Leovold gives a quiet cheer for their second victory and helps pick up the coins.
Leovold then joins Nimue at the door. He is still breathing heavily. He tries to find a gap through the door to peer through and manifest an echo on the other side. " Hopefully, there are no more surprises in this one."
With the commotion of the encounter over, the adventures are finally able to take in their surroundings. Some rays of light enter the room from openings in the ceiling. There are cracks on the walls and rubble all over the ground. Some vegetation has started growing out of cracks in the floor. Water can be heard flowing from somewhere, but it is not visible.
On the north wall, there is a locked metal door with a key-lock on it.
Towards the end of the room on the east side, the party can see a blood stained limestone altar. There are four sconces with unlit torches lining the wall around it. While the map indicates two doors here, none are visible.
On the south wall, there is a door partially lodged under crumbling rock. It looks as if it could come loose if someone with considerable strength pulled on it.
Back towards the west in the previously traversed hallway entrance, a door on the south wall has been pried open. It looks as if one could slip through the crack if they weren’t too big.
In the center of the room are four pillars. One of them is surrounded by rubble, with a visible open cavity.
(ooc: Because of the nature of play-by-post, I will allow multiple inspections of the area at once.)
(Recap in spoiler)
Leovold manifests an echo on the other side of the door. He sees water flowing from a crack above the ceiling, falling into what appears to be the remains of an ancient Dwarven toilet. The water splashes upon this rock, and seeps into the floor below. Leovold swaps with his echo, then unlocks the door from the other side. He makes his way down the hallway and finds a priests' bedchamber with three stone beds inside. After brushing some rubble off of the frames, they still appear to be suitable for a night's rest. Three gemstones lay scattered on the floor.
Leovold looks over the party trying to determine who is best suited to carry their finds, but realizes it is probably himself. Still breathing heavily Leovold addresses the party, " I can hold these until we can exchange them for gold unless anyone disagrees. I also might like a bit of rest before we can continue, we seem to have cleared this place out for the most part. If any of you need me, I will be resting here till you come for my help or we leave I think."
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"Rest up friend... I'm going to see if there is anything magical here."
Dusty will take 10 minutes to cast Detect Magic as a ritual.
Dusty will walk around the priest's bedchamber as well as look at the three gemstones to see if anything is Magical.
If not Dusty will walk back to the center of the room with four pillars. He will run his one good hand inside of the open cavity and see if he feels anything.
Using his detect magic spell, Dusty can see the faint glow of transmutation magic on the stones. He can detect this same magic aura coming from behind the wall of the bedchamber.
Returning to the main room, he inspects the pillar cavity with his hand and feels the edge of something sharp. However, it is lodged inside of the rubble.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Nimue inspects the wall that the glow was coming from in the bed chamber to look for any hints on how to open it, displace it, destroy it, etc... She will have Numquam and Magis help in helping her spot for anything that could be useful.
Investigation: 12, 4
OOC: Not sure if DM allows birds to assist in looking for things. If you not use the first roll. Otherwise the second roll would be taken cause of advantage.
Leovold assists in clearing rubble from the pillar. Looking inside, he sees that the sharp object is a dagger. However, it is still lodged deeply inside.
facebreaker shakes his slime covered fists, freeing them from filth beaten off the creatures. he finds himself energized by the thrill of battle and looks to his companions eager for more!!! ..****y to find them completely derailed and elbow deep in pursuit of mystery, treasure, and secrets.
this always happen with adventurers below the mountain.
the goliath lets out a long and hard sigh, suppressing the excess adrenaline jackhammering through his body. and in an instant he finds himself calm...level headed...and at peace.
he smiles to himself and kicks a small rock across the room towards the alter.
hmmm? didnt map have a door there? he shrugs and joins his companions in their investigation.
Nimue finds the group and says "Hello? Hello? Meat heads? Did you not see the glow. There is magic behind this wall! Are you not gonna do what you do and hit it hard or something?? We can not walk away without even trying!"
Nimue taps her foots and looks onward as her group continues to muscle around.
Face breaker gives the wall an intense punch, creating a fist sized indention as well as several cracks. However, the heavy stone wall still seems structurally solid. It could take hours of this kind of punching to collapse the wall, even from the Goliath.
Leovold continues to clear rubble, and dislodges an ornate dagger.
" Well this is fancy. Hopefully, we don't need to spill any blood onto the altar or something with it." He looks around at everyone and sees the slightly crushed wall. " Well I guess that might be easier than some of the things we have tried. You did say sometimes he required sacrifices of blood didn't you Dusty?"
