Chapter 24 - The Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, part 1

[Craigers07]

Furuk - Fighter

"Let's get out of here. All of these lights are giving me a headache."

"Should we continue north?"

[spanningtree]

Dieter - Mage

Mystified, Dieter will use his staff to cast detect magic in their current room: One moment Furuk... just trying to make some sense.

[badams30]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes points at Furuk "I'm with the big guy. Let's go north. This room confuses me. But lets make sure we aren't missing anything in this room, eh?"

OOC: Shall we do a hasty search before heading out?

[GreyWolfVT]

Algrim returns to the hallway "I dun like this I'll wait out here."

[greyarea]

Dieter still detects no magic in the room. Whatever this is, it is "natural" despite Ulster's protests.

The door to the room opposite this one has no slot, only a dark glass panel.

The next rooms north have slots like the first door you examined. The Combat Cartridge is tried but it is too large to fit.

The door to the room with dim light appears to be open. No sound comes from within.



Actions?

Hit points and marching order
Grimes 69/69
--Dandy 40/40 < Cure Light Wounds x7,Bless, Hold Personx2, Find Traps, Augury, Silence 15'r,Glyph of Warding, Remove Curse, Dispel Magic, Speak With the Dead,Protection from Evil 10' radius, Cure serious woundsx3,Raise dead,plane shift >
Castinus 39/39
--Furuk 78/78
Ulster 62/62 < Animal Companion, Entangle x2, Faerie Fire, Pass Without Trace, Speak with Animals x2, Barkskin, Charm Person or Mammal, Cure Light Wounds, Heat Metal, Obscuring Mist, Stumble, Warp Wood, Call Lightning, Hold Animal, Insect Swarm, Plant Growth, Stone Shape, Protection from Electricity, Repel Vermin, Speak with Plants, Summon Animal I, Animal Growth, Summon Animal II, Wall of Fire, Conjure Fire Elemental, Control Weather, Transmute Metal to Wood >
Dieter 42/42 < Magic Missile x 2, Otiluke's Smoky Sphere, Sleep, Auditory Illusion, Continual Light, Flaming Sphere, Stinking Cloud , Fireball, Monster Summoning I, Slow, Charm Monster, Evard's Black Tentacles, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, Monster Summoning III , Otiluke's Radiant Sphere, Teleport >
--Algrim 70/70

[badams30]

Grimes turns invisible and says "wait a minute, men... let me stroll up there and peek into that dimly lit room."

Grimes will slowly walk toward the room, staying toward the opposite side of the hall, to perk in and see if it's occupied or perhaps another room of odd devices... he'll return immediately to report his findings.

[GreyWolfVT]

Algrim listens to Grimes nodding once to show he acknowledges and waits looking around on guard.

[greyarea]

Grimes disappears and you can hear his footsteps recede down the hallway: hard leather on metal.



He peeks in the room and can't help but peek more (because going back and forth will take forever: this is a big module). He finds the remains of a large bedroom with a sitting area. The sofas are broken and moldy, the table destroyed, a desk toppled and bits of things on the ground. There is a large bed sized for royalty and on it is a skeleton, roughly humanoid, draped in disintegrated bits of cloth. A glass window on the far wall provides an eerie dim light which is what you saw from the hall.
Actions?

Hit points and marching order
Grimes 69/69
--Dandy 40/40 < Cure Light Wounds x7,Bless, Hold Personx2, Find Traps, Augury, Silence 15'r,Glyph of Warding, Remove Curse, Dispel Magic, Speak With the Dead,Protection from Evil 10' radius, Cure serious woundsx3,Raise dead,plane shift >
Castinus 39/39
--Furuk 78/78
Ulster 62/62 < Animal Companion, Entangle x2, Faerie Fire, Pass Without Trace, Speak with Animals x2, Barkskin, Charm Person or Mammal, Cure Light Wounds, Heat Metal, Obscuring Mist, Stumble, Warp Wood, Call Lightning, Hold Animal, Insect Swarm, Plant Growth, Stone Shape, Protection from Electricity, Repel Vermin, Speak with Plants, Summon Animal I, Animal Growth, Summon Animal II, Wall of Fire, Conjure Fire Elemental, Control Weather, Transmute Metal to Wood >
Dieter 42/42 < Magic Missile x 2, Otiluke's Smoky Sphere, Sleep, Auditory Illusion, Continual Light, Flaming Sphere, Stinking Cloud , Fireball, Monster Summoning I, Slow, Charm Monster, Evard's Black Tentacles, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, Monster Summoning III , Otiluke's Radiant Sphere, Teleport >
--Algrim 70/70

[badams30]

Grimes comes back and relays what he sees. "Skeleton, seems dead. Uh, deader. Deadish. Anyway, looks safe unless boney jumps up."

Grimes will lead the way back, visible.

[spanningtree]

Dieter - Mage

Thank you Grimes. Let's have a look. Dieter will make his way to the room Grimes investigated and search.

