Seeing Double

"Seeing Double" is the 7th session of Season 3.

 

Having bested the guards beyond the door, the Reavers find themselves.

 

It was played on January 28, 2024.

The date in-game is the 13th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

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Plot

  • Short rest for some of us
  • Dorian is trying to listen to see if they can hear anything beyond the door
  • Lya is teaching Maeve, Meph and DD fun hand games(slide and sticks)
    • There is a lot of stone moving around, even some moving in this room
    • The statues are trying to reform themselves and so are the columns
    • We are taking elbows and we are going to drop them down the elemental holes
      • Nothing has really changed in the elemental room, just some of the rubble that was blocking the way has gotten a bit fixed
    • One elbow in fire hole, falls for a while (like 8 mississippi’s), then a doon
    • Nothing happens; 3 more
    • 2 in water hole, no sploosh only stone
    • 2 in stone, no bottom heard
  • Everyone has actions ready and Meph is going to open the door
  • There is a chamber that extends 20 ft long and 15ft wide, there is a door on the end and on both side, the ceiling slopes slightly upward and you see some of the writing that had been inscribed across on the walls
    • There isn't a distinct set of murals but the way the symbols are wrung around the door
    • Each door on a addition to the writing is worked into a kind of sigil, to the right is an orb shape (tomb of family), the left is a an almost like expanding spiral almost like a cyclone(tomb of friends), the end has two arrows wrap around a triangle (tomb of foes)
  • Lya is checking for traps on the doors, if there was a trap on the door, it is not physical or mechanical
  • It’s door time, there is a ramp through it and it curves to the left and up, there are some alcoves on the outer wall, they have crystals in them that seem like they used to light it up
    • Lya is trying to check ahead while staying within sight of everyone
  • There is a door at the end, no traps in this hallway, the door has the same symbol as the door we just went through, the ramp has two rows of scrapes 
  • Lya is going to open the door, we are trying to not to die to what ever these scrapes are
  • Lya opens the door, there is a room and on the other side of the room there is another statue with no shield that appeared that it was coming towards the door hostile
  • DD’s hammer gets thrown and it is embedded in the wall and statue, the snake
  • Almost perfectly square chamber 25 by 25, at the back wall is an enormous table, it takes up most of the space, there is a statue on the back wall, there is a cart 10ft by 10 ft, it looks like it could have made the tracks, there are also shelves with ceramic jars
  • Dorian is not entirely sure what is going on in here so it has to be doctors 
    • There is a similar crystal in the ceiling that is in the center of the ceiling
    • There is another ramp up and to the left
  • Meph opened a random jar, it has some sort of pump apparatus, she takes a breath before opening it and everyone else need to make a con save, completely distilled formaldehyde
  • Lya finds thick bandages in a jar, this is an embalming chamber
  • We are going up the ramp, there are more scrapes, the hall straightens out for about 25 ft while still ramping up, there is a lot of repeated imagery of the funeral procession, Quill is leading the way, the orb symbol and other similar symbols on the door
  • Lya is opening the door to very large chamber (65x50) there are 8 coffins, 4 on each side stretching down the length of the room
    • Over each coffin is a distinct mural of one of these creatures and the box is decorated the same way Maeve’s was
    • The second one on the left actively has a skeleton crawling out of it and other lids are cocking, another skeleton is crawling out of the farthest on the left, the one that is fully out and looks towards us, charisma save, those that lost are no longer afraid
    • The skeleton started opening so some people who failed the save decided to help 
    • They cast calm emotions, they are just chill
    • Quill gives an obsidian arrow head to one of them and they give him a bracer
  • We are leaving the family area and are going to go through foes
  • Lya is opening the door, there is a 15 by 15 room, it looks entirely blank, completely unpolished stone, investigating it, there is air flow, there is no sound, no pattern, its just some sort of draft
  • Lya steps in and the floor drops a bit she backs up and the roof comes crushing down
  • Weiss and Clara are looking around, weiss bumps around the room and Clara is very good at looking around
  • There is a seam along the bottom of the far wall, there is some sort of doorway there, its relatively small
  • Quill is going to try to climb across, it is not a good idea
  • DD has Sunder thrown across to try to open the door, the door shatters and crumbles into pieces
  • On the other side of the door there is a 10 ft room and a shaft, there is more paint in the following room, there is some kind of a statue on the ceiling, coming out of the ceiling offering a hand
    • Lya uses mage hand to tie a rope to the hand of the statue and Quill is going to run across with Clara on his shoulder
    • Quill runs across and grabs the rope, there is cobbled stone at the bottom, it seems to open up into a larger room, there are a bunch of statues, they don’t appear to be moving, they are humanoid, it has the same high definition as the moving statues from way before but they are made of sandstone
    • Quill recognizes one of the statues but hasn’t figured out why yet, Aster recognizes two and also doesn’t know why yet
  • The rest of the party is following now one at a time
    • Lya goes next, Dorian next, Maeve next(fell but feather fall), Meph(fell but feather fall), DD and Aella also have feather fall but also go just fine, Mariana misses the rope but misty steps down, Gelvrever jumps down the hole(he has fancy boots)
    • There are 10 statues scattered around, they are statues of us, the one of Quill is wearing the bracelet, DDDD is now here and another statue appears and the shaft above us closes 
    • An inscription on the far wall that we hadn’t noticed before lights up, “The heart of a true warrior is still when faced with themself”
    • The statues start moving, the quill cocks an arrow initiative
      • Our Quill attacks first and obliterates statue quill, Maeve’s statue(Baeve) is also gone
      • We are attacking the statues, and they are attacking us as well
      • Gelvrever walks up to his statue and stands there, the rest of the party is starting to follow suit
      • When Baeve’s turn came around she reappeared
      • We all face our statues and the inscription glows again and the doors slowly slide open
  • The statue battle is done, most people leave their statues but Meph eventually lets go of the hug of her statue and falls to the ground silently sobbing

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