Eyes Of The Lich Queen

[Mista Collins]

With a chuckle Rogan smiles at Donovan. "Yes, I could probably find a way to open it. I was just curious if Jango came across a way to open when he found the door."

Rogan makes his way over to the door Jango has detected and carefully searches around it for any signs of danger. Once he determines it is safe, Rogan will then look for a means to open it.

 

[Velmont]

"Not yet... that's what I'm doing presently. I only saw that unusual and too straigth cavity in the wall." he tells, showing teh detail that has catch his attetnion at first.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Rogan moves from the northern corridor back down to join Jango in front of the stone wall. As soon as he arrives, and Jango steps to the side to allow him access to the wall, both men feel the floor drop ever-so-slightly. All of a sudden, the stone door in the wall opens silently inwards, and both Jango and Rogan see a narrow secret passageway ahead of them. Apparently there was a pressure plate in the floor that both men's weight released.

When Rogan takes a quick glance down the passage, it is hard to make out because of the lack of a lightsource within... but from hallway spillover he barely makes out the corridor ending in what looks to be a dead end and/or perhaps the back of another door.

Encounter A6 - Main Hall

 

[Velmont]

"We go that way?" asks Jango.

 

[Mista Collins]

"We go that way?" asks Jango.

With a nod, Rogan smiles "It seems our best option. I wonder, though, if this door will close if we step off the pressure plate?"

Rogan takes a step back to see if the door closes, and if so, how quickly.

 

[Velmont]

Jango will quickly look if there is a way to open teh door from teh other side (pressure plate or anything else...)

 

[DEFCON 1]

When Rogan steps back and off the pressure plate (leaving only Jango there), the door swings closed very quickly and very quietly. Obviously it requires more weight than just the young elf boy to open it... but as the elf couldn't weigh more than probably 130 pounds, you don't know if a heavier single person could open it on his own. When Jango looks on the other side of the doorway, he suspects that the floor holds the same sort of pressure plate, so the door could open from either direction if enough weight was put on it.

You also notice that the door opens fast enough that a person walking to up to it could pass through the threshold without having to slow down. A person running would have to wait a beat for the door to swing open, but if they were moving at a normal clip, it would not hinder their progress at all.

[sblock=Ari]As you are still standing at the end of the main hall while Rogan and Jango are futzing with the secret door at the front, your eyes and ears catch two things from down the hallway. First, you hear a deep grunt or two from someone or something that is not the person chanting. Almost like the sound of boredom or of a sigh, but very much a vocal bass.

When you glance down the hallway, you then see a rather large shadow get cast on the northern wall down at the end where the chamber is. It's hard to tell if the shadow is big because the person/thing making it is big or if it's just the person/thing is further away from the lightsource that is casting it... but as the shadow is moving, the person/thing casting it definitely is mobile and has just moved in front of the lightsource (since the shadow hadn't been there previously).

You cannot tell if the grunts and the shadow are related.[/sblock]
[sblock=Khalia, Horatio]Both you you please roll Spot checks for yourselves (using ww.invisiblecastle.com).

When you post your results, if you also mention in the post something specific you are glancing at or a specific direction/location you are looking, you will get a +5 to your roll if it is the same thing I'm having you make your check for to notice.

(If what you post is not for what I'm having you trying to notice, your Spot check will be just as normal.)[/sblock]

 

[drothgery]

Khalia, only half-paying attention to the others, is still pondering the text on the columns.

Spot check (1d20+2=5)

 

[stonegod]

Ari signal to Rogan and the group, whispering lowly. "Did you see a large creature down that corridor? Something large is getting impatient. Saw its shadow moving. We better get through this door quickly if that's our plan."

 

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, human cleric

Knowing little of doors and not knowing the language on the columns, turns his attention to the bas relief of the great dragon, fascinated by its size and wondering how it came to finally succumb--if it actually did.

Pitiful Spot = 4