Caveman wrote:

'The magic is gone, a gift from the passing entity,' he thinks, 'still, this object could be important. Perhaps it has something to do with the key?' He also wonders how the ring on his hand is functioning.

He moves back to the location he had crouched before, and casts detect magic on the pin, the ring, then he tries again to direct the searching magic at the portal. Perhaps the magic of the pin and the portal were similar?

The incantation leaves his lips and Narrhil's wand shimmerlights.
Narrhil's ring shimmerlights.
Shimmerlight seeps from Narrhil's pack.
The worm shimmerlights.
And the withered corpse shimmerlights.
 

Narrhil peels what's left of the decayed robes away. The once taut rawhide skin has begun to lose its shape and a rapid decay, long postponed, has begun, long pieces falling away in chunks from the hardened bone beneath, the once crystalized blood in the crisp skin now flaking away like soured black goo.
The shimmerlight doesn't focus on anything specific, Narrhil believes the entire man radiates the magic.

Caveman wrote:

Narrhil looks at himself, to see if he shimmers...

The ring on his finger and the wand in his hand do.

The hands themselves once did while inked, but no longer.

The huge worm completely covers the depression in the stone floor that Narrhil believes is the portal.

There is a frozen hound blocking the other end of the crawlspace.
[NARRHIL +300XP]

the hound head  fills almost all of the opening down there. Narrhill sees light. 
No movement. No sound.

The way is not completely blocked, almost, and the carcass could surely be pushed aside he thinks?
If there is another hound in the cellar it is the quietest creature the cryomaster has ever encountered he thinks?
The great worm not merely rests, perhaps it is it which blocks he thinks?
Tillak isnt dead he is more simply gone he thinks?
 

It's very tricky in the 2x2 with the wand in hand to push the snout out of the way but Narrhil manages enough to make way. 
He emerges into the cellar. The frozen hound dead in row. 
Narrhill can't see anything else in the area of the LIGHT.

[Will he move in darkness? or use that torch nub for the short stretch outside of his CON LIGHT circle?]

 

Last edited by Iron Ranger (4/11/2025 10:23 am)

The torchlight fills the rest of the cellar revealing a second flash-frozen hound blocking the stairwell.
[Narrhill +300XP]