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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1325840" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p>The pit fiend pokes his head into the space beyond the false wall, there is a small three foot landing and then steep climbing stairs lead upwards. Empythacoreaus notices cryptic writing in infernal written along the top of each step, as Empythacoreaus studies the writing, a bright light shines down from the top of the stairs. Shining out from a room beyond the last step, the light illuminates the entire length of stairs and spills out into the room behind Empythacoreaus.</p><p></p><p>"Oh, what's that? Looks like we woke something up." Ageanent states</p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus gives Charekyal a look, she shrugs her shoulders in response. </p><p></p><p>"Hey Tharhack, come check this out." Ageanent yells to the half-orc</p><p></p><p>Tharhack lifts his head long enough to see the light spilling forth from out of the wall, then lowers his head again in contemplation.</p><p></p><p>"Oh well, I'm going to go check it out." Ageanent announces</p><p></p><p>"That would not be wise, I don't think what's up there is benevolent." Empythacoreaus tells Ageanent</p><p></p><p>"What give you that impression? Besides I'm sure even if it was evil, we could take it." Ageanent answers</p><p></p><p>"Those words are infernal power words, meant to activate something, speaking them aloud would cause something bad to happen." Empythacoreaus replies</p><p></p><p>"Bad? That evil wizard made this area for a reason, to keep something locked up. If it was bad, don't you think he'd have recruited it?" Ageanent answers</p><p></p><p>"Your logic is flawed, there are some things which are more dangerous, yet just as evil as a balor. Don't presume that just because an evil man caged the criminal, that either one of them is looking out for your best interests." Empythacoreaus replies</p><p></p><p>"You're paranoid, just a little peek." Ageanent pleads, "maybe it's another diamond up there? and this wizard needed to keep the goodness of this creature locked away? and all these writings are meant to throw you off, thinking that there's something evil up there. When in reality it's the greatest of goods?" </p><p></p><p>"That argument was a little better." Empythacoreaus relents, "just a quick peek, and then back down. No need for us to tarry any longer." </p><p></p><p>With that Ageanent bounds up the steps towards the lighted room above, and peers up over the final step. Looking into a lavishly furnished room, silk tapestries, chairs made from some blue-colored wood, fabric that seemed woven from strands of mithral and platinum, floor marbling that contained colors Ageanent never knew existed. Ageanent stood mouth agape as his eyes drank in the scene.</p><p></p><p>"Well what is it?" Empythacoreaus calls up from below</p><p></p><p>"It's.... beautiful, we are so rich." Ageanent answers</p><p></p><p>"That doesn't tell us anything, do see anyone or anything?" Empythacoreaus calls back a little agitated at Ageanent's impulsiveness</p><p></p><p>"No, there's no one here." Ageanent replies while turning back to face Empythacoreaus and Charekyal</p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus begins to ascend the stairs, however looking up at Ageanent, Empythacoreaus watches a dark clawed hand reach out from behind Ageanent (who's looking down the steps) and grab Ageanent's head. Ageanent immediately reaches for the clawed hand, and is yanked into the room.</p><p></p><p>A single scream is cut short</p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus leaps to the stairs attempting to reach the top as quickly as possible, he reaches halfway, when Ageanent's head is thrown down the stairs. Ageanent's neck still smokes from the burning wound that caused his decapitation, his eyes frozen with the fear of his killer. Charekyal screams with horror as the head speaks a single word, and then explodes in a blast of fire, heat, and evil.</p><p></p><p>Even Charekyal, a being from the plane of fire, immune to any flame, is burned by the insidious blast. Charekyal falls backwards stunned from the pain of the blast. Tharhack jumps up at the sound of the blast to see Charekyal fall down. Empythacoreaus is thrown face first into the steps as the blast envelopes him from behind, the pit fiend however knows full well why the fire burns Charekyal, this blast came from the abyss.</p><p></p><p>"I see you know some good parlor tricks, you'll soon find however, that I don't play well with others." Empythacoreaus calls out to whatever is upstairs.</p><p></p><p>With that, Ageanent's left arm come flying out from around the corner, and lands in front of Empythacoreaus. The pit fiend reaches down, picks up the arm, and tries to toss it back into the room. The arm grabs Empythacoreaus' hand and holds on tightly, Empythacoreaus raises an eyebrow at this new trick, before the arm explodes. Bits of flesh rain down upon the stairs, falling on Empythacoreaus with acidic results. Empythacoreaus flicks off the bits of melting flesh off of his body as they land, the abyssal origins of the acid now burn with pain where they had once been his lifeblood.</p><p></p><p>"Now you've gone and made me mad, I hope you've left behind a will, you're family won't see you alive again." Empythacoreaus calls out</p><p></p><p>A deep bone shaking smirk comes from the room above, "I wait, weakling" comes a response</p><p></p><p>Tharhack reaches Charekyal and helps her to her feet. Charekyal looks about as pieces of shattered skull and flesh lay about the floor.</p><p></p><p>"You're a healer? You can help him right?" Charekyal asks</p><p></p><p>Tharhack tried to contain his laughter at the magnitude of Charekyal's request. "Not even sovereign glue can help now, I might've been able to help, prior to his head being used as an exploding ranged attack." </p><p></p><p>The disappointment showed through on Charekyal's face as she turned to face the stairs and watched Empythacoreaus ascend them. Tharhack made sure Charekyal felt well enough to be left alone, and then made his way to the stairs.</p><p></p><p>"I'm through playing someone else's game, I'm no puppet. You want to kill people arbitrarily? I'm coming up there and something's getting smacked around like an ogre's dinner." Tharhack called out to the top of the stairs before beginning his climb.