With an extremely incredulous looks on his face after Viktor's comment, Dav quickly checks and then opens the door.
You find a room cramped with two sets of bunk beds, a small writing table, and several stools. A single torch casts light across the room from a sconce between the beds. A door leads from the chamber on the north end, and on the east side it opens up into another room.
An acrid, almost metallic stink fills the air of the eastern chamber. The walls consist of a strange, green rock with purple veins that writhe and dance within it. Six black pillars form two rows along the length of the chamber. They have a tar-like appearance, and what looks like human hands push at their surfaces from within, as if a crowd of humanoid creatures was trapped within each one. A plain, basalt altar rests at the western end of the chamber.
Two humans wearing ragged purple robes, shocked, turn at look at the group suddenly bargining in.
One of the purple robed men quickly skirts back around the far corner to the north. You can hear him casting something, but, it is impossible to tell what.
Dav, knowing that he has the drop on the slower of the pair, moves into the room. However, as he passes by the closest pillar, the hands from within grab him and hold with a powerful grip. The rogue attempts to break free, but simply cannot.
It does, however, look like the hands in that pillar would not be able to grasp a second person coming by.
The second purple-robed man darts around the corner to the south.
[sblock=OOC]1: moves; casts something
Dav: moves
Pillar: attacks D, 16+, hits, grapple checks 16+ vs. 6+, success
Dav: attempts to break grapple, 2+ vs. 3+, fail
2: moves; can't see
Note: on the map I'm showing where 1 & 2 each WERE before they moved (for frame of reference); they are each around the corners now and can't be seen (1 turned north, 2 south)
Status & Init:
1 (25)
Dav (21): grappled by pillar
2 (17)
Viktor (15)
Llyr (14)
Bub ("U" on the map)
Brannak (14)
Alexis (12)[/sblock]
You find a room cramped with two sets of bunk beds, a small writing table, and several stools. A single torch casts light across the room from a sconce between the beds. A door leads from the chamber on the north end, and on the east side it opens up into another room.
An acrid, almost metallic stink fills the air of the eastern chamber. The walls consist of a strange, green rock with purple veins that writhe and dance within it. Six black pillars form two rows along the length of the chamber. They have a tar-like appearance, and what looks like human hands push at their surfaces from within, as if a crowd of humanoid creatures was trapped within each one. A plain, basalt altar rests at the western end of the chamber.
Two humans wearing ragged purple robes, shocked, turn at look at the group suddenly bargining in.
One of the purple robed men quickly skirts back around the far corner to the north. You can hear him casting something, but, it is impossible to tell what.
Dav, knowing that he has the drop on the slower of the pair, moves into the room. However, as he passes by the closest pillar, the hands from within grab him and hold with a powerful grip. The rogue attempts to break free, but simply cannot.
It does, however, look like the hands in that pillar would not be able to grasp a second person coming by.
The second purple-robed man darts around the corner to the south.
[sblock=OOC]1: moves; casts something
Dav: moves
Pillar: attacks D, 16+, hits, grapple checks 16+ vs. 6+, success
Dav: attempts to break grapple, 2+ vs. 3+, fail
2: moves; can't see
Note: on the map I'm showing where 1 & 2 each WERE before they moved (for frame of reference); they are each around the corners now and can't be seen (1 turned north, 2 south)
Status & Init:
1 (25)
Dav (21): grappled by pillar
2 (17)
Viktor (15)
Llyr (14)
Bub ("U" on the map)
Brannak (14)
Alexis (12)[/sblock]
