Janissaries... nice!
Success! Heskrash and Krik bring in the last two successes. 8/8 successes, 0/4 failures. Good work, good team work and great posts!
Across the cavern other crews are gathering on their plinths, some are still working the grudging rock fruit. Korask calls your crew to the plinth for a break,
"Your meal is on its way."
With the last few sling-loads emptied into the basket, it lifts away, rising up into the now-fully lit chamber. The rock is mostly brown and dull, but there are wide intrusions of purple and green, layers that slash diagonally across the vast cavern.
The waterfall glitters in the reflected light of the Sunstone, the spray of its fall wets the water-smoothed stone, revealing jewel tones sleeping in the dull brown rock. Something like a breeze blows from the falls, cool and damp, smelling of wet stone and earth. And again the musky note.
The crew spread across the plinth, small clusters of Naeduri, watching Mask and Belleros. The two runaways discuss their situation, their lilting elven voices riveting the attention of the cave-bound dwarves and dragonborn.
"They don't look like no phoenixes to me."
"Oh, and your Naedur's resident phoenix expert, you are?"
"You've seen the pictures, same as me!"
"Yeah, I s'pose. They don't look like no demons, neither."
"No."
"I don't like this, Wallack."
"Nope."
"Hey, Apprentice, is it true the Adversary's here? I didn't see him at--
A chorus of screams split the relative silence of the cavern. And then the light...
shifts. The cavern falls into darkness and then flares into blinding brilliance. Darkness, brilliance. Darkness, brilliance. There is a strange pressure in the air as it grows hot and the brilliance of the light becomes unbearable as the Sunstone falls into the cavern and shatters on the stony floor.
The massive chains that anchored it to the roof of the great dome crash down next to the Sunstone further splintering the great shards of dimming stone.
Cries from the cavern floor ring out in the guttering light of Naedur's sun. There were people down there!
OOC: Reflex from everyone, Easy DC (10), to see if you're blinded.
Edit: Right you are, Atan. Rolls against the PCs! (I still need to get my 'combat' sheet set up with stats for reference, so make your next posts reflect if you're blinded or not).
