The Heart of Darkness... [Main Game Thread]

[BishGada]

"Hmm, just a wild guess... When you pressed the circles before they played music. Maybe the ruler of this place likes music. Now with the circles at different heights, maybe it's like music notes." Being a musician Galan tries to play the tune in his head and see if it is harmonical.

[counterkid]

Tristen:
Are you saying that the spheres are different colors and held at different heights?

Group OCC
I have gone back to the riddle and it said the following:

Zafron says
"I think we might have gone through the arch and found the great hall. We should stay away from green. Can night be black? We should investigate the black sphere. We should also investigate the red sphere as red stand for blood the wise will not need sacrifice. Not sure what that means but might be good. The other colors don't seem to mean anything as they are not in the riddle. Maybe the riddle has nothing to do with this hall." "We can also check out the doors. What do we want to do first? We can only assume everything in this place is booby trapped."

ACERERAK CONGRATULATES YOU ON YOUR POWERS OF OBSERVATION.
SO MAKE OF THIS WHATEVER YOU WISH,
FOR YOU WILL BE MINE IN THE END NO MATTER WHAT!

Go back to the tormentor or through the arch,
and the second great hall you'll discover.
Shun green if you can. but night's good color
is for those of great valor.
If shades of red stand for blood the wise
will not need sacrifice aught but a loop of
magical metal - you're well along your march.

Two pits along the way will be found to lead
to a fortuitous fall, so check the wall.
These keys and those are most important of all,
and beware of trembling hands and what will maul.
If you find the false you find the true
and into the columned hall you'll come,
and there the throne that's key and keyed.

The iron men of visage grim do more than
meet the viewer's eye.
You've left and left and found my Tomb
and now your soul will die.

[TristenC]

Galan plays the position of the globes as musical notes in his head, but the melody is so simplistic, disorganized and unfamiliar as to be likely just random noise.

[Nocturno]

Van carefully makes sure he stays on tiles/floor that have been tested by the scouting pair.

"We came out up there." He points to the Gold area.

"Maybe we should poke around the other colours also?"

[BishGada]

"Maybe false and true are circles that do nothing and thus the others are part of the code to continue." Galan now tries to separate color and play each color separately. /*OOC: Still white noise?*/

[Squirrellord]

Bryce shrugs his shoulders and points out the black circle near the floor "Black is good from what you all said earlier, we could check that out. Or we could try a door. Let me know what you think."
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While Bryce might thematically like puzzles, his player finds puzzles infuriating and will default to the group on this

[counterkid]

Zafron and Tabbi will move to the Black circle and investigate.
Do you want any roles.
Tabbi will investigate as Zafron will be prepare to respond if something goes wrong.

[TristenC]

Galan continues to make sense of the spheres as music, but soon determines that their arrangement in no way produces anything musically significant.

Zafron and Tabbi move to inspect the black circle. It looks quite dark and flat, as if nothing lies on its surface at all, not a speck of dust, mold or any other thing.

[no rolls necessary for now. Are they only looking at it? Please describe the manner in which they would like to investigate]

[counterkid]

Tabbi will try to pock it with her javelin. Zafron will stand beside her, and get ready to grab her if need be, or push her out of the way if required.

[Nocturno]

Happy to watch from the back Van will speak with Sorril about anything similar they may have seen in the past.

"This is new to me I think. We came through a painting on the wall up there. It would lead me to believe there would be others too.."

[BishGada]

"Hmm... either this one was an awful composer or that we need to look at it differently." Galan ponders the problem and tries to check if there is a connection between the height, color or features of the creatures holding the circles.

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(OOC: By connection I mean, take all the circle with the same color and see if there is a connection with the creature/height. Then take all the same height and check color/creature and so on.
Another thing it to try draw lines between circles of the same color and try to figure it the lines create a pattern and pinpoint specific element.)

[TristenC]

Sorril nods at Nocturno's comment. Yes, it stands to reason that if there was one such illusion by which we entered this hall, there might be others. And yet... can we truly trust the word of our adversary? This utter darkness... I have seen it before in a sphere form... one of powerful magical and ultimate Annihilation...

Just as the paladins' final word is issued, the tip of Tabbi's javelin breaks the surface of the utter blackness...
she meets no resistance. Upon drawing it back out, the javelin is whole, it appears to be exactly the same as the illusory opening that brought them into the hall.

Galan examines the spheres, but each is of a slightly different color, none are exactly the same. The figures depicted also seem equally diverse.

[counterkid]

"Tabbi move aside," says Zaffon. Zafron will take her place and put his left hand through the illusion and pull it back. If nothing happens he will pock his head through.

OCC: How big is this sphere? 5 foot diameter?

[Nocturno]

Hearing Zafron Van rolls his eyes, and elbows Sorril when his ribs should be, but slightly sets off his funny bone on the Paladin's armour.

[TristenC]

[the spheres are all 3 ft in diameter]

Zafron sticks his arm through the blackness and retrieves it unharmed. Poking his head through, he finds a round tunnel the same width as the sphere, continuing into darkness. The newly revealed passage runs about 25 feet before it turns to the right and out of sight.

Sorril shakes his head slightly in long-suffering silence as Van bumps his funny-bone on the armor, not for the first time in their friendship.