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[GiglameshDespair]

"Vhy vould undead need heads, anyvay? Zhey do not use eyes to zee, and zhey don't breathe either."

[Dwarmin]

"Ava is right.

Cut off their arms and legs as well, Mr. Culpa."

[Nerjin]

"Yes Captain..." Culpa mumbles as he picks up the limb-chopper and proceeds to fulfill the gruesome task.

[lawastooshort]

"Are you not just making more pieces to come to life? You should at least also cut off their thumbs, no? Or burn the feckers and shove 'em down a hole? Or just say some kind or warding prayer?"

[Nerjin]

"Only whole corpses come to life..." Culpa offered as the information crossed his mind.

[lawastooshort]

”Oh. I was sure I had heard terrifying stories from the West about reanimated hands and feet clawing at the living and dragging them down into pits of hellish fire and eating them. Oh well.”

Ari was quite disappointed.

”Can you reanimate whole corpses, Mr Culpa? Should we not call you Father Culpa? Do reanimated corpses have thought? I do not possibly understand how a reanimated corpse could work, if not like a puppet, in which case… Hmm. Can you protect against reanimated corpses? Anyway, I am glad we have a priestly man with us.”

[Nerjin]

"In a manner of speaking. I don't quite have the spell learned completely yet I'm afraid... Or the materials. BUt I am working on it."

[flame99]

The next door opens into a fairly plain corridor, which in turn takes you to a relatively small room. In the north east corner is a large hole slicing through the stone, and falling through it, a waterfall. Evidently the source of the sound of running water you've been hearing, which has now grown to an almost deafening roar. Interestingly enough, the furniture in the room--a few weapon racks, armor racks, and coffers, all consumed by rot or rust--appears to have been moved a startling degree rather roughly, judging by the scratches on the floor in their evident wake. A large amount of rubble sits strewn about the room. Two doors lead out; the one you came from, to the west, and one to the south that, if the map is to be trusted, leads to the camp set up by Arias and his guards.

EDIT: Oh, and it should also be noted that the furniture has all been moved toward the same thing: In the general direction of the waterfall.

[Dwarmin]

"Seems suspicious. The water broke through the ceiling, clearly. Perhaps that moved the furniture.." He mused.

Action: Is there anything visible on the racks or in the coffers to loot?

[lawastooshort]

"That doesn't make sense if the water came straight from above..."

Does the water come straight from above straight down?

[GiglameshDespair]

Ava remembered to pick up the remaining 360 gp, before moving on. Regarding the waterfall, she frowned.
It should have moved zhe furniture avay, not closer. Hoa!"
With her maul she batted a chair to crash into the waterfall.

[flame99]

"Seems suspicious. The water broke through the ceiling, clearly. Perhaps that moved the furniture.." He mused.

Action: Is there anything visible on the racks or in the coffers to loot?

A thorough search wouldn't reveal anything of value. The most you find is a set of clothes that, in some bygone era, may have been worth something. However, what seems to have once been richly dyed silks would be merely dull tatters now.

"That doesn't make sense if the water came straight from above..."

Does the water come straight from above straight down?

It kind of looks like it's pouring over an edge somewhere above, but you can't be sure. It falls along the side of the cliff.

Ava remembered to pick up the remaining 360 gp, before moving on. Regarding the waterfall, she frowned.
It should have moved zhe furniture avay, not closer. Hoa!"
With her maul she batted a chair to crash into the waterfall.

As the chair flies towards the waterfall, a number of Water Weird reach out and try to swat at it before being forced away by the current! It seems the water's elementally charged. Such a concentration of Water Weirds is only found either in the demense of truly powerful wizards and sorcerers, in the Plane of Water, or in areas just outside of it.

But, what's interesting is that while you hear the chair crash against the sides of the pit, it never seems to actually hit the bottom. Instead, the sound just fades off before becoming inaudible. Seems to be extremely deep.

[Dwarmin]

((Also, what a water weird is, if you other folks didn't know.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

))

"...Hmm, I guess this is actually some sort of portal to the Plane of Water..." Osirio muses, weighing if they should lower Ari down with a rope to make sure.

"...While we could something amusing here, there is little for us to gain-though I've heard elementally charged water is a powerful ingredient in certain potions, this one is clearly with the guard dogs. We should move on-and be wary of the water from now on. Who knows what else came through? At least it isn't attacking us directly."

Action: To the library!

[GiglameshDespair]

"Hmmph. I haf not zeen zhose kind of beasts before."
She followed close to Osirio, almost crowding him, head scannign for threats.

[Dwarmin]

"There are many strange things in the world, Ava...many of them reside in worlds parallel to our own.

There are more places than merely the High Heavens and the Nine Hells..." he comments.