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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7313999" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER08  EXPLORE THE HIDDENSEGMENT 159“82 and EXIT”12/26/17BARRAKAS   7, 1000[DM NOTE:  players decided to explore further rather than continue with their plan of leaving.  This decision was made out of character during Dinner break]The group reenter the water and check out the door they skipped.  They walk past the strange fountain and peak into the next room.  There is thick fog-like mist in areas here.“Nope.” Answers Zig.They backtrack up the stairs and back onto the bridge spanning over the holes.  Half of the group are still hoping to find the Emerald Claw.  The other half are ready to leave the underground area.  While crossing the bridge they decide to check on the camp area.  Perhaps the people have returned.The doors are not locked nor the traps are reset.They have not returned.  Alive?  Doubtful.They continue forward to a room they barely peeked into.   Within the room is a statue roughly human shaped.  It has fangs and eight eyes.  Very spider-like.  Finding nothing here, they leave through a new door.They come to a new hallway.  Unfortunately, it has a pit trap.  No one falls in but the location is of such that everyone will need to leap over the trap on an angle.  Everyone makes it except for Kyr.  He finds the 40ft drop bad on the body.  After a healing potion or two, he gets out.Looking here, they see a red faintly glowing clear “wall” of light.  Zig had jumped towards it and thus the closest to it.  He and Feldrix checks it out.  Ayur and Tyson have pulled Kyr up but on the opposite side of the pit from the mysterious red door.  To reach them, they will need to jump across.  Kyr, not feeling very well, fails and falls into the pit once more.  While Kyr is consuming more potions, Zig has an idea.  He removes the strange red crystal rod he found earlier and compares it to the red circle on the wall with a hole at the center.  Lining it up, he begins to slide it into the hole.“Is that…. Smart?” asks the undead warrior.A subtle hiss is heard and the red clear door disappears.  They move over giving room for Ayru and Tyson to jump over.  This time, Kyr climbs up on the side of the pit.  No jumping required.  “Heeheehee….. I don’t jump much….”   No one notes the sweat and paleness of the summoner’s skin.The large room here is empty and featureless.  There is another colored door leading out and another exit that has a stairway leading out and a room.Without checking these, they decide to camp here as requested by the summoner.BARRAKAS   7, 1000They decide to try the stairs leading up.  They call up and disturb a bat that Zig strikes down.  It is a normal fruit bat.  “oops.”They climb up the stairs and exit onto a dome within a larger room exposed to the air.  Water fills the room and runs in from the surface.  Beads are in the water and thickly cover the floor.There are tunnels here that bring water also.  The group try these first as an exit.The tunnels wind in and out of rooms and areas that they cannot reach due to energy walls like the red one they saw but of other colors or very strong bars.  One spot they think they recognize as been the water that went under the bridge they crossed.  Going down a new tunnel they see light and can detect a smell of decay.  They follow it and find a large room filled with dozens, maybe even hundreds, of bodies.  Adventurers, goblins, orcs and dead creatures are all here.  Curious, but cautious, they climb out of the water tube and check out the room.“What is this?” asks Feldrix.“Equivalent of a sewer.” Suggests Tyson as he looks at the many tubes that water comes out of.  These tubes or outlets vary in size from a foot to ten feet.Ayur asks the summoner what he is doing.  “I am looking for statues but all I am finding is coins and fancy weapons.”  This gets everyone’s attention.Even after giving a disapproving “Hurmm” Tyson goes through the bodies also.   Mamy coins are found including the rare Platinum coin normally only used by nobles and the Dragon houses.  Crystal armor is found on an elf.  Many wands showing a great deal of use  [DM NOTES: none have more than ten charges] A Blue rod is found.  While they are searching, something (s) walk up onto them.  Large tentacled three legged creaures with large sharp toothed mouths.  Tyson has seen them before in Sharn’s sewers-  Otyugh.Using the wands found, the four sewer beasts are driven back with magic while the undead warrior and Zig attack them with their swords.Once the creatures are defeated, they decide it would be better to leave the catacombs and try to find the Emerald Claw on the surface.</blockquote>

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