"Well this won't work." She returns to find Leo with the dagger and listens to him. "Blood and gemstones was what the deity enjoys. I believe one of us has all of that at the moment..." staring at Leo. "Well? Let's get to it. Drip drop! Get on up there!"
"What? Are you really wanting to sacrifice your own blood to this greedy god! Sometimes it's best to just walk away. Let them keep their secrets. Next we'll be making deals with devils."
Nimue looks at Dusty and Facebreaker with a and says with a slightly annoyed tone "That "god" doesn't pay attention to this temple anymore. If you don't want to participate fine, but as a loyal servant to your deity, I think you understand that false Gods must be proven weak and false. So if something does come, I expect the full might of tempus. Hopefully this should open the secret passage ways that we see on the map."
" I agree with Nimue. If anything, was must prove how powerless evil gods are and how even acts once meant to honor them mean nothing now and do nothing, but give us access to their riches. Before I go cutting myself." Leovold holds up the gem you said had a transmutation aura. " You said this one glowed right?" Leovold will attempt to touch it to the wall in the bedroom blocking their way. If it does nothing, he will lay it on the altar. " This dagger wasn't magical or cursed right?" If he has affirmation and simply laying the gem there does not open the wall he will cut his arm open and give his blood to the altar. " See, nothing but a flesh wound anyway. I've had far worse. " He will take some cloth and bandage it up a little bit.
"In the lands I came from, the gods promised us many things and we fought with them, believed in them. But they lied to us, and betrayed us. There are different, better gods here, but there are still evil gods that are best forgotten as well."
Leovold gives a quiet cheer for their second victory and helps pick up the coins.
Leovold then joins Nimue at the door. He is still breathing heavily. He tries to find a gap through the door to peer through and manifest an echo on the other side. " Hopefully, there are no more surprises in this one."
With the commotion of the encounter over, the adventures are finally able to take in their surroundings. Some rays of light enter the room from openings in the ceiling. There are cracks on the walls and rubble all over the ground. Some vegetation has started growing out of cracks in the floor. Water can be heard flowing from somewhere, but it is not visible.
On the north wall, there is a locked metal door with a key-lock on it.
Towards the end of the room on the east side, the party can see a blood stained limestone altar. There are four sconces with unlit torches lining the wall around it. While the map indicates two doors here, none are visible.
On the south wall, there is a door partially lodged under crumbling rock. It looks as if it could come loose if someone with considerable strength pulled on it.
Back towards the west in the previously traversed hallway entrance, a door on the south wall has been pried open. It looks as if one could slip through the crack if they weren’t too big.
In the center of the room are four pillars. One of them is surrounded by rubble, with a visible open cavity.
(ooc: Because of the nature of play-by-post, I will allow multiple inspections of the area at once.)
(Recap in spoiler)
Leovold manifests an echo on the other side of the door. He sees water flowing from a crack above the ceiling, falling into what appears to be the remains of an ancient Dwarven toilet. The water splashes upon this rock, and seeps into the floor below. Leovold swaps with his echo, then unlocks the door from the other side. He makes his way down the hallway and finds a priests' bedchamber with three stone beds inside. After brushing some rubble off of the frames, they still appear to be suitable for a night's rest. Three gemstones lay scattered on the floor.
Leovold looks over the party trying to determine who is best suited to carry their finds, but realizes it is probably himself. Still breathing heavily Leovold addresses the party, " I can hold these until we can exchange them for gold unless anyone disagrees. I also might like a bit of rest before we can continue, we seem to have cleared this place out for the most part. If any of you need me, I will be resting here till you come for my help or we leave I think."
"Rest up friend... I'm going to see if there is anything magical here."
Dusty will take 10 minutes to cast Detect Magic as a ritual.
Dusty will walk around the priest's bedchamber as well as look at the three gemstones to see if anything is Magical.
If not Dusty will walk back to the center of the room with four pillars. He will run his one good hand inside of the open cavity and see if he feels anything.
Investigation: 3
Using his detect magic spell, Dusty can see the faint glow of transmutation magic on the stones. He can detect this same magic aura coming from behind the wall of the bedchamber.
Returning to the main room, he inspects the pillar cavity with his hand and feels the edge of something sharp. However, it is lodged inside of the rubble.
Before leaving the bedroom, Leovold looks around for anything that might suggest a way through the wall.
