Story I: The Rift

Baric is able to push the door inward a few feet before it grinds to a halt on... something. A few stones fall from the ceiling, nothing large enough to cause injury, but enough to loose a bit of dirt and dust free. Still, the door is open enough that one could pass through with only minor struggle (as in, no roll necessary). Once inside you each can see that the room within is cocked at a rather severe angle to the right, perhaps nearing thirty-five degrees. The door has apparently wedged against the ceiling as it dips down. The floor immediately within is flat enough that each of you can stand upon it with relative ease, but beyond that small space it will take some balance to traverse.

The room itself is about 30x30 feet, with doors on the far side, the left, and the one you just entered through. The walls are cracked and broken, and the ceiling bows inward leading you to believe that it is under some immense weight. To the left is a series of wall-crypts like the ones you saw in the hallway to the left of the room with the trough. They are broken open, however, their wooden paneling snapped or torn away, and they are now empty. To the immediate right, as the room descends in a slope, is a cave-in. Rocks and dirt have broken down the wall and ceiling on that end, filling the right-most 10-feet of the room with rough, rocky terrain. It seems obvious now what happened to the bodies in the wall-crypts; You each can see several grey, naked corpses lying half-buried in the stones and dirt in various limp positions that give no evidence of life (or undeath). The door on the far side of the room is iron-reinforced, like the one you just entered in. Similar to the platform you now stand on, there is a small piece of level flooring that seemed to hold strong against the twisting this room experienced, just at the foot of the far door. The door on the left side is simple and wooden, but has no such flooring.

It appears that sliding down to the site of the cave-in would prove to be the easiest way to traverse, but one would have to waltz over the corpses in order to do so. Moving directly across the room despite the intense slope would be difficult, however.

Room Map

Ameera takes a few steps out onto the sloping floor, making her way to the nearest doorway. Before she's able to get there, her boot slips over one of the cobblestones she was using to maintain her balance. She falls onto her side, and with nothing to immediately catch her, she begins to tumble down toward the cave-in and corpses..!

Room Map

Erran is able to reach out and catch Ameera's hand as she slides past. Though he reacted quick, he's put off-balance, and collapses onto his stomach as he's nearly pulled along with her. Though he's lying down with both arms outstretched to hold onto his companion, he manages to not slide off of the platform any further beyond his shoulders.

Ameera manages to make it back onto the level ground by the doorway, wrapped up in an impromptu embrace. Pyrrah steps out onto the slope, and though she tilts and teeters she manages to keep her footing. It is slow-going, nevertheless.

Baric notices that he could stand on the wall-crypts and step from one to the next. However, unfortunately, due to his short stature he can't quite seem to reach the next crypt with a hand and a foot as easily as he expected. He struggles to reach the lip of the next crypt with the tip of his boot, but before he can get solid footing his efforts are only rewarded by the lip of the wall-crypt (which apparently was already damaged and broken) chipping and falling away. Though he doesn't fall, and he remains at the opening of the wall-crypt next to the level platform, traversing in that manner looks risky.