Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
Playing the Game
Story Hour
The Gate Pass Irregulars: A War of the Burning Sky Campaign
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Cafu" data-source="post: 6598032" data-attributes="member: 6692807"><p>However, before I could tell everyone else what I remembered, Longinus continued to speak.</p><p></p><p>“As I said previously, my brother sent me here to guard this portal. He said that his concern was Ragesian spies; I now suspect that this may have been only a half truth. I have had an opportunity to examine this elegant exercise in conjuration and abjuration and I have reached several troubling conclusions: one of them is that this portal would allow someone with a clairvoyance spell to magically discern the space in the air above the Lyceum.</p><p></p><p> You have seen the destructive power of that device on my brother’s ship, have you not? The Eye, he calls it. It emits a powerful ray which is destructive, to put it mildly; a death ray, he likes to call it; he always had a flair for the dramatic.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, as I was saying, using a clairvoyance spell, one would be able to see the ship above the Lyceum, aligned in the exact centre of the portal. For a time, this presents a unique opportunity. If, and I stress that only if you believe that my brother’s motives are other than what he has related to me, then follow this advice:</p><p></p><p>Use the power of the Torch; I believe you are quite intimate with its abilities by now. Open the portal and guide the fiery essence of the plane at the Eye; that may disable it. I say “may” because it has never been tried before; but it should work. Be warned though, you will only get one opportunity to do this; if you get it wrong or you miss and you are right about my brother’s intentions, then the consequences for Seaquen may be devastating.”</p><p></p><p>With that, Longinus handed a scroll over to Longhelim who in turn gave it to me: </p><p></p><p>“What’s this?” I asked. </p><p></p><p>The magical monk replied: </p><p></p><p>“It is a scroll of clairvoyance.”</p><p></p><p>I glanced at it: </p><p></p><p>“Oh. Thank you.”</p><p></p><p>It was a spell I could do anyway but having a scroll of it would be nice. </p><p></p><p>After that, Longinus turned to the portal spoke as he walked towards it: </p><p></p><p>“There is one last thing I must do. But remember, you say you have credible sources which paint my brother as a mad maniac intent on mass murder. You don’t have any actual proof. That is why I am not staying here; I cannot go against my brother and I charge you to act only when you are sure of his intentions.”</p><p></p><p>I was about to reply that by the time we actually saw proof of his intentions ourselves, it would likely be too late when I felt a hand on my shoulder and Longhelim passed me with his finger on his lips. </p><p></p><p>Longinus reached the portal and spent some time casting some magic; I watched his magical workings with interest and saw that he dissolved a powerful ward which unfortunately also dissolved some of the wards against the fire of the plane; as soon as he removed it, the temperature rose dramatically to quite an uncomfortable level. </p><p></p><p>After this, he turned around one last time: </p><p></p><p>“I cannot wish you luck and now I will take my leave from you.”</p><p></p><p>With that, he cast a transport spell and vanished.</p><p></p><p>I turned around to Longhelim: </p><p></p><p>“How are we supposed to wait until Pilus proves his intentions for Seaquen? It’ll be too late by then.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim just smiled and said: </p><p></p><p>“Oh, you’re quite right, Faden; but how does that old saying go? It is better to beg forgiveness……..Anyway, it’s irrelevant; Longinus as well as told us that he no longer believes his brother; otherwise he wouldn’t have given us the information or given us that scroll. ”</p><p></p><p>He turned around to all of us and asked: </p><p></p><p>“Do we trust Longinus? Faden, you have more knowledge than anyone in this field. Is that a portal? Will it work in the way he said? Can we blind the Eye?”</p><p></p><p>I was still staring at the strange ring of magic, a little diminished now; it looked as if several strange creatures from the plane were beginning to approach, curious as to what had changed. Thankfully, the portal seemed to be holding. Speaking slowly, I replied: </p><p></p><p>“It is a portal, an ancient one; as for doing what he said, to be frank, I have no idea; we have had so little time to research the Torch that it could do that but in reality we are groping in the dark here. Just in case, we should equip ourselves with spells that will protect us from fire; the portal could be dismissed and then it would get very hot.”