Perception 22
He then makes his way out and tries to help Dusty move some of the rubble to get into the pillar.
Athletic 8
"These dwarves of greed surely knew how to hide some secrets."
Nimue inspects the wall that the glow was coming from in the bed chamber to look for any hints on how to open it, displace it, destroy it, etc... She will have Numquam and Magis help in helping her spot for anything that could be useful.
Investigation: 12, 4
OOC: Not sure if DM allows birds to assist in looking for things. If you not use the first roll. Otherwise the second roll would be taken cause of advantage.
The wall of the bed chamber appears to be normal.
Leovold assists in clearing rubble from the pillar. Looking inside, he sees that the sharp object is a dagger. However, it is still lodged deeply inside.
Leovold attempts to reach in and remove the dagger. " I wonder how this might have ended up stuck in here?"
Athletics 12
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facebreaker shakes his slime covered fists, freeing them from filth beaten off the creatures. he finds himself energized by the thrill of battle and looks to his companions eager for more!!! ..****y to find them completely derailed and elbow deep in pursuit of mystery, treasure, and secrets.
this always happen with adventurers below the mountain.
the goliath lets out a long and hard sigh, suppressing the excess adrenaline jackhammering through his body. and in an instant he finds himself calm...level headed...and at peace.
he smiles to himself and kicks a small rock across the room towards the alter.
hmmm? didnt map have a door there? he shrugs and joins his companions in their investigation.
Nimue finds the group and says "Hello? Hello? Meat heads? Did you not see the glow. There is magic behind this wall! Are you not gonna do what you do and hit it hard or something?? We can not walk away without even trying!"
Nimue taps her foots and looks onward as her group continues to muscle around.
facebreaker gives the wall a thoughtful look over before channelling his inner power and one inch punching through the stone!!!
strength: 21
Face breaker gives the wall an intense punch, creating a fist sized indention as well as several cracks. However, the heavy stone wall still seems structurally solid. It could take hours of this kind of punching to collapse the wall, even from the Goliath.
Leovold continues to clear rubble, and dislodges an ornate dagger.
" Well this is fancy. Hopefully, we don't need to spill any blood onto the altar or something with it." He looks around at everyone and sees the slightly crushed wall. " Well I guess that might be easier than some of the things we have tried. You did say sometimes he required sacrifices of blood didn't you Dusty?"
"Well this won't work." She returns to find Leo with the dagger and listens to him. "Blood and gemstones was what the deity enjoys. I believe one of us has all of that at the moment..." staring at Leo. "Well? Let's get to it. Drip drop! Get on up there!"
Dusty steps up and waves his nub.
"What? Are you really wanting to sacrifice your own blood to this greedy god! Sometimes it's best to just walk away. Let them keep their secrets. Next we'll be making deals with devils."
disappointed with his performance, the goliath slowly pulls his fist from the wall and stares at the indention in the stone.
”need more training.”
he looks up to see his companions as they discuss the blood sacrifice....
”do what you must, but i take no part in blood rituals.”
Nimue looks at Dusty and Facebreaker with a and says with a slightly annoyed tone "That "god" doesn't pay attention to this temple anymore. If you don't want to participate fine, but as a loyal servant to your deity, I think you understand that false Gods must be proven weak and false. So if something does come, I expect the full might of tempus. Hopefully this should open the secret passage ways that we see on the map."
" I agree with Nimue. If anything, was must prove how powerless evil gods are and how even acts once meant to honor them mean nothing now and do nothing, but give us access to their riches. Before I go cutting myself." Leovold holds up the gem you said had a transmutation aura. " You said this one glowed right?" Leovold will attempt to touch it to the wall in the bedroom blocking their way. If it does nothing, he will lay it on the altar. " This dagger wasn't magical or cursed right?" If he has affirmation and simply laying the gem there does not open the wall he will cut his arm open and give his blood to the altar. " See, nothing but a flesh wound anyway. I've had far worse. " He will take some cloth and bandage it up a little bit.
"In the lands I came from, the gods promised us many things and we fought with them, believed in them. But they lied to us, and betrayed us. There are different, better gods here, but there are still evil gods that are best forgotten as well."
Leovold takes the ornate dagger, and cuts a slit in his arm, causing his blood to spill all over the altar.
Dusty's magic detection confirms that the gemstone on the altar is glowing with transmutation magic.
The party waits a few moments, hearing the sound of the wind flow through the temple. However, nothing happens.
(ooc: Can I get a perception and/or investigation check?)