Six From Gate Pass - Chapter 3: Shelter From The Storm

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio smiles crookedly at Alric "I do enjoy emeralds, I cannot lie..., one more little thing and then let's see what we see, although I likely can't sense anything through the stone..." Kirio strides into the room and casts detect magic, heading towards the statue and the chest...

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, there is a moderate aura of necromancy magic emanating from the statue. Nothing else in the room registers as magical.

 

[funkmamagoat]

His nerves a little strained Kirio holds back from plucking the statue's eyes out with his dagger, and ops instead to try for the chest... "get your sharp things at the ready, I have a nasty feeling about this..."

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, you lift up the lid of the chest with considerable effort. The head of the statue peers down at you, bathed in the eerie greenish light from Alric's sword. Inside the chest you find a macabre sight: the skulls of what looks like humans, dwarves and little folks, perhaps gnomes or halflings. You have no idea how many are inside, or how deep the chest is.

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio looks down at the macabre collection, unsure what to make of it honestly... except maybe feeling a bit of disappointment.

			Well... what did I expect a Yuan-Ti idol would want as offerings I suppose

He bends down and picks up a hafling skull, glares at its empty sockets, then curses softly under his breath and tosses it aside. As the diminutive little skull clatters away, kirio tries to see how far down the layer of skulls goes...

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, beneath three feet of skulls you find a layer of smaller bones: shoulder blades, fibulas, thigh bones, finger bones, etc. You figure that this offering chest, or mass grave as it seems, is about 5 feet deep.

 

[funkmamagoat]

A look of deep disgust on his face, both from the lack of anything useful and being elbow deep in dead things kirio stands and glares at the statue "Really?!? I hate Yuan-Ti, so sense of perspective at all. Well... nothing but dead people in there... quite a few dead people actually... all... neatly stacked, long bones on the bottom, skulls on top, a little off putting really."

Kirio shrugs and tries to pry the emeralds out with his dagger...

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, you easily pry one of the acorn-sized emeralds out of the eye-socket of the statue. As soon as it dislodges however, you black out. Your mind is assaulted by horrible images: snakes devouring you, poison burning like fire in your veins, your soul cast into some terrible abyss of ichor, spires of bone and geysers of blood. Vast serpents of shadow descend upon you and attempt to caress you with their cold nothingness.

You suddenly snap your eyes open and spasm on the dusty floor of the chamber. You're not sure what happened, but you are confident that you resisted it.

 

[digimattic]

Arnir hovers over Kirio's twitching form and casts detect magic for as long as he needs to be able to precisely locate the source of the magic (presumably the emeralds)

Once he's satisfied with the source and school of magic, he tries to identify the spell

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio sits up and shakes his head "that was... unpleasant." despite his words he holds up the acorn sized emerald and smiles wickedly.

Recognizing what Arnir is attempting to do "any clue what that was, other than... really really not fun!"