CLOSED! Rhun's Greyhawk ALPHA Game (ToEE)

[Boddynock]

"Right, the western door it is. Still, let's not forget that Dara's standing watch over the staircase. Let's not get too far from her."

Coraine doesn't want to see the warrior woman overwhelmed by a sudden sortie from below.

 

[Rhun]

Day 7, Mid Afternoon - Temple of Elemental Evil

The learned Marco, knowing something about the Cult of Elemental Evil, is fairly confident that he has correctly identified the sub-cults to which the robes belong: Scarlet for Fire, White for Air, Brown for Earth, and Green for Water.

The robes thus identified, Two Axe rolls the brown and green ones up and stuffs them in his pack, in case they might prove useful at a latter date.

The upper works explored, the group is left to decide how to proceed below. At Two Axe's suggestion, the stairway in the western vestry is chosen, and your party assembles there. Ragnok and Two Axe prepare to lead the way down, followed by Coraine and Dara. Verdis and Marco come next, with Otto bringing up the rear.


OOC: Is that marching order alright for 10' wide passages? Who bears what light sources? Also, I'm being fairly arbitrary with the time...guessing as to how long you've spent exploring and such.

 

[Thanee]

Dara

When they have finished the exploration of the ground level of the temple, Dara joins the others again, so they can proceed downwards. She holds her torch in the left hand, while her falchion rests in the sheath on her back.

 

[Scotley]

Verdis

Verdis takes his place and activates a sunrod, placing his trusty crossbow on his shoulder for now.

 

[Manzanita]

OOC: Is that marching order alright for 10' wide passages? Who bears what light sources? Also, I'm being fairly arbitrary with the time...guessing as to how long you've spent exploring and such.

OOC: Order sounds good.

 

[Rhun]

With the light of Dara's everburning torch supplemented by Verdis' sunrod, you have plenty of light to guide your way into the dungeons below the Temple proper. After descending down a great many steps, you enter a ten foot wide hallway. The hall has a gothic arch to it, peaking some 17' above the floor. Sconces holding unlit torches line the walls in alternating ten-foot intervals; left, right, left, right.

This walls of this particular passage are plastered and painted, showing scenes of despicable evil and the glory of the Temple.

The corridor forks after about thirty feet. It continues on to the east, where it is plainly obviously that it slopes down deeper into the earth. The passage north runs beyond the reach of your light, and to the south it looks as if the corridor turns to another passage paralleling the one you are currently in.



Map:

 

[Thanee]

Dara

“We should check the corridors at the sides first. What do you say?”

 

[Rhun]

Ragnok looks down each corridor, his dwarven eyes giving him the ability to see beyond the reach of the light. "Looks like a four way fork t' the north. The passage t' the east runs straight beyond me sight."

 

[Scotley]

Verdis

As he gazes upon the scenes on the wall, Verdis almost regrets lighting the sunrod. He focuses on the empty corridor rather than the horrible pictures. "Yes, lets check the sides first."

 

[Boddynock]

Coraine views yet another expanse of depraved wall art with something approaching scorn.

"Have you noticed how unrelenting evil so rapidly becomes boring?" he asks. It's not clear if he is, indeed, bored, or rather is trying to bolster his confidence.

In response to Ragnok's reporting of the side passages he says, "Let's check out the eastern passageway first. The simpler the better."