The Planar Prize [evil party] IC

[kentma57]

You notice nothing more about of the ordinary in the room, make a spellcraft check.

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

I agree, Svarg. Hey, Damien! You got any walls of stone today?

[Kyroswolf]

Dameon studies the room from the entrance, wondering what is the purpose of the rod. As he studies he responds, "I am sorry. I did not prepare my wall spells today. Perhaps a hand, to give the ceiling a forceful nudge?"

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[The Glyphstone]

One of Viktor's eyes watches the staff curiously, while the other rolls around to inspect each member of the group in turn.

"Viktor could get the staff from here - should Viktor grab it?"

Spellcraft (1d20+22=41) - wooyah.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

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OOC: Damn, no ranks in spellcraft.

Rorrik looks the staff over, unable to discern anything from it. "Anyone know what this things does?"

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

Well, for now, we think it holds up the ceiling.

Svarg, are you going to be able to squeeze through and around that staff without disturbing it?

[kentma57]

OOC: it is a 15 by 15 room the staff has over 7ft of clearence on all sides.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

Rorrik scratches his chin and then smirks, a proverbial light-bulb gleaming over his head. "I can put up a wall of force... blocking the massive slab from crushing us to death and we can take the staff easily..."
His unusually pointed tongue licks his unusually pointed teeth, he seems to enjoy the sound of his own plan. His tail likewise sways back and forth.

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

Do we even want this staff right now? I'd be just as happy to keep going. Otherwise, if we're right about the ceiling, it comes crashing back down behind us when the wall of force stops. Not a thought I treasure.

I say slip around it carefully now, and grab it on the way out. I'm pretty sure we can slip around.

She pats the bear's fur to clarify that by "we" she means "the bear and I".

But Svarg, you okay in this form, or do you want to try out that new ring?

[The_Snark]

Svarguthurik

Svarg grunts in surprise, and stops slowly shaking his head. "A good plan. That ceiling would give me enough trouble without having to worry about weaseling around the staff." Using his tail, he carefully removes the ring from its pouch, looking at it slightly suspiciously before slipping it on over another ring and waiting to see what happens.

[kentma57]

When Svarguthurik slips on the ring there is an immediate effect, the massive drake is no longer there. Infront of you stands a rather scaly huminoid, medium sized but it looks as though it could be a half-dragon.

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All efects for your character are the same you just count as medium sized

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

Rorrik looks at the now humanoid drake in surprise. "Looks good on you. Shall I put up the force wall now?" Rorrik says as he cracks his knuckles all at once.

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

The dwarf growls briefly, thinking.

A wall of force is an admirable precaution, Rorrik. But know that if you take away the staff, you stand a good chance of stranding us on one side or another of these rooms. I might be able to get away into the earth, and I suspect that others...

She glances at Viktor and Damien.

Might have escape routes, but...why block off our known exit if we don't have to?

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

He raises an eyebrow and shows a toothy smirk, and looks the dwarf in the eyes. "What's the point of adventure if it isn't adventurous...? Magical power may very well be at our finger-tips. If we leave now... no risk, no reward... and we may never get what's at the end of the maze."
He then begins to make the arcane gestures and vocal components of his spell, and an instant later an invisible wall of force appears an impossibly close distance between the top of the staff and the ceiling. "Someone else going to grab it or shall I do the honors?"

[The_Snark]

Svarg

The now-humanoid drake looks down at himself curiously, flexing two completely new limbs as if testing them. His wings and spined tail flap about as if testing the new form's strength. "Curious."

"I think that before you take the staff, you should make sure it is at least worth the risk first. Is it magical at all?"

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

The dwarf shook her head. She had candles older than this boy. They didn't listen all that well either.

I didn't say leave without it, kid. Just leave it for the way out. Because I'm planning to walk back out.

Once the wall of force appears, she urges the bear forward, and they slide past on the side of the room away from the staff, into the tunnel on the other side. She sniffs, and peers further into the darkness.

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[kentma57]

As Ursayk looks through the door on the far side of the room the corridor is now lit by torches, it is 15ft long then it turns right...

Back to the wall of force, anyone useing detect magic notices something strange where the wall meets the celing. Where the wall meets the celing the magic seems fuzy and weak.

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

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DOH! Forgot that it was a door, and not a doorway, on the other side. Well, now that she's beens stupid and lived to tell the tale...

Glancing through the door, Ursayk reports.

Looks like another small stretch of passage, and then a turn ahead here. More torches. I'm going to trot ahead to the turn. Join me when you can.

The bear squeezes through the doorway, and the two move to the curve in the passage.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

"...If for some reason my little plan doesn't work... I can always disintegrate the stone." Rorrik says as he holds his chin as though pondering, and considering that he's also talking, pondering out loud.

[The_Snark]

Svargithurik

Svarg follows the dwarf through the door, glancing once at the staff. "Leave it; we can always come back for it." He follows Ursayk down the corridor, removing the ring once he's out of the cramped room; having an extra set of limbs felt very odd.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

He sighed and silently agreed as he followed the two down the hallway.

[kentma57]

I forgot to say this earlier, but DC 30 spell crasft (I am sure someone will pass that) reviels that the staff is a "staff of power".

[Kyroswolf]

Damien follows the group down the hall, but not before taking a closer look at the force wall meeting the ceiling.

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[Krimm_Blackleaf]

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OOC: If no one minds telling me that I can use my idea to disintegrate the stone, or pull the staff toward us using telekinesis, without the risk of crushing us all.

[Toliudar]

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(1d20+19)[25] Spellcraft check.

Edited to decrease unnecessary bitchiness.

[kentma57]

As you continue beond the turn you encounter another 15ft of hallway, it then opens into a room.

[The Glyphstone]

OOC: Describe said room?

[kentma57]

OOC: Describe said room?

I assume you walk to the door then...

Well as you look into the room, th first thing you notive is that it seems to be scorched black. The room is circular, 40ft across, and there is a hall that opens on the opposite side of the room...

[Toliudar]

Ursayk

Glancing back, and getting out of the way so that Svargitharnuk...Svarigmukluk...Svarg can have a better look, Ursayk calls back.

Round room, passage on other side. Walls are scorched. How's it going back there?

[kentma57]

Ursayk
Round room, passage on other side. Walls are scorched. How's it going back there?

Correction walls, floors, and ceiling are scorched.