The Long Road of the Mage King (Game Thread)

The ceiling is a little too tall to reach to examine (the rooms and passages fit 10 foot tall Crystal Minotaurs with plenty of headroom to swing an axe, after all). But a cursory examination of the ceiling and a hand inspection of the walls reveals the dungeon to be made of hewn stone blocks. It is possible that secrets may built into the dungeon someplace but there are none in the pink room.

(24 seconds passes in order to perform this investigation. Other players can do something with this time, but Gash and Dog performing more actions advance the clock further!)

Can we take a short rest? If so, I’ll use my Song of Rest feature. 

Nope. Still being stalked.

Oh, also is there a candle on the floor from when Gash and I threw it back and forth when we first got to the green room?

(Sorry, it was in the yellow room. You can have picked it up.)

That’s right, I forgot. Nah, I’ll leave it. We were in a hurry. I have four left. 

As Gash inspects (if the DM is nice to me) "Bulwark, you've been down here a while obviously and you found a spot to... I don't know if hide is the right word... but what do you know about the Minotaurs?"

(talking is fine, while you work.)

”Well, we know where one hallway leads because we came from there. The question is, where do we go from here? We can see where the next room teleports us to, or we can try one of the side hallways. By the way, good idea putting that light on the axe. Now we’ll know if we see the same Minotaur again, which might also give us a clue where we are if we see it from another direction.”

Bulwark, chassis still rent apart from the devastating axe blows, shakes his head. "I was not hiding, I was in an inactive state after these crystal constructs damaged me to the point of near total dysfunction. The Minotaurs cannot themselves pass through the portals. Everything else I know about them and this place I have told you."

Everyone but Tock had weighed in. What'll you do next? (I don't want to advance the clock until you are ready it you act.)

Tock took initiative for a round, he's letting the brains do the thinking now. "Let me know if you want me to run around some more." 

"Or.. Can anyone else do the light thing? Put it on a crossbow bolt and I can shoot it down a corridor and we can see if it stays glowing somewhere. I have a feeling all of these rooms are connected." 

"We could light a few torches and throw them down a few hallways? Also I am content to wait here for these minotaurs to get closer before we teleport away - should we try this new orange one?" Dog says as he examines the floor and walls.

“I’d like to try the orange one.  I think once we know how each of the colors are linked, we can figure out a way to leave here and get your friend.”

“Mr. Bulwark, they can’t use the teleporters but can they enter the auras?”

Bulwark nods.

(Care to do anything while you await the stalking constructs?)

Dog turns to his fire genasi friend and first gives him a healing potion, and second has him light a torch. Dog then, without objection, throws it down the east hallway so that it rolls to a stop at the intersection so that if they move to a place where they would see it, they'll know they're close.

(OOC: how are the hallways lit? Or are they not lit at all?)

(Only lit by the auras. Otherwise, pitch black.)

“Should I start greasing the floors with this large hunk of butter now?”

Tock looks at Gash, casts Thaumaturgy and creates a loud sound of a crowd of people laughing.