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[Baradine]

Follow behind my teammates going towards the disembodied voice.

[Knight Otu]

Wall and passage rough

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_____Examine the rocks to see if they are negotiable. Attempt to pull out one of the rocks on top of the pile.

Examine that too.

In fact, examine everything that can be examined. Examine myself too.

Examine stuff (1d6=3)
It's pretty hard to get any information from this jumble of rocks. It's pretty dense, though,
>x self
As good-looking as ever.

Head up yonder stairs.

Rorrim rubbed his beard in contemplation, disembodied voice bears no ill will, aye?

Well, that's a good thing.

"Maleficar, mage, wizard. Whoever you be, announce thyself! We bear no ill will towards you, if you wish to stay at peace with us."

"Do have some patience with an old woman. I am a few centuries past my prime, not to mention past my natural lifespan." You go up the stairs, past the source of the voice, a dessiccated, humanoid husk going down the stairs. You end up in a small corridor with two doors on each side.

Trael was unimpressed by the disembodied voice as he headed onwards towards those stairs, sword held in a two-handed grip, ready.
"I do not know who you are. I do not know who Prodith is." His flat voice echoed from his jaw like the rustling of dead leaves,
"If you wish to prove how little ill will you bear towards me, you will show yourself and explain all this in person. Otherwise, I have business to attend to..."

>Descend! Ready for whatever lies ahead!

You descend as you hear the voice says something about patience and centuries, you don't particularly pay attention to it. Past the ghoul head, you arrive at a stone door. It is adorned with etchings of four tentacles grasping at a human skull.

"I did not, thank you for that," Zalgus replied. "Now may I ask, who are you and who is Prodith, other than these beasts' master, and what is your business with him and us?"

Walk towards voice.

Follow behind my teammates going towards the disembodied voice.

You walk towards the staircase, where a desiccated husk of a humanoid arrives from upstairs. "Last to first, she betrayed the... betrayed us here in this Keep of Bloodstained Dreams, she is the Lich Lord Beneath the Keep, and I am Drilaaywen, Aywen if you are in a hurry, once a priest in this Keep, now a lichscar."

Spoiler: Zalgus (IronyOwl) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 10

Traits
Sage
Necromancer

Equipment
Skull Staff
Grim Robe
Manhide Grimoire
Unmarked potion

Spells:
Draining Gaze
Consult Dead
Call Shade

Spoiler: Rorgrin (Loud Whispers) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 7/10 (3/6 turns to recovery)

Traits
Using everything as a weapon
Staying eternally calm

Equipment
A rope
Well-crafted knife
Warhammer

Spoiler: Trael (Yoink) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 18/20 (0/3 to heal)
Action points: 10

Traits
Unfeeling
Driven

Equipment:
Ancient, battered steel greatsword
Heavy green wool cloak
Larry

Spoiler: Rorrim (Tiruin) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 25
Action points: 5

Traits
Vigilant
Warrior

Equipment:
Dulled, chipped, Tempered Steel Lochaber Axe
Leather armor
Woad body paint
A rock

Spoiler: Baradine McKane (Baradine) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 8/10 (3/6 to recover)

Traits
Skilled Swordsman
Fire magic

Equipment:
Bronze Longsword
Bronze Shield
Book of Fire Magic

Spells:
Firebolt
Fiery Cylinder
Heat Shield

[Baradine]

"A lichscar?  What's that?"

Inquire, but stay on guard.

[IronyOwl]

"Priest of this keep, you say? What did this place used to be, and who was it that Prodith betrayed? Why?"

[Yoink]

"...I do not like the look of this door. What say you, Larry? Open it?"
The skeleton stood there, examining the door blocking his path and seemingly mumbling to himself in his dry, raspy voice.
"Ehh, I suppose it couldn't hurt. Especially not someone without pain receptors."
With a sound like dry parchment tearing-- A chuckle?-- Trael stepped fowards to push the door.

>Unless Larry has any objections, open the door!

[Tiruin]

Rorrim blinked as he passed the figure and examined the next room.

Was that a corpse?!

Head back to that corpse.

"Why are you dead?!"

But before that, open the right-most door and peer inside.

[Loud Whispers]

Walk towards the bend in the hallway, tapping the wall along the way.

