Bands of Power - Game thread

The doors are wide and give impression of great weight. Though blocky and large, the carving is exacting. Someone to a long time doing it. Or was really skilled.

Borgo takes a few minutes to investigate the two doors; the broad surfaces, the anvil with the eye, the heavy pull rings, hinges and straps. Borgo’s honed senses and crafty fingers can find no obvious means that they might be locked and his skill at finding hidden dangers leaves him confident that there is no danger. As long as they aren’t barred in some way, they should pull open into this room. …with some considerable effort.

The door is unlocked and untrapped.

As Berith moves the torch towards Albrecht and Lattremond, Borgo looks back in concern until he sees where she stops. There is still plenty of light to finish his investigation of the doors and he’s nearly done anyway.

The torchlight reveals that the design is hexagonal in shape and 30’ across and abuts the wall to your right, directly across from the stairwell, part of which is also come into view along with another column and pile of bones. These are much like the others but do not animate and attack you. The skull is missing. Perhaps that’s why.

Lattremond, though he cannot read the runes, determines this to be a religious text of some kind; almost definitely a prayer of some type. He has seen similar symbology and motifs in other buildings before. Perhaps this was part of consecrating the place to Ord. Glancing back at the double doors emblazoned with the anvil and Eye of Ord, if things follow other past examples, any room behind them should be of religious significance.

Albrecht can read much of it from where he stands. It’s definitely a prayer to Ord.

"Great Architect, Giver of Law, We, your hammer and shield, stand ready. In the cold stillness of the mountain heart, we find your truth— That form arises from chaos, and strength from discipline.
Guide our hands to strike with precision, Our shields to hold fast against the tide of madness. Let our lines be as unbreakable as the stone of our halls, And our purpose as clear as a newly forged blade.
We ask not for victory, but for order in the face of fury. We seek not power, but the strength to enforce your will. For we are the anvil upon which your perfect world will be shaped."

Thak’s rough palm is cooled by the cold metal. The thick ring move stiffly in its mount as pressure is applied, but it doesn’t squeak. The sturdiness of the handle and its mounting informs him that some effort will be required to open this door.

Is Thak doing anything in particular here other than simply touching a handle?

Thak's efforts are in vain. He has neither the strengh or weight to pull the door open on his own and soon abandons the effort as Berith's torchlight draws away, leaving this side of the room in darkness.

Berith makes a partial circuit of the pattern with torch held out before her. She remembers that Thak and Lattremond had stepped on the pattern without ill effect during the fight and takes a few tentative steps onto the pattern itself as she stop on the opposite site.

The other members of the party are carried around the room in the wake of Berith's torchlight and are now standing near the edge of the pattern in front of the stairs except for those who chose to stand with her. Lattremond, eyes wary nearly draws his sword as another pile of bone is brought into the light, but these too remain inert and unmoving. As Berith comes to a stop, the light reveals the rest of the room while leaving the right side in darkness. The left side of the room (from the vantage point of the stairs) is a mirror of the right. Twin columns suppor the stone ceiling on either side of another set of closed double doors. These are much alike the others, equally monolithic, but without the great anvil and Eye engraved upon them.

Berith stands about 5' in on the 'left' side of the hexagonal pattern about equadistant from end near the stair and the end which abuts the wall. The prayer pattern itself is about 10' in depth so she is approximately in the middle of it. The unadormed center of the design is hexagonal as well, but of plain grey stone, perhaps carved from a single slab or piece of stone. The room itself is not quite a square being ~60' from left to right (set of doors to set of doors) and ~50 from front to back (staris to wall)

Light Sources:
Berith - Torch (9)

Initiative Order:
Borgo
Thak 3/7HP
Lattremond
BerIth 5/10HP
Elspeath
Albrecht 8/12HP[/quote]

Borgo spends the next few minutes going over the stone doors and comes away sure that there is no trap or locks to be seen. The doors seem to be as weighty as those on the other side of the room.

No traps or locks on these doors either. They just appear prodigiously heavy.

Borgo spends the next few minutes going over the stone doors and comes away sure that there is no trap or locks to be seen. The doors seem to be as weighty as those on the other side of the room.

No traps or locks on these doors either. They just appear prodigiously heavy.

Weight of numbers can make up for individual strength in many cases. :)