</p><p></p><p>A loud crack is heard, and Tharhack watches Empythacoreaus' limp body tumble down the stairs ahead of him and slam into the half-orc.</p><p></p><p>"Or not" Tharhack says looking over the still breathing pit fiend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 1325840, member: 11574"] The pit fiend pokes his head into the space beyond the false wall, there is a small three foot landing and then steep climbing stairs lead upwards. Empythacoreaus notices cryptic writing in infernal written along the top of each step, as Empythacoreaus studies the writing, a bright light shines down from the top of the stairs. Shining out from a room beyond the last step, the light illuminates the entire length of stairs and spills out into the room behind Empythacoreaus. "Oh, what's that? Looks like we woke something up." Ageanent states Empythacoreaus gives Charekyal a look, she shrugs her shoulders in response. "Hey Tharhack, come check this out." Ageanent yells to the half-orc Tharhack lifts his head long enough to see the light spilling forth from out of the wall, then lowers his head again in contemplation. "Oh well, I'm going to go check it out." Ageanent announces "That would not be wise, I don't think what's up there is benevolent." Empythacoreaus tells Ageanent "What give you that impression? Besides I'm sure even if it was evil, we could take it." Ageanent answers "Those words are infernal power words, meant to activate something, speaking them aloud would cause something bad to happen." Empythacoreaus replies "Bad? That evil wizard made this area for a reason, to keep something locked up. If it was bad, don't you think he'd have recruited it?" Ageanent answers "Your logic is flawed, there are some things which are more dangerous, yet just as evil as a balor. Don't presume that just because an evil man caged the criminal, that either one of them is looking out for your best interests." Empythacoreaus replies "You're paranoid, just a little peek." Ageanent pleads, "maybe it's another diamond up there? and this wizard needed to keep the goodness of this creature locked away? and all these writings are meant to throw you off, thinking that there's something evil up there. When in reality it's the greatest of goods?" "That argument was a little better." Empythacoreaus relents, "just a quick peek, and then back down. No need for us to tarry any longer." With that Ageanent bounds up the steps towards the lighted room above, and peers up over the final step. Looking into a lavishly furnished room, silk tapestries, chairs made from some blue-colored wood, fabric that seemed woven from strands of mithral and platinum, floor marbling that contained colors Ageanent never knew existed. Ageanent stood mouth agape as his eyes drank in the scene. "Well what is it?" Empythacoreaus calls up from below "It's.... beautiful, we are so rich." Ageanent answers "That doesn't tell us anything, do see anyone or anything?" Empythacoreaus calls back a little agitated at Ageanent's impulsiveness "No, there's no one here." Ageanent replies while turning back to face Empythacoreaus and Charekyal Empythacoreaus begins to ascend the stairs, however looking up at Ageanent, Empythacoreaus watches a dark clawed hand reach out from behind Ageanent (who's looking down the steps) and grab Ageanent's head. Ageanent immediately reaches for the clawed hand, and is yanked into the room. A single scream is cut short Empythacoreaus leaps to the stairs attempting to reach the top as quickly as possible, he reaches halfway, when Ageanent's head is thrown down the stairs. Ageanent's neck still smokes from the burning wound that caused his decapitation, his eyes frozen with the fear of his killer. Charekyal screams with horror as the head speaks a single word, and then explodes in a blast of fire, heat, and evil. Even Charekyal, a being from the plane of fire, immune to any flame, is burned by the insidious blast. Charekyal falls backwards stunned from the pain of the blast. Tharhack jumps up at the sound of the blast to see Charekyal fall down. Empythacoreaus is thrown face first into the steps as the blast envelopes him from behind, the pit fiend however knows full well why the fire burns Charekyal, this blast came from the abyss. "I see you know some good parlor tricks, you'll soon find however, that I don't play well with others." Empythacoreaus calls out to whatever is upstairs. With that, Ageanent's left arm come flying out from around the corner, and lands in front of Empythacoreaus. The pit fiend reaches down, picks up the arm, and tries to toss it back into the room. The arm grabs Empythacoreaus' hand and holds on tightly, Empythacoreaus raises an eyebrow at this new trick, before the arm explodes. Bits of flesh rain down upon the stairs, falling on Empythacoreaus with acidic results. Empythacoreaus flicks off the bits of melting flesh off of his body as they land, the abyssal origins of the acid now burn with pain where they had once been his lifeblood. "Now you've gone and made me mad, I hope you've left behind a will, you're family won't see you alive again." Empythacoreaus calls out A deep bone shaking smirk comes from the room above, "I wait, weakling" comes a response Tharhack reaches Charekyal and helps her to her feet. Charekyal looks about as pieces of shattered skull and flesh lay about the floor. "You're a healer? You can help him right?" Charekyal asks Tharhack tried to contain his laughter at the magnitude of Charekyal's request. "Not even sovereign glue can help now, I might've been able to help, prior to his head being used as an exploding ranged attack." The disappointment showed through on Charekyal's face as she turned to face the stairs and watched Empythacoreaus ascend them. Tharhack made sure Charekyal felt well enough to be left alone, and then made his way to the stairs. "I'm through playing someone else's game, I'm no puppet. You want to kill people arbitrarily? I'm coming up there and something's getting smacked around like an ogre's dinner." Tharhack called out to the top of the stairs before beginning his climb. A loud crack is heard, and Tharhack watches Empythacoreaus' limp body tumble down the stairs ahead of him and slam into the half-orc. "Or not" Tharhack says looking over the still breathing pit fiend. [/QUOTE]
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