Subject: Harrowstone 2,165 views

[Alex]

Looks Sound

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Slowly and silently climb the ladder.

[Alex]

Two rungs up the ladder...

a disembodied, mournful dirge played upon a fluteis heard all around you.

Rattling from every cell on this floor can be heard.

Hissing and gnashing of teeth.

The cracking of rigamortis ridden bones.

Slow Screeching of rusted iron cell doors opening.

(Continue up the ladder or Do something else?)

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

...no, leaving now.

[Alex]

The flute its you to the core and you are shaken for the first round. Jump off the ladder and start to the door you came in, a glance down the hallway shows 4 former prisoner skeletons hustling fleshlessly at you. You go to exit and you cant turn to the door.

You just stand there frozen in fear and entranced by the music. (As per Hold Person)

From behind the boney criminals you see



and a flock of stirges.



they make a slow, inexorable approach.

You are able to attain or release psionic focus and break free of the effect and run out.

As you pass the threshold you bleed out 3 hp as blood momentarily flows from a dozen tiny punctures that spontaneously open along your arms and neck.

(Do you close doors behind you?)

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Yes I do.

[Alex]

T4b

A skeleton gets his head, arm and claws through the door. Hissing and clawing at your face.

You are able to dodge the slash and open the door enough to slam it back on the skeleton and it latches shut. The broken and contorted radius and ulna of the forearm still stuck in the frame splintered and compounded. The clawed fingers still trying to get you but resembling more like a wave in its current condition.

(What do you do?)

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Activate corrosive aura while holding the door shut.

[Alex]

There is slamming on the door but it is very solid and well made. The wood does warp and sizzle and smoke/ the metal corrodes / the stone marrs from the acid bubble. The flute dirge continues like its in your ear.

Like its right behind you.

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Shar steps sideways away from the door, so that it will shield him if it opens. As he spins, putting his back to the wall, his hands come together and a pulse of purplish cloud of energy forms. The billowing, cloudy chi rapidly solidifies into a blade of pure light.
He squares off and slashes at any undead behind him, using his training to flare his chi through the blade as it swings through the air.
(5ft step to the side, quick draw mind blade +5 hit greatsword, and IF flute bitch is there use autohypnosis to keep focus while expending psionic strike +1 hit, +2d6dmg)

[Alex]

(The door opens to the left, inward towards you so that it would be lined up flush against the wall to the left. But doesn't matter as...)

The door remains closed, scratchy bone hands can still be heard thru the door. The disembodied sad flute can be heard all around you.

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Shar canters himself and closes his eyes. His chi wells up lighting his eyes with a strange dim glow as they open look around. Shar steps away from the wall towards the gate.
( detect magic/psionics)

[Alex]

There is no presence of Magic/Psionics coming thru the door.

[Shar X'ianxin OrbbSenger]

Retreating to the gate, scanning for the source of the music

[Alex]

The second your foot hits the ground of the western balcony outside of T4b.

The music abruptly stops.

Not fade away. No outro.

Its just no longer playing. Maybe it never was...