You hop back to the door. The gas is deadly, but you manage to avoid getting into the cloud of it. It's rapidly expanding towards you! The dagger you left behind isn't working!

"Shit!" Zyn startles, seeing the door slam shut. "Oh! Uh..!!" she begins to think as quickly as possible, looking at Asha with a very concerned face.

Asha had a plan. She watched her grab the door. Zyn took a few puffs like she was about to lift a very heavy weight and grabbed the door and pulled hard, putting her back into it. "RRRgrggr!" she groaned as her face turned red, a neck vein or two popping out, and her arm muscles straining at the exertion.

The door didn't budge.

"****!!" she said, letting go, catching her breath. "What do we do now!?"

She had an idea. She looked up at the top of the wall. It was tall, she couldn't jump THAT high. Yet. "Gimme a boost!" she suggested, turning to Asha.

Asha, give Zyn a boost by helping her vault up to the top of the wall. It's an advantage athletics check.

Kira, go ahead and make another save.

Kira presses herself against the wall, hoping that the group has an idea here...

Athletics: 18

Con ST: 7

Alta gave Zyn a boost, but it wasn't enough. Zyn reached as high as she could, but it just didn't work. "JhR'g!!" she grunted, landing on the ground.

"We got this." she encouraged. "One more time. As hard as you can!"

Asha: Make another advantage athletics check.

Kira: You take damage while you wait for us to save your ass.

Asha casts Guidance on herself and tries again, hoping that she can get Zyn up there to save Kira

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"WHOA!" Zyn barked as Asha had a huge burst of strength, launching her up high above the top of the wall.

"Hi Kira!" Zyn's smiling face was seen briefly above the wall edge before gravity quickly brought her down. Zyn wrapped her arms around the top, pulling herself up, scrambling. "Here we go! Hurry!" She launched out her chains and the sickle ends found purchase on the floor, creating two "ropes" to have Kira hold on to. The gas was like a heavy cloud, contained in the shrine. Zyn coughed.

"Come on!!"

Because we're on a timer, make an advantage Athletics or Acrobatics roll to scramble up.

Kira immediately starts racing up the chains.

Acrobatics: 14

Kira and Zyn climb down, Zyn mildly sweating from the exersion and panic.

"Whoo!!" she cheered. She turned to Kira "Oh my gods I thought you were a goner! I didn't expect the doors to close." Then she turned to Alta, giving her a playful slap on the shoulder. "Wow, nice toss, you putz!" she joked, relieved everyone was ok.

You now possess one of the cubes to enter the Tomb of the Nine Gods. Eight more to go.

"Fascinating!" Orvex breathes, looking at it.

Astra also looks at the cube with much interest. “Do you mind if I take a closer look at it for a bit? I’d like to know more about this... thing.” 

If Kira agrees, he will take the cube from her and will take a quick 10 minutes to cast Identify on it. During this time Faust is scouting out the area for any baddies that may come their way.

Perception if needed: 11

Kira cheerfully tosses the cube over to Astra.

An amazing roll, but its key a stone key. It has a slight magical property that you cant identify. Faust had alerted you that King is still far away but is closer to you all than he was before.

Kitsune slinks out of the shadows as the team successfully retrieves their first stone key.  Seeing how ragged the team appears, she turns to Orvex and asks "You've been here longer than the rest of us...know of a safe place we can all take a rest before adventuring on to find the rest of the stone keys?"

Asha smiles at Zyn and Kira, glad that they were able to save the gnome.

"Not really." Orvex explains to Kitsune. "I mean, we're in the ruins of a city where yuan-ti reside, on top of a tomb where Acererak slayed nine trickster gods. None of this place is safe. If you choose to rest, I recommend at a minimum taking watches. Also, uh, it's eight in the morning.." 

Here are the locations you've explored, and i've circled the closest locations you can visit.

Kitsune casts Cure Wounds on herself, healing for 9 HP.

"There's a compound right across the main street from where we came in...perhaps we should look there next, for the next key?"  (area 4)

"Sure, let's go there."

AREA 4 - SHAGAMBI'S SHRINE

Orvex says, "This is Shagambi's shrine, it was a kamadan."

"What's a kamadan?" Zyn asked.

"It's a leopard that has six snakes sprouting from it's shoulders." Orvex explained.

"Oh." Zyn said, like it was no big deal. 

A ruined Shrine stands at the heart of this walled compound. Tall monoliths flank the entrance, decorated with images of a jaguar sprouting six snakes from it's shoulders as Orvex explained. A stone door is set into the shrine beyond. Flanking the entrance are two stone monoliths, each one 15 feet tall and draped in vines. "Look!" Orvex points to some writing. “Shagambi teaches us to fight evil with honor.” Reliefs on the monoliths show Shagambi overseeing Chultan warriors as they train with spears and swords.

You can see, beyond the entrance, a gladiatorial pit in the center of the shrine.

"I think that we're gonna have to fight something this time."