ASOD beyond II
"do you think we've been taken to the last level of this godforesaken place"Xiena asked in first relpy to the ominscent confusion placating their intellect.
"yes...unless that old fool was playing tricks,the promise to help us find the item, should have done at least the problem of our troubles,done good to put us near the goal,the item...the final level of Tehtreciene"Alliyah spoke full uf her lead astoutedness,as they took torches and peered at the room before them.
It was a 70 ft sqaure grey qaurry walled area,but the brims were refined with mitered molds,that had vinery and some magical carvitures splayne across them,the hue changing to a lighter semblence,bled the darkly presense of the area to a brackened image of sorcery at it's throws of intent with the strange new architecture.Soon bound by the virtue of their ways,they followed stormrider,through the only hall,fealing for answers to this puzzle through the masks of the bland yet unconstrained new surroundings.The walls of the hall,began to fade in composure,and the occurance of metal plates fastened to them were now some 10 a side.The focus for an icon,perhaps even ancient scrawlings that had protected the place before the Troll army takeover,now washed clean from their use,the absolution from poisens for the work of dark sorcery intended at the time.Kiazo paused and touched one,tapping it once with the axe,then reached forth with a punch,they may be more important than a simple passing,metal collaberated in nonuse with no meaning;each were interested in forthcoming evidence of what could be done so they waited and listened for a response to the investigation.
"solid...no use,very strange....it is the work of sorcery I don't understand,what say you mage elf?"Kiazo now fumed in an orcish way asked of Morigin.
"wards of defense...certainly I have next to no idea as well,however that is my best idea,and scince there are no engravements upon them,we need'nt worry,the passage is un trapped if it were these that had that focus"
"indeed,a sure way to be safe,don't touch anymore of those untill we have a better making on this entire level"Alliyah foreworded her review for the party,and they continued.
They soon approached an arched doorway with the same brim of artistic endevour,only this was gold,and they were preturbed as to wether it may be a field or trap,so Morigin set a potion and incanting vocation for it,and soon the flakes of the ward,fell from it,bursting alive in a vicious energy for moment,luck a finer pretense for them this carefully taken feature...
The room before them now same as the first,was set with 4 pits at each side,leaving a 10 ft space inbetween,each spanning a 5 ft sqaure.As they looked into them,no end was in sight,and their purpose may have been layne dorment like much was,was agreed upon,and they made way to the next hall directly across from the golden doorway. "oh! Be damned,this place is still alive!"Alliyah yelled in anger,as a gate slammed in front of her before they could exit,and not lingering in response,they took weapons and set themselves for battle turning to the pits expecting the worse.
One of the darkened wells beamed forth with energy,like a celestial torrent,then a spinning vortex of mithral elemest some 3 ft in diamter and 6 ft high was alive directly in the centre.It was not attacking,but looked to be dangerous,so they waited 20 ft from it,not knowing what to do to get away,or how they could quell this problem.
"I will cast mists of material upon it,and if it is not-diety imbued might,it should fall away,as the casts before of this nature have done"Xiena announced her idea and did so,but the effect was non- tranforming,as the spell defracted from it,and turned into nothing in a few seconds.
"maybe the item we seek is burried at the bottom of this....didn't that pixie say there was way to find it,this is a sign"Morigin stated,considering what spell to make for the situation,and together they approached,hence standing at the pit,not entirely safe should a sudden attack occur.
As Morigin reached towards it it suddenly moved,darting away from the spellcaster's reach,and trying again it again moved in a direct opposite.Soon Morigin had shuffled it to a corner,and looking at the party,was motioned to try to make it meet the gate,maybe being a secret key for the matter.As it wished against the metal of the grate,the melting ore,turned silver,then fell in globuls to the ground,and the way was now open,the elf unsure of all this made reconciliation by re-sending the vortex to it's pit,and Alliyah stepped through first,with no trap taking her the group followed and they found themselves at a cross hall a ways later.
"I don't think that all this is so simple as it looks,if the elemest was there to destroy the gate then how was it so undamaged,the magic is still alive,that we know,we must be carefull"in cleric mire,Xiena made concern voiced,and Alliyah simply turned a direction and they followed.
They reached a dead end of sorts,within sight of the break,but it was alive,rushing with water like a natural waterfall,from the roof to a gap in the floor,a non definable interest to this dungeon,but one that could wait,so they made to the other side and found that this end was set with 5 small holes at the ends of a star,embeded into the stone,made of black okre.
