5 4 6 10

This time light caught more of the foul creatures. One was even destroyed completely, Leon finished off the second straggler, and the group now was facing 1 skeleton with a sword, and one with the bow.

Commotion on the floor did not let Ramious to repeat his amazing passado, and the ex-swordman got his chance to attack. He chose elusive tiefling:

vs Ramious: 11 Damage: 7

while archer unleashed another rotten arrow at Cinder: 17 Damage: 6

Now Cinder could have her chance in melee as well!

Cinder - Alyssa - Leon - Ramious

"Finally!" Cinder yells, swinging her warpick around.

Attack: 20 Damage: 13

The swordman was practically atomized. All what was left is a wounded rattling carcass with a bow.

If it comes to Leon...

Attack with war hammer: 9

Damage: 9

Alyssa will blink a couple times before realizing there was a pile still rattling. She'll point to it calling down radiant fire to descend upon it.

Sacred Flame Dex 13 or take 4 radiant damage.

It seemed those particular bones needed more help to find the final rest. Ramious was needed to grant that peace.

Ramious strides forward, intent on destroying the last skeleton with his blade. Attack: 14 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. 

And he managed it! The corridor was decorated with one more pile of bones. The floor belonged adventurers!

It was indeed an intersection - the right passage was ending pretty soon, from your point you could see a dead body by the wall with a few coins fallen from rotten bag. The left corridor went deeper and turned north again.

Cinder walks over to collect the coins, and inspect the body.  "Huh," she says to the others.  "Someone good at investigating things want to check out if it looks like our dead friend here was done in by a hydra or not?  He looks a little too well-preserved to be a hydra snack, but you can never be sure, right?"

Cinder will help whoever wants to check out the body, if anyone does.

Cinder found 9 coins. And indeed, the body was "well preserved". Mummified even - most likely poor guy died of thirst and hunger. 

Ramious walks over and investigates the scene.  15

"I hope this isn't one of those magical mazes where they have little creatures running around erasing your chalk marks.... wouldn't want to end up like this guy.  You know, just hang on a second, how about we all back track for a bit and just make sure we can get out." 

After searching the dead end, Ramious leads the party back, following the chalk arrows to make sure we can find the entrance.  Assuming we can, he then follows the chalk marks back once more and continues along to the left, always opting to try and head north. 

That was a smart notion on Ramious  part! The marking in the immediate vicinity were intact, but the door opened up in to another corridor - at least into one, where floor and walls did not had any markings on it. Looks like it was indeed "one of those magical mazes".

Alyssa would pat her nose, then put her finger up. "Ah yes. The thought I was getting too before these bones interrupted." She'd clear her throat. "I should have done this from the beginning when we sensed it was a maze..."

"You should have! Squawk!"

Alyssa would sigh before continuing, "I can try to detect magic." Assuming no one would argue, the elf would begin performing a ritual to try to identify the magic and perhaps its source.

Leon crosses his arms and leans against the wall, waiting for her to finish the ritual.

Ramious looks at the floor, then looks at the chalk in his fingers, "URGGG!!"   He throws the piece of chalk to the floor, the piece shattering into several small pieces.  Unimpressed by it's mediocre destruction, Ramious takes to stomping the bits into powder on the floor.  Then he looks around at the ceiling and walls, "WHY DOES THIS EXIST?!?!"  He slaps the wall heavily with his open palm...and then leans back against the wall with a huff.    A few moments later he seems to have collected himself somewhat, and he bends down opening his pack up.  "How much food and water do we have?  I have......great.....one day of rations....and a waterskin..." 

He sits down, a muttering grumble in his throat as he waits for the spell to be finished. 

The spell worked... Sort of. The magic was everywhere. It was not the walls, or the floor - more like the group stepped into something magical by nature.

"I knew this was a brilliant idea," Cinder says drily, pacing around the hall while Alyssa conducts her ritual.  "I wonder if jamming all the doors we passed through open would do any good?"  She pulls out a piton.  "I could force 10 of them to be stuck open... how many doors have we already passed through, anyway?  You think it'd make a difference?"

Stopping by Ramious, she smirks.  "Relax a little.  I have a few more rations than you do.  And besides... if we really get stuck in here, we could just resort to cannibalism, right?"

"Well, no sense sitting around and doing nothing."  Leon says with a shrug as he pushes off of the wall.  "We keep moving until we find a way out, or we die trying."  He adjusts his pack and looks to the others.  "Nothing else has changed, so let's keep moving, unless someone has a better option..."

Ramious grunts at Cinder as he pushes himself up off the floor.  "Human flesh tastes gross."  There's no sign of a joke or sarcasm.  He walks back to the front of the group.  He pulls out a piece of paper, and begins drawing a map of where they've been by memory.  As he takes the lead, he stops at each intersection to update it, then presses on.  

"Hmm. Just feels like we've stepped into something magical by nature..." Alyssa rests, pondering on the last bit for a little before picking herself up off the floor. "I guess that wasn't as enlightening as I'd hope." She'd chuckle nervously for a moment, then agree with Leon,  "Well. I suppose we keep exploring until we find something? I can create water. And enough rations for a few days."