Redclaw's Eyes of the Lich Queen

[pathfinderq1]

"Does anyone with an axe or a hammer or something want to help me get the chain off that wolverine's neck?," Chevri asked, a plaintive tone creeping into her quiet voice. "Or do we have any better ideas about finding a way down to wherever that dragon was hiding? There has to be a network of passages down there, since it popped up from both the wells inside and the one out front..."

 

[Zurai]

"Drekhad can probably break the chain without much trouble. I've seen him punch a hole in a wall when a goblin escaped us..." Alexa smirks in the zealot's direction. "And I agree about the tunnels. I think we should stop up those wells, so they can't be used to get out and we can use this floor of the temple as a safe haven of sorts, and go looking for another outlet. Perhaps hidden near the huts outside?"

 

[Graf]

Well, I can't find anything. I've tapped or prodded just about every slab* in those corridors. I can check around out here 'n see if there's anything.

If not I can do a detailed check**. Kason doesn't look enthusiastic. Might as well bring your bed rolls out if that happens though. It's not quick work.

Don't suppose any of you magical types see anything... magical? Maybe some invisible lizard man type riddle?

[sblock=*]I'm assuming that it's a general kind of search roll for every thing; i.e. I roll and you tell me if I find anything. So I don't need to roll once to search for traps, and then another to search for secret doors, etc.[/sblock]
[sblock=**]I.e. take twenty[/sblock]

[sblock=If all else fails]Kason will grudgingly provide one of his detect magic scrolls to help scan. He'll do that before he has to start taking twenty on everything. But after a good five or ten minutes of asking if anyone else can do it.
Lazy>cheap but lots of both.[/sblock]

 

[Zurai]

"Hedowin took a quick look around yesterday, but we can be more thorough. I don't use many of my minor enchantments, so I may as well be the one to play peekaboo." And, putting action to words, Alexa concentrates briefly, invoking a detect magic spell. She walks slowly from room to room, sweeping her gaze past all available surfaces - walls, ceiling, and floor - looking for any residual magical effects.

 

[pathfinderq1]

"I had chosen my rituals for today expecting another hard fight," Chevri said as the search went on, and on, and on... "But if we cannot find any way down there, tomorrow I can prepare a spell to tunnel through the stone at the bottom of one of the wells. It would take a lot of power though- perhaps we ought to search the nearer huts as well, as long as we aren't threatened."

 

[EvolutionKB]

Talas

"I am little help in this matter. The best I could do would try and create sounds of battle near a well and lure the dragon out. It might be possible if the door down there opens, we could dump a body down there and hope it jams the door open."

 

[Creamsteak]

"Axe or a hammer?"

Looking at his left and right sides.

"Oh, you're talking to me, right? Let's do this."

 

[s@squ@tch]

Once the are finished with the wolverine, Hedowin urges them to follow him into the room where they last saw the dragon and the blackscales.

"I think we should look in here some more, as we only had a short time yesterday to look around before our wounds made us depart."

"Surely there is a secret passageway or staircase that leads to the depths of this temple, as I doubt the blackscales would use the wells."

He shakes his head slightly as he walks towards the room.

"Unfortunately, I have no magics available to me that would aid in the findings of said secret contraptions, unless they were magical in nature, which I highly doubt -- most likely they would be of the mundane kind."

[sblock=OOC]
We need to check thoroughly the altar room and the room that had the ceremonial armor, along with the secret passageways themselves. Perhaps there is a secret passageway INSIDE the secret passageways....

Redclaw: any more detailed info you can give us on the eastern most rooms?
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[Graf]

[sblock=OOC]
We need to check thoroughly the altar room and the room that had the ceremonial armor, along with the secret passageways themselves. Perhaps there is a secret passageway INSIDE the secret passageways....

Redclaw: any more detailed info you can give us on the eastern most rooms?
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[sblock=OOC]I think I've gotten all the search checks I'm going to get for those passageways. Unless we start taking 20.

If detect magic isn't turning up anything, and searching the room again doesn't either I think it's time to start thinking outside of the box.

Either poking around outside in the huts, climbing around on the outside of the temple or going down the wells.

[sblock=Just to OOC kibbitz....] if the choices were "go in and out of your house through a well" or "be eaten by your paranoid dragon boss" I think most of the blackscales would opt for the former.
I mean... the dragon isn't going to make it easy to get into it's lair, and that's probably where it keeps the eye... :/

Think about it like this... if Kason dies horribly investigating the wells we can always just petition to have him come back as some sort of incorporeal undead and scout by passing through the walls.... [/sblock][/sblock]

 

[Redclaw]

The eastern most rooms appear to be the main temple, clearly a place of worship. The altar shows the wear of frequent use. The inner room seems to double as both a sleeping area for someone important enough to have a nice hammock, and a storage area for the temple's wealth, most of which has been removed. There is no sign of any secret passage, other than the one you saw the blackscale high priest disappear through.