"this is it,then,one room and this hall,besides the first,there must be some way to activate the items place of hiding,the elemest,the water,this rune"Alliyah spoke what was on each's concoiusness,now that no way to leave or go any further was appearant.
"hiy heyteo heie ha"the Semcheynis cackled observing the trap the party had fallen into from her crystal,the final level was unknown to her as well,but there looked to be no way to get there or leave unless a portal was activated,and they were bound from that side.
"if only I could send my beasts to destroy them and take this...precious item,why they are standing about like mindless fools,(looking to the Italiasthrieyn) what are the ways of the 9th level like,I wish you to go there and find any secret passage to the 10th,take with you these!!!"with that she waved her wand after standing and placing the crystal at the arm of the chair,and suddenly 4 Methsenseghrs arrived,looking about bewildered then turning to the 'highness',making a light bow one spoke.
"my..ss..great....rgrh... queen...how may we kill the foe and secure thynes realm..ss..ss today?",each was armed with a sword,and as the speaker swiped,they each mocked it's show,with less interest,waiting for their orders.
"follow my guard....you must find the last underground passages of this dungeon,there a party of fools may fight you.....eieugrh!...however if needst be,they ,may be more important alive,I will send word of this now!!! go !!!",the underlings quickly went through the secret wall door,at the throne side,as the party had originally,and scampered their way making to the stairs,and finding a route,that led them for several levels untill,they were lost,and forced to adventure their way further.
After some time the beasts of servitude followed their way much the same as the adventurers had,and made to the mighty Troll combat area,looking at blemishes,and fealing the regaurd in which the flaunts of victory must have fallen on those they were sent to decimate,if so their 'queen' will have chosen.Making a grunt,and swiping the sword now carried the Italiasthreiyn trotted to the hallway,and the Mesthsenseghrs followed,looking at the still alive swirls,with more interest than the course the gaurdian was setting before them.
"rrgh...Troll magics....i can sense all that must die ...within our grasp....our mission is clear is it not?" the lead Mesthsenseghr commented.
"we shall do the bidding of death,most certainly..."another agreed.
Alliyah wasted no refumpled concessions and worked upon the star,finding that when she passed her hand to cover a hole a clicking sound was made,turning to the others they as well noted this.
"if it is a trap,we have little to do but be carefull,I will pass before the rest of the holes"she then did so,and each time a click occurred,the last presenting the final trick for this wall imbued icon.
A rush of energy flew from the star,projecting an illusion like the star itself,only with eery green swirls,about the blackened image now 10 ft from the wall and 6 ft in diameter. With weapons alive and zeal and composure at it's finest the group looked about,and were unsure of what was to be,perhaps this was just a religous action,that preists used for evil blessings and was still alive held safe here within the darkest untouched corners of Tethreciene,or a delayed trap,scouting for the strengths of the innocent,about to whip a grande accostation of spellwork,in Troll mage's name.
"it's alive,that is good,certainly the item will be found,if we can use all that is still bound"Kiazo stated in surefire debut against their whimsical confusion,but soon the air changed,and the 'trap' was now revealed,-as a portal of some kind,that now sent several monsters,each undead,and each viciously swiping and attacking the party.
4 Chenexfers,gouded with hornes,and deathly uncomprimising poisen glands,flew threw too fast for Xiena to block the first strike on her,and she reeled against the claw strike and slam,the poisen biting into her constitution,and state of well being.The frightening undead glow was cast as a glamour to the poisen attacking creatures,making them more dubious than their mortal life forms,with purple and green and black dithers of subterfuge shaling from their bodies like wards made from master wizards that could destroy a party ignorant of how to defend against the powers layne by the arcane furry.As they faught with defensive swipes,and repealing effort,making backstepping towards the main chamber to this hall,more beasts arrived,the star icon,not changing at all as the forms sped through the illusional image-10 Gia'zerts,scaffed quickly about from the hall,surrounding the warriors as they finally killed one Chenexfer,these new threats were fast,and with six legs they lept into the fray,attempting to grapple first Alliyah then Chealsoroy for a super-damage dealing razor wing or tail thrashing.The two prey,however faught off the attempt,and Chealsoroy and Xiena finally cast spells.
The elf strew a multi weave of 'Dithers of Arcana' at two Gia'zerts and two Chenexfers,the air breaking into dancing ethereal calour,as sprites formed into metathurgies that ripped into the foes,crashing through two times,in a wave of spellwork.Xiena making a specific call to her anti-undead clerical powers,railed a casting against 8 foes.
