When the adventurers finally awaken, feeling refreshed if not slightly damp... they ate some dried biscuts and a slice of fruit and moved on leaving the dead rat and goblin carcasses behind them. Passing through the door on the far side of the room they entered a large chamber with alternating grey and black tiles on the floor in the configuration of a grid. Filing in one at a time, they all see across the room seven large stone statues. In the front stand four men-at-arms, each holding polearms, behind stands a regal looking woman holding a scepter and flanking her are a knight mounted on horseback and a small elephant with a siege tower on it's back. Janic is the first to notice that besides these statues there was a woman of his race wearing heavy plate standing between the knight and queenly looking woman and behind a man-at-arms.
"We're not alone" he says in a hushed tone, motioning over to the Tiefling.
"We'll let's get on with it" Stelios says as he begins to stride across the chamber. After taking 3 steps forward he suddenly, violently grabs his head, his mouth open as if to howl in pain, his body convulsing as it is sent flying back to where he originally stood. Murleck and Janic immediately take up defensive stances while scanning the room.
"What the hell was that??" Stelios mutters as he regains his feet, feeling intense pain ringing in his skull.
"I do not know, but I think we have bigger problems" Murleck offers as the seven statues all start to move in one by one, flakes of stone breaking off as each of the statues come to life. Just as the seven statues all find new animation, so too does the Tiefling, though still unaware of the newcomers across the room.
Making a bee-line diagonally across the room towards the far end and looking back at his companions with a quick triumphant grin Murleck sprung at the first man-at-arms, blades whirling before him.
The stone defender immediately moved to parry the attack, sword and polearm clashing together.
TO BE CONTINUED
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