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Ptolus: The Prison of the Sahuagin Queen
- Thread starter Whizbang Dustyboots
- Start date
Cthulhudrew
First Post
Vanden watches in scholarly fascination as the platform lowers the group into the unknown depths, pleased with the results of his and Maugra's research.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
As Maugra repeats the command word once more, the stone circle rumbles its way down into the earth, lowering the group 30 feet into the earth.
The first thing that hits them is the smell: Living and working on the Docks makes one more or less immune to the smell of salt water and rotting fish, but this is something more. It smells as though Ptolus' sewers have been leaking into these hidden chambers, and there's something else, an almost palpable feeling of menace, like the musky stench of a rabid dog.
And then, as the platform reaches the floor, the group sees the water rising up to meet them: The bottom three feet of the room are filled with fouled sea water.
Finally, the platform thuds to a stop. The group has arrived in a hallway that stretches off to the west, according to Maugra, ending in a sealed stone floor with runes etched across its surface. The center of the seal is four-inch wide circular depression about an inch deep. On the southern wall, near the sealed portal, is another, more mundane looking doorway.
But there's little mundane about this place: The Stonelost carvers of old did beautiful work here, for all that it is a prison, and the support struts in the tunnel are carved to look like twisting columns of kelp and the walls depict stylized Tarsisian soldiers, men and dwarves, battling creatures emerging from the sea.
And carved over the sealed portal, there is a warning in dwarvish runes.
[sblock=Maugra]"The prison of Iasmini the Sahuagin Queen, who would be the doom of Ptolus. Release her not, lest you bear that title."[/sblock]
The first thing that hits them is the smell: Living and working on the Docks makes one more or less immune to the smell of salt water and rotting fish, but this is something more. It smells as though Ptolus' sewers have been leaking into these hidden chambers, and there's something else, an almost palpable feeling of menace, like the musky stench of a rabid dog.
And then, as the platform reaches the floor, the group sees the water rising up to meet them: The bottom three feet of the room are filled with fouled sea water.
Finally, the platform thuds to a stop. The group has arrived in a hallway that stretches off to the west, according to Maugra, ending in a sealed stone floor with runes etched across its surface. The center of the seal is four-inch wide circular depression about an inch deep. On the southern wall, near the sealed portal, is another, more mundane looking doorway.
But there's little mundane about this place: The Stonelost carvers of old did beautiful work here, for all that it is a prison, and the support struts in the tunnel are carved to look like twisting columns of kelp and the walls depict stylized Tarsisian soldiers, men and dwarves, battling creatures emerging from the sea.
And carved over the sealed portal, there is a warning in dwarvish runes.
[sblock=Maugra]"The prison of Iasmini the Sahuagin Queen, who would be the doom of Ptolus. Release her not, lest you bear that title."[/sblock]
Cthulhudrew
First Post
Vanden nods in response to Maugra. "Indeed."
He runs his hands over the runes on the portal, examining the seal. "The seal appears to be in place still, much the better for knowing. I wonder though, what the function of that portal may be?" He points to the mundane doorway.
He runs his hands over the runes on the portal, examining the seal. "The seal appears to be in place still, much the better for knowing. I wonder though, what the function of that portal may be?" He points to the mundane doorway.
