Alathea - yeah, we checked those things.

Everything glows magic - and a very, very evil magic.
No secret doors.
Crypts examined closely, but no words or anything interesting.

Sorry about the delay but I should have my post up by tonight.

Just a reminder that just because you see a button that says, "push me," you do not actually have to do so.

Well I guess a couple of options.

First to move on we need to put the gems in the holes and see what happens.

This is how I read the clues of the magic writing. Don't touch anything with bare hands. Be careful letting "flesh" touch anything. Touch me to flesh and free we shall be."
So get out your gloves!!!!

This line confused me.

If you head down the stairs the level of cold will decrease causing you higher points of damage.

Did you mean "increase"?

Opening a door to Antarctica, nice.

DM - I know when we left the castle Lothor picked up a few items in the divvying up of the loot, which I am not realizing I never wrote down. You don't by chance have that list do you? I'm sure I can dig through the posts, but that is a lot of posts . . .
Also, how fast does his ring of regeneration heal the cold damage? I'm sure it can't keep up, but it might help a little.

To the group - Anybody have some kind of temp protection for the rest of us? Lothor's getting a bit chilly. I suspect others need it as well.

If we can't protect vs. the cold, what do we do? Going down seems required, but how? Did we pass anything that could be used to make cold weather gear? The only thing that comes to mind would be the remains of the shredded tapestry. Good memories there . . .

..like smashing the skull didn't have consequence.

Sure, the big guy smashed a skull. But that isn't quite the same as seeing a big sign that says, "insert here to open a portal to hell." And then proceeding to insert . . . gems, fingers, whatever . . .

Is it a good sign or a bad sign that hell appears to have frozen over? :-/

How about giving us another week? With the holiday I haven't seen much in the way of folks on here to figure out our next move.

Any of the group got an idea of what to do? I'm at a lose for a way to protect everyone from the cold.

Tann...are we able to remove the gems from the holes?

I should have said that after my last post to go until Dec 4th anyway because of Thanksgiving. So yeah no biggie


Oh and about the gems. I don't know have you tried pulling them out?

Well at least you didn't say the gems couldn't be removed.

BTW...isn't this second time Ulthok has gotten the deep freeze? His life is Fire and Ice!

Ok gang...need ideas!

So far I've got Ulthok trying to remove the gems to close the door.

Could a fire elemental warm things up so we can go down the stair to find the cold and close it?

Would a wall of force close off the cold?

I could have Cor try a wall to block out off. If we rest we can pick spells to deal with the cold. Until we have a way to survive the child we should not go downwards.

What spells do people have? Am I interpreting this correctly - that if we take a rest people can learn alternate spells - like protection from the elements stuff? Remember that such protection magics only prevented 1/2 the damage for those that had them when the crypt was open.

A wall of force over it seems like a good stop gap.rnBefore we try to remove the gems?rnWhat happens if the wall is there and then the gems are removed? rnIf the crypt tries to close does the irresistible force meet the immovable object? That could be a test for the ages. Or it might just shatter the whole crypt and leave us with a different problem. rnLothor has no ideas other than finding warm gear - and the only thing around here is a shredded tapestry. I think.

The spell resist cold will help. If we take all possible slots it would give us 31 casting. Should help us out for awhile.

I don't see where any of us have that prepared. We would need time to do that. Have to read if wall of force can keep out the cold.

I'm willing to have Ulthok try to remove the gems to close the door.