"mass mortem-!!"the she-divinity for the party cried out,and attack,and defense after move after move,they were slashed and cut and torn by the spirtual energy,one Gia'zert suffering greater damage,and being dispatched by Kiazo's imbued extra efforted axe bashing.
Sudenly the ground festering monsters cast their own spells,a 'platnum glamour of striking' and 'illusional hammer' leaping into thin air,catching them offgaurd,fortunately only Alliyah suffered the wieght of the hammer attack,slumping from the impact,but able to recover-the swish of light crashed into the band,and did a darringly great deal of harm,but that was the final cue for the Cleric and she repealed a step from her next easily to be cast attack spell; and was able to put a healing 'regent recovery' imbued into a 'fighting revocation',that crashed through the defense of the Gia'zerts despite their resistance and flowed a return from the slashing and magic damage done on the party while cracking a few vital wounds on their enemies. "let's take this poisenous wart"Alliyah called,as she,Chealsoroy and Kiazo,fiened away from their multi-imbued combat,and killed the last alive Chenexfer,the Gia'zerts;now with 7 still alive,weren't cleft by the sight,and once more cast,their two spell talents.
"tethers of mold"-"golden glamour of striking"-,Xiena gathered a poisen gland and vocated"weaponing wasps!",-the beasts were slowed,for a moment the poisen from their advanced round attackers culled into them-"forbidden elemest!"the elf,with sword set away was making the most of the wizard weave of destruction;as the third time this spell attacked the might of it's power killed 4 Gia'zerts,and with a few sword strikes they finally had a series of strangely decomposing corpses about them,-and a new elemest whirl at the front pit,and strangely enough a new gate across the doorway,this one of a brass like metal,it's resounding thus against the ground making them skitter,and look,while frought with the closest in wounds and spell curses from the evils of Tethreciene than in any battle yet.
"I fear if each new –spellwork of elemest does so makest the trap anew-we are in need of help to win the battle for the control of this place"Alliyah named the first portence for all that had transpired,obviousely remitting,that Chealsoroy should again be the one to make a move against the pit energy scaffing in volatile anger,it looked,even more so than the first one.
"do you think we've been taken to the last level of this godforesaken place"Xiena asked in first relpy to the ominscent confusion placating their intellect.
"yes...unless that old fool was playing tricks,the promise to help us find the item, should have done at least the problem of our troubles,done good to put us near the goal,the item...the final level of Tehtreciene"Alliyah spoke full uf her lead astoutedness,as they took torches and peered at the room before them.
It was a 70 ft sqaure grey qaurry walled area,but the brims were refined with mitered molds,that had vinery and some magical carvitures splayne across them,the hue changing to a lighter semblence,bled the darkly presense of the area to a brackened image of sorcery at it's throws of intent with the strange new architecture.Soon bound by the virtue of their ways,they followed stormrider,through the only hall,fealing for answers to this puzzle through the masks of the bland yet unconstrained new surroundings.The walls of the hall,began to fade in composure,and the occurance of metal plates fastened to them were now some 10 a side.The focus for an icon,perhaps even ancient scrawlings that had protected the place before the Troll army takeover,now washed clean from their use,the absolution from poisens for the work of dark sorcery intended at the time.Kiazo paused and touched one,tapping it once with the axe,then reached forth with a punch,they may be more important than a simple passing,metal collaberated in nonuse with no meaning;each were interested in forthcoming evidence of what could be done so they waited and listened for a response to the investigation.
"solid...no use,very strange....it is the work of sorcery I don't understand,what say you mage elf?"Kiazo now fumed in an orcish way asked of Morigin.
"wards of defense...certainly I have next to no idea as well,however that is my best idea,and scince there are no engravements upon them,we need'nt worry,the passage is un trapped if it were these that had that focus"
"indeed,a sure way to be safe,don't touch anymore of those untill we have a better making on this entire level"Alliyah foreworded her review for the party,and they continued.
They soon approached an arched doorway with the same brim of artistic endevour,only this was gold,and they were preturbed as to wether it may be a field or trap,so Morigin set a potion and incanting vocation for it,and soon the flakes of the ward,fell from it,bursting alive in a vicious energy for moment,luck a finer pretense for them this carefully taken feature...
