Legacy of Death Part IV: Darker than the Absence of Light

[TerraDave]

(DM roles behind screen). Someone on their watch...say Buckthorn, sees some shifting, wraithlike, figures. They do not enter the circle.

You complete your rest. Its cold, but not like Moil.

The room, with its devil face, misted archways, hanging bodies...all remain.

 

[dyermaker001]

"Now let's see what happened to one of these poor souls."

Nar-Heru chants and motions around one of the corpses, generating a vision of what occurred in the last moments (4 rounds due to roll) before death. (Lsst Sight Vision ritual)

 

[TerraDave]

either from the time they have spent hanging here, or the magic of this place, the ritual reveals nothing.

 

[kaltfeuer]

Exploration

Now that we are rested, should we probe? We can throw a few rocks into the mist or into the mouth to see if they are altered. We can send Shayera to have a look.

Shayera appears at the entrance to archway #10.
Ghen pulls a leaf out of his pocket.

 

[TerraDave]

your in position...

 

[dyermaker001]

"Wait!" Nar-Heru pulls a scroll out of his backpack, examines it and confirms it's the correct one, then performs the ritual. A translucent blue hand appears and floats about the room. Nar-Heru ask the hand "Which portal should we go through?"

Scroll of Hand of Fate...

 

[TerraDave]

You have 10 minutes and two more questions for that ritual.

Ghen, as the spirit comes within 5 feet of an arch, three of its stones glow with a pulsing blue-white light-one at the lower left, one at the lower right, and one at the apex.

Then the glowing blue hand appears (based on Nar's question, it will pick the arch with the highest reward...lowest risk...whatever that means). It points right at the arch Ghen, or at least the spirit, was heading for.

 

[Flaming Bob]

Lucien begins looking around the room nervously. "I get the deep suspicion there's a floating skull hiding in there somewhere."

The tiefling hoists the throwing blade he;s been juggling, takes aim at the open mouth of the demon and recklessly tosses it in. He listens carefully for the sounds that emanate. A splash? A metal on stone clanking? Nothing?

 

[dyermaker001]

Nar-Heru poses his second question to the Hand. "Which stone should we press first?"

 

[TerraDave]

The blade disappears, ominously and quietly.

The face itself...there is still something about it that is different or distinct.

The hand makes a funny gesture. (No, not that gesture). It doesn't point at a stone. It is not "halt", maybe more like "whichever".

Edit: or "whatever"