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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4622940" data-attributes="member: 9255">SEGMENT 020“Not All Danger is Undead”“Umph!” grunts the soldier as he forces open the old door.  Peering in from the doorway, the man looks in and after seeing no obvious danger, he moves into the hallway.  The other soldiers, Donnerson and the adventurers file out from the spiral stairway.  The hallway goes to the right and left.  They go left and find a body of a young man dressed for going out for the night.  Dura looks over his body suggests he was trampled to death.  Moving past him they find an exit going up.  Donnerson knows this ladder system.  If they climbed it would bring them within two blocks of Adventurer’s Home.Going back they pass over the body and stairway until they reach a small room with a table, some chairs and stacked boxes and barrels.  “That ladder system is often used by city utility workers.  This is one of their storage rooms.  Looking first at the cards left on the table, Mania checks out the room.  He goes to the barrels and moves them away from the wall.  “What are you looking for?” asks Donnerson.“The floor has scratches on it but the barrels have dust and cobwebs.  Scratches are new.  I suspect there is a secret door here somewhere.” And with that he looks over his shoulder and gives a mischievous smile to Leeya and pushes on the wall.  An audible click is heard and the crate that held everything slides out revealing a small hole in the wall.  Aura steps up to cover him as he goes to enter the new exposed doorway.  “Relax, there is nothing to worry abaaaaaaa!” yells the rogue as the floor gives way throwing him and the paladin into a new dark area below.Mania hits the ground below with a dulled thud as there is water here also.  The paladin falls next and barely misses falling on him.“Damned trap door!” (52) Sputters Mania as he begins to peer around into the utter darkness.  Aura is unsteady as she stands up.  The fall has struck her senseless. “Do you hear something?” she asks.“Shhhhh.   Yeah.  In the corner… beyond those pillars…..”“You can see?”  She asks.“Yes and now shut up and pick up your blade.  That noise sounds like… either a strange language or… (together they say it- ) a spell!”Even as the paladin stands up and prepares for a battle a glowing spear materializes next to her and threatens to attack.  “Spiritual Spear!” she exclaims.Mania moves ahead in the water.  Something is behind the pillars and…. the sarcophagus?  Aura calls out as the spear strikes her.  A sudden burst of light from behind Mania startles him and reveals the creature they face to be a large snake or snake – like creature.  Mania asks if Aura is all right but refuses to look back away from the creature that is using the pillars and other objects as shielding walls from his possible attacks.Having used her Lay on Hands, Aura now drives away the magical weapon.Above her, she can hear the others far above calling out about a rope and a sudden burst of light from below.  Aura wonders how much longer she can hide her secret from them as she looks down at where the spear had punched through a seam in her armor.  Mania tries to dodge multiple beams of light that suddenly arc from behind the pillar as the creature moves about.  The beams strike him as they follow his unnaturally quick movement.  “Damned magic” he grumbles.Aura charges forward splashing through the dark.  Mania decides enough is enough and rushes around the pillar and stabs out and luckily hits the creature.  Neither hears Vander curse as he is now climbing down a rope commenting on how he is missing the fight.  Bora urges him on as she swings over the edge and begins to slide down after him.Aura is chased and stabbed at again by the magical weapon.  A small glow appears for a split moment as the spear hits her.  Mania misses the creature as the creature tries to bite him.  It also misses.  Aura surprises the creature and hits it hard with her weapon.Vander drops and side steps to clear space for Bora.  “Where the they?” he snarls under his breath.  The splashing and sounds of combat are echoing within the chamber.  Bora drops with a loud splash behind him and also looks for them.  Dura slides over the edge to climb the rope and falls!  She catches the rope before falling the entire way.  She hopes no one saw that.Knowing the time to flee is upon her, the serpent creature slithers onto the stone coffin and out of the water looking to escape.  Between her climbing and watching for Mania, the Paladin strikes her again.  The spear stabs at her again and the blunt side strikes her.Dura tries to point out where to go as her dark vision (blurred by the overhead light) as she slides down.  Vander goes to the wrong corner.  Bora charges up and strikes!  The creature hisses and drops off the stonework into the water.Bora looks down at it.  “Naga” (53) and spits on it.Mania looks over to Aura.  “Are you alright?”“I am fine.”Mania notes the damage to her armor and how some sort of under lying body skin is covering up the damage under the armor.  It resembles the color of her eyes.Searching the water covered room they find a hole in the corner in the direction the Naga was attempting to flee.  Very little else is here.“Comon’ we have to find that source of the green mist.” Advises Leeya.</blockquote>

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