Kahan yelps in pain as his finger is lopped off, reaching down and picking it up. "I just don't understand the inscription above the door. 'Illusion is darkness, light is darkness'. That makes it sound like light is an illusion, bit clearly this light is not. Shapfren, could you use your servant to go past the outer wall of darkness that the light disappears into? Maybe there is something there we can't see."

Leo calls out to Shae, "Be careful over there, since you're right by the pedestal I bet there are many more beams you have to worry about! Maybe I could try shooting the gem off with my blow gun before you potentially lose a hand."
He starts taking out his blow gun and needles.

"The servant cannot talk and maybe not even see as we do. "

"Leogold, save your darts.  I don't think they'll be able to touch the gem without being burnt up by the beams before they even get there."

"Shapfren, try your unseen servant.  Take the dark gem and put in place of the light one.  If it does nothing then we can simply retrieve it."

Thinking Kahan's question on the meaning of the inscription he adds "It could be that the light is considered darkness since it is making it very hard to see.  And the illusion is darkness could mean the gem is an illusion or maybe the walls?  In any event I still think trying Shapfren's unseen servant is worth a try.  But in the meantime I think a perimeter check of the room would be a good idea."

OOC:  Tahldar will get down on his hands and knees to stay under the beams.  He will start to make his way round the perimeter of the room crawling as he goes.  Hw will prod the ground in front of him for traps and reach out to the wall for anything that may be hidden.

The area free of beams  is the area closest to the pedestal.  As you go further out to the perimeter, there are beams even low to the ground.  They are just pointed up at the pedestal.  In other words, the beams of light create a sort of "light tent" under which you can avoid the lights if you go closer to the center of the room, but it is impossible to avoid them if you are crawling around the perimeter.

OOC:  Tahldar will not do a perimeter check as he doesn't want to get hit by a beam.  He will wait to see the outcome of Shapfren's spell, if she casts it.

Shapfren said "arcane servant," but I think she is referring to "unseen servant."
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Here are the closest images/diagrams I could find to illustrate:

Here's how the convergent beams go from the floor to ceiling surrounding the room to the convergence point on the gem.  Imagine this going around in a circle around the room (though it's not a perfect cirle, in that the gem is more on the far side of the room, not the center).



This is kinda-sorta the way I think your characters would perceive it (best I could find picture-wise):


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Shae will wait at the bottom of the pedestal to see what the arcane servant from Shap can do before she tries anything else.

Lukas gives a sigh, "I'll locate the harmful beams"

Lucas got out his sword and slowly moved it to have it come in contact and then break the beams.  He figured it was better then loosing some body part.  He will not directly look at the bright spot wanting to protect his eyes from the direct glare.

OOC: Let me know which ones make the sword spark

Shae says, "I wonder if the harmful beams will hurt the golden box.  That might be better than your sword."

OOC: I note that Shapfren currently holds the golden box, as it was handed to her by Tahldar in the previous room.  And Kahan currently holds the faceted gem from the other room.

Everyone is standing somewhat toward the entry door (assuming Kahan took a step back after having his finger lopped off), except that Shae is crouching down directly beneath the altar on the far side of the room.

Leo has his blowgun out, offering to shoot the gem from the pedestal.

Shapfren was talking about using an unseen servant spell to have something try to take the gem and exchange it with the other gem.

Lucas is planning to move forward with his sword in front of him to "scout" for harmful beams as he makes his way to the gem.

Shae suggested using the golden box instead of his sword.

So that's where we are, and I wasn't sure whether to proceed with Lucas going forward or not, given all the other chatter.  Obviously, the harmful beams all converge on the gem that's on the pedestal.  Let me know your final actions by tomorrow or I will just proceed with Lucas' idea.

"So far the only thing that hasn't been fried by the beams has been the gem from the dark room, and the gem that rests there now.  I would suggest not risking your sword in the beam as I suspect it won't last even a second without having a hole blasted through it." Tahldar says to Lukas.

"As well, I wouldn't put the box in the beams way either.  It may be that it works in conjunction with one or more of the gems, but we just haven't figured out how yet.  I would hate to see it turned to slag."

"Let's try the servant spell, and if the dark gem does nothing in regards to the beams we can have the servant return the dark gem back to us and we can just leave I guess."

"I'm thinking that perhaps it would be a better idea if you try your mage hand Tahldar, the place looks too dangerous, and maybe not safe enough for the servant. Try to move the gem so it takes the place of the other"

Tahldar shrugs and attempts to nudge the dark room gem in place of the light room gem with his mage hand spell.

OOC:  If nothing happens when the dark room gem is put in the light gems place he will take the dark room gem back.

Lukas held up on his test with the sword

Tahldar uses his mage hand spell, and the roughly carved gem comes off its post and towards Tahldar.  (Because the spell can only be applied to one object, it obviously cannot be used to put the other gem there.)

The gem gets into Tahldar's hands, but before it even does this, the entire room spins about 5 feet counterclockwise and diagonally down about 5 feet, as if on rollers that have suddenly been loosed.

The room continues to turn counterclockwise...

Even though the room is turning counterclockwise, the lights in the room are not moving.  This means that you are currently moving into different light beams as you rotate around the room.

Right now, you (the largest portion of your group) are probably less than 5 feet away from the harmful beam that you discovered...and getting closer.

(It was at about shoulder height and pointing slightly down toward the gem, as you recall from where it injured Borimer.  It would probably be at about 6 feet in height at the border of the circle of darkness.)

This also means that the door/exit is no longer directly behind you, since the circular floor is moving/spinning/falling but the walls apparently are not.

In reply to DM Heath (msg # 142):

is the door or part of it still accessible at all even though its not directly behind us? can borimer push anyone up through it while there's still time, or try to wedge his ancient artifact sword into the space to stop the turning, etc?

You cannot see where the door is since it is behind the circular darkness "wall," but you can probably assume it is not there now since your floor has moved and continued to move away from where it was (is?).

Shae stays where she is near the pedestal and away from the lights.  Are the lights still concentrated on one area where the gem used to be?

Kahan moves back to be with the rest of the group and ducks when the light beam seems to be coming for their heads.

The light beams are everywhere.  They are all coming at your heads.

"Kahan give me the light gem now!" Tahldar says as he reaches his hand out.

OOC:  Tahldar will try to put the gem from the light room on the pedestal that he just took the dark gem from with another mage hand spell.

Is he standing still as he casts the spell with the room rotating him into new beams of light every second?

It will take two rounds (12 seconds) to both cast the spell (1 round) and place the gem in the pedestal (1 round).  In that time, the room will have rotated about 15 feet.  (With about a 94 foot circumference, that is about a 1/6 rotation.)

Kahan will kneel down and give Tahldar the gem from the darkness room once he has done the same.