Mongo: “Red is really not my color, amigo. Stand down!”

Persuasion: 14

Kit steps forward. "We're not Red Wizards, we're actually here to fight them," she says seriously, keeping a watchful eye on the ghost.

Persuasion: 19

"Wot!" the ghost exclaims. "Oh. Well..truth be told, you don't look like them." he thinks. "Sorry about the whole advancing charge and all. I used to be an adventurer. I was exploring this place with my group, and, well, I didn't make it. So here my soul remains. Tell you what. Kick their ass for me, would ya? Oh, and avoid the teleportation room (room15) up ahead. That's how I died."

"How'd the teleportation room kill you?" Kit asks, half out of curiosity, half because they might need to go there anyway.

Mongo distrusts ghosts...they're mainly, in his mind, spirits that are hard to kill.  So, he stands in the back of the room as the rest of the group holds their coffee clatch with the ghost.  All the while, he's trying to discern whether or not the ghost is telling us the truth (Insight: 21).

"Certain floor panels on the wall cause massive psychic damage. Definitely don't recommend it!"

"Thanks for the advice." Rosamia says to the random ghost. "Hey Mongo, can you check out this hallway and let us fleshy weaklings know what's down there?" She says, heading over to the end of the room and pointing down the hallway on the map that has an S in the middle.

(He won't find anything, that leads to another more dangerous sector)

Then I guess she'll point him toward Room 7, since that'll probably get us killed if we go sequence hopping.

Mongo whines, because he’d obviously prefer the maiming section, and all the fun that would bring. But he reluctantly agrees and proceeds towards room 7. 

This enormous hall is set with rows of pillars carved in the shapes of elemental and demonic creatures. A great rift has been torn in the center of the stone floor. Through it, a stream of chaotic energy blasts upward, flowing into a similar rift in the vaulted ceiling forty feet above. Tendrils split off from the pulsing column of energy, lashing out to strike the nearest pillars.

In the southwest corner is a black gate.

DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check: ?????
DC15 Intelligence (Arcana) check: ?????

Arcana: 11

"I'm supposed to punch things, not be smart damnit."

Arcana: 14

Arcana: 10

“I’m not smart either, but, eh, let’s try...”

Arcana: 2

”Nope!”

Arcana: 11

Taeli looked at the rift. "What could this be, possibly, I wonder?" she asked inquisitively.

Shalendra spoke up. "When I was a prisoner here, I heard the Red Wizards talk about this rift. This rift is dangerous and is channeling extra planar elemental forces. It must be how the acquired the fire elemental, and, perhaps, the demons we fought earlier."

"Can we close it?" Kit wonders. "Closing it would be good."

"Yes, to close the rift would require the bodily sacrifice of a warforged warrior with horrible pick up lines." Shalendra admits. Taeli looks at Mongo, considering it. "I think that's a fair sacrifice." she says, after a moment of thought.

Mongo gets ready to step into the rift, then pauses when he finally realizes they're talking about him....

"Hey, I represent that!"

Instead, Mongo turns on his heel and backs out of the room...nervous for what might be coming out of the rift any second.

"Magic is really what would be required to seal it, I would imagine. Magic we don't possess." Shalendra said. She noticed Taeli looked dissapointed. "Sorry." Shalendra said, smiling.

Taeli made a face indicating she was joking, too, and said. "Well, then, that clears this level then. Commander, might be a good time to report in to Headquarters on our progress."

"I can lead us to the next area." Shalendra said. "Oh, and everyone level up. Good job."