The Whispering Cairn (Team Diamond Lake) - IC

[HolyMan]

The sarcophagus doesn't work like Eldariel hoped. It does start off towards the next alcove but before it reaches it he tries moving it back and it will not go in that direction.

So he continues to move the arrow to point at the green lantern and await a tube to come up, but it doesn't happen. What does happen is everyone can her the cacophonous creaking of stone on stone, and the ground starts to rumble slightly.

[sblock=Jules] To late, [/sblock]

 

[ghostcat]

OOC: I believe the Galyne is still in the Indigo alcove

Galyne is still fidling with the lantern when he hears the creaking and the rumbling. Rapidly turning, he nockes an arrow and draws his bow before looking round for the source of the noise.

 

[renau1g]

[sblock=Jules]
He'll take a 5 foot step off the lift into the room (after kicking the sunrod into the room) and keep the wall to his back.

ooc - yesterday was a holiday here in Ontario, too bad for Jules [/sblock]

 

[fireinthedust]

Eldariel stops fiddling with the sarcophagus and moves over to Aria defensively. Ah, I just remembered we're trying to figure out what killed the *last* group of people to fiddle with this stuff. Well, I suppose we're about to find out!

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Vixtrin stands, horror struck, her eyes rooted to the spot where Jules descended inside the tube. Holy mother! Her eyes whip to the sarcophagus, where Galyne stands and the floor rumbles. Quickly striding to the sarcophagus, Vixtrin yells to Galyne, "Let's keep pushing it! Maybe it has to go full circle to get Jules back!" Though she wants to pull the sarcophagus a full 360 degrees, Vixtrin hesitates a hair, waiting on help from the others.

OOC: Move (double move if necessary) back to the sarcophagus. Ready action, push it in whatever direction in will most easily move, and hopefully in a full 360 degree circle to get the arrow back at the same place it was before Jules went down in the tube. Will wait on help from the other/s before pushing on the sarcophagus.

 

[Shayuri]

"She's right," Aria agrees, "Try to get it so it's pointing at the yellow again...get that column back before something terrible happens!"

Inwardly she wonders how the heck they're going to get anywhere if only one person can fit in that magic column at a time...

 

[ghostcat]

OOC: Eldariel is the one fiddling with the sarcophagus. Galyne is in the Indigo alcove waiting to shoot something.

 

[fireinthedust]

OOC: Actually, Eldariel just stopped fiddling with it, and is next to Aria waiting for whatever that rumble was to inform them of what's going on.

The rumbling must be gears below us. Anything we do could affect Jules below us.

Eldariel waits a moment, just in case something along the lines of what killed the adventurer they just saw, comes for them. If nothing shows up, he'll run over and help move the sarcophagus all the way around.

 

[HolyMan]

The rumbling continues for only a few seconds and the group sees what looks like another tube attempt to rise up under the green lantern. It doesn't get far before shuttering and then falling back down quickly the way it had come.

A tremendous CRASH echoes up from the shaft just made by the fallen tube. Dust and dirt shoot upward out of the new hole. It blocks the view of the alcove with the green lantern before settling down to coat the floor.

OOC: Perception checks everyone. And I have a good idea where everyone is so no problem there. Jules should roll a perception also, and let me know what you are doing.

 

[renau1g]

Jules remains still, growing more anxious as the seconds tick away and his allies haven't joined him. He focuses on any sounds or sights he can detect.

OOC: perception (1d20+3=18)