Eyes Of The Lich Queen

[DEFCON 1]

While the others in the group remain out on the portico to either watch Brother Donovan examining the well, or keeping their eyes out for anyone out on the temple grounds... Rogan moves silently down the lefthand hallway just a bit, with Ari and Jina following slightly behind as back-up.

When Rogan glances down the hallway, he sees that it's maybe about 40 feet long and opens up into a larger room to the right. There is also a small hallway that branches off from it about 15 feet ahead. The growling is definitely coming from the larger room at the end of the corridor around the corner.

Encounter A6 - Main Hall

 

[Mista Collins]

Reporting back to the others at the well, Rogan offers up his suggestions. "There is obviously an angry beast or animal in a chamber to our left once we enter the temple proper. It may be better if we explore the right side and not disturb whatever is making that noise any further."

"Any updates on this well here?" Rogan says as he peers down it once more. "Give me a rope and I can climb down there and examine it a bit further, using the slight knowledge I have in architecture to determine if it is more than a well. Either way, I think a decision needs to be made."

 

[stonegod]

"Right. The well is a dead end. If it has a secret, lizards don't really climb better than we do."

 

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, human cleric

Reporting back to the others at the well, Rogan offers up his suggestions. "There is obviously an angry beast or animal in a chamber to our left once we enter the temple proper. It may be better if we explore the right side and not disturb whatever is making that noise any further."

"Seems an agry beastie might make a good guard for what we're after," Donovan suggests, giving up on the well. "But you're right; no point picking a fight if we have other options." he looks out into the hills they just left. "But we should hurry. There's still at least two lizards missing. No telling what trouble they might make or bring back with them."

 

[DEFCON 1]

With the decision made to skip the left-hand corridor and explore the right side of the temple first, the group begins moving into the main hall that runs from the portico entrance to the back wall of the temple, bisecting the structure. The ceiling rises full 20 feet above a central row of columns, each one encircled with scrawling text.

More torches bounce light off the walls, and shafts of moonlight lance down from gaps in the stone roof above, illuminating a bas-relief of a skeletal dragon sculpted into the wall at the end of the hallway. The dragon is shown in victorious battle against a horde of demons, rising like a swarm of locusts from the caldera of a raging volcano.

[sblock=Khalia, Jina, Rogan]You each Spot that the scrawling text on the columns are Draconic inscriptions.[/sblock]
[sblock=Jango]Your elven eyes pick up the outline of a door-shape in the bricks on the right side of the main hall exactly opposite of the left-hand corridor, directly in front of where you currently are standing.[/sblock]
[sblock=Ari, Aern, Horatio]As you advance through the main hall to the far end towards the bas-relief high on the wall, you each hear a low, gutteral chant echo softly up from the right-hand corridor.[/sblock]

Encounter A6 - Main Hall

 

[drothgery]

[sblock=Khalia, Jina, Rogan]You each Spot that the scrawling text on the columns are Draconic inscriptions.[/sblock]

Khalia steps closer to the nearest column, attempting to read the inscriptions.

[sblock=OOC]
Because, well, she can read Draconic, and has +13 Decipher Script if it's something else written in Draconic script.
[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

"Psst" whispers Jango, making a sign to the others to come back to the entrance. Jango starts to pass his hand on the wall, drawing a door. "You miss another way." He put his ears on the wall and start to listen what he hear on the other side.

 

[Mista Collins]

Standing next to Khalia, Rogan tries to read the inscriptions on the bas relief.

 

[stonegod]

Ari puts up a hand to signal a stop. Very quietly and close to the group, he whispers, "Something talking... chanting... up there." He indicates the right-hand corridor.

 

[drothgery]

Trusting the monster hunter somewhat, Khalia stops when Ari makes his signal.