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Vonval takes a moment to make a short mental prayer to his patron. Forgive your loyal servant for doubting you, oh mighty Khyber. With this done, Vonval can't help but smile as the creature get seriously stuck by his alchemical solution and Ulzim's spells.
"Now! Take it down while it is vulnerable, we shall prevail." Taking his own advice, the pale dwarf holds his morningstar in his shield hand while once again grabing his holy symbol with his right hand. He invokes his God. "Great Khyber, you granted me your boon, now grant me your wrath!" A dark shadowy aura suddenly appears around Vonval's hand and he then boldly walks forward and touches the dancer.
Ulzim, feeling now more confident and hence more smug, ever-so-casually takes a wand from its place in his beltpouch. Though he was fairly sure the dwarves would finish killing the odd creature (academy curiosity would wait until it was safely neutralized), it never hurt to have a handy magic missile as a back-up.
OOC: Ulzim will take out his wand of magic missile and if the creature is not dead on his turn, fires off a shot. Then he wants to go up to it to get a closer look.
Karienna stayed in the doorway, watching almost curiously as the dwarves converged on the now-immobile dancing-blade thing. She was more interested in the strange arrangement of blocks- but she wasn't about to start investigating while visible danger remained...
As you surround the helpless dancer, now glued to the floor, Brorgar looks up startled, and calls out “Get clear, the stone is rotten…” Whatever else he had to say is lost as an ominous grating fills the room, as though of stone sliding against stone. This omen lasts only for a split second, before the floor collapses under you.
As the darkness opens up below you, each of those in the room try to dive clear of the growing hole. Your sudden movement causes more of the blocks to collapse into the waiting darkness. As you watch the edge sail past your desperately outstretched arms, you hear, incongruously, the sounds of a great splashing. Your falling is met by the rising water displaced by the sudden drop of the room, drenching you and pushing you to the side.
From where Karienna and Moonlight Sorrow stand they see the plume of water and hear the groaning and cursing of dwarves and gnome as they pick themselves up and look around.
The Fallen:
You find yourself in a long tunnel, the floor covered with water up to your knees, though the water level seems to be falling on this side of the fallen blocks, which seem to completely block the tube to just above a dwarves’ height. A Knowledge: Dwarf, Nature, or Dungeoneering DC 15 or Profession Miner Check DC 10 Reveals:
This is a lava tube, a place where the molten “blood” of Khyber once overflowed into the lands of Eberron, but that portion of the blood exposed to the light of Siberys quickly cooled leaving the hot inner blood still flowing to form these caves.
The walls seem to be smooth and glossy black, the ceiling is filled with stalactites. The light is very poor, from the hole you fell through, but that poses no problem for the dwarves. The tunnel continues onward as long as you can see, though it appears to branch just at the edge of the dwarves vision. The water is flowing down the tunnel away from you, and is now definitely falling now only covering your calves. Wisdom Check DC 15 (Dwarves get +2):
Even underground the water should be flowing away from the mountain peaks, but the water is definitely flowing toward the mountains. There must be a large space under the mountain to accommodate all this water.
The ceiling is about eight feet above you.
There is no sign of the deadly dancer, though there is a lot of jumbled stone and rubble and still nearly a foot of water on the floor of this tunnel.
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Brorgar, Revek, Ulzim, and Vonval each take 2 points subdual damage from the fall.
Brorgar (Male Dwarf Tank 3) -- AC: 23; HP 34/34 (32); Init: 14
"Get clear, the stone is rotten…" is muffled out as Brorgar tumbles into the drenching depths below.
As he stands up, shaking off water, the dwarf he smiles, like a little kid at his birthday. He looks to Vonal and then to Revek smiling. He then he pats Revek on the shoulder and says with a little gusto
"Now we're getting somewhere. What say you to this lad?
We should find this blade-dancer thing for going to much further otherwise the little bugger may ambush us."
Brorgar pulls out his rope/grapple and Everbright Torch, puts it in a bag, and tosses it up and out of the hole.
To Karienna he whisper-yells "Get yer self ready to come on down. Watch yer self lass."
"Great Khyber!" Vonval yells out before falling down. Surprised and angry at himself for not detecting the faulty floor, he pushes a few loose stones and is quick to get back on his feet. His frown dissappear as he takes notice of his surrounding. "I've seen such tunnels before. This is a lava tube. In ages past, the holy blood of Khyber flowed here. This might be it ! This could lead deeper into Khyber." It has to be the first time the others see what might be excitement coming from usually grim Vonval.
FreeXenon said:
"We should find this blade-dancer thing for going to much further otherwise the little bugger may ambush us."
And just to bug you, here's a few questions:
Is Vonval still holding the charge of Inflict light wounds ? Or did he even get to cast it at all ?
Are we in the middle of a tunnel (ie we can go two ways, up or down) ? Or does the tunnel start here ?
How far did we fall ? Probably 10 ft. or so if I go with the fall damage.[/SBLOCK]
Is Vonval still holding the charge of Inflict light wounds ? Or did he even get to cast it at all ?
I'll leave this up to you. It was the combined weight of the four players plus the now immobile dancer that caused the tunnel roof to collapse taking the temple floor with it. As such it took place at the end of the round. So, either you walked up then cast, in which case you haven't cast yet, or you cast and then walked up, in which case you probably did cast and would still be holding the charge.
Are we in the middle of a tunnel (ie we can go two ways, up or down) ? Or does the tunnel start here ?
You are in the middle of the tunnel, however you have fallen downslope of the blocks which combined with the tunnel ceiling have created a sort of dam behind you. Easily scalable but filling the tunnel with water behind you.
How far did we fall ? Probably 10 ft. or so if I go with the fall damage.
About 12 feet last 3 feet were water, plus I lessened the damage on account of the back splash from the blocks. (Also the reason you didn't fall on the blocks themselves and get lethal damage.
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Vonval Action Resolution:
As you activate your earth sense, you sense the presence of your companions and one other creature that would be in the middle of the pile of stones, the life which you sense flairs briefly and then is gone.
Karienna peered down into the hole, shining her Everbright lantern across the scene below. She took great care not o approach the crumbling rim too closely- she had no wish to undertake such an uncontrolled tumble. "I don't know if that is the best plan. Do we really want to start exploring down there, when we haven't finished this part of the sight? And, more to the point, don't you think we out to fish you lot out of there before this crude temporary dam collapses under all the water building up behind it? If we're down in that tunnel, we could be crushed by the rubble or swept away..."
Brorgar (Male Dwarf Tank 3) -- AC: 23; HP 34/34 (32); Init: 14
He whisoer-yells again "Where's your sense of adventure, lass? Down here is where the shards are. Heh, heh."
Brorgar shrugs his shoulders.
"We should probably let the water loose. If there is someone down there they will know something is awry due to the loss of the water flow, plus this dancer-thing is probably under there. I wouldn't mind making sure it has had its last dance."
