As our heroes healed up they advanced to the next room. Checking the door they realized it was trapped. Once they opened the door a blue arrow flew past them, luckily they were prepared and it flew past them. Hitting the back wall a bunch of different coloured pods shot out releasing a white gas freezing over the back wall and th water in the room, blocking their path back. As they entered the next room an automaton came in from another door. He had been here for minutes…or was it hours? Days maybe? Could it be years? He really had no clue, time escaped this automaton. His name was X, and he was going through the trap house as well.
The room they entered had a number of paintings in it, a painting with 5 wolves, 2 minotaurs, some sort of fiend, and lastly, 4 shadow drakes. Scalez walked up to the painting and, when he removed it, 4 shadow drakes spawned. While they attacked the group, Scazes refused to attack them, that is until Lina shot one and killed it and it disappeared into a puff of smoke, realizing these weren’t real drakes he was happy to fight them. The 3 remaining drakes swarmed Scalez, and Fang cast a fireball in the area. Unfortunately scales took the brunt of the force, while 2 of the drakes weren’t even damaged.
Once they managed to kill the 4 drakes, they took some time to heal and investigate the door, Lina determiend it too was trapped. Unfortunately, our heroes spent too long treating their wounds, and another group of 4 drakes spawned. Being a bit more confident they weren’t real this time, Scalez did not hesitate to attack and our heroes quickly destroyed them. Investigating the door further and hurrying up to do so this time, they realized it was a fake sliding wall. Sliding it away they saw another door with a combination lock on it. Discussing what to do, X thought they had to fight more of the paintings, but the rest of the group determined that wouldn’t be necessary. They ended up putting the number of creatures shown in each painting and the door opened.
The next room had 3 treasure chests in it. Walking in, Lina didn’t notice the trip wire in the next room, but lucky for her X saw it. Taking a closer look he saw the words trigger me on the wire, so he pulled it to trigger the trap. A banner unfolded saying congratulations as confetti showered our heroes. Fang stepped up to the one of the 3 chests and was shocked when his hand was stuck to the chest, the mimic quickly came to life and attacked Fang. Our heroes quickly jumped into battle to fight the mimics. Scalez was shocked when he found out his weapon was sticking to the fake chests as well, struggling to get his weapon free he fought on. Lina kept her distance, having an advantage in the speed department, while X summoned a mirror image of himself to aid in the fight. The mimics proved to have dealy aim, causing Fang to get sickened and a second blow to his neck causing him to start suffocating. Scalez felt the pressure and quickly grew exhausted during the fight, but in the end our heroes managed to kill the mimics.
Examining the doors, each had something written on them. On the door to the left was written exist to the outside, and on the door to the right treasure room, what was the colour of the arrow. Fang immediately said blue, and the door opened. On the other side Toshiyuki was there waiting for them with a variety of runes and magic items for our heroes.