Shackled City - Chapter II


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Moving on through the southwest door -

The ceiling of this 20-foot-wide hall rises to an apex 20 feet overhead. The floor, walls, and vaulted ceiling are composed of smooth black stone that almost seems to absorb light. Two cylindrical iron cages, each one 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide, dangle from the ceiling by iron chains. The base of each cage hangs 5 feet above the floor.

A strange sculpture stands in the middle of the hall between the two cages: a 5-foot tall column of roughly hewn gray stone covered with sharp protrusions. Four crystal-tipped appendages jut from the stony mass, each one pointing in a different direction.

A closed door lies along the east wall in the south-eastern part of the room, and a corridor ends abruptly at a wall in the southwest.
 

Pleased to see that Raven has regained her second wind, Zeric nodded his head in approval.

"I agree. Let us press on and strike while we can."

As they moved into the next room, Zeric saw the cages dangling in front of his eyes and felt his blood begin to boil.

"This place makes me sick..."

Walking towards the statue, Zeric wanted to see if he could identify what race carved the piece, hoping that he could spot anything distinctive in the way the stone was shaped.

ooc: As you can tell, Zeric is going to be taking some ranks in stoneworking..:)
 
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Alinis looks at the cages, her expression twisting with anger. "Some set-up this dwarf-demon has here," she says. "I think this place makes us all sick."
 

"I'm not overly surprised," Orpheus admits. "The city needed some place to house criminals. Punishment must be quick and public. It could be worse; there could be people in there..."
 

Zeric approaches the statue, putting out a hand in order to better gauge the pieces of work, but is wholly surprised when one of the protrusions arcs around and catches him in the gut. (8 damage) The statue comes to life, two of its appendages working as legs, the other two flailing arms as it makes to swing at the Hexblade again.

Initiative:

Alinis - 23
Raven - 21
Althron - 21
Zeric - 18
Orpheus - 14
Elyas - 8
Stone Spike - 8
 

"What manner of beast are you?" ALthron states as he rushes forward swinging his mace in an attempt to get the creature's attention away from Zeric.

Heavy Mace +3 1d8+2 20/x2
 

"Woah!" Alinis backpedals, looks at one of the cages and has a bright idea. She jumps, scrambling up it and prepares to worry it free, hoping to smash it against the critter. "Guys, watch out!" she warns.

She pauses, getting a better idea and begins to swing it back and forth, hoping to smash it against the critter instead of simply dropping it.

ooc:
you did say the cages were hanging about 5ft from the ground and the critter was about 5ft right? Standing up, it'd probably be 5.5. In any case, crashing a cage against it would be feasible. :)
 
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Zeric 12/20

His hand had barely touched the statue when he felt the statue shake slightly, but before his body could register the potential danger, Zeric felt a white hot lance of pain fill him as one the statue's crystal tipped arms punched through his chain mesh shirt and into his stomach.

The taste of blood and bile filled his mouth instantly, and it took his fingers several heartbeats to register that he had to draw his weapon to protect himself, as well as the others.

Drawing his weapon, as well as spitting a mass of blood from his mouth, Zeric forced his mind to ignore the pain and to concentrate fully on shattering this abomination into a pile of rubble.
 

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