</p><p></p><p>John spoke up at this point: </p><p></p><p>“He could be lying to us; I wasn’t able to tell but it is difficult to read someone with a mask on; think about it, though; you have just seen the six of us carve through his bodyguard in a few moments; you also see that the paladin is wielding the Torch of the Burning Sky, probably the mightiest artifact known for centuries; it is quite possible that you don’t feel particularly confident of defeating us so you lay a nice trap instead; spin a nice story about how we can neutralize your brother’s most powerful weapon, the one that will devastate the town so it cannot be ignored. Instead, as we use the Torch to open the portal, this whole place is flooded with lava. Neat, clean and deadly! Even if we survive, by the time we get out of here, the death ray will have done its job.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim grimaced: </p><p></p><p>“You raise several good points there John; we’re going to have to think about this. Right, let’s go and greet the Masters at the Lyceum…..”</p><p></p><p>I interrupted him:</p><p></p><p>“Before we go, Longhelim, do you remember what happened here in the prison? We met the Ragesian team who were supporting Lee Sidoneth, fought them, found the cells with that strange little menhir which acted as a teleport trap and found the elf and the human. What were their names again? Oh, yes, Faquaniel and Teymour; they told us some daft story about being an apprentice mage and a volunteer for the Resistance; I think you believed them for about five seconds but they had had a very bad time from the Ragesian torturer and we let them go. I think the reasoning at the time was that there were so many spies in Seaquen at the time that two more were going to make little difference. They were tripping over each other as it was anyway……”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim broke into my monologue:</p><p></p><p>“Some of this I remember and some of it not so much but is there a point to all of this?”</p><p></p><p>I blurted out: </p><p></p><p>“Yes! Damatarian!”</p><p></p><p>Everyone looked puzzled. </p><p></p><p>“Who?” asked Longhelim. </p><p></p><p>“Damatarian! He was a powerful pyromancer who originally owned this villa, before it sank partway into the sea. He’s also the one who probably performed the shenanigans on that wall.”</p><p></p><p>I pointed over my shoulder behind me with my thumb. </p><p></p><p>“Anyway, his tomb is behind those doors there. Don’t you remember? We tried to get into but every time we tried a bucketful of lava fell on us; or on John actually……”</p><p></p><p>John grimaced and then joined in: </p><p></p><p>“Yes, it’s coming back to me now. There were some runes in that tomb as well; something about the wrath of Damatarian coming down on tomb robbers……yes, we never did get into that tomb did we?”</p><p></p><p>I concluded: </p><p></p><p>“No, we didn’t and if he built this place and more importantly, made that portal on the wall, his tomb may contain some fairly powerful things; it shouldn’t take us very long and we should have a look into it.”</p><p></p><p>Felix joined the conversation at this point: </p><p></p><p>“The dwarf has a point; we are getting quite low on reserves. That spell on Victor used up most of our diamonds and I haven’t used that many spells.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim nodded:</p><p></p><p>“All right; hopefully this shouldn’t take very long. We should be getting back to Seaquen with this news.”</p><p></p><p>We all moved to the door at the far end of the cave. John patted his pockets and then told us: </p><p></p><p>“I may have had a bunch of keys to this place but they were all taken from us when we were taken prisoner in Bresk, so we’ll just have to do this the old fashioned way.”</p><p></p><p>With that, he took out his picks and got to work on the lock. It couldn’t have been a very good lock as it took him no time at all to open. When the door opened, it revealed the room as a I remembered it; small, with its main feature being the large elaborate carving of a dragon’s head facing this door. Its gaping maw revealed an inky darkness that was not natural; I remembered that to enter into the tomb, one had to crawl through the dragon’s maw, in the dark and upon entering into an antechamber, the lava began to pour down on you, with the runes lighting up in warning. </p><p></p><p>There were also two doors, which in turn led into parallel corridors which in turn led to the far end of the room. </p><p></p><p>Longhelim looked at the room and then asked: </p><p></p><p>“Faden, do you have your spell which can create doorways into walls? Of course you do. So, that’s what we’ll do here; get into the side of the tomb, put a hole in the wall and avoid the lava.”</p><p></p><p>It sounded like a good, simple plan and we all nodded. We approached the door to our right and John opened it. Although we were still cautious as we moved up, we reached what we believed was a good point on the side wall and I prepared to cast my spell. