Crimson Sands of Time

"Hmph, maybe there was no time to explain just what this is or does?"

Trisk holds up the golden orb to display it to the party in case anyone might have an idea of just what it is.

That will probably reveal itself in time.

<ooc: Who knows what happened to Gale?>

So, back to that room with the door that had voices behind it (2 south)? Or somewhere else? There's a door to the immediate west and also one to the west of the pyramid room. The door you halted at was to the south of the pyramid room.

Also, there's still a second Trisk 

<I vote for west, with no voices>

(ooc: is that west in the pyramid room? or west here where we just had contact with Syranna?)

"I don't know about Ethan but I'm not letting him take the blame for the loss of another ally. It's happened once before we met... this girl. Good soldiers never leave their comrades behind, especially if it's a woman." He points to Piccolo, knowing that she's probably the last 'prisoner' that is supposed to die. He can't let this happen for sure though. "I don't like it, but my instinct also say go west. I just don't know why." 

You do have a map

Looking west, the room has a very similar layout to tbe one with the gargoyles, but its colored red.

The room that lies west of the pyramid room has a similar array of cells ringing the perimeter, but what appears to be columns instead of a stepped pyramid, and to the south of it a room marked "hall of obedience".

If that helps, any.

Piccolo played a quick march tune thanking the group for their protection

Randy (barding inspiration. Once within the next 10 minutes, roll the 1d10 and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.

Trisk (bardic inspirationMagic inspiration add 1d10 as above or toward a spell damage

Piccolo (ty)

So do we want to go west into the red room... or west into the cells and pillars room (with the hall of obedience to the south)?

(Either fine by me, but prefer ability to avoid combat. )

What a successful investigation check would reveal,  from the map and prior dietitian,  is that the north (red) room is probably full of monsters,  and the south room is prism full of people

Saving time then,  I'll assume you take the south west room.

Picollo leads the group through the first set of doors, her keen eyes searching for traps,but finding none. A white gatestands beyond this door, but with several gliphkeys attuned to thisared,this poses no issue. A second set of doors opens to a large room.

Doors surround a central courtyard here, creating the sense of a monastic sanctuary. Each of the glowing silver pillars that support the ceiling has a set of chains and manacles fastened to it. Thayans hang from four of the pillars, their seemingly dead eyes open wide as if in a state of intense focus.

Exuding enchantment magic that dulls will and perception, the silver pillars cause any creature in the courtyard to have disadvantage on Wisdom checks and saving throws. Being chained to the pillars causes hypnotic dreams that, after a period of weeks or months, improve combat skill and imbue most creatures with strong devotion to the Red Wizards.

Four Thayan warriors chained to the pillars are in an advanced state of entrancement. 

"I wonder what is being done to them and whether it wouldn't be a mercy to end it for them. No one should end up as an experiment of the red wizards."

Trisk looks again at the faces of those chained to the pillars.

"Not everyone has a strong will or can be expected to hold out forever. Who knows how long they have been subjected to this... whatever this is."

Well uh... those aren't the warm, illuminating silver pillars we encountered like last time... Ethan shudders. Thinking he should break the chains and set them free, his free hand glows blue just in case, but nothing that appears to be solid comes out... yet...

"How long have they been in there?" Ethan whispers softly, not wanting to waste another pact slot this early seeing the progress they had made so far. 

“How interesting” Sam ponders about the idea of godhood and how one achieves it and how he could use it for his own and his deity’s ends 

“Right then what do we have here” 

investigation 16

medicine 24 

<Does Piccolo know how long the people remain in this place?, OOC: I suspect this is how dread warriors are made, and reminder, after two rounds, the lich can see through the dread warriors eyes, take control of them, and cast spells).

Sam waves a hand in front of a Thayan warrior hanging from a pillar. He doesn't blink. You could conclude that they can be treated as unconcious.

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<Does Piccolo know how long the people remain in this place?, OOC: I suspect this is how dread warriors are made, and reminder, after two rounds, the lich can see through the dread warriors eyes, take control of them, and cast spells).

 Unsure, but the answer is weeks or months.

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<Does Piccolo know how long the people remain in this place?, OOC: I suspect this is how dread warriors are made, and reminder, after two rounds, the lich can see through the dread warriors eyes, take control of them, and cast spells).

 Do you guys know this? Whatever.

Is anyone going to do anything? 

Did I not post the map?  Here ya go.

Piccolo stays near Trisk but wants to investigate the single doors. She will keep him within 30 feet of her.

(Perception: 12, 21, 16 on south 3 single doors. She will also pull out some rope and bind the mouths and eyes of the unconscious bottom 3, motioning for others to do the same to the top three (She will use fast hands as bonus actions to complete this work quickly and silently)

Just looking at the doors? They look like doors. Beyond the one closest to the double doors, you hear some kind of nasal grunting. At length you realize it's snoring, but more than one person's snore. 

"Should we deal with those chained to the pillars first or check the cells one by one?"

Trisk will use Malleable Illusions to change the Major Image of himself into an image of Sam.

"Maybe an illusion of Sam would serve as a better distraction."