Clutches of Evil - IC: Chapter One

[Nonlethal Force]

ROUND TWO CONTINUED:

Bahruul does swing again and this time the axe finds home. The increased strength allows the axe to bite deep. The little thief howls a bitter curse. "You'll not get through this easily, dogface!"

The thief replies to Byntrou as he yells out, "Not while I still have the energy to slip through you!"

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[jkason]

Byntrou, sorcerous barbarian

"It's like not a one of them was born with a brain," Byn mutters at the thief's defiance. He sets himself to block any attempt to slip past.

[sblock=OOC]Same as last round, without the movement. Hold and take AOO if the halfling makes it past the warriors.[/sblock]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

END OF COMBAT:

Pwent lashes out with a vicious strike and connects against the thief, who had difficulty recovering from Bahruul's strike. The thief falls backwards against the wall and slowly slides to the ground. It appears that while Bahruul has severely cut into the body, Pwent has now scrambled the thief's mind.

For inside the room, now that the light sources are better able to spread out around the walls, it is possible to notice that in the middle of the right wall, the left wall, and the wall opposite the door there is a small hole. The holes look to be uniform in size and roughly an inch in diameter. From the current location of the party, this is all that can be made out of the holes.

Besides the holes, the empty niches where it appears statues once stood, and a three foot diameter circle engraved in the very center of the room, the room looks completely normal. The entire room (including floor and ceiling) appears to be hewn rock. It appears to have been finely crafted in its day, although there are a few corners now that are chipping away. The rock appears as though it may be dwarven in make, but that is hard for any in the party to determine for sure.

 

[unleashed]

Keryth, Male Drakontos Cleric

“You’re not wrong Byntrou, but I wonder if their stance it’s out of a sense of true loyalty or if it’s fear of what their employer might do should they surrender and reveal something.”

With the thief down Keryth checks on the fresh wounds inflicted by the rascals bolts, assuming he finds no serious wounds he begins his search of the right wall taking special care when he comes near the hole in the middle of the wall.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Keryth:

[Sblock]Looking at Byntrou reveals he is in pretty decent health. (28/30 HP)

As Keryth approaches the hole, it appears that the hole goes about 2 1/2 inches into the wall. Beyond that the holes stops. The hole does not get any more wide or narrow.[/Sblock]

 

[unleashed]

Keryth, Male Drakontos Cleric

“Hmm, looks as if the holes may be meant to hold something as they don’t go far into the wall...” Keryth calls.

OOC
[SBLOCK]I thought Destiny had been struck too.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Keryth:

[Sblock]Oops. I forgot about my own NPC. Destiny is also in reasonably good health - for a caster/psion (14/19)[/Sblock]

 

[jkason]

Byntrou, sorcerous barbarian

Byntrou takes the cloak from the halfling's body and throws it to Destiny. "I believe you said this was yours?" Remembering the missing "body" in the hall, he checks the halfling for a pulse before searching his body to see what else--belonging to the party or not--he might have on him.

To Keryth he wonders aloud, "The symmetry of the room has me thinking that whatever might go into or come from those holes is meant to focus on whatever goes in the central circle. But since we don't know what that is, and given our previous ... mishap with trick floors, I'm not sure I'm willing to move to the center to look for clues on that score."

 

[unleashed]

Keryth, Male Drakontos Cleric

“I’m sure we’ll be able to puzzle out what’s supposed to go there, assuming we find any of the pieces removed from this room of course,” Keryth replies, ducking under the hole just in case he’s incorrect as he continues to search along the wall. “Though whatever the purpose of the holes there are only three of them, so symmetry may mean little...”

 

[magic_gathering2001]

Pwent decides that a good sized rock should set off any trap in the center and looks around for one.