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, then we suffered a very rude interruption as a gigantic humanoid creature with what I can only describe as the face of a toad appeared around the corner and literally spat a huge globule of flaming phlegm at us. It stuck to our clothes, faces and hair and burned…..oh how it burned; especially as most of us had lost our defence against fire in the fight against the monks and their scrolls. </p><p></p><p>None of us had time to react to this new development. Felix quickly cast a spell and a force of whirling blades tried to appear around it but it was far too quick and jumped backwards. The creature appeared again and this time a green beam shot out its hands to strike me squarely in the chest. I gurgled and staggered but managed to recover, I couldn’t fathom how I managed to resist that spell. However, I was still very badly injured and I was in the front line. I had to get out of there otherwise that thing, whatever it was, was going to fry me. </p><p></p><p>As I turned around the corner, I could hear shouting from Longhelim: </p><p></p><p>“What is that thing?”</p><p></p><p>I shouted back at him from around the corner: </p><p></p><p>“I’ve never seen anything like it before, but believe you me, I’ll recognize it again if I see it.”</p><p></p><p>John had joined me around the corner and tapped me with a wand that relieved the most immediate injuries. Then Felix and Victor also came around the corner looking quite burned; finally joined by Longhelim, who told us: </p><p></p><p>“Drudge is going to give something to think about. He’s already shot it once and his arrows certainly sank into it; oh, and it can also shoot beams of fire from his hands by the way. Faden, just what is that? Any ideas? Did you see it was carrying a sword as well?”</p><p></p><p>Grumpily I replied as Felix was casting powerful healing magic on me: </p><p></p><p>“No, I have no idea what it is although it obviously has an affinity with fire; and no, I didn’t really see that it had a sword; it wasn’t using it. More importantly, what are we going to do about it? We can just leave. I just wanted to look into the pyromancer’s tomb, not have to fight some giant, fire breathing toad!”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim replied: </p><p></p><p>“Well, we will have to do something about it if we can; otherwise, it will most likely surface and decide to make a nuisance of itself; and with Simeon and the others gone, it will very likely become a big nuisance.”</p><p></p><p>Drudge called out, still from the corridor: </p><p></p><p>“It’s gone! Disappeared into the room with the cells. It jumped into the lava chasm that’s in there.”</p><p></p><p>I grumped further: </p><p></p><p>“That’s annoying. We can’t chase after it in there. It’ll just sit in there and come out at its leisure. By the way, Drudge, did you see? Did it magically transport itself over there?”</p><p></p><p>“No. It just ran.”</p><p></p><p>I thought a bit and then cast a spell. As soon as I finished it, I said: </p><p></p><p>“I just put my unbreakable wall in the doorway. That should tell us if it can transport itself. If not, then at least we can investigate this tomb. Drudge, can you come back for a moment please?”</p><p></p><p>As the ranger reached me, I cast a spell which made him unseen: </p><p></p><p>“I hope it cannot pierce this illusion magic; can you just quickly glance at it and see what it’s doing please?”</p><p></p><p>The ranger ran back and spoke to John who relayed the following to us: </p><p></p><p>“It’s just lurking just on the edge of the lava chasm, getting ready to jump down it, I think.”</p><p></p><p>Turning to the others I said: </p><p></p><p>“Drudge, could you just keep an eye on it? All right; while it’s doing that, let’s have a look at this tomb.”</p><p></p><p>A moment later, I cast the spell which put a hole in the wall. It worked up to a point, as the spell stopped at a sheet of metal. I stared at it and then spoke to Victor: </p><p></p><p>“Victor, could you take that sword of yours and carve your way through this sheet please?”</p><p></p><p>Wordlessly, the warrior did so and then stood in the entrance, looking through.</p><p></p><p>As he did, I called out: </p><p></p><p>“What can you see?”</p><p></p><p>“Not a great deal. There is a small room with a stone slab with a sarcophagus on it. Urk…….”</p><p></p><p>This last sound came as a shower of flaming lava hit Victor as he was speaking. The warrior quickly exited. Felix moved in into the room, protected by his magic against fire. The lava gushed out of the ceiling onto the priest and even though he was protected, I could see that some of the heat overwhelmed the protection. Felix cast a spell which banished anything evil on himself and that put out the flame. </p><p></p><p>John, in the meantime, had crawled through the dragon’s maw at the front and into the antechamber of the tomb. He seemed to take an inordinate amount of time in there and then he stepped into the room, whereupon he was soaked in burning lava. Again, the rogue was protected by magic so it wasn’t as effective as it could have been. </p><p></p><p>“I am going to try opening the sarcophagus!” he called out. </p><p></p><p>“Ummm, Victor, could you give me a hand please? Very heavy this sarcophagus.”