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

[Rhun]

The gear and loot gathered, Rowan waits for the others to proceed into the chamber above before moving to follow.

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Phud grunts as he has to put his full strength into moving the brazier. "Hard to do." Once he has gotten it as far as he can, he then removes all of his remaining equipment, and tries to wriggle through the narrow opening. Once up top he'll try to get a better footing and see if he can't make the opening bigger by pushing the brazier further open.

 

[Brain]

Arden will help by examining the brazier and seeing if there is some sort of mechanism that she can access and maybe clear what's blocking it or somesuch.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Squeezing through the hole and pushing the rest of the way past the stone brazier, Phud gets up and out and, with Arden right behind him, spots the source of the trouble. Some of the thick goo much like the substance that had stuck his heavy mace to the kuo-toa's shield yesterday seems to have been glopped on the far side of the brazier. The adhesive is remarkably strong; with better leverage once he's up top and some exertion, Phud manages to push the brazier all the way to the side, though only barely. Certainly a creature less well-endowed of strength than he wouldn't be able to manage the feat at all.

Up top in the guardian room, Arden and Phud have a careful look and feel around and, aside from the dead kuo-toas seeming to be missing and the phosphorescent moss having been scraped off the wall, everything else is as it was left when they went below for their rest. There is no light up top, leaving Arden nearly blind.

 

[Brain]

Arden speaks softly, "Let's get some light going; it's dark up here."

 

[pallandrome]

Wyleck casts Light on a pebble that he has scooped up from the ground. "We should continue up the stairs to see what we heard yesterday." he says, as he makes his way to the through the dimly lit room.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The stairs are as they were left yesterday, with one exception. The stone door at the top has been left hanging open. From the landing, Wyleck and whomever else accompanies him notes that a narrow corridor 40 feet in length is punctuated by two alcoves and a second door that is closed in the dead center of the hall, on the north wall. If there is anything in either alcove, the closest of which is directly adjacent to the open stone door atop the stair landing on which Wyleck now stands, it is obscured from sight by the angle. The corridor is quiet. Prick his ears as he might, Wyleck hears nothing.

 

[Rhun]

Rowan frowns as he examines the adhesive used to glue them in, and the now open door at the top of the stairs. "Ah, they obviously know that we are here. We must be on, well, on our guard, to be sure." WIth a shrug the halfling turns to regard his companions. "So, do we, um, explore the rest of this area, or head upstairs?"

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Once he has finished pushing the brazier aside, Phud helps everyone out of the hidey-hole. The he hoists the gear back up and finally climbs out himself. Finally bird flies onto his master's shoulder. "Phud and Bird ready go."

 

[Brain]

Arden seems to be in a little bit of a bad mood. "We're just walking into a trap whichever way we go now. I suppose onward and upward."