Using the telescope Seraphina sees that there are no dragons in the Outer Ward but 8 human cultists with a slightly different uniforms with a more open back and for a split second you see they have spectral wings of a dragon.
It is clear they created the soft thuds as they landed in the Outer Ward. They begin flying towards the Astronomy Tower with longswords unsheathed
After Dralmorrer reveals a potential route out of the trap they find themselves ensnared in, Thrax looks down at his new companions, disquieted eyes searching for confirmation that the route outlined truly exists. "Do you know the way? The way Dralmorrer speaks?"
"Yes," Ixsas answers Thrax, "I think so. We saw the door to the Dining Hall (Q) when we came through the courtyard to get into this tower. It sounds like it's a pretty straight-shot from there, but it almost certainly means walking through a couple of rooms filled with the cult members and their bullywug or lizardfolk guards." Ixsas expects that the guards and maybe the regular cultists congregate in the Dining Hall when they're not on guard duty. It'll be best if they can use deception to get past them and into the caverns before they're discovered. Of course, that assumes that the party can figure out an alternate exit via the caverns.
"The chests. If they are not trapped. Put the not trapped ones in a bag. I can carry them. We open them later."
((OOC: I think that the chests are linked to one another like pearls on a necklace (post #3711). I'm not sure whether there's a way to take the chests with no trap (#4 and #6) without also taking the chests that are still trapped (#2 and #5). Thrax and Zeds already opened chests #1 and #3.))
@Weathervision - Were any of the cultists who were defending this tower with Dralmorrer or who attacked it earlier wearing the dragon mask, like the one Zeds has?
The key does not fit into the lock.
Using the telescope Seraphina sees that there are no dragons in the Outer Ward but 8 human cultists with a slightly different uniforms with a more open back and for a split second you see they have spectral wings of a dragon.
It is clear they created the soft thuds as they landed in the Outer Ward. They begin flying towards the Astronomy Tower with longswords unsheathed
"Yes," Ixsas answers Thrax, "I think so. We saw the door to the Dining Hall (Q) when we came through the courtyard to get into this tower. It sounds like it's a pretty straight-shot from there, but it almost certainly means walking through a couple of rooms filled with the cult members and their bullywug or lizardfolk guards." Ixsas expects that the guards and maybe the regular cultists congregate in the Dining Hall when they're not on guard duty. It'll be best if they can use deception to get past them and into the caverns before they're discovered. Of course, that assumes that the party can figure out an alternate exit via the caverns.
((OOC: I think that the chests are linked to one another like pearls on a necklace (post #3711). I'm not sure whether there's a way to take the chests with no trap (#4 and #6) without also taking the chests that are still trapped (#2 and #5). Thrax and Zeds already opened chests #1 and #3.))
@Weathervision - Were any of the cultists who were defending this tower with Dralmorrer or who attacked it earlier wearing the dragon mask, like the one Zeds has?
No none of the cultist in the tower wore masks.
To take 1 chest you would need to break the chain.