</p><p></p><p>The warrior entered and as he did so, I took the opportunity to case another magical wall on the door. Drudge was still out there, keeping an eye on our new friend, who had not changed his position. Moments later, both Victor and John stumbled out of the tomb, burning. John was waving a scroll frantically at Felix, who read it and the flame on the rogue ceased. </p><p></p><p>This left poor Victor, who was still burning stoically. Felix cast a spell and the flame ceased. I was very surprised; Felix had to cast his most powerful magic to get rid of the flames; it must have been a powerful curse indeed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cafu, post: 6598032, member: 6692807"] However, before I could tell everyone else what I remembered, Longinus continued to speak. “As I said previously, my brother sent me here to guard this portal. He said that his concern was Ragesian spies; I now suspect that this may have been only a half truth. I have had an opportunity to examine this elegant exercise in conjuration and abjuration and I have reached several troubling conclusions: one of them is that this portal would allow someone with a clairvoyance spell to magically discern the space in the air above the Lyceum. You have seen the destructive power of that device on my brother’s ship, have you not? The Eye, he calls it. It emits a powerful ray which is destructive, to put it mildly; a death ray, he likes to call it; he always had a flair for the dramatic. Anyway, as I was saying, using a clairvoyance spell, one would be able to see the ship above the Lyceum, aligned in the exact centre of the portal. For a time, this presents a unique opportunity. If, and I stress that only if you believe that my brother’s motives are other than what he has related to me, then follow this advice: Use the power of the Torch; I believe you are quite intimate with its abilities by now. Open the portal and guide the fiery essence of the plane at the Eye; that may disable it. I say “may” because it has never been tried before; but it should work. Be warned though, you will only get one opportunity to do this; if you get it wrong or you miss and you are right about my brother’s intentions, then the consequences for Seaquen may be devastating.” With that, Longinus handed a scroll over to Longhelim who in turn gave it to me: “What’s this?” I asked. The magical monk replied: “It is a scroll of clairvoyance.” I glanced at it: “Oh. Thank you.” It was a spell I could do anyway but having a scroll of it would be nice. After that, Longinus turned to the portal spoke as he walked towards it: “There is one last thing I must do. But remember, you say you have credible sources which paint my brother as a mad maniac intent on mass murder. You don’t have any actual proof. That is why I am not staying here; I cannot go against my brother and I charge you to act only when you are sure of his intentions.” I was about to reply that by the time we actually saw proof of his intentions ourselves, it would likely be too late when I felt a hand on my shoulder and Longhelim passed me with his finger on his lips. Longinus reached the portal and spent some time casting some magic; I watched his magical workings with interest and saw that he dissolved a powerful ward which unfortunately also dissolved some of the wards against the fire of the plane; as soon as he removed it, the temperature rose dramatically to quite an uncomfortable level. After this, he turned around one last time: “I cannot wish you luck and now I will take my leave from you.” With that, he cast a transport spell and vanished. I turned around to Longhelim: “How are we supposed to wait until Pilus proves his intentions for Seaquen? It’ll be too late by then.” Longhelim just smiled and said: “Oh, you’re quite right, Faden; but how does that old saying go? It is better to beg forgiveness……..Anyway, it’s irrelevant; Longinus as well as told us that he no longer believes his brother; otherwise he wouldn’t have given us the information or given us that scroll. ” He turned around to all of us and asked: “Do we trust Longinus? Faden, you have more knowledge than anyone in this field. Is that a portal? Will it work in the way he said? Can we blind the Eye?” I was still staring at the strange ring of magic, a little diminished now; it looked as if several strange creatures from the plane were beginning to approach, curious as to what had changed. Thankfully, the portal seemed to be holding. Speaking slowly, I replied: “It is a portal, an ancient one; as for doing what he said, to be frank, I have no idea; we have had so little time to research the Torch that it could do that but in reality we are groping in the dark here. Just in case, we should equip ourselves with spells that will protect us from fire; the portal could be dismissed and then it would get very hot.” John spoke