Chapter 4: Level 3 dungeon

I fly to the nearest vulture tile and land gently on it.

When Tinkara lands on the tile with vulture - stone block rises rapidly, sealing the entrance once again.

While flying monkey who never saw which locusts carving is a button take it's time to try push each of them Nyx realize he see serpent on the medallion not a vulture as Tinkara mentioned before. Did she made a mistake?
That's when monkey finally finds the button press it to make stone go down again and Nyx to wonder what he just saw. As it goes down everyone see Tinkara and a lot of locusts around here

Tante Lude find nothing but a proof that stone is moving magically, she do notice the painting of a serpent in the medallion.

Meanwhile Criella moves to the peephole. It's height is perfect for her to look into. Unlike the flying monkey who was casually looking into it previously she is able to close one aye and stabilize her vision and realize that thanks to either magnifying lenses or magic it would allow a clear view of the gold medallion if flying monkey were not blocking that view.

More over as she is concentrating on the view she realize she just got a telepathic link to another person. She experienced hearing Nyx this way, but never talking back, so this is a shocking for a moment.

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Meanwhile Tinkara fly to the next tile of a vulture. The moment she lands on the vulture all four statues yawn and masses of magically summoned locusts fly out of their mouths. The locusts form a single cloud that fills area around and above Tinkara, attacking her

I let out a squeal of surprise and pain. I fly out of the cloud of locusts and out of the room, going behind Tante Lude and as far beyond asy movement allows.

As Tinkara flies past, Tante Lude fires off a quick Healing Word at the suffering fae.

Nyx confers with the others while Tinkara is healed, reviewing all that they know. If the hieroglyph on the medallion is changing then maybe that indicates the path to take. Check it again now that we re-opened the door. If it is back to the vulture, which is the beginning, then the amulet must show the path to take. he proposes a course to take and volunteers to be the one to test the path.

"Whew, that was close! Thank you, Tante Lude!"

I turn and look back into the room to see if the cloud of locusts is still there.

locusts is still there, bot don't move and don't follow you
Criella feels she has lost the telepathic link too soon

Viewing Criella as she is looking through the magical peephole lets our party know, "While Tink was lost in that room, I somehow had some telepathic link to something/someone while viewing through this magical tube. With the block back in Lower position, the telepathic link is broken before I could work with it."

Perhaps this puzzle requires a team effort? One inside, one outside, and perhaps my familiar to monitor things inside to me out here/

"Let's see if I can take care of those locusts."

I try casting a Firebolt at the locusts.

Firebolt pass through swarm of locusts. Magic fail to find any object or creature to hit. Luctus it passes through are either unaffected or disappear - hard to tell, there is so much of them and they move so quickly, but you don't see any of them falling on the ground dead.

As you keep talking, throwing cantrips at the swarm of locusts or elsebut the cloud disappear magically on about a minute.

"The locusts didn't disappear when you pressed the button. Tinks, did they appear as soon as you stepped on the slab or only after the door closed and with a slight delay, possibly when the button was pressed?"

"Tante Lude, as far as I could tell, as soon as I touched the second vulture tile, the statues opened their mouths and the locusts came out. Clearly they are not vulnerable to my magic, and appear to be almost illusory, but I can attest that they are not."

I gingerly rub my bitten arms.

"So maybe one vulture tile then a different tile. It was only the second vulture tile that got you attacked.

Do you need more healing?"