Eyes Of The Lich Queen

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, warpriestly human cleric

"This shard's coming in handy already," Donovan says, muttering to his shield, which leaves his arm and hovers nearby. Mace in one hand and sunrod held high in the other, Donovan keeps rear guard.

At the sight of the portcullus, the templar frowns. "Don't suppose there's another handy lever to open this?"

[sblock=OOC]Donovan's good to stay close to Jina in the rear guard position for now. Would the group still benefit from the sunrod if Donovan attaches it to a belt or strings it 'round his neck, or will he need to carry it as he is? He can always drop it if fighting starts and he needs to cast; just wanted to make sure I knew the options, though.[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

"Let's go take a look, but please, be cautious. If the dracolich have been able to enchant teh levers so I can't see it, he will probably put some other things to prevent anyone to go further. Watchout for traps."

[SBLOCK=OOC]DEFCON1, don't forget that Jango and Jina have Low-Light Vision, so we should be able to see farther then the others.[/SBLOCK]

 

[DEFCON 1]

Jango and Jina both mention that they do see something on the left-hand wall at the far end of the corridor to the left of the portculis. However it's too small to really make out what it is though. Maybe a lever? Kind of hard to tell from this distance.

Horatio takes off his backpack and finds he is able to strap his sunrod so it stick up out of the top of it, thereby keeping his hands free and the room illuminated.

(I still have assumed nobody has advanced into the corridor yet.)

 

[stonegod]

Shooing Rogan forward to scout and check for traps, Ari waits until the rogue gets a good 30 feet ahead before moving on.

 

[Velmont]

Jango casts on himself a mage armor, feeling it being empowered by the magic of the vest. Once Ari start to walks foward, he follows the hexer.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Spell Left: 6/6/6/4
Prophetic favor left: 3[/SBLOCK]

 

[Autumn]

Jina tenses up a little, feeling a little thrill run down her spine as the secret passage is revealed. She draws her swords, invoking the power of her new scabbard, and stands ready to follow on behind the others once they move off.

[sblock=OOC]Using the scabbard's Keen Edge power. 2/3 uses remaining today.[/sblock]

 

[Mista Collins]

Advancing towards the portculis ahead of the group a bit, Rogan carefully scans the area for any possible traps. By his short breathes, you can tell he is nervous of these unexplored ruins.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Rogan begins his slow advance down the corridor, with the rest of the group following along after he's gone past the 30 foot mark. Using all of his senses, the Guardian keeps track of the tactile sensations of air movement and floor density, the olfactive sensations of aroma and gas changes, the aural sensations of footfalls, thumps, and echoes, and visual cues of changes in the rockwork. The advance is slow going... but necessary.

As Rogan nears the end of the corridor, he makes out that the item on the left-hand wall is a lever mounted onto it. There are no chains or ropes visibly connected to it, so if it's a lever for raising the portcullis, those mechanisms and gears must be inside the walls. His eyes move on from the lever and continue their scans... and it's when they pass over the floor, they suddenly catch something! Rogan immediately raises a hand to stop the group, then gets down on his hands and knees to inch forward... constantly scanning the rock floor. Then he recognizes it! It is subtle, but it is there... a section of the floor here is a hair higher than the area surrounding it. Rogan stands back up, farily confident that this is another pressure plate. (Search check DC 21: [11] + 12 = 23 *success*)

He looks quickly around the area and determines that the plate is almost as wide as the corridor, save a 6" section against either side wall. It also appears to be ten feet long, giving about five feet between the plate and the wall & portcullis beyond it as a safe zone. Or at the very least... a zone that is not a part of the pressure plate system.

As he looks past this through the metal bars of the portcullis, he sees that at the other end of the small room is a set of stairs heading downward and to the left. The room itself appears empty.

 

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, warpriestly human cleric

It is subtle, but it is there... a section of the floor here is a hair higher than the area surrounding it. Rogan stands back up, farily confident that this is another pressure plate. (Search check DC 21: [11] + 12 = 23 *success*)

He looks quickly around the area and determines that the plate is almost as wide as the corridor, save a 6" section against either side wall. It also appears to be ten feet long, giving about five feet between the plate and the wall & portcullis beyond it as a safe zone. Or at the very least... a zone that is not a part of the pressure plate system.

As he looks past this through the metal bars of the portcullis, he sees that at the other end of the small room is a set of stairs heading downward and to the left. The room itself appears empty.

((OOC: I'm assuming here that Rogan passes on the details of what he's found to the rest of us, of course. Feel free to disregard if that's not the case))

"So far, pressure plates have mostly been for opening doors, not springing traps around here," Donovan offers up. "But if this 'blocked to dragonkin' theory's right, a large plate's a good way to trap some of 'em, leaving room 'round the edge for our kind, and a lever for same. Say, Jango, can you see this lever, or is it blocked to you like the other one?"

 

[Velmont]

Jango takes a looks at the level and teh pressure plate to see if he is blind to them. "If we want, we could trigger the plate. I think there is a skelleton that weight enough, we could easily throw bone by bone the skelleton on teh pressure plate."