[tumblingdice]

Castinus - human thief

Castinus will help examine the new room, taking particular interest in the window.

This whole place. Too many lights. Too many noises. Can't concentrate.

[badams30]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes carefully enters the room and heads over to the skeleton, cautiously poking at it with Wave. If it doesn't jump up and try to kill him, he'll search around it for any clues or signs of this poor fella's identity or past.

Question: Does this person look to have been dead for a looong time, or just a while?

As Grimes pokes around the remains he mutters to no one in particular "odd place to have a room, so close to that noisy chamber back there. This place makes no sense."

[GreyWolfVT]

Algrim moves to where the skeleton is and just watches waiting in case it animates and attacks.

[Craigers07]

Furuk - Fighter

Furuk stands in the hall and keeps watch while the others explore the room.

[greyarea]

The person is a full-on skeleton that apparently decomposed naturally. He/she/it appears to "have been dead for a looong time," as one might put it. Grimes cannot make much of it, other than it was human sized and shaped at one time. The clothes it was wearing falls apart at the touch, turning to dust. There is nothing else of note about the skeletal form. The halfling cannot help but to hope it died in its sleep.

Castinus examines the window, which, upon further investigation, appears that it might not be a window. The view through it, a seashore, makes no sense given their mountainous climb (unless this place resides elsewhere) and appears as if foggy, getting foggier the closer the thief looks. As if this isn't a window at all, but a vision of some other place perhaps.

Nothing of use is found by Dieter. Things are too broken or too decomposed to be of any identifiable use.

Actions?

Hit points and marching order
Grimes 69/69
--Dandy 40/40 < Cure Light Wounds x7,Bless, Hold Personx2, Find Traps, Augury, Silence 15'r,Glyph of Warding, Remove Curse, Dispel Magic, Speak With the Dead,Protection from Evil 10' radius, Cure serious woundsx3,Raise dead,plane shift >
Castinus 39/39
--Furuk 78/78
Ulster 62/62 < Animal Companion, Entangle x2, Faerie Fire, Pass Without Trace, Speak with Animals x2, Barkskin, Charm Person or Mammal, Cure Light Wounds, Heat Metal, Obscuring Mist, Stumble, Warp Wood, Call Lightning, Hold Animal, Insect Swarm, Plant Growth, Stone Shape, Protection from Electricity, Repel Vermin, Speak with Plants, Summon Animal I, Animal Growth, Summon Animal II, Wall of Fire, Conjure Fire Elemental, Control Weather, Transmute Metal to Wood >
Dieter 42/42 < Magic Missile x 2, Otiluke's Smoky Sphere, Sleep, Auditory Illusion, Continual Light, Flaming Sphere, Stinking Cloud , Fireball, Monster Summoning I, Slow, Charm Monster, Evard's Black Tentacles, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, Monster Summoning III , Otiluke's Radiant Sphere, Teleport >
--Algrim 70/70

[spanningtree]

Dieter - Mage

Dumbfounded by what he sees: Well, this is odd. Dieter will return to the hallway, confused.

[GreyWolfVT]

Algrim backs out to the hall once more eyeing the skeleton.

[badams30]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes casts a sad glance at the remains on the floor. "What a lonely end. I wonder what happened to this guy?" He looks about and shakes his head "I don't like this place, not one bit. Something very wrong here. Let's move along." Grimes goes back in the hallway and looks about nervously.

[greyarea]

The party falls back into the hallway.



There are many unopened doors that you've passed, and still more unexplored halls. Where to?


Actions?

Hit points and marching order
Grimes 69/69
--Dandy 40/40 < Cure Light Wounds x7,Bless, Hold Personx2, Find Traps, Augury, Silence 15'r,Glyph of Warding, Remove Curse, Dispel Magic, Speak With the Dead,Protection from Evil 10' radius, Cure serious woundsx3,Raise dead,plane shift >
Castinus 39/39
--Furuk 78/78
Ulster 62/62 < Animal Companion, Entangle x2, Faerie Fire, Pass Without Trace, Speak with Animals x2, Barkskin, Charm Person or Mammal, Cure Light Wounds, Heat Metal, Obscuring Mist, Stumble, Warp Wood, Call Lightning, Hold Animal, Insect Swarm, Plant Growth, Stone Shape, Protection from Electricity, Repel Vermin, Speak with Plants, Summon Animal I, Animal Growth, Summon Animal II, Wall of Fire, Conjure Fire Elemental, Control Weather, Transmute Metal to Wood >
Dieter 42/42 < Magic Missile x 2, Otiluke's Smoky Sphere, Sleep, Auditory Illusion, Continual Light, Flaming Sphere, Stinking Cloud , Fireball, Monster Summoning I, Slow, Charm Monster, Evard's Black Tentacles, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, Monster Summoning III , Otiluke's Radiant Sphere, Teleport >
--Algrim 70/70

[spanningtree]

Dieter - Mage

Can we get any of the doors we have past to open? Dieter will mutter, turning back to take a closer look.