D&D II Act One Scene II(b) - The Dread City

sKeith

Sarric picks the mushrooms and hands them to goldameer, "Are these of any use?"

Fourier

"Yeah, hold on"

He places the mushroom into the wound and it begins to be slowly absorbed. He stands up slowly.

"I think I can go on, where to next?"

sKeith

Sarric once again edges to the stairway on the east side of the room and carefully descends.

Fourier

The group exits the tower and walks out into the third level proper.

The chamber is mostly taken up with a large factory like building with ten pipes, red hot with heat, emerging from it. Two run in the ceiling, seven into the floor and one circles the room before joining back into the factory.

The factory itself seems to have no entrances.

Seven exits lead this chamber at (OOC: using clock face directions):
Twelve
Three
Five
Six
Eight
Eleven

sKeith

"Well Thorginz, do you want to make a call or should i just wing it?"

Fourier

"The path to the fourth floor ain't at six o' clock, that's where my group died"

sKeith

"ha, thats were i would have winged it to."
"Anybody else wanna pipe in, goldameer, anyone..."

Fourier

Karinth stands meditating.

"Ser Boros, you wish to slay a beast that will have the folk of your barony singing your praises for centuries. I sense a beast of awesome might yonder at six o' clock..."

"Aye that's who killed us, the massive undead Viper beast, with but a single drop of venom..."

"Your previous party were weaklings then, we are ones of action and vitality, but...."

He pauses similing.

"...by Othegre's blood, even greater beasts are to be found beyond this Viper"

He turns with force to Sarric.

"My friend, we must journey there and test ourselves against this ineffable fulcrum of destiny"

"Jaysus, you're a bit full on lad" Thorginz says looking back to Sarric and rolling his eyes

Fourier

Goldameer is a bit stunned by Karinth.

"Six o' clock leads to the Necromancers' main experimentation lab, it's suicide"

sKeith

Fourier wrote: »

Goldameer is a bit stunned by Karinth.

"Six o' clock leads to the Necromancers' main experimentation lab, it's suicide"

Sarric questions Goldameer, "So, do you also know where 8, or 11 or 12 or 3 or 5 lead?"

Fourier

"Eight is sacred to my people, one must make a pilgrimage there for the right to breed, it is why I am with you. It is where my race first evolved.

As for Three, gnolls from the lower levels often dig up through tunnels there to obtain the great treasure of the sea folk, old stories say to avoid it

The rest I know little about."

sKeith

"So, you want us to go into 8 with you? is there a way to lower levels through there?
Otherwise, we'll go down exit 5. "

Fourier

"I would be grateful if you came with me, I'm more likely to survive that way, but I most certainly do not expect it, we will part ways at this point should you choose elsewhere"

sKeith

"Goldameer, we are not here to earn the right to breed...., but ..., we will accompany you if it gets us closer to our goal, which is to get to the fourth level and find some sword. "

Fourier

"There is no path down to fourth floor near our sacred site"

He offers his hand.

"Goodbye then"

sKeith

Sarric takes Goldameers hand, "Good luck lad, hope to see you again, may your quest bring you the right to make lots of little goldameers". Sarric Releases his hand.

Sarric then turns and heads for the 5 exit.

Fourier

OOC: I'm assuming exit 5 was meant.

The fifth exit leads out into a dark corridor. Eventually after an hours walk, the corridor terminates in a massive double door.

sKeith

ooC: yep, soory.

Sarric investigates the double doors and asks the dwarf to see if he can see any traps on the door, if he cant, Sarric will give it one last traps check the try to open the door.

Fourier

Thorginz stops as he notices something etched into the door.

"An old label on the door lad, 'Subject Zero', what do you think it means"

Karinth speaks up "We use similar in Othegregrad for experimental subjects, vivimantic test cases for new spells, subject zeroes receive the strongest dose, I imagine it is the analogue for a necromancer"

sKeith

"So, another of the Necromancers expremint labs, so, 6 is his main lab, 5 is a secondary lab, maybe we should just use the gnolls tunnels in 3 and be wreckless about the old stories."

ooc notes 5&6: nec ex 8:ritual 3:tunnels

Fourier

sKeith wrote: »

"So, another of the Necromancers expremint labs, so, 6 is his main lab, 5 is a secondary lab, maybe we should just use the gnolls tunnels in 3 and be wreckless about the old stories."

ooc notes 5&6: nec ex 8:ritual 3:tunnels

"I concur" Karinth shouts.

Ser Boros looks at the door carefully.

"Perhaps we could open it slightly, but not walk straight in?"

"That's just looking for trouble" Faree counters "I don't want to enter some nutjobs lab. Gnolls are dumb beasts, a much safer option"

sKeith

Sarric turns and proceeds to exit 3 (the gnolls one) and proceeds in carefully

Fourier

The third exit continues into a corridor that proceeds to the East, but about half a mile in has a side passage going North.

sKeith

Sarric continues eastbound.

Fourier

The passage ends in a chamber containing a bound air elemental within a summoning circle. Its form is that of a cloud in roughly humanoid form.

Within the circle lie two jars.

sKeith

Sarric searches for non obvious exits.

Fourier

Sarric finds a small crawl space dug into the wall, just large enough for Sarric to squeeze through, but too small for Karinth and Ser Boros.

sKeith

Well its not a complete dead end, "Be right back", Sarric dissapears into the crawl space.

Fourier

Sarric exits the crawl space and emerges in a dank room, with water dripping from above. Strange green writing covers the walls. The entire room is filled with a low grade hum.

In front of him Sarric can see four gnolls digging away at collapsed masonry. They have not noticed him.

sKeith

"ahem, excuse me. would you be able to widen this crawl space for the rest of my party, What would you want in exchange?"