[LANAI] The Rod of Seven Parts: Into the Crucible

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 1

Phud reaches the bottom of the stairs and sees that there are many choices to chose from. He is about to turn to ask which way when he hears Rowan's voice from up the stairs a bit. Turning he sees that the others aren't following any more. So he plods back up the stairs to where the others are. "Hey. Whud you do? Why'd you Stob?" He motions back down the stairs. "Lots of ways tah go. Don'd know which one."

 

[Brain]

Arden, eyes fixed on the wand, wonders out loud. "I wonder if it is some kind of warning? Maybe the wand grows hot if there is a certain type of thing in the area. But wait, it stopped when I brought it out. Maybe it doesn't like being stowed away." She experiments a bit, moving it nearer to her pack, or if that does nothing, putting it lightly back in with her hand right there. If still nothing, she brings it back out into her hand and walks slowly forward towards the fungus.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Rowan weaves a spell in the air in front of himself and, speaking words of power, begins to scan the area for magical dweomers.

[sblock=Rowan]The ore in the walls has a faint aura of transmutation to it. Phud's raven is magical, faint in aura and of indeterminate school. The wand is magical, in a most unexpected and interesting way. Rowan peers at the wand and watches the thing change magical "color" right before his eyes. The wand first radiates faint divine aura of conjuration, then shifts to radiating moderate arcane illusion, then shifts again to a strong aura of indeterminate arcane school, then changes to overwhelming arcane evocation. Rowan loses focus as the wand switches to its last overwhelming aura.[/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Experimenting a bit with the wand, Arden moving it nearer to her pack. Seeing that the wand does not react when put near the pack, Arden puts the wand inside the pack. The wand does not react to being stowed. Bringing the wand out of her pack, Arden holds the wand and slowly walks forward down the spiral stair toward the fungi. The wand is cool in her hand and does not react.

Back in the tunnel on the stairs, Rhys asks Phud, "What's down ahead?"

 

[Rhun]

Rowan blinks his eyes several times as his concentration wavers and he loses focus of his spell. "Well, that was certainly interesting." he says, removing his hat and running his fingers through his hair. "There is some ore or rocks in these walls that is radiating a transmutation aura...it is possible that is what reacted with the wand. The wand itself, though, is radiating alternating auras...both divine and arcane!"

 

[pallandrome]

"That item is becoming more and more worrisome, but I think we should press on. None of the areas we have yet found are suitable for encampment."

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 1

Phud turns at Rhys' query. "Lods uv way tuh go. Don't know which way tuh go."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The group moves to press on down the stairs, but when Rhys gets to the bottom and sees the mushrooms lean away from his light, he stops a moment and has a better look at the room. Spotting the purple moss on the wall opposite and sensing the hair on the back of his neck raising, Rhys snuffs the flame in the lantern with a cryptic, "Where no light goes, no sound shall pierce the dark."

Without the lantern light, the cavern is completely dark. Those with darkvision can see.

"Which way to go, which way to go?" Rhys blinks into the dark. Looking left and right, Phud can see perhaps eight different passageways branching off in odd directions from a tunnel that stretches west-east.

Rowan, Phud, Wyleck and Arden hear a soft wet splash from somewhere to the west. Yssal's ears prick and Wyleck feels the dog strain in that direction.

 

[pallandrome]

"Yssal apparently has an idea. I say we follow, and see what it is." Wyleck says as he lets the giant dog pull him onwards. "Also, why did we extinguish our source of illumination?"

 

[Rhun]

Rowan is a bit disturbed by the sudden darkness, but tries to keep calm. "Excellent question, Wyleck...Rhys?"