The room before them now same as the first,was set with 4 pits at each side,leaving a 10 ft space inbetween,each spanning a 5 ft sqaure.As they looked into them,no end was in sight,and their purpose may have been layne dorment like much was,was agreed upon,and they made way to the next hall directly across from the golden doorway. "oh! Be damned,this place is still alive!"Alliyah yelled in anger,as a gate slammed in front of her before they could exit,and not lingering in response,they took weapons and set themselves for battle turning to the pits expecting the worse.
One of the darkened wells beamed forth with energy,like a celestial torrent,then a spinning vortex of mithral elemest some 3 ft in diamter and 6 ft high was alive directly in the centre.It was not attacking,but looked to be dangerous,so they waited 20 ft from it,not knowing what to do to get away,or how they could quell this problem.
"I will cast mists of material upon it,and if it is not-diety imbued might,it should fall away,as the casts before of this nature have done"Xiena announced her idea and did so,but the effect was non- tranforming,as the spell defracted from it,and turned into nothing in a few seconds.
"maybe the item we seek is burried at the bottom of this....didn't that pixie say there was way to find it,this is a sign"Morigin stated,considering what spell to make for the situation,and together they approached,hence standing at the pit,not entirely safe should a sudden attack occur.
As Morigin reached towards it it suddenly moved,darting away from the spellcaster's reach,and trying again it again moved in a direct opposite.Soon Morigin had shuffled it to a corner,and looking at the party,was motioned to try to make it meet the gate,maybe being a secret key for the matter.As it wished against the metal of the grate,the melting ore,turned silver,then fell in globuls to the ground,and the way was now open,the elf unsure of all this made reconciliation by re-sending the vortex to it's pit,and Alliyah stepped through first,with no trap taking her the group followed and they found themselves at a cross hall a ways later.
"I don't think that all this is so simple as it looks,if the elemest was there to destroy the gate then how was it so undamaged,the magic is still alive,that we know,we must be carefull"in cleric mire,Xiena made concern voiced,and Alliyah simply turned a direction and they followed.
They reached a dead end of sorts,within sight of the break,but it was alive,rushing with water like a natural waterfall,from the roof to a gap in the floor,a non definable interest to this dungeon,but one that could wait,so they made to the other side and found that this end was set with 5 small holes at the ends of a star,embeded into the stone,made of black okre.
"this is it,then,one room and this hall,besides the first,there must be some way to activate the items place of hiding,the elemest,the water,this rune"Alliyah spoke what was on each's concoiusness,now that no way to leave or go any further was appearant.
"hiy heyteo heie ha"the Semcheynis cackled observing the trap the party had fallen into from her crystal,the final level was unknown to her as well,but there looked to be no way to get there or leave unless a portal was activated,and they were bound from that side.
"if only I could send my beasts to destroy them and take this...precious item,why they are standing about like mindless fools,(looking to the Italiasthrieyn) what are the ways of the 9th level like,I wish you to go there and find any secret passage to the 10th,take with you these!!!"with that she waved her wand after standing and placing the crystal at the arm of the chair,and suddenly 4 Methsenseghrs arrived,looking about bewildered then turning to the 'highness',making a light bow one spoke.
"my..ss..great....rgrh... queen...how may we kill the foe and secure thynes realm..ss..ss today?",each was armed with a sword,and as the speaker swiped,they each mocked it's show,with less interest,waiting for their orders.
"follow my guard....you must find the last underground passages of this dungeon,there a party of fools may fight you.....eieugrh!...however if needst be,they ,may be more important alive,I will send word of this now!!! go !!!",the underlings quickly went through the secret wall door,at the throne side,as the party had originally,and scampered their way making to the stairs,and finding a route,that led them for several levels untill,they were lost,and forced to adventure their way further.
After some time the beasts of servitude followed their way much the same as the adventurers had,and made to the mighty Troll combat area,looking at blemishes,and fealing the regaurd in which the flaunts of victory must have fallen on those they were sent to decimate,if so their 'queen' will have chosen.Making a grunt,and swiping the sword now carried the Italiasthreiyn trotted to the hallway,and the Mesthsenseghrs followed,looking at the still alive swirls,with more interest than the course the gaurdian was setting before them.
"rrgh...Troll magics....i can sense all that must die ...within our grasp....our mission is clear is it not?" the lead Mesthsenseghr commented.
"we shall do the bidding of death,most certainly..."another agreed.
Alliyah wasted no refumpled concessions and worked upon the star,finding that when she passed her hand to cover a hole a clicking sound was made,turning to the others they as well noted this.
