Ravenloft game thread

Who wishes to pocket the silver icon, and which path will you take? You feel a dark foreboding about this place and it seems like your mages require some rest. You think it possible to rest here but the dark plarform and distant, unseeable ceiling high above makes you feel uncertain.

You step into the aperture. (To recap:) This arched room opens into the 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. You begin to work your way up. Assumedly, Zinn is also reloading her hand crossbows.

This long balcony overlooks a vast rubble-strewn room, which you know to be the chapel. Two large, ornate thrones stand in the middle of the balcony that is covered with dust. The thrones face away from the brass banded double doors that lead to the balcony. The thrones could easily shield someone sitting in them from anyone behind them.

The room here is dark, so much so that the shaft of light in the chapel far below looks bright when you see it. As the pair of warriors enter the room, their light source extinguishes as a chilling breeze snuffs it out in an instant. The female half-orc approaches.

Compared to downstairs, the air here is unsettlingly cold and brings with it a sense of unease as you stand 50ft above a massive room.

Divine Sense reveals that one undead creature sits upon each chair, almost completely concealed from you. The light from the altar below feels holy, but it's radiance is restricted by the corrosive aura of darkness that pervades the castle.

The holy icon looks plain and lifeless in this dark setting. It's features are more prominent in the pale grays of darkvision, and there is not a scratch on it. It looks like a woman's form, but the expert crafter's emphasis was on the holy might that the figure wielded.