Adventure 113 – The hare raising pit.

Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 12) + Cleric (lvl 1)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 14)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 14)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 13)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 10)

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With Othello turned to stone, Gubikla uses mage hand to cover the shield with a  old cloak of Talins and Talin manges to go up and pull the shield off the wall. It was apparently anchored into the wall with a couple of studs.   He placed the shield face down on the floor. Tetranac pulls some remove curse arrows from his quiver and shoots Othello in the rump. The first one look like it might help but then fails, the second one though was able to turn Othello back into flesh and blood.  After some discussion Othello searches the dead end again. This time finds a secret door that leads to a eight by eight room that is covered in copper. After a little while of testing different things they all get in it except Bone. The door closes and it is nice and dark but Othello sees a button in the center of the door and he pushes it. The floor retracts and the party falls down a pit below.  With some frantic actions the Drow and and the Dwarf are holding a rope falling even though Tetranac activated feather fall off a item. Gubikla quick of thought managed not to cast a fireball but a web spell. This ended up catching everyone but Tetranac. Othello managed to climb up on the wall as Gubikla worked his way over to Talin. Gubikla then cast fly on himself and Talin as he dismissed the web.  Tetranac floating down sees a big brass disk with bones covering most of it at the bottom. As he lands on it it fires a sonic blast upward. He managed to scramble off to the side before taking the blunt of the damage. The rest of the party is shaken but manages to either hold on the the wall or keep flying down. At the bottom of the pit is a room that looks to be not finished, as the walls are not smoothly cut.  Tetranac searching around find a skeleton figure sitting with his back to the wall with a wizard hat and holding a scroll in his lap. Talin seeing the hat is in good condition pickup the hat while Tetranac was trying to remove the scroll without touching it or the skeleton. But sees a nice ring on the skeleton so pulls it off the skeletor hand and puts it on and then reads the scroll. This turns out to be a curse that was aimed at Isible. If she ever came down to visit her victims. This turned Tetranac into a large four armed ape.  But Gubikla sees this and cast dispel magic and frees Tetranac from the transformation, before investigating what looks to be a magical toy axe. Now that Othello made his way down he searches but finds no exits. He and Talin then are able to wedge crowbars under the brass plate and after a enlarge spell from Gubikla, Talin pull the plate off and brakes what would be the trigger for the sonic blast. Meanwhile Bone had got bored and stepped into the brass room above the pit and activated the trap that released the floor but he was able to catch himself on the retracting floor by wedging his gauntlets.  Tetranac uses Dimension Door from his staff and bring himself and Talin back to the hallway above. Gubikla does the same thing but forgets he is still caring Hammar who is a Chinchilla in his pocket. So Othello is left behind to climb his way out. Once everyone got the top we were able to activate the door and retrieve Bone from his position of hanging on the retracted floor.

The party went to the other branch of the T intersection and found the corner to be light with a sparkling field.  Going through this activated a series floor sections that would slam against the ceiling. Othello uses his bold to shoot across and teleport himself to the other side.  He does this but ends up at the bend of the hallway the turns to a short passageway the ends with a dragon head that breathed acid at Othello. He managed to avoid it and step around the corner hiding himself.  He then saw that the second section to slam up was the one closest to him. With the three others is some other pattern. Gubikla cast passwall when they were all up to create a safe path with exception of the last one and part of the one right before it.  The party manages to make to the end of that hallway. Othello is able to disarm the dragon head and find another secret door. This lead to another eight by eight copper lined room. Tetranac goes in and pushes the button and panels open up and electrocuted him.  After reviving the Drow the party decides it is another good area to rest, before teleporting back to the surface.

COD = Tetranac for shooting Othello in the butt to turn him back to fles