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<blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5825920" data-attributes="member: 6677945"><p>We woke in the evening. My ankle still hurt a tad, and the javelin wound wasn’t gone, but I felt a bit better, and Chimi and Suzume looked as though the rest had fixed them up entirely, which was good to see. The orange sky at sunset against the majestic mountains of Zi Ha is really a sight to see on a clear evening, and if you’ve never seen it, I wholeheartedly recommend coming here at least once. But we had business inside. Suzume went up first again and the rest of us followed on her rope. We went into the room beyond the balcony’s south door this time but didn’t see anything in there but dust and another door. Suzume took her time checking it for traps, which was good because she found some kind of javelin-throwing device rigged to respond to standing in front of the door. We asked her if she could disarm it and she scoffed and said of course she could. Then she promptly triggered it by mistake and ended up with a javelin sticking through her. Serves her right for overconfidence I suppose, but we had to use another healing potion to fix her up. And I guess she technically did disarm it since we were able to go through after that.</p><p></p><p>The lizard’s room and the room the trogs were guarding were still just as we’d left them. We figured that meant nobody’d come down to check on them, so hopefully we were still sneaking in to a place not on full alert. The room in the center of the tower was the stairwell, which was clogged on the floor below, but seemed to be clear from here on up. It led all the way to the top of the tower, but we stopped at the next floor and tried the door there. It was locked. Suzume once again assured us she could handle it, and this time she was right. The lock clicked open after she spent a couple minutes going at it with her lockpick, though when we saw what was inside I think we all wished we’d kept the door shut.</p><p></p><p>This room was twice as big as the ones we’d seen so far, taking up both the west and south sides of the tower, and Chimi said later that it looked like a temple to Lady Nanbyo, a Tian goddess, and not a nice one. They call Lady Nanbyo the ‘Widow of Suffering’, and earthquakes are said to be her domain. The shrine here explains the quakes in the area I guess. She also rules over things like plague, suffering, and fire. Fire was what we saw when that door opened and we entered the room. Two skeletons, bones ablaze, must’ve been trapped in here by the locked door, or maybe they were guarding the temple. They came running at us when we entered the room.</p><p></p><p>Well Chimi got cut and burned by this flaming sword the first of the skeletons drew, but she stepped back with a holy fury in her eyes that I’d never have expected from such a calm lady like her. She brought her glaive down on that skeleton’s bones so hard that they were scattered to every corner of the room! Roban went at the other one with this icy ray spell that seemed to hurt it, but Suzume’s sword wasn’t even scratching its bones, and she was getting burned up just standing near it. I couldn’t let that go on so I stepped up beside her and brought my axe down on the dead thing’s ribcage and shattered it! We had to give Chimi our last healing potion after that fight.</p><p></p><p>Suzume said it was weird that there were no doors in here except the one we’d come through, since this room only takes up half of this floor, and there should be other rooms. She’s insisted on searching around for a bit, so I stopped to write another entry. She’s found a disguised door, so I guess she was right, and she’s just finished checking it for traps. She says she hasn’t found any, so now she’s got to pick the lock. Should only take her a minute or two, so I’ll end it here for now.</p><p></p><p>--Holly Hay, 7 Desnus, 4712 ar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnowleopardVK, post: 5825920, member: 6677945"] We woke in the evening. My ankle still hurt a tad, and the javelin wound wasn’t gone, but I felt a bit better, and Chimi and Suzume looked as though the rest had fixed them up entirely, which was good to see. The orange sky at sunset against the majestic mountains of Zi Ha is really a sight to see on a clear evening, and if you’ve never seen it, I wholeheartedly recommend coming here at least once. But we had business inside. Suzume went up first again and the rest of us followed on her rope. We went into the room beyond the balcony’s south door this time but didn’t see anything in there but dust and another door. Suzume took her time checking it for traps, which was good because she found some kind of javelin-throwing device rigged to respond to standing in front of the door. We asked her if she could disarm it and she scoffed and said of course she could. Then she promptly triggered it by mistake and ended up with a javelin sticking through her. Serves her right for overconfidence I suppose, but we had to use another healing potion to fix her up. And I guess she technically did disarm it since we were able to go through after that. The lizard’s room and the room the trogs were guarding were still just as we’d left them. We figured that meant nobody’d come down to check on them, so hopefully we were still sneaking in to a place not on full alert. The room in the center of the tower was the stairwell, which was clogged on the floor below, but seemed to be clear from here on up. It led all the way to the top of the tower, but we stopped at the next floor and tried the door there. It was locked. Suzume once again assured us she could handle it, and this time she was right. The lock clicked open after she spent a couple minutes going at it with her lockpick, though when we saw what was inside I think we all wished we’d kept the door shut. This room was twice as big as the ones we’d seen so far, taking up both the west and south sides of the tower, and Chimi said later that it looked like a temple to Lady Nanbyo, a Tian goddess, and not a nice one. They call Lady Nanbyo the ‘Widow of Suffering’, and earthquakes are said to be her domain. The shrine here explains the quakes in the area I guess. She also rules over things like plague, suffering, and fire. Fire was what we saw when that door opened and we entered the room. Two skeletons, bones ablaze, must’ve been trapped in here by the locked door, or maybe they were guarding the temple. They came running at us when we entered the room. Well Chimi got cut and burned by this flaming sword the first of the skeletons drew, but she stepped back with a holy fury in her eyes that I’d never have expected from such a calm lady like her. She brought her glaive down on that skeleton’s bones so hard that they were scattered to every corner of the room! Roban went at the other one with this icy ray spell that seemed to hurt it, but Suzume’s sword wasn’t even scratching its bones, and she was getting burned up just standing near it. I couldn’t let that go on so I stepped up beside her and brought my axe down on the dead thing’s ribcage and shattered it! We had to give Chimi our last healing potion after that fight. Suzume said it was weird that there were no doors in here except the one we’d come through, since this room only takes up half of this floor, and there should be other rooms. She’s insisted on searching around for a bit, so I stopped to write another entry. She’s found a disguised door, so I guess she was right, and she’s just finished checking it for traps. She says she hasn’t found any, so now she’s got to pick the lock. Should only take her a minute or two, so I’ll end it here for now. --Holly Hay, 7 Desnus, 4712 ar. [/QUOTE]
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