"if it is a trap,we have little to do but be carefull,I will pass before the rest of the holes"she then did so,and each time a click occurred,the last presenting the final trick for this wall imbued icon.
A rush of energy flew from the star,projecting an illusion like the star itself,only with eery green swirls,about the blackened image now 10 ft from the wall and 6 ft in diameter. With weapons alive and zeal and composure at it's finest the group looked about,and were unsure of what was to be,perhaps this was just a religous action,that preists used for evil blessings and was still alive held safe here within the darkest untouched corners of Tethreciene,or a delayed trap,scouting for the strengths of the innocent,about to whip a grande accostation of spellwork,in Troll mage's name.
"it's alive,that is good,certainly the item will be found,if we can use all that is still bound"Kiazo stated in surefire debut against their whimsical confusion,but soon the air changed,and the 'trap' was now revealed,-as a portal of some kind,that now sent several monsters,each undead,and each viciously swiping and attacking the party.
4 Chenexfers,gouded with hornes,and deathly uncomprimising poisen glands,flew threw too fast for Xiena to block the first strike on her,and she reeled against the claw strike and slam,the poisen biting into her constitution,and state of well being.The frightening undead glow was cast as a glamour to the poisen attacking creatures,making them more dubious than their mortal life forms,with purple and green and black dithers of subterfuge shaling from their bodies like wards made from master wizards that could destroy a party ignorant of how to defend against the powers layne by the arcane furry.As they faught with defensive swipes,and repealing effort,making backstepping towards the main chamber to this hall,more beasts arrived,the star icon,not changing at all as the forms sped through the illusional image-10 Gia'zerts,scaffed quickly about from the hall,surrounding the warriors as they finally killed one Chenexfer,these new threats were fast,and with six legs they lept into the fray,attempting to grapple first Alliyah then Chealsoroy for a super-damage dealing razor wing or tail thrashing.The two prey,however faught off the attempt,and Chealsoroy and Xiena finally cast spells.
The elf strew a multi weave of 'Dithers of Arcana' at two Gia'zerts and two Chenexfers,the air breaking into dancing ethereal calour,as sprites formed into metathurgies that ripped into the foes,crashing through two times,in a wave of spellwork.Xiena making a specific call to her anti-undead clerical powers,railed a casting against 8 foes.
"mass mortem-!!"the she-divinity for the party cried out,and attack,and defense after move after move,they were slashed and cut and torn by the spirtual energy,one Gia'zert suffering greater damage,and being dispatched by Kiazo's imbued extra efforted axe bashing.
Sudenly the ground festering monsters cast their own spells,a 'platnum glamour of striking' and 'illusional hammer' leaping into thin air,catching them offgaurd,fortunately only Alliyah suffered the wieght of the hammer attack,slumping from the impact,but able to recover-the swish of light crashed into the band,and did a darringly great deal of harm,but that was the final cue for the Cleric and she repealed a step from her next easily to be cast attack spell; and was able to put a healing 'regent recovery' imbued into a 'fighting revocation',that crashed through the defense of the Gia'zerts despite their resistance and flowed a return from the slashing and magic damage done on the party while cracking a few vital wounds on their enemies. "let's take this poisenous wart"Alliyah called,as she,Chealsoroy and Kiazo,fiened away from their multi-imbued combat,and killed the last alive Chenexfer,the Gia'zerts;now with 7 still alive,weren't cleft by the sight,and once more cast,their two spell talents.
"tethers of mold"-"golden glamour of striking"-,Xiena gathered a poisen gland and vocated"weaponing wasps!",-the beasts were slowed,for a moment the poisen from their advanced round attackers culled into them-"forbidden elemest!"the elf,with sword set away was making the most of the wizard weave of destruction;as the third time this spell attacked the might of it's power killed 4 Gia'zerts,and with a few sword strikes they finally had a series of strangely decomposing corpses about them,-and a new elemest whirl at the front pit,and strangely enough a new gate across the doorway,this one of a brass like metal,it's resounding thus against the ground making them skitter,and look,while frought with the closest in wounds and spell curses from the evils of Tethreciene than in any battle yet.
"I fear if each new –spellwork of elemest does so makest the trap anew-we are in need of help to win the battle for the control of this place"Alliyah named the first portence for all that had transpired,obviousely remitting,that Chealsoroy should again be the one to make a move against the pit energy scaffing in volatile anger,it looked,even more so than the first one.
