The Banewarrens
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Argent Silvermage
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"Gee... Sorry Krug. I was more in fear for my soul at the time." Fallon says sarcasticly.
Argent Silvermage
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Fallon being the obviously bigger man here will ignore Krugs attempt at humor. "Lets just get moving! The Paladin may be on his last breaths. If I had the power I would scan for him but it is outside my abilities thus far."
GruTheWanderer
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This large chamber has two levels. At the bottom, a huge metal device like an iron tower topped with a brass sphere rises at least 30 feet high. Around this strange sphere, an iron catwalk made of a crosshatched grating follows the wall, forming the upper level about 25 feet above the lower. An iron spiral staircase in the southwest corner of the room joins the two levels.
The central tower is a cylinder with a 10 foot diameter. A number of jointed metallic extensions, like the legs of an insect, extend from the tower and connect to the ground or simply jut out into the air at all angles. The top sphere looks about 15 feet across: half the structure's total height. A series of curved plates comprising its brass skin fit together carefully, each bearing a single arcane rune etched into its surface. A few bear images of brass dragons. Here and there on the sphere, a curved plate is missing, exposing an inner gridlike support network of metal bars. The missing plates give the impression that the metallic thing - whatever it is - is either damaged or unfinished.
The floor level has only one apparent exit, the 30 foot wide passage to the east. The upper level has five exits, two 10 foot wide archways leading to the north, two to the south, and one massive metal door to the west.
This illustration doesn't show the exposed interiors and the missing parts.
The central tower is a cylinder with a 10 foot diameter. A number of jointed metallic extensions, like the legs of an insect, extend from the tower and connect to the ground or simply jut out into the air at all angles. The top sphere looks about 15 feet across: half the structure's total height. A series of curved plates comprising its brass skin fit together carefully, each bearing a single arcane rune etched into its surface. A few bear images of brass dragons. Here and there on the sphere, a curved plate is missing, exposing an inner gridlike support network of metal bars. The missing plates give the impression that the metallic thing - whatever it is - is either damaged or unfinished.
The floor level has only one apparent exit, the 30 foot wide passage to the east. The upper level has five exits, two 10 foot wide archways leading to the north, two to the south, and one massive metal door to the west.
This illustration doesn't show the exposed interiors and the missing parts.
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Argent Silvermage
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[OOC: Very COOL]
Fallon will start walking up the walls avoiding any of the metal extensions. He will try to get as close as he can to one of the openings in the sphere and look inside.
Fallon will start walking up the walls avoiding any of the metal extensions. He will try to get as close as he can to one of the openings in the sphere and look inside.
Hammerhead
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I'm not sure. I hope not, Malikar says. Certainly no one built it in whimsy. It must have some useful purpose, but...HEY! Fallon! Malikar will place his hand on the halfling's shoulder to restrain him.
Your curiosity is laudable, friend, but your judgement not. As Titus posed, it could be a golem, or perhaps an infernal device of greater evil. It could be a trap of some kind. I've even heard stories of animate machines that entraps its victims and then grafts demon limbs onto them. It bears investigation, of course, but perhaps by the ever-cautious Krug, a dwarf extremely skilled in the finding and disarming of traps.
Your curiosity is laudable, friend, but your judgement not. As Titus posed, it could be a golem, or perhaps an infernal device of greater evil. It could be a trap of some kind. I've even heard stories of animate machines that entraps its victims and then grafts demon limbs onto them. It bears investigation, of course, but perhaps by the ever-cautious Krug, a dwarf extremely skilled in the finding and disarming of traps.
