The Whispering Cairn, part I
Players/Characters:
An abandoned manor only minutes from the cairn was your base. From there, you set out on your first adventure. The tunnel was old but in fairly good repair, although there was some sign of rockfalls.
The first item of interest you found were the fragments of a free standing portal, with an unusual glyph on the bottom. Only the base and one side remained, but it seemed clear that it would form an oval when complete, big enough for someone to step through. Alas, it was beyond repair.
A den of wolves proved the next challenge, one swiftly overcome. Investigating the wolf den found an indigo lantern, along with some other treasure.
Going further into the cairn, you discovered a large chamber with seven corridors leading from it, and a sarcophagus in the middle. Five of the seven corridors had lanterns in them; it took little thought to realise that they each corresponded to one colour of the rainbow. One was already burning as an everburning torch had been left in it; the others were long burnt out.
It was discovered that the (empty) sarcophagus could be rotated to point at the corridors. When it pointed at the fourth corridor - the one with the green, burning lantern - a grinding noise could be heard and eventually the floor collapsed and a swarm of acid beetles and a mad slasher (a spider-like creature) poured out of the gap below.
Fire proved the way to destroy the insects.
Investigating the collapsed tiles led to the discovery of a shaft leading down. Rope and climbing skill allowed you all to convey yourselves to the first secret part of the ruins.
There you discovered more bugs (ugh!), a sleeping chamber where air currents floated you above the stone beds, and a section of the ruins submerged in water.
There, great bravery (and a rope) allowed you to fight off a ghoul, a water elemental, and the missing Red Lantern from above!
Happy with your adventure, you returned to your "mansion" above.
- Holly D'Vine (Bradford), LG female aasimar fighter 1
- Alden (Martin), CN male human barbarian 1
- Grey 'the Handsome' (Tom), CG male elf rogue 1
- Oloret Stoor (Sean), LG male human cleric of Pelor 1
- Raavi Gill (Peggy), CG female half-elf sorcerer 1
- Tuor (Craig), NG male half-elf druid 1, with Bingy, wolf companion.
An abandoned manor only minutes from the cairn was your base. From there, you set out on your first adventure. The tunnel was old but in fairly good repair, although there was some sign of rockfalls.
The first item of interest you found were the fragments of a free standing portal, with an unusual glyph on the bottom. Only the base and one side remained, but it seemed clear that it would form an oval when complete, big enough for someone to step through. Alas, it was beyond repair.
A den of wolves proved the next challenge, one swiftly overcome. Investigating the wolf den found an indigo lantern, along with some other treasure.
Going further into the cairn, you discovered a large chamber with seven corridors leading from it, and a sarcophagus in the middle. Five of the seven corridors had lanterns in them; it took little thought to realise that they each corresponded to one colour of the rainbow. One was already burning as an everburning torch had been left in it; the others were long burnt out.
It was discovered that the (empty) sarcophagus could be rotated to point at the corridors. When it pointed at the fourth corridor - the one with the green, burning lantern - a grinding noise could be heard and eventually the floor collapsed and a swarm of acid beetles and a mad slasher (a spider-like creature) poured out of the gap below.
Fire proved the way to destroy the insects.
Investigating the collapsed tiles led to the discovery of a shaft leading down. Rope and climbing skill allowed you all to convey yourselves to the first secret part of the ruins.
There you discovered more bugs (ugh!), a sleeping chamber where air currents floated you above the stone beds, and a section of the ruins submerged in water.
There, great bravery (and a rope) allowed you to fight off a ghoul, a water elemental, and the missing Red Lantern from above!
Happy with your adventure, you returned to your "mansion" above.
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