Age of Ascension: IC 1

[TachyonBlade]

Zarus just puts his right hand up to his face, and massages his temples. The very stupidity of the act he'd just witnessed put him off. But why. What drove someone to go, provoke a trap that was clearly stated to be a bloody trap? And then the cleric comes around in the usual daft manner clerics come around, and then claims that it happens to be a blessing. Perhaps whoever chose these people as what ever they were supposed to be was wrong.

Zarus walked forward, putting his hand down, and beckons that he is ready to move on in, his mind still aching from the previous acts.

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Will save to not go insane, slowly

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/joke

[Jacior]

Alex just sighs as he watches the mages rather studiously ignore him. It was amazing that such self proclaimed intelligence could abandon them so quickly at the chance to examine anything even relatively unusual. He stands off to the side watching, eying the gold himself, but not making a move for it. Better not to set off any more traps than necessary.

And then Bo touches the door even after being told not to and nearly fries himself.

Alex groans. "ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID?" He just shakes his head and walks over. "He's not alive because some cloud-walking thing says it's so. He's alive because this magic is extremely old and it's probably very weak. You saw the state the golem was in." He groans. "Clerics. Good grief." He picks up Bo off the floor. "Are you ok, moron?"

[Chimaera]

"I can understand that in a world full of monsters and evil one may lose hope. But you're not abandoned, be sure of that", Erik tell him before adding, "I take your relationship with Heironeous isnt the best, maybe we could talk about after this whole thing is over. There's no darkness that wont dissapear at the sight of a new dawn".

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Have I told you all Erik is going to be fun?

[TachyonBlade]

Zarus felt a glimmer of hope in the rest of the party, all of a sudden. "For the first time, I am in total agreement with you, Alex. But you know what? Ignore all of that. Let them do as they do, and leave them be. I have no words to say to the whole debacle. Lets just get on with it, and find out how to open this door properly, without getting hella zapped." he said, as he stepped around the door to the other side of the room.

[Hefty Lefty]

"Hey, hey, hey," Cecil adds, doubling over in laugher. "Bo, you almost had it! Try again, maybe second time's the charm, ya?" He nods to direct the group towards the only direction this room allows safe travel: up the stairs, scoffing as he does so, "Seriously, why would someone put the key right next to the door? Defeats the, the, the whole purpose Bo."

[Jacior]

"You can keep your crazy talk to yourself Erik." Alex says, brushing off his attempts. He gives Zarus a look. "I'm no good at dealing with magic. Never bothered to learn. Doubt I'd be much help."

[Chimaera]

"The worst blind is those that dont want to see", Erik say and look at the stairway, "LEt's keep moving"

[bryn0528]

Bo sat up, slightly cross-eyed. He wondered idly about a curious smell which vexed him.. key-lime pie? Bo heard voices like underwater, and it took him a few moments to decipher them. "Wow, you should really try that sometime. It might dislodge the large, irregularly shaped branch you share between your anuses; Zarus, Alex." Bo allowed himself a snicker. "Cecil, are you so dense as to have not figured out exactly where we are? This is a place of your white, southern gods. This is a temple. I figured maybe a little show of faith would.. ah.. open the way."

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Not sure if I still needed this.. but just in case.

[Chimaera]

"And he remained faithful, cant you see?", Erik say and then put the hand on Bo's shoulder, " Im proud of you son".

[bryn0528]

Bo carefully pried Erik's fingers from his own shoulder in a mixture of ceremony and growing disgust. His smile is genuine, although pained. "I am sorry, but I don't recall you sitting at the dinner table after a long day's work on the barges," Bo politely returned Erik's hand. "Thank you for the kindness, Friend. But I would rather you not." With no more to add, Bo moved to the staircase, using the light from the, unfortunately non-lightning resistant, stone to illuminate the passage upwards. He did not, however, ascend. "So.. ah.. who wants to go first?" He chuckled nervously.

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Been having a few connectivity issues, so forgive me if I can't be on as much as I like, in the future.

[Chimaera]

"Ignore them, they dont know hiw it is to reach such level of enlightment", Erik says to Bo, " Do you feel enlightned?"

[Business Scrub]

After now two near run-ins with death, the five of you head up the only other route: the stairs. At the top appears to be a trapdoor. The first one up there gives it a gentle push, and looks around.

@Whoever opens the door: Above the trapdoor appears to be part of the grave site. The door opens into a quiet, currently empty room filled with pews and lit candles, around many stone coffins. In fact, you realize that you're poking out of one. The trapdoor seems to be the lid of a coffin, that presumably hasn't been opened since its creation.

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Who took what of the gold and gems?

[Jacior]

Alex looks out from the trap door. "It's some kind of... tomb? It's very strange." He pushes open the lid the rest of the way. "Seems to be empty though. I wonder how long it's been since anyone's been in here." He climbs up and out into the room, keeping his guard up.

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I imagine that Alex is among the strongest, so I guess he'll pack it all around?

[Chimaera]

Coming out from the coffin, Erik make a small prayer and conjure light on his holy symbol: the mighty hand of Heironeous gripping a golden lightning.

"I wonder if there are more stairways in the other caskets... But let's take a look around before opening them", he says holding the symbol to iluminate the area.

[Hefty Lefty]

Cecil climbs out of the tomb third and starts looking around with the rest. "That's a good idea..." he meanders around the coffins, inspecting every hinge and board for details of irregular mechinery. "But before I go wake up some ghoulies, oh cleric of ours, how 'bout you ask Heironeous to clear this room of the living dead?"

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Knowledge Dungeoneering (1d20+8)[18]

[Chimaera]

"Being a mere mortal, I cant do that at will. So I better wait for one of them to appear for me to turn them with Heironeous' shinning holy aura", Erik tells Cecil, "Also, they have to be able to see my symbol to be turned", he add lower, "But I'll be ready if they chose to show their ugly faces around".

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Turn Undead if any undead show us its ugly faces.
(1d20+3)[4] Natura 1 can turn undeads with -1 hd or lower
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[bryn0528]

Bo filed into the room and spoke to Alex. "Unless these candles are magical in nature, I would offer to say that someone or something has been here very recently." Bo walked the room and examined the pews. "Does anyone else have the creeping sensation that we have stumbled into the midst of some cult's worshipping grounds? This all feels very cult-y to me."