Continued Adventure

The party continues their delve of the abandoned temple. The adventurers carrying their wound ed and incapacitated comrade. Will they find what they came for?

Berith makes her way slowly and carefully up the stairs. Her careful examinations don’t seem to identify anything particularly untoward and nothing ill befalls her.

As she makes her way up, she stops part way to motion Elspaeth forwards with the lamp as the light is blocked by the ceiling of the hall leading to the stairs.

With Elspaeth standing near the base the stairs Berith can see the full length of the stairs and makes it high enough up the stairwell to see above the level of the landing.

It is another hallway, 10’ across, but it turns immediately to the right. You can only see about 10’ down that way.

Thak, still carrying the unconscious Goblin, follows behind Elspaeth so that both are near the base of the stairs.

Berith continues up and into the hall. Elspaeth's light from below fills this portion of the hall but doesn't travel far along it's length and casts a harsh shadow diagonally across the floor and up the wall about 10-15 feet along it's length. Berith will need to light her own torch or call the others up after her. The dull sound of her boots on the stone make her think that the way ahead can't stretch too far into the darkness.

The light pushes away the darkness revealing a short passage which dead ends after about 25'.



Berith stands in the hall just in front of the stairs. Elspeath stands at the top of the stair on the left so her light can spread down the length of the passage.

As Berith gets about halfway down the hall, something tugs at her attention. Kneeling down she can see a fine and straight crack or seam extending across the width of the hall from wall to wall. She can't quite tell if it extends farther down the sides of the hall as well, but she can't rule it out. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference to the floor on either side of the seam, but you haven't noticed anything like it elsewhere.

The floor doesn't give to her pressing, but she does notice a slight an odd quality to the sound her sword makes as she probes the floor. They don't sound as flat as she might expect.

If the this is a trap door of some kind, it isn't set to give way at the slightest touch. She's going to have to apply quite a bit of force or weight.

The floor appears devoid of anything manipulable along the seam of the floor or on the walls near it and there are no visible hinging further along the floor.

Berith finds that while she can get the edge of her crowbar into the narrow gap, she cannot get enough in gain any real purchase. The crowbar simply comes loose and mars the seam where she made the attempt, making more plainly visible. Even if it had grabbed she's not entirely sure she could prize up a door, stone or not, which seems more likely designed to drop down. Her iron spikes do have a finer chisel point, but are too short to use as a lever.

The seam goes across the entire 10' of the passage and you aren't sure how far down the passage it goes, but given things your've heard of you can assume about 10'. Dwarves are capable of very cleverly hiding such hinges and such, but given you've encountered one magical pit drop it's not unlikely you'll encounter the more mundane variety as well. Though Berith and Eslpeath may hope for a