IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part II

"Aha!" celebrates Boldak, emerging from the water with a sack of coins. "This may just be worth it. Now, it seems we should be able to complete the arrangement in the lantern room, no?"
[sblock=ooc]11.71g each, take it, mark it, etc.[/sblock]
Edit: I was a math major, not an Arithmetic major.
 
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"I imagine the final lantern must lead somewhere. Someone went to a bit of trouble to hid and protect it after all. That could be good for us." Alexis says, still beaming and staring at water.

[sblock=oc]maybe my brain melted with the heat wave... shouldn't it be 15.875 gold? i wasn't an anything major so maybe i missed something.... oh... i forgot about taxes... that's right.[/sblock]
 

[sblock=ooc]Am I wrong about it again? Yes. Cool. I suck. Stupid coins. Luckily, O3 is also wrong (there are 5 of us, not 4)

38 G
5.5 S (ingold)
20 P (ingold)
=
63.5 G
/5
12.7 G each
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Boldak returns to the rotunda and places the red lantern on its chain. "Who's got torches?"

After lighting all of the lanterns, he will make his way to the top of the tall chamber and carefully toward the face at the far end of the coridor.
 
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"Let me go with you," Alendar suggests. "I will walk next to you, but facing backward. That way, if those colors appear and try to enchant you, I will be able to carry you out."

As the party lights each torch in the colored lanterns, they are treated to a marvelous sight. Glass and metal chips imbedded in the domed ceiling cast eerie reflections of color about the chamber. While the display is quite stunning, it also makes it hard to concentrate.

Boldak and Alendar climb up to the passage toward the face. As the dwarf warily looks down the hall, with the elf walking backwards with a hand on Boldak's shoulder, it becomes obvious that something has changed. The bas-relief of the large face is still open in a scream, however, where there was before just stone in the face's mouth, now there is an opening to a dark room beyond. A quick check by the dwarf suggests that the pressure plate he tripped before is inoperative now.
 

Boldak taps Alendar on the shoulder and motions to the opening. He excitedly whispers, "Let's get the others up here, it looks like there's more!" He proceeds to do just that, returning to call the others up and to aid in their climb.

He then returns to his regular searching ways, and ventures through the hole.
 
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"Well, I know I'm always the one to worry, but I was just about to think something happened"

Viktor then begins to make his way up the chain.
 
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As Breth sees the face he lets out a little gasp. It's still pretty even without all the colors, I wonder what's through there.

The mage follows through the hole as soon as the dwarf indicates he can.
 

"This is crazy...." Alexis says, keeping unusually close to the others as they move down the passage. "We're still pretty unclear what any of this is even FOR right?..."
 

Through the gaping mouth at the end of the hallway is a long, dark room with no floor. A three-foot-wide beam of petrified wood spans the chasm, leading straight ahead into darkness. About ten feet below the beam, countless clay spheres the size of large oranges form an irregular floor, but it's impossible to tell if they represent a wholly solid surface. The northwest and southeast wall are covered in a honeycomb of geometric patterns. The featureless stone ceiling extends about twenty feet from the beam. At the other end of the beam, a metal door is set in the wall.

[sblock=OOC]Up on the map is approximately NE.[/sblock]
 

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