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<blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 2369945" data-attributes="member: 14451"><p><strong>Session 26 Module the Tomb of Horrors</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Khael, Delvina, Shump, Oaklyn and Stone Cracker made their way into a large sixty-foot by forty-foot room that appeared to be a laboratory. It appeared to be a large preparation chamber of some type. Every wall was lined with numerous shelves; each was filled with odds and ends, small clay jars, vials, coffers, etc. The dust that covered all of the shelves was thick and fell away in chunks when they took a closer examination of the contents of the shelves. The room also held a large desk and stool, two workbenches and two mummy preparation tables. Clay pots and urns littered the floor and bits of dried herbs, bone, skulls and the like were haphazardly strewn about the room.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">They spent hours searching through the shear volume of crap in the room, but only one item proved useful to them. In the bottom of one of the large vats was a half of a golden key. Khael had tried to get the key by poking the end of his staff in the pool, but he pulled it out when the end of the staff started to dissolve from a slow acting acid. He cast a prayer to his God Pelor and his God granted him protection from the acid and the half of the key was gained.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The other half of the golden key was in yet another vat, hidden under a gray ochre jelly. Delvina, who had experience with such creatures in the past, used a combination of divine energy and flame to kill the creature. Once done, they joined the two halves into one golden key.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Wanting to end this madness as quickly as possible, they left the room by its only exit and followed a corridor, down a set of stairs and around a corner. A twenty-foot pit was before them, ten feet deep. It appeared to easy and they took no chances with trying to crawl down into the pit, instead, Oaklyn made a wall of Force that covered the pit and they crossed in relative safety. It was also Oaklyn, with his keen elven eyes, that noticed the secret passage in the hallway just on the other side of the pit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">“So many secret passages in this tomb,” commented Oaklyn, “I wonder if we have found them all?”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">They all filed into the next room, which was filled wall to wall with two giant tapestries. Four rotting sofas, several throne-like chairs, vases, urns and all manner of braziers all jumbled together. The room was in disrepair from centuries of neglect, the only things that seemed to be spared the ravages of time was the two tapestries. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">“No one move,” cautioned Oaklyn, “I’ll check things out.” Oaklyn moved into the thirty foot square room and immediately the floor shifted below his feet. No wonder the room was a mess; the floor seemed to be built on giant rollers and bearings. Every move he made shifted the floor. He stepped forward, dodging the mess on the floor and made his way to the tapestry on the western wall. He waited a moment to balance himself and then with his bow he pulled back the tapestry ever so slowly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">He didn’t need his elven sight to see the passageway beyond. He began to motion for the others to come when he lost his balance and the room shifted again and in order to hold his balance he instinctively reached for the nearest thing he could grab onto, the tapestry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">His life flashed before his eyes as the tapestry covered him. He could recall every moment of his long life in that split second of time that it took for the tapestry to fall on him. When the tapestry came down upon him and touched his skin his world ended. His skin turned green and burned and then pooled into a greenish acidy blob. He was now mindless ooze beyond the help of his comrades. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">* * *</p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px"></p><p>On a plane, far from the Prime, Acererak let loose a slight smile as yet one more fell to the Horrors of the Tomb.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DM-Rocco, post: 2369945, member: 14451"] [b]Session 26 Module the Tomb of Horrors[/b] [size=2]Khael, Delvina, Shump, Oaklyn and Stone Cracker made their way into a large sixty-foot by forty-foot room that appeared to be a laboratory. It appeared to be a large preparation chamber of some type. Every wall was lined with numerous shelves; each was filled with odds and ends, small clay jars, vials, coffers, etc. The dust that covered all of the shelves was thick and fell away in chunks when they took a closer examination of the contents of the shelves. The room also held a large desk and stool, two workbenches and two mummy preparation tables. Clay pots and urns littered the floor and bits of dried herbs, bone, skulls and the like were haphazardly strewn about the room. They spent hours searching through the shear volume of crap in the room, but only one item proved useful to them. In the bottom of one of the large vats was a half of a golden key. Khael had tried to get the key by poking the end of his staff in the pool, but he pulled it out when the end of the staff started to dissolve from a slow acting acid. He cast a prayer to his God Pelor and his God granted him protection from the acid and the half of the key was gained. The other half of the golden key was in yet another vat, hidden under a gray ochre jelly. Delvina, who had experience with such creatures in the past, used a combination of divine energy and flame to kill the creature. Once done, they joined the two halves into one golden key. Wanting to end this madness as quickly as possible, they left the room by its only exit and followed a corridor, down a set of stairs and around a corner. A twenty-foot pit was before them, ten feet deep. It appeared to easy and they took no chances with trying to crawl down into the pit, instead, Oaklyn made a wall of Force that covered the pit and they crossed in relative safety. It was also Oaklyn, with his keen elven eyes, that noticed the secret passage in the hallway just on the other side of the pit. “So many secret passages in this tomb,” commented Oaklyn, “I wonder if we have found them all?” They all filed into the next room, which was filled wall to wall with two giant tapestries. Four rotting sofas, several throne-like chairs, vases, urns and all manner of braziers all jumbled together. The room was in disrepair from centuries of neglect, the only things that seemed to be spared the ravages of time was the two tapestries. “No one move,” cautioned Oaklyn, “I’ll check things out.” Oaklyn moved into the thirty foot square room and immediately the floor shifted below his feet. No wonder the room was a mess; the floor seemed to be built on giant rollers and bearings. Every move he made shifted the floor. He stepped forward, dodging the mess on the floor and made his way to the tapestry on the western wall. He waited a moment to balance himself and then with his bow he pulled back the tapestry ever so slowly. He didn’t need his elven sight to see the passageway beyond. He began to motion for the others to come when he lost his balance and the room shifted again and in order to hold his balance he instinctively reached for the nearest thing he could grab onto, the tapestry. His life flashed before his eyes as the tapestry covered him. He could recall every moment of his long life in that split second of time that it took for the tapestry to fall on him. When the tapestry came down upon him and touched his skin his world ended. His skin turned green and burned and then pooled into a greenish acidy blob. He was now mindless ooze beyond the help of his comrades. [center]* * * [/center] On a plane, far from the Prime, Acererak let loose a slight smile as yet one more fell to the Horrors of the Tomb. [/size] [/QUOTE]
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