up at this point: “He could be lying to us; I wasn’t able to tell but it is difficult to read someone with a mask on; think about it, though; you have just seen the six of us carve through his bodyguard in a few moments; you also see that the paladin is wielding the Torch of the Burning Sky, probably the mightiest artifact known for centuries; it is quite possible that you don’t feel particularly confident of defeating us so you lay a nice trap instead; spin a nice story about how we can neutralize your brother’s most powerful weapon, the one that will devastate the town so it cannot be ignored. Instead, as we use the Torch to open the portal, this whole place is flooded with lava. Neat, clean and deadly! Even if we survive, by the time we get out of here, the death ray will have done its job.” Longhelim grimaced: “You raise several good points there John; we’re going to have to think about this. Right, let’s go and greet the Masters at the Lyceum…..” I interrupted him: “Before we go, Longhelim, do you remember what happened here in the prison? We met the Ragesian team who were supporting Lee Sidoneth, fought them, found the cells with that strange little menhir which acted as a teleport trap and found the elf and the human. What were their names again? Oh, yes, Faquaniel and Teymour; they told us some daft story about being an apprentice mage and a volunteer for the Resistance; I think you believed them for about five seconds but they had had a very bad time from the Ragesian torturer and we let them go. I think the reasoning at the time was that there were so many spies in Seaquen at the time that two more were going to make little difference. They were tripping over each other as it was anyway……” Longhelim broke into my monologue: “Some of this I remember and some of it not so much but is there a point to all of this?” I blurted out: “Yes! Damatarian!” Everyone looked puzzled. “Who?” asked Longhelim. “Damatarian! He was a powerful pyromancer who originally owned this villa, before it sank partway into the sea. He’s also the one who probably performed the shenanigans on that wall.” I pointed over my shoulder behind me with my thumb. “Anyway, his tomb is behind those doors there. Don’t you remember? We tried to get into but every time we tried a bucketful of lava fell on us; or on John actually……” John grimaced and then joined in: “Yes, it’s coming back to me now. There were some runes in that tomb as well; something about the wrath of Damatarian coming down on tomb robbers……yes, we never did get into that tomb did we?” I concluded: “No, we didn’t and if he built this place and more importantly, made that portal on the wall, his tomb may contain some fairly powerful things; it shouldn’t take us very long and we should have a look into it.” Felix joined the conversation at this point: “The dwarf has a point; we are getting quite low on reserves. That spell on Victor used up most of our diamonds and I haven’t used that many spells.” Longhelim nodded: “All right; hopefully this shouldn’t take very long. We should be getting back to Seaquen with this news.” We all moved to the door at the far end of the cave. John patted his pockets and then told us: “I may have had a bunch of keys to this place but they were all taken from us when we were taken prisoner in Bresk, so we’ll just have to do this the old fashioned way.” With that, he took out his picks and got to work on the lock. It couldn’t have been a very good lock as it took him no time at all to open. When the door opened, it revealed the room as a I remembered it; small, with its main feature being the large elaborate carving of a dragon’s head facing this door. Its gaping maw revealed an inky darkness that was not natural; I remembered that to enter into the tomb, one had to crawl through the dragon’s maw, in the dark and upon entering into an antechamber, the lava began to pour down on you, with the runes lighting up in warning. There were also two doors, which in turn led into parallel corridors which in turn led to the far end of the room. Longhelim looked at the room and then asked: “Faden, do you have your spell which can create doorways into walls? Of course you do. So, that’s what we’ll do here; get into the side of the tomb, put a hole in the wall and avoid the lava.” It sounded like a good, simple plan and we all nodded. We approached the door to our right and John opened it. Although we were still cautious as we moved up, we reached what we believed was a good point on the side wall and I prepared to cast my spell. Unfortunately, then we suffered a very rude interruption as a gigantic humanoid creature with what I can only describe as the face of a toad appeared around the corner and literally spat a huge globule of flaming phlegm at us. It stuck to our clothes, faces and hair and burned…..oh how it burned; especially as most of us had lost our defence against fire in the fight against the monks and their scrolls. None of us had time to react to this new development. Felix quickly