Adventures in Cormyr - The Doorway from Everywhere.

[Rhun]

Thodan considers Nira's question. "I suggest we camp here for the night, and recover from the battle, before we tempt Fate by pushing on."

 

[Lord_Raven88]

OOC: I take it that you're now all in the main portal room! For some reason I thought you were just walking over to the portal in the stonelands. I'll post a map and some descrivtive text with the two new players, so they can get familar with the layout.

 

[Lord_Raven88]

Speaking the command words to activate the portal the groups waits while the back of the pentagonal archway changes colour slightly to a lighter shade of gray. The air around the portal has a peculiar odour, like that after a lightning bolt spell has been cast, and the temperature feels like it has dropped a bit. After a few seconds the archway becomes illuminated with foggy light, and the back wall disappears and is now a pentagonal archway.

Peering thru the archway, you see a large chamber beyond that opens to the sky. A wall stretches away from your immediate right, beyond the doorway. And another wall stands opposite you about 60-70 feet away. Along both walls, you can see other pentagonal archways just like this one, four per wall. The rooms floor is filthy with assorted debris and various stains.

As you step thru the portal and look around the room you notice that each of the portals have a number above them. The portal you stepped thru is numbered 1.



[sblock=Portals]Below are the portals that you have explored and their destinations

1. Stonelands Ruins
2. Desert
3. Forest (Big Plant Monster)
4. Mountains (Orcs)
5. Unknown
6. Unknown
7. Unknown
8. Currently Inactive
9. Unknown
10. Currently Inactive
11. Currently Inactive
12. Currently Inactive
13. Currently Inactive
14. Currently Inactive
15. Currently Inactive
16. Currently Inactive

[/sblock]

 

[Legildur]

Dowkan stares for a few moments as he makes the transition. "Now this could be useful," he says, pondering the possibilities. "But what was our friend doing here?" he asks, nodding his head towards the secured LG.

 

[Rhun]

"Too useful," says Thodan, movine cautiously in the room, weary of winged threats. Memories of the mutant griffin that had previously attacked them were still fresh on the cleric's mind. "The orcs have been using this chamber and these portals to raid into Cormyr. Their main army lies that way..." Thodan points to the portal laying toppled upon the ground. "Glandred and I were forced to push it over, or we would have been swarmed by hundreds of the creatures."

 

[Legildur]

Dowkan harrumphs, but doesn't criticize the decision. "What do we do now?"

 

[Rhun]

"I say we rest, regain our strength. On the 'morrow, we can continue investigating the rest of the portals."

 

[Legildur]

"Does one of them portals lead back to Arabel?" Dowkan asks. "Or maybe the Stonelands portal? That would save us having to drag his sorry butt back on foot," he adds, gesturing towards LG.

 

[Rhun]

"Not that we know of," answers Thodan. "We've only investigated four of the portals. This one, obviously leads back to the ruins in the Stonelands. The next leads to a desert, and the next to the depths of a dark forest. We believe it may be the High Forest. We fought a huge plant beast their our last time through." The cleric shrugs and again indicates the toppled portal. "By toppling that gate, we've stopped the orc raids. But we must check out the other portals, and ensure the orcs do not have another way of transporting themselves here."

 

[Lord_Raven88]

Making yourself comfortable (and your prisoner secure) you settle down for the night to prepare yourselves for a busy day tomorrow. Despite your wariness in sleeping in such a place you have an uneventful if chilly nights sleep and wake refreshed on the morrow, ready to continue your exploration of the portal network.

[sblock=Healing]I'll assume that the divine casters expended their spells to heal those who're injured. Coupled with a restful nights sleep lets assume that everyone is at full health. [/sblock]