thanks Aur, we _know_. [20:28:08] * Loharath heads down. [20:28:26] "Well, I'm just saying, I couldn't possibly know what a rancid thing like an outhouse smells like." [20:28:48] "It smell like old poo." [20:29:17] "Yes well, in House Lyrandar, we never had to put up with old poo." [20:30:11] [Around the corner Loharath spies a 9-foot wide set of double doors, engraved with constellation patterns and symbols he doesn't recognize.] [20:32:06] This could be it. Does anyone know how to read these symbols? [20:32:22] * Aurora looks at the symbols. [20:32:22] * Marianysa takes a look. [20:32:34] * Aurelis peeks over Mari's shoulders. [20:32:45] * Phanos examines them himself. [20:33:10] "Oh! Oh! That one looks familiar!" [20:34:53] Looks like some kind of calendar making a note of some sort of upcoming date. But I don't know the calendar being used. [20:36:09] "Well lets keep going before your protection spells wear off Aurora." [20:36:31] * Loharath pushes open the door. "Yeah. Let's move." [20:36:47] Right. [20:36:48] * Aurora moves [20:37:00] Calendar, huh. Wonder what it could mean. [20:37:04] [Loharath opens the door into a tiny sliver of a hallway with an identical set of doors five feet in front of his face.] [20:38:08] "Well that just doesn't make any sense." [20:39:13] "When has dis place make-a sense?" [20:39:20] "I'm just saying." [20:39:32] * Marianysa shrugs. "They like doors." [20:39:34] "Open dat next one mon." [20:40:13] [Loharath opens the next set and the wide hallway continues on into shadow.] [20:41:03] [As he moves forward, his sword's light illuminates a louge room, extending east slightly. A door on the southern wall of the extension leads out of the lounge.] [20:41:46] * Loharath walks into the room, sword at the ready [20:42:42] [Opening the door out of the lounge is a hallway with a door near the southern end, leading east.] [20:43:13] * Loharath pshesopen the door [20:44:24] [A small room leads further south.] [20:46:15] [Upon passing through this small room, Loharath enters a hallway extending east. Halway across the northern wall is a door, and further east is another door leading north.] [20:46:26] Halfway* [20:46:52] "I be getting de crampy-balls." [20:47:39] "Really? You should go back to wearing robes. I find they afford much more freedom." [20:49:12] Let's take the closest one first. [20:49:17] It'll be faster. [20:49:18] Too. Much. Information. [20:49:32] * Loharath walks up and pushes the door open [20:49:45] "I mean in me feet!" [20:50:45] [Loharath opens the door to a wide chamber with a stone slab dias in the center near the back. Six alcoves branch off from the main hall, and overlooking everything is an obsidian statue of a dragon matching no known breed. It looks feral and demonic.] [20:50:54] Creepy. [20:51:10] * Loharath frowns. "This is clearly not right." [20:51:21] * Phanos looks to the dragon, trying to identify its color. [20:51:40] (Arcana check) [20:51:46] * Aurora looks at the dragon [20:52:18] * Phanos decides he has no clue. [20:52:54] ... well, it's not a black dragon. In spite of the building material. [20:53:16] "Good, not me oncle den." [20:53:18] * Aurelis enters the room a few feet. [20:53:25] Want to check that other door and come back? [20:53:33] "Hmm..." [20:53:49] Figuring this room out might take a while [20:54:04] "Thats... That's a statue of Khyber, the Progenitor Wyrm." [20:54:48] ... seriously? [20:54:54] "She destroyed Siberys, creating the ring of dragonshards that orbits the planet. At least in myth." [20:55:00] I see. [20:55:06] Somehow I thought she'd be taller. [20:55:06] "She's also known as the mother of all fiends." [20:55:11] "Including rakshasa." [20:55:23] * Marianysa scowls. [20:55:26] Well then, we seem to be on the right track. [20:55:27] * Aurora takes out her mace. [20:55:36] "If you'll notice, that's the entire world in her left hind-claw's grip." [20:56:10] Disgusting. [20:56:22] "Obviously a biased representation, because Eberron actually enfolded khyber in her coils." [20:56:28] "Forming the world we live on." [20:56:45] "According to myth, at least." [20:58:44] * Aurora looks at the alcoves to the side [20:58:55] There must be more to this place than just a temple. [20:59:20] (Spot checks?) [21:15:38] [The party contemplates this strange room at the center of the twisted maze of a citadel.] [21:15:42] [Session End.] End of #Sharn buffer Wed Dec 05 21:16:36 2007