Quest to White Plume Mountain

[Inferno]

Abdul Jhaad Asaahn, holy wizard:

"Perhaps," said the desert priest, his eyes glowing with an otherworldly spell. "But there is a trap upon that far wall," he said distantly.

"Miss Riagrin, can you safely stand anywhere at the bottom of the pit? If that far door is a trap, there might be a secret door... perhaps even at the bottom of these pits?"

[ravenn4544]

Urgost Fighter grunts "My uncle used to say the best way to find a trap was to spring it. Maybe that's what we need to do to the wall trap you saw. Of course, I barely new my uncle as he got himself killed doin' just that. Just sayin'..."

[GreyWolfVT]

Goroth "A shame we don't have any more golems to test the room with."

[GreyWolfVT]

Later when they want to try again .....

Goroth slowly lets slack in the rope allowing the halfling down to the pit again slowly so as not to let the halfling get impaled.

[Scott308]

Riagrin, Halfling Thief

All right, boys. Let's try this again. I'll get to the bottom of the gap and check for any kind of door or lever or ... pretty much anything, I guess. Let the rope out sloooowly. I don't fancy getting impaled on those poisoned spikes.

Sorry- thought I was posting in this forum.

[Bloodaxe]

Riagrin, Halfling Thief

All right, boys. Let's try this again. I'll get to the bottom of the gap and check for any kind of door or lever or ... pretty much anything, I guess. Let the rope out sloooowly. I don't fancy getting impaled on those poisoned spikes.

Sorry- thought I was posting in this forum.

Riagrin gets to the bottom of the pit and carefully checks......nothing.

Maybe the 'trap" is just the frictionless floor of the room nad how to cross it without falling into a pit and being impaled by poison spikes.

[Scott308]

Riagrin, Halfling Thief

The halfling will carefully examine the poisoned spikes without touching them to see if there is a way to disable them and eliminate their threat.

[Bloodaxe]

Riagrin, Halfling Thief

The halfling will carefully examine the poisoned spikes without touching them to see if there is a way to disable them and eliminate their threat.

No. Certainly not easily. There must be at least two scores spikes implanted in the floor. The poison looks like some thick tarry substance.

[GreyWolfVT]

Goroth stands there holding the rope humming.

[Inferno]

Abdul Jhaad Asaahn, holy wizard:

At the risk of being a one-trick pony, the sorcerer-priest gathers together a length of rope equal to the room's length, and holds one rope end while leaving the other end with the party, and flies his carpet across the room, over the frictionless floors and waiting pits.

Once he reaches the other side, he hovers, awaiting flames, ghouls and vampires to leap out at him like the other times he did this.

[Bloodaxe]

Abdul Jhaad Asaahn, holy wizard:

At the risk of being a one-trick pony, the sorcerer-priest gathers together a length of rope equal to the room's length, and holds one rope end while leaving the other end with the party, and flies his carpet across the room, over the frictionless floors and waiting pits.

Once he reaches the other side, he hovers, awaiting flames, ghouls and vampires to leap out at him like the other times he did this.

You reach the other side safely and attempt to anchor the rope......but fail. The west wall is an illusion, used to foil just such attempts. Further past the illusionary wall, the real wall seems fine. But how to anchor the rope?
There is a door in the north wall.

So far, no ghouls, fire, monsters, or death.....

[Inferno]

Asaahn, without leaving the carpet, examined the door and listened at it.

Listen at Door: [1d6] = 4
Is there an iron door knob or ring?

[Bloodaxe]

You don't hear anything. The door appears normal, with knob.

[Inferno]

Asaahn, with no other choice, ties the rope around the neck (or shank) of the doorknob, so that pulling on the rope won't cause the knob to turn and the door to open.

[Bloodaxe]

Asaahn, with no other choice, ties the rope around the neck (or shank) of the doorknob, so that pulling on the rope won't cause the knob to turn and the door to open.

Ok,you do so. Its an even larger knob than what you have pictured, so should be more secure. Yet, nothing is guaranteed.

[ravenn4544]

Urgosh stands by idly as the party debates how best to cross the icy floor without landing in a big hole. Scratching his head it appears that a brilliant idea quickly finds it's way in then quickly out again, "i did find a bottle of water that was supposed to let someone fly through air like a bird if they drunk it, or so the magicky mage i was with at that time, maybe that could get over the ice as you wouldn't have to actually walk on it right?"

[GreyWolfVT]

Goroth "Aye that'd do good for one more person."

[ravenn4544]

Urgosh utters "Maybe I can be the anchor and hold the rope on this side, while someone flys that rug over there, opens that door and holds the rope over there?"

[SocraticLawyer]

Bucyrus, human monk
Bucky will take the end of the rope that is with the group at this end of the hall. He'll tie it to the nearest doorknob. If the rope is reasonably taut, Bucky will attempt to walk across the room while holding the rope.

[Bloodaxe]

Bucyrus, human monk
Bucky will take the end of the rope that is with the group at this end of the hall. He'll tie it to the nearest doorknob. If the rope is reasonably taut, Bucky will attempt to walk across the room while holding the rope.

It's tricky, and slow....but it works! You slip all over, but are able room control yourself with the rope. The dangerous part is leaping over the narrow pits.
But now you can go no further. You are at the door.