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

[The Bashar]

After healing Bannock and himself Hrimr decides to have a look at the stone dragon in the room.

 

[fromage67]

Arnir nods to Kirio and says "Get him one of those crossbows too, so he can do more than stare down a ranged foe. and honestly Lars, unless you plan to simply mime a sorcerer, get rid of that gods damned armour!"

Lars sniffs disdainfully. "Look after your own dress, Arnir, I'm perfectly fine."

Lars picks up one of the heavy crossbows for himself. It is indeed heavy and unwieldy, but he figures it is better than nothing.

He then heads to the door and checks it carefully.

 

[Gregor]

Hrimr, the head looks as if its been carved or shaped out of stone. It is massive and reaches from floor to ceiling. The yawning maw of its mouth is open and looks as if a medium sized creature could climb inside. However, it is pitch black in the mouth and even your darkvision does not penetrate it.

Arnir, the Inquisitor's Mask is empowered to give a +2 enhancement bonus to Intimidate checks. Additionally, the mask makes its wearer immune to possession, and to attempts to exercise mental control, as with the spell protection from good. Lastly it alters the wearer's voice to sound menacing and feral.

The brooch is a brooch of shielding (101 charges).

The scrolls are as follows: scroll of break enchantment (divine), scroll of hold person ×4 (divine), scroll of invisibility (arcane), scroll of magic circle against chaos (arcane)

GM: Apologies, there are only 7 scrolls. The Inquisitor used one before the battle.

Lars, there are two doors leading deeper into the complex. Your search of one (party's choice I suppose) does not reveal any traps.

 

[funkmamagoat]

OOC: When in doubt, always go left

Kirio peers over Hrimr's shoulder as he examines the dragon head "Let's see if this reveals anything..." He hums a little tune and waves his hand at the sculpture

OOC: Kirio casts detect magic

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, there is a darkness spell active in the mouth of the dragon and you can detect the sliver of a strong abujuration aura on the very limit of the range of your spell. Since you'd have to climb up into the mouth to view beyond, it is likely the thickness of stone wall that is limiting your magic.

 

[digimattic]

Arnir fastens the brooch to his cape and hands Bannock the mask "Put this on...You'll be even more terrifying to our foes!"

He hands the 5 divine scrolls to Torrent "These are not my expertise...split them with Hrmir, or not..."

Finally he gives the scroll of invisibility to Lars "Take this. It might be useful."

Having divvied up the loot, he wanders over to the mouth of the dragon with Kirio.

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio's left eyebrow raises as he senses the various magic effect eminating from the dragon head...

"I'm having one of those... unwise moments where I'm tempted to do something immensely stupid to satisfy my curiousity..."

Seeming to hurry before he can convince himself not to, Kirio raises his flute and plays a quick and light tune (OOC: casting resistance on self), then begins climbing the dragon head to try and crawl within...

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, you climb up into the impenetrably dark dragon's mouth, pulling yourself into a smooth stone horizontal shaft. From the perspective of the rest of the party, it seems as if you are slowly being consumed by the beast, your legs dangling and then sliding into the maw at almost ceiling height. You pull yourself along for no more than 3 or 4 feet when your head and arms emerge from the darkness. The shaft opens into a square stone chamber, about 15 feet by 15 feet. Facing you, on the opposite end of the room is a thick stone door. Emblazoned on the surface of the door are large runic characters that glow a bright reddish-orange. The runes provide the only illumination in the chamber.

To actually get into the chamber, you would have to drop down from the shaft (its at the same height as the dragon mouth on the other side of the wall).

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio smiles from ear to ear as he examines the room...

			I love this kind of thing...

Kirio crawls back to the others... you see his excited and disembodied head poke out of the dragon's mouth moments later "Hey, forget those doors, theres a square room through here with a weird glowing stone door... we should you know... check it out. Arnir, there's glowing runes on the door, strange language I don't know, maybe you can figure it out. Anyway, heading back for a bit of a closer look but you should definitely come check it out."

Kirio crawls back and once more casts detect magic, trying to learn more of the abjuration magic he sensed earlier...

 

[fromage67]

Finally he gives the scroll of invisibility to Lars "Take this. It might be useful."

Lars takes the ribbon of the scroll and unrolls it gingerly. He looks it over for a while before he shrugs, and stuffs it in his belt.

After Kirio reappears, Lars overcome a certain amount of terror, and starts crawling after Kirio in the darkness. Once inside, he gains confidence and hurries across after his elf friend.

Inside the vault he drops to the floor. Then he takes Hope in his hand and puts him level with his eyes. "What do you think? Do you know what this place his?"