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

[CanadienneBacon]

Phud pushes open the stone door on top of the stairs all the way. A narrow passageway connects two small chembers. Neither has any furniture or features beyond the large openings in the south wall, which afford a view of the outer lake the temple faces and the larger cavern beyond. From the nearest of the two small chambers, the ferryman can be seen sitting, hands serenly folded on his lap, perched in his long narrow canoe resting atop the water on the sidewall to the right.

A stone door in the north wall of the passageway connects the two small eye-alcove chambers. Arden's ears prick to the sound of faint rhythmic croaking coming from somewhere behind the closed stone door along the north wall of the passageway. Yssal's prick and the dog whinnies lowly, then pads to the stone door to sniff.

 

[Rhun]

Rowan looks out the window and out over the lake and the front of the temple. His voice is low as he speaks. "The must have, well, seen us coming across the lake. I'm am, ah, thankful that their ambush was not better coordinated."

 

[Brain]

Arden also approaches the stone door, checking it out for signs of glue, and listening for signs of anything beyond.

 

[Rhun]

The halfling wizard turns away from the window to consider the stone door that his companions are clustered around. He breathes deep, mentally preparing for whatever may lie beyond.

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Phud points out toward the ferryman in the canoe. "Look! It froggy boat guy." He waves towards the ferryman. "Hi froggy boat guy!"

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Phud waves and shouts down to the kuo-toa ferryman, but the creature appears to be deep in silent meditation and does not heed the half-orc's call.

As Arden steps to the stone door, she continues to hear the rhythmic croaking coming as an echo from somewhere in the chamber beyond. Surveying the door for threats, the brown-skinned gnome notes the cleanliness of the corridor, alcoves, and the well-oiled hinges of the door; someone has carefully maintained order in this area. Unlike the guardian room below, there are no fetid pools of oily water, no dust, and no patches of slime gracing the walls or ceiling. Turning her attention back to the door itself, Arden determines that the door is unlocked and does not appear to be warded. To open the stone portal, all one must do is push.

[sblock=Rowan]Rowan steps up the stairs. His detect magic winks out at that moment but just as it does, the petite wizard notes the thick pallor of magic lying as a blanket over the stone door around which the others are clustered.[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

"I believe that door is ah, well, warded," says Rowan to his companions near the door. "It has a magic aura of some type, at um, any rate."

 

[Brain]

Arden frowns. "Well it looks to my eyes to be unlocked and not mechanically trapped. Let me look again and see if I can find a magic trap or something."

 

[Rhun]

Rowan can only shrug. "Perhaps it isn't a, um, trap, but it radiates a dweomer. I'm not, well, skilled enough in magecraft to dispel such things, though."

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Phud pushes past the others to the door. "Me iz Phud! Me open. Stand back." He waits but a moment to allow anyone that wishes to stand back and then he opens the door.