Legacy of Death Part IV: Darker than the Absence of Light

dyermaker001 · May 10, 2012

Nar lights up a small pebble and tosses it down to the tiefling and halfling.

TerraDave · May 10, 2012

See attached (click a few times).

Lucian is standing in the "rain" by the platform at the base.

Buckthorn has been pulled right into that seemingly purple rain*. I am assuming Forge (?) is holding the rope.

*Let me guide you...

dyermaker001 · May 10, 2012

"What are those? Can you take a closer look before coming back up? I think I saw some ledges along the way as the light was going down. Maybe you can check those out too."

TerraDave · May 10, 2012

DM snickers...Narittude

Rough ledges jut out from the chasm's walls as the necrotic rain falls 70 feet to fill a wide pool. Above the surface of the pool a circular slab of white stone is set with four trapdoors, each one bearing the Devourer's face in dark colors.

Buckthorn · May 11, 2012

Having had enough of the necrotic rain, yes Buckthorn will scurry back up the rope. He will not stop to check out any ledges.

TerraDave · May 11, 2012

Buckthorn reverses course.

Lucian...stands in his painful puddle?

And, speaking of ledges and devil faces...what next?

Flaming Bob · May 11, 2012

Lucien slowly begins the climb back up to the top.

Nar's lit pebble is left behind.

TerraDave · May 13, 2012

Lucian, you take 7 damage (after res.) from standing in the pool, then you climb about 10 feet, (of the 70) when the shadow lashes out! (oh the irony). You take 14 damage (including your resistance/ 41 so far from the black well) and are pulled into the necrotic rain, which is slowing and further damaging.

Up or down?

Buckthorn · May 14, 2012

Buckthorn will (risking a caustic comment from Nar-Heru) again approach the ledge and attempt to balance (Acrobatics). "I wonder if there is a way to disable this infernal necrotic rain with those devil's faces... given our past experience with these gruesome visages."

Buckthorn will also attempt to discern any sort of mechanism that trigger or disable on the rain on the devil's faces (Dungeoneering). He wants to see if he can hit something with an arrow that might manipulate the faces (shooting at an eye, a mouth, etc.).

If he has a guess then he will shoot at that. Otherwise, he will attempt to shoot an arrow first at the devil's eye. Then a mouth.