-/-/- Tomb of Annihilation -\-\-

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Kurma meditate on Mushy comments and looks closely to the torches, playing with his amulet of Oghma

INT kurma (with Guidance): 17 +3

 Kurma thinks that maybe the riddle is easier than it looks. There were right torch-holders in the first chamber and there are eight torches in here. The question might be, how to get the torches through the pools, if they need to pass through the pools at all?

"hummm the odd thing is the number of torches. The same number that in the first corridors. You know we lit 8 torches when we entered the temple..."

"Let me check something..."
Kurma is jumping back in the pool and go to extinguish one the 8 torches from the first chamber, and comes back to the cube room.

Artus INT check 17

"I bet we need to take these torches to the brackets  in the first chamber. There must be another way that does not involve their pools."

"That's a good idea Artus... Maybe there's a passage somewhere."
Kurma is holding his amulet and prays to Oghma to enhance his skills (OOC: using my channel divinity to give me prof. on Investigation).
The turtle is then checking around for something odd with the help of Artus.

Investigation: 11

Felix passes the jug and begins to look over the area for secret entrances.

Investigation: 22

The key Gertrude found carved inn the wall seems good to be pushed. And Musharib didn't waste time to do so. A secret door is revealed which leads to a passage.

This dark passage is choked with dust and webs. It’s clear that no one has been through here in years.

"...and there you go. Let me go first, Tourch please."

Felix will head in first looking for traps.

Perception: 11

Felix sees no traps in here, and, at the end of the passage, now a secret door has disappeared to grant access in the passage with the torch brackets.

He will set the touch in the bracket and move back to the group.

The torches are all set. Nothing tangible happens, but the cube is still there.

"Well... I guess it's done..."

"I'm wondering, Oniss, could you do your thing with your magic hand again and pick up the cube ?"

Felix reaches out and grabs the cube...

Slight of Hand: 25

Another puzzle cube is yours. The fifth, while the party knows that one is in the Red Wizards' clutches. And speaking of Red Wizards, there is still the one petrified on the shrine...

If no says anything Felix will "accidentally" tip it over breaking it...

"HEY GUYS I GOT IT... oh shit.."

STR check: 19

The petrified mage doesn't get tipped over.

Artus Insight 20

Artus :"Are you done playing? Let's find our way to the next shrine."

"Hey man I just tripped get off my back!" Felix tosses the cube to Artus.

Deception: 28

Artus takes the cube and ignore Felix.

"well done friends... well if we have a bit of time before the sunset we should push towards the shrine West from here, close to the water"

Kurma will look around for anything suspicious when exiting the shrine: Perception 12

Nothing suspicious is around the shrine. Kurma can hear the sound of zorbos nearby, but the seem to have lost interest in the party.

The journey to the next shrine proceeds.

Swirly carvings decorate two obelisks at the entrance to this compound. An overgrown courtyard lies under the shade of tall palms. Stone doors seal the entrance to a windowless shrine, with a smaller ruin standing nearby.