Chapter 2: The Gorgon Queen's Lair

"Fair. I just wanted to be sure no one possessed any specialized gear or skills you considered essential. A mirrored tower shield, an arrow of Hythonia slaying, or even a spell to shunt her off into the underworld. Had to ask."

You all collect yourselves and your new companion and continue down the main path. You find yourself in a room with 2 pillars holding up the room and 4 snake statues in the far corners. As soon as the last of you pass through the double doors, you hear a sound of stone scraping against stone as the door behind you and the two in front of you, one leading left and one right, reveal a stone slab that is starting to slide down. The snake heads in the 4 corners also seem to be opening, but if you wish to act about the doors there is no time to think about what the snake heads are doing.

Chironides suspects a trap that is dependent on that stone slab sliding down.

Chiron moves to slab, hammer and spike in hand he is determined to jam the mechanism

It takes a second, but the tools appear to be crushed as Chironides realizes magic is at play, not mere physics alone.

"With me, brother!" Omeros shouted to Chironides before he uttered a word in Celestial.

μακρινός

A glowing doorway appeared to the left of Omeros and Chironides but it wouldn't stay open long!

Moving with Omeros

Kelnes aims for the door as well rushing forward

Isaiah turns around and magically make a hole in the slab large enough for anyone to get through.

Kadmos will stick with the newly revived Christos. It would be dishonorable to revive him, only to abandon him to the very next pitfall they come across.

As the doors close, nearly everyone makes it out before the doors slam shut, either through their own speed or the aid of others. The only one that doesn't is Isaiah, who does manage to get out with his magic but not quickly. The door slams shut as he is the only one in the room. With his magic, he makes a hole in the door, but not after poisonous gas comes out of the snake heads. He inhales some of the gas and then walks out of the room. The hole he made allows the gas to escape, but rather than dissipate it gets thicker and thicker. Everyone retreats back the way they came and are forced back as far as the bridge, where the heavy smoke fills the entire chamber before the room and flows down the rock face to the river below. The gas gets thicker and thicker, and there is no way of knowing for how long the gas will flow. Unless you are all willing to go back in or have some way past it, this option is now not available.

Above is still true, but you went the left way instead of retreating the way you came in.

As you all make a break for it, Kelnes causes a wall of water to appear in the doorway with the door containing a large hole in it. As long as the wall persists, the gas does not escape, but you get the sense that the gas and building and building and there is no sense of it stopping. if the wall were to disappear the gas would not only flood your way but likely be so concentrated that it would kill you all in seconds.

At the moment, there appears to be a small room ahead, followed by a larger room, and just before the larger room the hallway veers right. the smaller room appears to be a storage room, but mostly containing food supplies, nothing of interest to you (no need to roll, just declaring no interest). The larger room seems more comfortable, and you see a magical mechanism on the wall. You might try to decipher it with knowledge of magic (DC 25 Arcana, max 2 people can roll or 1 with advantage if person with proficiency "helps" the other with proficiency, functionally same thing).