Descending the Temple Depths

-Rook -

The captain looks a bit resentful at your suggestion --mainly because she can see the truth in it but does not want to lead here.

"I am going to rely on you." She confides in am equally low tone, indicating you should continue to scout when the movement starts again.

She moves up near the head of the column, but is curious about the findings in the rooms.

- Dirk -

"Why does it matter?" The captain asks about the language. "I have never heard of them. Who are these ancient people, and how are they a danger to us, here and now?"

After much twisting and turning and several branching forks, the tunnel ahead opens up into a large antechamber.

Some peering and guessing is required to pierce the distance and the gloom, but on the far side you can make out a pair of fancy stone doors, intact and closed. Flanking the doors are what you assume to be guards... or the remains of guards... slumped against the walls and decayed to bones, covered in moss, glowing fungus sprouting from various parts.

Everything is silent and you don't see any signs of activity in the past few decades.

What do you all do?

Rook: How far ahead of the rest of the group are you? Do you want to do anything before they arrive?

Both Dirk and Roald's blades' glows add faintly to the light near the party, but this does not reach far into the antechamber.

The captain draws her sword. "I just hope these bones don't start moving on their own like the ones up there did." She mutters in response to Dirk's observation about them not being 'entirely asleep'.

Asha cringes back from the room at the mention of bones, moving or otherwise.

- Dirk -

The light from the mushrooms you are carrying make your own blade's glow hard to notice. You also feel a little weak and slightly nauseated.

- Deoring -

Maybe it is merely Raynor's bolstering keeping you 'calm', but despite being on edge, you notice that you heartrate has not gone up, which may seem a little strange to your athletic sensibilities.

Do you do anything?

- Rook -

All the floor is covered with a thick layer of moss, but you are getting used to that by now. There would definitely have been an 'approved path' from the corridors (and you see three other passages leading from the antechamber) to the two sets of doors, but those paths are now mostly hidden beneath the 'carpet'.

• Do you try to find the intended path, or try to avoid it, or ignore all that and take whatever new path suits you?
• How are you looking for traps? Describe it and let's have a roll based on that action.

- Rook -

Apparently you can't put down quite enough weight through arms and a probing torch, so you are already past the trigger then you feel it move under your feet. You also hear something, connected, start to grind, over towards the wall near the inert skeletal guards.

A combination of the your instincts and reflexes, and the age of the trap, means you are able to stop moving in time, before the mechanism triggers whatever it does.

From your vantage point in the midst of the trap it is hard to tell what it does do, and you suspect that any shift in weight --while stepping off, for instance-- might set it off.

What do you do?

- Deoring -

Whoever designed this 'temple' apparently only felt it necessary to place guards around whatever is on the other side of those doors. There are no --and no spot for-- guards by the corridors leading into the antechamber.

This seems to suggest you are on the right track.