WLD April 26, 2006
Present this week were:
* Cinner - dwarven rogue
* Riamara - loresong faen greenbond
* Ruke - human paladin
After resting up, the party moved into another room. This one had an inner room of crystal. Inside the room were runes covered with blood - reading the runes drove Cinner into a rage and compelled Riamara to get out of the room as quickly as possible.
Riamara tried healing one of the flesh-covered walls. The flesh on the wall appeared much healthier. It swelled up and filled part of the hallway.
In another room they found a dead body being slowly absorbed by the floor. Ruke was the only one with the intestinal fortitude to search it. As he cut into the body to try and separate it from the floor, it burst and covered him with ichor. Fortunately, Riamara had a hygiene spell ready that cleaned him up.
From there they found a room where stone had melted and flowed sometime in the pat. They found scattered bits of parchment that appeared to be remnants of spellbooks. Cinner chipped away at a door covered by the melted stone.
Beyond the door he found a secret panel with a statue of a drider. As they examined the statute, it spoke “To pass beyond these doors, you must answer questions two, the number of the cursed Twins. The first. Who is the Master of this place?” Cinner answered “Celestials” and the walls started screaming. Thanks to Ruke, everyone managed to keep their courage up and so were unaffected.
They then nearly fell into a pit trap, but due to amazing reflex saves dodged the trap. Cinner jammed it shut, and then they proceeded to two rooms with icy walls for doors. Cinner chopped through one of the walls and it exploded; leaving a room that looked like a small holding cell.
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I was quite pleased with this. I wanted to convey the disgusting nature of the region and that seemed to get communicated. It was a lot of queasy fun.