From the Ashes... A new king's day?

[Dracos]

"Know that only the dead enter here...  By the star of creation, I am unsealed.."

The voice echo'ed as the face shifted into the door, pulling upwards, amazingly thick and heavy, held floating in an open position, revealing a dark corridor inwards.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Hmph. Then I guess we'll have to be the first to go against that." Jan replied. He half turned, making sure he could keep an eye on the door as he addressed the others.

"If any of you want to back out, do it now. Especially you, Viki, since you've barely met us. You can just go back to Baron and come back in a few hours if it's too dangerous for you."

[Dracos]

"Don't people normally travel in groups of six?" She blithely replied.  "This looks exciting!"  The young(?) mage scanned over the building.  "This tower doesn't seem at all like its been standing in the desert, does it?"

A ghostly wail from inside, chilling their bones interrupted any answer.

Dracos

[Shukuen]

"You're not going up there without me, Smith," said Leets, drawing Masamune out, along with the knowledge to tap its power. "If what happened back on that mountain was any indication, these things will be hell going alone against."

[Iron Dragoon]

"'Ey, I been runnin' 'round in circles with ya fer how long now? Next time ya suggest I'm cowerdly like that, I'll shoot ya like a lame horse. Come on, we got a dark hole waitin' fer us."

Mary snaps his pistols into his hands with a grin and starts moving into the tower..

[Merc]

"We're all in this together, it seems," Felix comments on his own. "That said...Do we want to enter in any particular...er, formation, I guess? Something to give us the best chance of surviving or protecting each other or noticing danger or something of that sort?"

[Olvelsper]

"Monsters first." Jan moved towards the entrance. "Then you, Felix. You know how to snap out spells fast. Mary can go next to support either the fronts or the rear with his gun. Leets and Viki come in last. I trust Leets is good enough to protect Viki."

[Shukuen]

Leets nodded once, falling into position next to Viki as he followed Jan and the others inside.

[Dracos]

OOC: Anyone protesting, speak up now.  Good to see the party together.
IC:
Stepping forward into the darkness, the six went...  the light from beyond dimming...and then suddenly going out as the gate slammed shut behind them, the darkness forboding and all encompassing.  All was quiet here for a moment as they tried to find their way.

The sound of running water though slowly filtered to their ears, a chill in the air...

Then with a roar, a fire in the distance, glowing green and illuminating a mighty statue, as big as a man and the stone floor about it.  A moment passed...and another lit.  Then another.  Two dozen, the ghastly green light cast upon them revealing the chamber for what it was.  Bones were spread almost carelessly about the stone flooring and strange white spheres floated, swirling about the flames like moths.  Each statue stood in a row, six back, four across, with twenty feet between each.  The last four embeded in the back wall.  Each a silent armored figure, humanoid.  Those nearby almost seemed to have faces, wretched faces each in almost individual agony.  Or at least, it seemed from where they stood on a landing, slightly above the main floor of stone and bone.  The small landing lead down by a small series of steps into the main chamber.

 The roof was about fifteen feet up from the floor, not letting much heat come from the torches..but then if they were brought near, they did not seem to give heat.  Indeed, were a hand brought near them, they seemed to sap the very life and vigor from the stale air around them.  No visible stairway up from this chamber could be seen.  A moat seemed to flow on either side of the main chamber, coming and leaving from apparently nowhere.  In the very center, between four of the statues, a gaping pit of darkness swallowed the green light.  As their eyes adjusted to the strange difference in light, another ghoulish shriek roamed through the chamber... the lights flashing slightly as the white globes manifested as human ghosts, scretching in torment.  The bones  on the floor seemed to rattle...and then it was gone once more.

The eerie quiet filled the roam...only the flow of water and the crackling of flame breaching the silence.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Yomi, guide us towards where we're supposed to use the Starstone."

[Dracos]

Yomi came out as called, though he looked notably unwell, a sort of dark cast to his features.  "We're in a tower....There's a room, at the top of each one.  I've never seen it myself though."

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Okay. So we'll fight our way to the top, then." Jan declared as he began looking around for some way to get up to the next floor.

[Dracos]

OOC: Pleased to be describing moving around in a bit more detail (Doesn't have to be much, but that could be anything from standing looking over the room to exploring it).  Dungeons are rather hard to do in vague. =)  Everything you guys can see from the landing was described in the opening post.  THe stairway you are on top of heads down a bit and there is nothing visible leading up.

[Shukuen]

"There's something about the statues," murmured Leets as he studied them. "Smith, can you try to move the one on the far left?"

[Olvelsper]

OOC: shouldn't I be able to spot small details since I'm a negotiator.

Jan moved towards the statues. "Right." He drew a bead on the shotgun as he moved closer towards the back of the room, avoiding the water that was on the floor.