Dark Rumblings

[Ebiris]

This place has a very complex layout, it must be said. "Good a place as any," she agrees with Ebony, going to open the door to the far left at the back of the room.

[Anastasia]

Perhaps predictably, it leads to a changing room. Simple, spartan and with some dead bugs littering the floor.

Ebony goes to the next, "A changing room," she reports, "Likely those and privys."

[Ebiris]

"I can't sense anything with tremorsense, no need to go through them all," Alicia concludes, leading the way back to the room just before the stairs leading back down. From there she'll go open the door on its West side.

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Marie: 515+20/515
Active spells: Extended superior resistance (CL 31), extended mind blank (CL 31), greater arcane sight (CL 31), extended repelling shield (CL 31), bibliotheca arcana (CL 31), extended nondetection (CL 31), extended ray deflection (CL 31), greater heroism (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), sensual blessing (CL 31)
Defences: AC 93 (touch 35), CMD 83, spell resistance 45, energy immunity (electricity, cold, negative energy), energy resistance 10 (acid, cold), (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting), protective aura, nondetection (DC 46), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +11 shield AC, +15 insight knowledge, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +3 luck attack/saves, +25 competence perception
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, blessed sight 120, see invisibility, greater arcane sight, low-light vision, scent, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +71
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/4/10/8/7/7/6/6/7/4/5/4/2
Limited SLAs available: Limited wish, radiant assault, heal, meteor swarm, time stop

Avatarlicia: 582+60/582
Active spells: Extended nondetection (CL 32), many moments of prescience (CL 31), epic mage armour (CL 31), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 32), extended repelling shield (CL 32), sensual blessing (CL 31), greater heroism (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), dance of the unicorn (CL 31), keen edge (CL 31), foresight (CL 31), ray deflection (CL 32), magic vestment (CL 31), greater magic weapon (CL 31)
Defences: AC 81 (touch 34), CMD 82, spell resistance 46, energy immunity (cold, negative energy), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 47), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +13 armour, +9 shield, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +3 luck attack/saves, +25 competence perception, doubled crit range, +2 insight AC/reflec, +1 enhancement attack/damage
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, arcane sight, low-light vision, scent, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +73
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/13/12/10/9/9/11/8/6/1/7/6/5/3
Duskblade spell slots: 6/17/17/16/9/4

[Anastasia]

Here is a hallway, long and eventually hooking to the north. As you step in radiant purple and light blue light plays, as the sonorous voice you heard before declares. "You of the Dweomerkeepers, of the faith and the magic, cast your eyes above you as you pass. You who may loathe me, who may find this walk a tiresome annoyance: Do not. Take this time to ponder on magic, to thank the Mother of All Magic for her blessings and guidance."

[Ebiris]

Is it another evil mind-controlling illusion?

[Anastasia]

This time no evil is detected.

[Ebiris]

Alicia walks along the path around the corner to the north, consecrating as she goes in that case.

[Anastasia]

Around the bend to more lights, Ebony following. The hall continues north to one door and then another, a dead end at that second door. The few surviving vermin here are obliterated with a little bit of magic, not even the slightest challenge to you.

"I wonder if that voice is that of the architect?" Ebony inquires, "I wonder if he may have been a difficult person."

[Ebiris]

"I remember the one I commissioned for building the temple in Balmuria was easy enough to work with. It had a far simpler layout as well," Alicia says, retreating back now and then going into the long east/west hallway with all those doors on the north and south sides and opening the first one on the south to the left.

[Anastasia]

You open a door here. It looks like a simple living quarters, nothing remarkable about it. Rather austere, though the bed is decent.

"Living quarters," Ebony reports from the next door over.

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[Ebiris]

Walking partyway down so her tremorsense can check all of the adjacent rooms without opening them, Alicia goes on to then open the door at the east end of the hallway.

[Anastasia]

A hallway is here - carpeted and soft. The air here is perfectly warmed to be pleasant without being hot. The scent of incense and vanilla fills the air. Halfway down are doors facing each other, and at the end is a door east.

The doors facing each other are decorated. One shows the rising sun and one shows the setting one, images of them providing lifelike clarity and color. The door at the end is scorched, burnt, as if something was scoured out of it.

[Ebiris]

"Not much evidence of vermin here," Marie says, nose twitching as she sniffs the air.

"I wonder why that is?" Alicia ponders, consecrating it to be on the safe side and going to open the scorched door.

[Anastasia]

The scorched door is locked and yes, it radiates magic. It's sealed with an improved arcane lock, one keyed not to give without a powerful dispel or the exact counterspell. Or probably an unbinding spell or similar would do, too.

[Ebiris]

In that case it probably wasn't breached by the Sharrans.

Doesn't stop her casting unbinding so they can see what's behind it anyway.

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Marie: 515+20/515
Active spells: Extended superior resistance (CL 31), extended mind blank (CL 31), greater arcane sight (CL 31), extended repelling shield (CL 31), bibliotheca arcana (CL 31), extended nondetection (CL 31), extended ray deflection (CL 31), greater heroism (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), sensual blessing (CL 31)
Defences: AC 93 (touch 35), CMD 83, spell resistance 45, energy immunity (electricity, cold, negative energy), energy resistance 10 (acid, cold), (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting), protective aura, nondetection (DC 46), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +11 shield AC, +15 insight knowledge, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +3 luck attack/saves, +25 competence perception
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, blessed sight 120, see invisibility, greater arcane sight, low-light vision, scent, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +71
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/4/10/8/7/7/6/6/7/4/5/4/2
Limited SLAs available: Limited wish, radiant assault, heal, meteor swarm, time stop

Avatarlicia: 582+60/582
Active spells: Extended nondetection (CL 32), many moments of prescience (CL 31), epic mage armour (CL 31), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 32), extended repelling shield (CL 32), sensual blessing (CL 31), greater heroism (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), dance of the unicorn (CL 31), keen edge (CL 31), foresight (CL 31), ray deflection (CL 32), magic vestment (CL 31), greater magic weapon (CL 31)
Defences: AC 81 (touch 34), CMD 82, spell resistance 46, energy immunity (cold, negative energy), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 47), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +13 armour, +9 shield, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +3 luck attack/saves, +25 competence perception, doubled crit range, +2 insight AC/reflec, +1 enhancement attack/damage
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, arcane sight, low-light vision, scent, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +73
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/13/12/10/9/9/11/8/6/0/7/6/5/3
Duskblade spell slots: 6/17/17/16/9/4