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

The (Original!) Tomb of Horrors!!!
S1 by the great Gygax 1978. Everything adapted to 2e. This is NOT the Return to ToH written for 2e


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Zafron and Tabbi want to search for secret doors in this hall. The will start with the north wall and move south. Zafron on the West and Tabbi on the East.

I know this will take time to do so maybe other can help with the secret.

"Let's all secret the walls for secret doors."
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"Sure." Galan says and moves near Faladair who already started helping search for secret door.
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Van rolls his eyes.

"Next time you need healing. I am going to ask the Bard for help too."

Van will help the search, as will Sorril.
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Bryce shrugs his shoulders and moves to help out the search for hidden passages. "While we're doing this, some of you smart folks might want to ponder on the colors that have lit up on the arch down the hall. Perhaps there might be something to that."
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The group spreads out along the hall to search the walls. Zafron and Tabbi begin search from the North end, each taking a side. Galan and Faldair begin their search on the far side, leaving Van, Sorril and Bryce to search along the center; each group making sure not to overlap each other yet...

After about 20 minutes, the whole of the Great Hall has been searched by at least one set of eyes, but no new secrets present themselves.
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"OK. So let's go into a new black hole."

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(OOC: What are the colors on the arc? and what were the colors on the previous arc we saw in the previous hall?)
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Arch at the entrance the stones glowed Yellow, Blue and Orange

Arch in the chapel had orange mist but no glowing stones

Arch here in Second Great Hall are
lower left, OLIVE;
keystone RUSSET;
lower right, CITRON
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"So... Black hole..." Galan encourages again.

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(OOC: Steven Hockings would be very proud of Galan search for the black holes...)
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"If nothing else, we have great Valour." He will mutter under his breath: "Night's good colour is for those of great valour"
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Galan grins and plays a tune about Knights full of Valour striding to battle.
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"Right then. Black hole it is." Bryce will approach the other black hole and probe with the pole, pulling it back to ensure nothing untoward has happened to it before sticking his pinky finger in the hole. Pulling pinky out to examine it and if all is fine, finally entering the hole himself to explore.
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[The black sphere has already been explored and leads to the chapel. The only known exits that have not been explored are the archway and the red sphere. There was a black hole in the main entrance within the statue of a face but the party has not yet found a way to return to that area from here]
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(OOC: I imagined long hall with many spheres with the different colors. Not only 3...)
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[there are 20, in fact, as have been listed in detail in this thread. but only 3 are illusions, the others are just decorative as far as the party can tell thus far. all 20 have been prodded on two separate occasions with a 10 ft pole, which is how it was discovered that the gold, black and red ones are only illusion and lead to other places.]
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"Let's go through the Red orb hallway and see where it leads us." Bryce do you want to go first?" says Zafron.
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