Game Posts

The claw is surprisingly dagger-like, and feels as strong as steel. You're not sure how you were able to cut it with your axe, and are starting to wonder if you actually did. If set with a handle, it would make quite the wicked weapon. Whatever the case, you are glad that whatever was attached to that hand did not come into our world.

After ten minutes, Pageflap's ritual completes. The talon is definitely radiating magic, as are the 'roots', although the magic is rapidly fading from them. In fact, the roots are slowly turning to ash, radiating outward from where the mass was. Oddly, you cannot decipher the school of magic; the signature is too alien.

There is also a hint of magic ahead, further down the tunnel.

The death of the root things is slowly spreading through the root network, reaching about 10 feet now from where the mass was. The air is filling with flakes of ash which hang in the thick air, as if paying tribute to the fallen evil.

The party advances forward into the steamy tunnel, carefully avoiding the roots. The sulphuric smell and the sound of crashing water increases, and after about 80 feet the tunnel opens up into a wide cavern big enough for the entire Summerspring Inn to fit inside. The tunnel leads your right to the end of a large pool of steaming hot water, and situated in the center of this pool is a circular black void framed in a violet crackling energy. the water from the pool seems to be cascading into the black void and beyond. Hot, steaming water is pouring into the cavern from several large fissures in the walls, but does not seem to be accumulating as fast as the pool is draining into the void.

The rootlike tentacles encrust the walls of this chamber even more densely than the tunnel. You count thirteen additional cancerous masses, each one at a different state of luminosity - most are dim, but a few are light more brightly and are quietly throbbing. The roots disappear into the opaque water, so there may be more inside as well. Although you don't see them at first, you realize that there are grubs crawling between the tentacles all around you. Nothing seems to be responding to your presence at the moment.

Also worthy of your attention, a thin stone ledge rounds to the left side of the cavern from the tunnel, where you see two more round, golden doors, partially submerged in the boiling pond. As far as you can tell from here, they are identical to the one you found earlier in the shaft that lead you down here. Between the golden doors is a large metal box, encrusted in throbbing tentacles that partially obscure some sign on its front.

Your sense of danger in this room is significant. You are pretty certain that if you are not careful, there is more than enough things to kill even the hardiest adventurer in this room.

The roots and masses give off the same weird magical signature as before, and the portal into the void matches it exactly.

The box and doors give off more terrestrial magical vibes. The doors are registering as conjuration magic - the same school as teleportation and summoning - while the box is associated with the school of transmutation, often associated with enchanted items and weapons.