Attempt 1, floor 1: First try! Good luck! Don't die too fast

[Corwin]

"SHINY!" Corwin calls out, vindicated!

[Anastasia]

OW! OW! FUCK! (2 more damage)

It's way down there in the darkness - another glint, but it's coming from an awfully far aways away! It's pitch black there so Tsc can't tell what it is or how fara way it is.

[Carthrat]

Tchaener pulls himself back up the log, and stomps angrily up the bank of the river towards the so-called shiny thing!

[Anastasia]

It's dark here, but infravision saves the day. That'st he funny thing - youc an't see it! But you can tell that the river hooks under the wall, a passage concealed in the shadows.

[Carthrat]

"I get it now," mutters Tchaener, grumbling. "This is going to be tricky, but I bet I can do it."

He quickly casts a healing spell upon himself...

* Hatbot --> "Carthrat rolls 1d8 and gets 4." [1d8=4] 17/19!

..and dives in once again, seeking to swim underneath and claim that shiny thing!

[Anastasia]

CAN Tsc swim? He's wearing some sort of armor, has a mace on his belt and is a dwarf. Do you have the NWP for it? EDIT - Okay, point, carry on. You do take the damage, obviously, and I'd bear in mind you are weighed down.

Also, 2 more damage.

OW! Damned fish - but you can see it's still a good ways a head. A trick of a glint of light - purple light - in the shadows? You're gonna have to go aways into this little underpass.

[Carthrat]

Tchaener unhooks the mace from his belt and tosses it onto the shore, before attempting to dive down into the underpass, and seize that shiny thing!

[Anastasia]

Down he goes! Into the aqua, ignoring the pain of the stings! (Two more damage.) Down he goes - it's a bit away! Past the wall is a small rise past - you're surrounded by dirty metal, but there's a bit of a gap for air. ABout 100 feet ahead is some sort of rise out of the water, and you also note some sort of splashing near it.

[Carthrat]

Cursing, Tchaener dives back into the water and swims back to shore, ready to pull himself back up again!

[Anastasia]

Doign so nets Tsch another two points of stinging damage. OUCH. But he manages to get out, hauled up by the powerful paladin!

[Corwin]

"Where shiny?" Corwin asks Tchaener, having pulled him up.

[Carthrat]

"It's too far away to get to," grunts Tchaener. "But I've got a plan. I'll need to rememorize spells, though."

* Hatbot --> "Carthrat rolls 1d8 healing! and gets 3." [1d8=3]

[Dracos]

"What's going on?  What are you trying to get anyhow?" Aesop came over as Tch got out of the water.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"There's something shiny down there- it's shiny, so obviously we should try to get it," states Tchaener. "Maybe after I rememorize.. anyhow, we should check to see what's behind this door." He gestures the the other one, that the mages were guarding, and shortly walks up to them, trying the handle.

[Anastasia]

Detect Traps is gone.

So the door is opened! At last! This room is well lit, the shining stone floors glistening in torchlight aplenty! Unguarded, plain stone steps are a head, the entire room a spread out stairway to a dias atop! Resting there is a dimly glittering white orb, sitting atop the highest step! In a square around the dais are nine shining golden rods.