cast a spell and a force of whirling blades tried to appear around it but it was far too quick and jumped backwards. The creature appeared again and this time a green beam shot out its hands to strike me squarely in the chest. I gurgled and staggered but managed to recover, I couldn’t fathom how I managed to resist that spell. However, I was still very badly injured and I was in the front line. I had to get out of there otherwise that thing, whatever it was, was going to fry me. As I turned around the corner, I could hear shouting from Longhelim: “What is that thing?” I shouted back at him from around the corner: “I’ve never seen anything like it before, but believe you me, I’ll recognize it again if I see it.” John had joined me around the corner and tapped me with a wand that relieved the most immediate injuries. Then Felix and Victor also came around the corner looking quite burned; finally joined by Longhelim, who told us: “Drudge is going to give something to think about. He’s already shot it once and his arrows certainly sank into it; oh, and it can also shoot beams of fire from his hands by the way. Faden, just what is that? Any ideas? Did you see it was carrying a sword as well?” Grumpily I replied as Felix was casting powerful healing magic on me: “No, I have no idea what it is although it obviously has an affinity with fire; and no, I didn’t really see that it had a sword; it wasn’t using it. More importantly, what are we going to do about it? We can just leave. I just wanted to look into the pyromancer’s tomb, not have to fight some giant, fire breathing toad!” Longhelim replied: “Well, we will have to do something about it if we can; otherwise, it will most likely surface and decide to make a nuisance of itself; and with Simeon and the others gone, it will very likely become a big nuisance.” Drudge called out, still from the corridor: “It’s gone! Disappeared into the room with the cells. It jumped into the lava chasm that’s in there.” I grumped further: “That’s annoying. We can’t chase after it in there. It’ll just sit in there and come out at its leisure. By the way, Drudge, did you see? Did it magically transport itself over there?” “No. It just ran.” I thought a bit and then cast a spell. As soon as I finished it, I said: “I just put my unbreakable wall in the doorway. That should tell us if it can transport itself. If not, then at least we can investigate this tomb. Drudge, can you come back for a moment please?” As the ranger reached me, I cast a spell which made him unseen: “I hope it cannot pierce this illusion magic; can you just quickly glance at it and see what it’s doing please?” The ranger ran back and spoke to John who relayed the following to us: “It’s just lurking just on the edge of the lava chasm, getting ready to jump down it, I think.” Turning to the others I said: “Drudge, could you just keep an eye on it? All right; while it’s doing that, let’s have a look at this tomb.” A moment later, I cast the spell which put a hole in the wall. It worked up to a point, as the spell stopped at a sheet of metal. I stared at it and then spoke to Victor: “Victor, could you take that sword of yours and carve your way through this sheet please?” Wordlessly, the warrior did so and then stood in the entrance, looking through. As he did, I called out: “What can you see?” “Not a great deal. There is a small room with a stone slab with a sarcophagus on it. Urk…….” This last sound came as a shower of flaming lava hit Victor as he was speaking. The warrior quickly exited. Felix moved in into the room, protected by his magic against fire. The lava gushed out of the ceiling onto the priest and even though he was protected, I could see that some of the heat overwhelmed the protection. Felix cast a spell which banished anything evil on himself and that put out the flame. John, in the meantime, had crawled through the dragon’s maw at the front and into the antechamber of the tomb. He seemed to take an inordinate amount of time in there and then he stepped into the room, whereupon he was soaked in burning lava. Again, the rogue was protected by magic so it wasn’t as effective as it could have been. “I am going to try opening the sarcophagus!” he called out. “Ummm, Victor, could you give me a hand please? Very heavy this sarcophagus.” The warrior entered and as he did so, I took the opportunity to case another magical wall on the door. Drudge was still out there, keeping an eye on our new friend, who had not changed his position. Moments later, both Victor and John stumbled out of the tomb, burning. John was waving a scroll frantically at Felix, who read it and the flame on the rogue ceased. This left poor Victor, who was still burning stoically. Felix cast a spell and the flame ceased. I was very surprised; Felix had to cast his most powerful magic to get rid of the flames; it must have been a powerful curse indeed. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Story Hour
The Gate Pass Irregulars: A War of the Burning Sky Campaign
Top