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Post by harknail on Mar 11, 2023 2:37:30 GMT -5
Neera leans though the the portal, the twists to look back around the outside of the portal, her spine bending in ways that would be difficult if she wasn't part cat. "Don't look special to me."
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Post by harknail on Mar 11, 2023 2:39:34 GMT -5
At first the system of marking paths seems to work well as the party is able to move out away from the portal one and then two junctions and return without difficulty, but as they make a third turn Vadania spots one of their markers ahead. The turns they have taken would not have turned the party around - either their path has been twisted by magic or the marker itself has been moved. Vadania will investigate to try and figure out which happened. She was kind of expecting paths not to be stable, which is why she had been marking them.
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Post by at on Mar 11, 2023 9:33:34 GMT -5
Moriana seems fine as she turns to Brenner, "no, I mean that I think i've seen this design of archway before".
She is right, it does seem familiar - INT checks - with any bonuses for memory (such as those that would give bonuses to lore rolls)
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Post by harknail on Mar 11, 2023 13:46:41 GMT -5
Vadania: YutHdSq5p_1-20+3=19 Neera: p_1-20+0=151-20�1-20
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Post by crazydave on Mar 11, 2023 23:09:35 GMT -5
EVCpF4k2p_1-20+1 = 14 1-20
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Post by at on Mar 12, 2023 9:38:04 GMT -5
It is Vadania who recognises the archway, reaching into her pack to pull out the sketches she had made while beneath the nagas lair of the two maps - one twisted and one not. The archway here looks very much like those that had been carved into the walls.
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Post by harknail on Mar 15, 2023 0:07:27 GMT -5
Vadania points out the resemblance to the others, and comments, "Perhaps at one time the arches in the Naga's lair connected to this place."
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Post by at on Mar 15, 2023 5:08:58 GMT -5
Vadania points out the resemblance to the others, and comments, " Perhaps at one time the arches in the Naga's lair connected to this place." (The arches were etched into the two maps drawn on the walls in the lower chambers - one a clear and logical map, the other a tangled mess)
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Post by harknail on Mar 15, 2023 11:24:18 GMT -5
Vadania continued, "But perhaps it was just a map of this place." She studies the images, thinking maybe that the twisted image is how things actually connect here.
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Post by at on Mar 15, 2023 12:18:10 GMT -5
There are a number of archways of the same style depicted on the drawings, but if this was a map perhaps two or three identifiable points would allow the group to pinpoint their location. The one room at the heart of both maps appeared to be important.
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Post by harknail on Mar 15, 2023 15:28:51 GMT -5
Vadania searches are drawings for anything that looks like where they entered the maze.
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Post by at on Mar 15, 2023 21:59:12 GMT -5
Vadania quickly spots a room that could be the entrance in her sketches, and then several more.
"It makes sense", notes Moriana, "if the only way in is through portals to not open them in the same place. Perhaps the entrance even shifts periodically".
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Post by at on Mar 16, 2023 11:54:45 GMT -5
(Listen checks for everyone)
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Post by crazydave on Mar 16, 2023 18:15:23 GMT -5
"I wonder why the entrance is here now, then..."
Uf84TLvsp_1-20+9 = 26
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Post by harknail on Mar 16, 2023 18:46:34 GMT -5
Vadania listen: CeIIbgdxp_1-20+16=20 Ylva listen: p_1-20+2=16 Neera listen: p_1-20+15=28
Vadania shrugs and comments, .'A better question is how did the naga know that it was here now."1-20�1-20�1-20
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Post by at on Mar 17, 2023 6:04:14 GMT -5
There is a sound, a faint whispering in the wind though not anything recognisable as a voice. It seems to come from beyond the shadows at the edge of the path and grows closer - something capable of travelling through the void.
The guards that had returned had not spoken of anything like this but it was unlikely to be a friend given the circumstances. It is unclear if the party itself is yet detected.
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Post by harknail on Mar 19, 2023 17:51:17 GMT -5
Vadania whispers to the others, "Something's coming. something that doesn't need paths, probably hostile. We should get to a platform so we don't have to fight on a narrow path."
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Post by crazydave on Mar 20, 2023 15:56:28 GMT -5
"Let's move. I'm right behind you.", Brenner whispers.
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Post by harknail on Mar 20, 2023 16:20:59 GMT -5
Vadania leads the way to the nearest platform, or at least what she thinks will be the nearest. Hard to tell directions and distance in this place...
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Post by at on Mar 20, 2023 18:56:07 GMT -5
The group backtrack to the last open area they encountered, finding that fortunately the maze does not appear to have shifted around them as the moved. The room - if it could be called such floating in the darkness like the rest - is a square some 40 feet across with the same polished stone tile and four pillars, one at each corner, that serve no obvious purpose but do provide some level of concealment.
As with the rest of the maze the light here is uniform and casts no shadow save that which extends out into the darkness. Vadania can still hear but not see the whispered noise as it grows closer.
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