IndyPendant's Sunless Citadel

[IndyPendant]

Kuma is about to give up in disgust, when he spots a slight glint. He reaches down and snags a tiny green gem--near which lies a single grimy gold coin. The rats apparently have stored some things of value in their nests! --If it's worth searching for...

Meepo looks up in startlement at Jair's question, and begins to cast a spell! --Or so you think, at first. After a moment, you realize it's a crude warding gesture, similar to the ones peasants sometimes use to avoid ill omens. "Ashardalon greatest of dragons! How you know this name?" When you explain about the writing on the wall, it relaxes slightly, and nods, its shrill voice turning self-important again. "This past temple to dragon. Worship true god, not prissy sungods or treegods no one ever see!"

 

[JimAde]

Jerek actually pauses for a moment and nods in mute acknowledgement of Meepo's remark. Scaly little git has a point, he thinks.

 

[Voadam]

ooc Knowledge religion check now that we are connecting Ashardalon to a dragon worshipped as a god?

"Tread carefully kobold, lest the wolfhound powered by the goddess Mielikki takes offense and eats you. After all dragon keeper, you have much more to tell about the dragons. So this is a god your tribe worship? He was a dragon who walked the earth. Is he one of your gods or the sole one your tribe worships? Did Calcryx order your invasion to restore the temple?"

 

[IndyPendant]

Jair has not heard of this particular 'god'--but that's not all that surprising. Cults that worship creatures as deities spring up all the time, usually only recruiting a few gullible, ignorant peasants, and usually collapsing once the leader is gone.

Kuma, influenced by his companions and the filthiness of the nests, reluctantly closes the door to this final small room, and you all continue into the room to the north. The cobblestone floor of this 30' by 30' room contains two trapdoors blocked open by iron spikes; if the tops of the trapdoors were flush with the floor, they would be difficult to spot. The north wall holds a dry fountain carved with the bas-relief of a dragon, and there is a single closed door in the west wall.

Meepo deflates visibly at Jair's words, and eyes Terrek warily. "We not worship Ashardalon. Ashardalon gone long before we come. Foolish to worship something that not arou-- Aheh. We not worship Calcryx, either. Calcryx not big enough. You say worshipping dragon silly, then you all stuck with idea! Calcryx not order us, Yusdrayl order us. Calcryx agree. Restore! Pah! Temple built by vile humans! We not restore! We come rid temple of goblin infest. Almost done."

 

[JimAde]

With his bow at the ready, Jerek moves cautiously across the room. Given the racket being generated by Meepo and the others, there's little point in trying to be stealthy. Nevertheless, he is leery of more pit traps. The two that have been blocked open may not be the only ones present.

He carefully makes his way to the door in the west wall and looks it over for traps and locks.

 

[Voadam]

As they continue on Jair ponders the situation and has Terrek join the lead with Jerek so his sense of smell can warn of hidden ambushers.

 

[jayaint]

The room seems dark and ominous to Ydyr. His eyes are on constant search mode, scanning the darkness around the torch light.

Let's keep moving, folks.

Harder to hit that way, he thinks.

 

[Mithran]

Heirmund moves forward to examine the open pit spike traps a bit more closely while Jerek is checking the rest of the room for traps.

 

[Shayuri]

Still polishing the gem he found on his sleeve, Kuma strays to the image of the dragon graven in stone. His expression is oddly reverent, though he makes no abasements nor gestures.

"Greatest of dragons, you say," Kuma muses. "I wonder if he too had a chosen people."

Then, abruptly realizing he's being left behind, he hurries to join the others, careful of the pits.

 

[Voadam]

"Good find Kuma. Hmm, well if this was once a human temple to the dragon that would explain the height of the doors and rooms being at human and not goblin or kobold level." He switches back to the kobold as Jerek completes his sweep for additional traps "So keeper, Yudrayl is and has been your leader and Calcryx is then her ally and agreed to aid in the invasion of the goblin lands. Was it to take over the underground complex to establish a home for your tribe here or some other reason that Yusdrayl ordered the invasion?"