Razi will keep to the high stone ledge along the wall, holding his light hammer high to provide illumination and keeping his eyes on the murky water.  He struggles to look directly at the altar... he feels the evil that has been perpetrated here and it sickens him.

"Hmm, this is a strange place," Jim says as he looks around. "I mean, even strange for the rest of the room. Something feels unusual. Do you feel it?"

Caine shudders at the site in the middle of the pool. 

“Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse.” Caine says while looking at what he assumes was a sacrificial altar.

He slips up on to the ledge to the east of the entry area and looks around for any sign of insects of unusual size or anything else that might want to stick them with something pointy.

Perception: 9  

He lights an extra torch to increase the light too.

"I can't take it, that nasty altar may be our way out of here.  I am going to check it out, hopefully someone has a cleansing spell for me when I get back."

Sleet steps into the water after checking its depth to inspect the altar. 

"Careful about that altar," Jim says. "It might be trapped."

However, Jim then joins Sleet in investigating the altar without stepping on it.

(Investigation: 20)

(Did Caine notice anything around the edges when he was searching on the ledge - post #763 above)

Caine and his big mouth.

Wis Save: 2  

Razi WIS save: 13

((Wow...that's what I get for not posting for a few days lol))

Nelyna creeps onto the ledges behind Caine and Razi. She looks at the dais and altar with disgust and fear. What sort of awful things happened down here?

WIS Save: 8

"Wow, it is even nastier than I expected.  These people were sick in the head.  I'll look around a bit longer and then we can get moving again."

Religion  18

After his initial shock at the ghostly apparitions and evil chanting, Razi notices Nelyna moving toward the altar.  "Nelyna?  Are you alright?  Sleet!  Can you get to her?"

Caine looks around the room as the chanting coalesces into recognizable words. He then shudders, thinking it was better when it was unintelligible droning.

”Do you think they mean one of us or one of them?” Caine asks.

He starts backing up towards the entrance but looks around for any sign of anything more threatening than these shadows.

Jim looks around at the apparitions that have manifested around the room.

"I'm thinking they mean one of us," Jim replies. "I think that we have set off some sort of trap. Now they are demanding another sacrifice. Like they have done before."

He then spins around to the rest of the group.

"But I refuse to let anyone of us die for some cult. I won't let it happen. I refuse."

He then spins back around.

"You hear me! I refuse!"

Nelyna feels cold all over, and her mind is strangely blank. With a blank expression on her face, she walks slowly to the altar in the center of the room. She climbs on top of the altar and lays down, her hands clasped over her chest like a corpse in a coffin. 

Sleet grabs Nelyna and attempts to take her out of the room as quickly as possible, trying to shake her awake as he goes.

"Snap out of it!!  Wake up!!"