Ravenloft game thread

The statue does not feel unnatural, it's surface is smooth and cold as you might expect.

Zinnarath treads into the darkness, now almost totally obscured to those without darkvision, and finds another similar pair of doors in the grey darkness.

Carved into the door's decorations are two suns, a mountain, and a heart.

(Disadvantage for dim light - as far as you can see into the hall which is dark at the end)

You notice that dim, focused light from somewhere seems to be reflecting off of their polished eyeballs, giving the illusion of their eyes following you. Each statue is holding a unique pose, pointing to heaven or earth, standing straight or hunching; in armour or court robes.

Faelor notices each statue has a glint in it's eye as he walks past each one and they go out of sight. Their eyes press onto you, following you up the hallway. Opening the doors, Dim, colored light filters through broken and boarded up stain glass windows, illuminating the ancient chapel of Ravenloft. Pews and benches lie about the floor in jumbled disarray, coated with centuries of dust. Beyond this debris, lit by a single, piercing shaft of light, an altar stands upon the platform. The light falls directly on a small statue. A figure is draped over the altar. This room seems as though nothing has disturbed it in centuries, and that nothing ever could. The ceiling, high above, is black with darkness.

(Perception applies here as you are trying to spot something rather than searching via deductions.)

There are two other entryways in the chapel, each with two visible statues in alcoves. Both Grizel and Zinnarath spot a movement up in the ceiling, where there is likely an upper level accessible from another floor (to Zinarrath only).

Faelor approaches, and finds that the statue is actually a carved icon of the purest silver, glowing faintly in response to the shaft of light. The figure draped over the altar is a dead cleric, who looks important in his heavy, decorated black robes. There is an expression of anguish on his face.

In the body of the crow, the room seems much darker. Circling the room, only the warm light below is visible. With a single, blunt blow, the crow is ripped out of the air and Victor is torn from it's body. Black feathers fall into the room and turn to dust before they touch the ground. Something evil lurks above in the dark vaulted ceiling.

The cleric seems fresh-faced until you draw near. The skin on his face is cracked where the light from the window falls on him. His features have a stonelike pallor and glaze.

Victor runs to meet Zinnarath, and something catches his ear. A dark figure is scrambling down the wall behind him, towards Justice and Katerina.

Perfectly silent, the pale, female figure drops from the wall and lunges at Katerina with claws and teeth!

(Back to Zinnarath in the room with stairs - This arched room opens into a vast chamber to the east, and a rising staircase to the west. Alcoves in the north and south walls open into this room. Within the dark confines of the alcoves lurk 8-foot tall shadowy figures. Their stone forms show mighty muscled arms and legs. A black shadow falls across the features of their faces.

A staircase of old wood climbs shakily up a stonework shaft. With each step upon it, the wood strains underfoot, creaking and groaning.

In her attentiveness, Zinnarath is the first to react to the sound of a hostile creature in the chapel.