[Knight Otu]

"A lichscar?  What's that?"

Inquire, but stay on guard.

"An eternity of failure and torture."

"Priest of this keep, you say? What did this place used to be, and who was it that Prodith betrayed? Why?"

"It used to be, and still is, the Keep of Bloodstained Dreams. At least while it was the hideout of our cell. Which is what Prodith betrayed. As for the why, it would be that the place got to her, and didn't seek relief by leaving. Happened at about the time the stairs downward appeared."

"...I do not like the look of this door. What say you, Larry? Open it?"
The skeleton stood there, examining the door blocking his path and seemingly mumbling to himself in his dry, raspy voice.
"Ehh, I suppose it couldn't hurt. Especially not someone without pain receptors."
With a sound like dry parchment tearing-- A chuckle?-- Trael stepped fowards to push the door.

>Unless Larry has any objections, open the door!

"I for one think the door is an absolute beauty as it is."
You push the door open, moving into the room beyond. It is a large, circular stone room, in the center of which is the staircase you came down from. You see several doors, but before you can count any of them, you note two black globs of slime oozing into your general direction.

Enemies - 2 black puddings - medium distance to Trael, not visible to the others.

Rorrim blinked as he passed the figure and examined the next room.

Was that a corpse?!

Head back to that corpse.

"Why are you dead?!"

But before that, open the right-most door and peer inside.

You peek into the nearest room to your right. Seems like it used to be a personal chamber and shrine combined, ages ago. Then you head back down asking the dead creature why it is dead. "Because I was killed."

Walk towards the bend in the hallway, tapping the wall along the way.

You tap the wall as you move to the bend, hearing nothing out of the ordinary. At the bend, you see that the corridor continues some length before ending, probably where the gate is at.

Spoiler: Zalgus (IronyOwl) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 10

Traits
Sage
Necromancer

Equipment
Skull Staff
Grim Robe
Manhide Grimoire
Unmarked potion

Spells:
Draining Gaze
Consult Dead
Call Shade

Spoiler: Rorgrin (Loud Whispers) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 7/10 (4/6 turns to recovery)

Traits
Using everything as a weapon
Staying eternally calm

Equipment
A rope
Well-crafted knife
Warhammer

Spoiler: Trael (Yoink) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 18/20 (1/3 to heal)
Action points: 10

Traits
Unfeeling
Driven

Equipment:
Ancient, battered steel greatsword
Heavy green wool cloak
Larry

Spoiler: Rorrim (Tiruin) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 25
Action points: 5

Traits
Vigilant
Warrior

Equipment:
Dulled, chipped, Tempered Steel Lochaber Axe
Leather armor
Woad body paint
A rock

Spoiler: Baradine McKane (Baradine) (click to show/hide)

Hit points: 20
Action points: 8/10 (4/6 to recover)

Traits
Skilled Swordsman
Fire magic

Equipment:
Bronze Longsword
Bronze Shield
Book of Fire Magic

Spells:
Firebolt
Fiery Cylinder
Heat Shield

[Baradine]

(I don't know Trael is being attacked by pudding, right?)

"What do you know about this keep?"

Ask.

[Knight Otu]

((Unless he calls for help or something, you're unaware.))

[Loud Whispers]

Bring out vaguely explained light source we're all apparently carrying one of.

Walk down the hallway.

Keep tapping the walls.

Ra-ta-ta-tap.

[IronyOwl]

"Did you have specific business with us, then, or did you just feel it wise to address us before we stumbled into you?

More to the point, do you know the way down?"

Inquire.

[Tiruin]

"And...why did they kill you?" Rorrim added in.

After that, examine the shrine.

[Knight Otu]

((Still missing an action from Yoink, it seems.))

[Yoink]

((Whoops, thought I'd posted))

"Hnnh. Any idea what those are?" The skeleton addressed the voice in his head, eyeing the vaguely threatening-looking blobs with suspicion. Eventually he went to walk swiftly past them, taking the first door he saw which could possibly lead in the right direction.
He kept an eye on the things, though. And a tight grip on his sword.

>Head through nearest hopeful door! Avoid weird blobs, whatever they are. If they attack me, slice 'em up. But mostly just try to step past them.