"Shh..." The old crone hisses to Killian. "We can talk later, for now, we need to get them as far away as possible, and there are sentinels in the paths ahead."

The old crone seems to cover the lantern's light, as the group finds the corridors have a very faint illumination (low-light) in the area. The passages seem to open up slightly as it seems like you are within the outer workings of the room you were just in, huge stone levitating up in the air and gliding along silently. "Follow me and keep quiet."

I'd like a group Stealth check. Those who are currently INT 1 have disadvantage as they are having issues working out what is going on.

Killian, follows taking in what he is seeing, trying to keep Rumble from muttering or making too much noise.

Stealth: 5

Edit: the big guy has Killian distracted although wanting to keep quiet his actions are not helping.

 Mara nods at what Killian wants her to do, keeping her eyes firmly fixed on the old woman as they began to follow after her. She frowns at the mindless state of two of their companions, cautious now that it has happened near her twice. As the old woman calls for stealth, she nods but knows that it is not exactly one of her few strong points.

15

In his mind Dark just repeats the words flying, flying, flying. To the rest they just hear the quiet cooing of a dove.

Stealth 20

Stealth: 22

(Got a good enough pass/fail ratio for now :-) )

The group slowly follows the old crone, when she stops the group suddenly. There is a sound of heavy footsteps as a being made of wood and stone, standing over ten feet tall, marches along the crossroad ahead. It does not turn to look at the group, and continues is methodical movement to the next intersection. She then gestures for them to cross the intersection.

Portrait of the Sentinel, in the spoiler

OOC: scary 

After stepping further through the twists and turns, those afflicted slowly regain cognitive capabilities (INT scores are reset to normal over the course of 5 minutes or so, so slowly regaining normal mental capacity)

The old crone leads the group to what appears to be a hatch on the floor. "In here." She says

Killian, seeing the Sentinel thinks to himself, made of wood and metal, could just burn it but rather keep my distance,  Also hearing Rumbles mumbles start to be more coherent and forming actual words as he moves along, I'll say to him. "Easy big guy, plenty to explain but we need to stay quiet for now." 

Killian will be the first down the hatch after having a look first. 

Investigation: 9

 (As mentioned in the post, the metallic pieces are actually stone)

Killian heads down the hatch first. He can see there is a small wooden ladder that leads into a darkened passage of old stone. It is somewhat reminiscent to the area where the stone sentinel was, as it leads off into the darkness.

"Quickly." The old crone hisses, as down the long passageway another one of the sentinels seems to turn and be headed towards where the party currently is.

As told by the crone, Mara will move quickly to follow after her motioning for the rest of the party to do the same. While she had no problem and ith defending herself she would rather not fight while three people were still bumbling fools as their senses slowly seemed to come back to them.

Darnell sighs slightly, glad to see the others waking from their apparent trance. He follows the old lady.

"Hurry!" he whispers behind him.

Once the group are into the hatch, the crone follows after them, shutting it behind them. The room goes into complete darkness for a moment before the glimmer of the bullseye lantern begins to illuminate the area. "You should be far away enough from the influence now." She says, grabbing a wooden quarterstaff from the ground and affixing the lantern to the top of it, lighting the path ahead. "We're not safe yet, though. Bid critters sometimes find their way down here."

“I need to stop testing this place. Is everyone alright? Wher are we?  Ok .... I need to stop talking but that was weird.” Dark says looking wild eyed around at everyone.

Killian, now standing in front of the woman. "Can you answer my questions now?, Who are you and why are you helping us? I figured out the 'They' part how many of those wooden stone giants walk the halls here? Are they fast? Can they communicate? Do you have any idea how to get out of this place..." Killian starts talking to himself again "of course you don't otherwise why would you be here, seems like no one ever leaves"  He stops talking and looks at his companions, then to the old lady, "Well what say you?"

The crone smiles with an almost devilish grin. "I think my answer for now is if you don't follow me you'll easily be brain food. And right now I want to live, and I assume so do you so if you want to find somewhere where we can talk you will get out of my way."

Killian lets out a loud sigh of aggravation but steps aside to let her pass as she does he eyes her quarterstaff to see what type of condition its in and if it seems to have any markings on it. 

Investigation: 20

(OOC: Since he was out of it, did someone else pick up all the stuff, or were those two left behind?)

Rumble simply plops down in the nearest corner, and buries his face into his hands. Listening still... probably, but otherwise either still out of it, or caring not to speak for the time being.

(There was enough time to grab belongings etc. You've not lost items)

The crone nods to Killian. "So kind..." She says with a hint of jest in her tone as she begins to lead the group onwards.

Killian:

 The crone leads the group in utter silence as she wanders through the twisting network of passageways (if anyone wants to make an Intelligence check they may feel free to do so), her silhouette obscuring some of the light ahead. As the group continues along, the glimmer of the bullseye lantern seems to land on a dead end.

Intelligence: 13