"I have an idea for that. It will cost me a spell but I haven't been using this level of spell much so it shouldn't effect much," Kahan responds, casting a spell before a sword of flame springs from his hand. Once Shae is prepared he will use the flame sword to carefully, but quickly, sever her arm where the gangrene stops. It should cauterize the wound but if it doesn't he will use the heat from the blade to finish the job.

"If you need a hand to squeeze, you can use mine", Leo says as he offers his hand in comfort to Shae.

Borimer nods and secures Shae from moving once she's ready, and then looks to Kahan...

The blade cleanly slices through the arm.  Although Shae won't be clapping for joy, the spread of the undead gangrene disease has stopped.  (Shae now treated as one handed.)

You go next to...Might?  Or Evil?

Now if you are not in too much pain, we should make our move the sooner we we complete your tests the sooner we can leave this place. My vote is for Might how say you all?

Shae looks down at her stump of an arm and then back up.  "Might it is then."

Kahan discontinues his blade spell and begins heading towards the Might test. "If anybody is in need of healing ask now before we get in there. These tests tend to get dangerous very fast and we need to be in top form. Or as close to top form as we can get," the priest states, looking around at the rag-tag group of adventurers they had assembled.

Borimer checks his armor and then his blade.  "I'm good to go."
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"Sure, Might is as good as any.  If we survive, Evil awaits us no matter what", Leo adds.

If that last thing is anything to go by evil will be in both tests.

You go into the MIGHT test.  The square room, like the last one, has marble walls, ceiling and floors.  An ancient iron ladder, rotted with age, leads down into a deep square hole in the center of the floor.

As you enter with the cube, the MIGHT word lights up on one side of the golden cube, and the large stone door comes crashing down.  It is all you can do to have the last of you jump inside the room in time, but the gnomes are left outside in the stone halls.  You hope beyond hope that the acid beetles don't return to finish them off.

Gnomes: 6 remaining.

This room is of the blackest black, but your glowing jewel provides light, though it cannot reach to whatever lies at the bottom of the descending ladder.

Tahldar readies himself for the fight ahead, but he is nervous as he is anything but "mighty" in limb.

Borimer tries to open the stone wall to allow the gnomes in the chamber, but can't get it to budge.  He prepares to descend the ladder into darkness.  "Anyone want to follow me down..?"
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Didit gets close to Borimer. "Can I borrow a rope?" she asks before moving forward with bow in hand "I will follow, I could be useful if we needed to climb"

"Here is one you can use."  Leo hands Shapfren his 50' silk rope.

I should go too, Borimer does more with one hand than most people would do with 2 but we don't know what we will find down there. Besides, I say always bring a thief.

Descending the ladder takes you down about 300 feet.  The ladder holds, and at the bottom, you find yourself in a roughly hewn round room made of brown bauxite.  Straight ahead of you, your magically lit jewel shows two steps leading to a large stone gate or portcullis.

Stairs:  The second stair of the two steps is not a typical stair.  There are ten stones about three feet square each that extend from the left to the right.  They are directly in front of the stone gate.  The stones have some sort of ancient carvings on them, but all stones are carved with the same runes. You do not understand the runes.  However, on the vertical side of each step is written in several languages the words, "Each must step on one."

Portcullis/Door: The door in front of you is about 30 feet from left to right and about 15 feet tall.  It is made of carved white marble.  In front of each of the "steps" are two cut grooves at about waist level (i.e., handholds).  Above the handholds, the rest of the marble door is carved into the familiar dragon symbol on the other doors.  Unlike the other vertical doors, this dragon is carved into the door from left to right, a long, snake-like bas relief.  Upon second look, the dragon appears to be inset in the door in sections, not carved straight from the marble.  Each section of the dragon is vertically aligned with the "step" below it.

Vuzyl studies the rune
Well I'm guessing we need to stand on these things each 'on one', lets just hope we don't need 10 of us to get it to work.
Considering the situation further he continues
Once this starts we may not be able to move, we should spread out the strongest of us in case we are attacked Borimer on one end, I'll take the other, Tahldar in the middle then Kahan and Leo next Shea next to me and Shapfren in the last spot. Leo, we should both check for traps before anyone does anything, two eyes are better than one.
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"Sounds good to me.  I would suggest though that if you have any protective spells you want to cast on yourself do it now."

Tahldar then begins to cast before stepping on his allotted stone.

OOC: Tahldar will cast Stoneskin on himself and Borimer.  He would cast more, but he only gets two per day.  He will then step on his stone.

"Thanks, friend." Borimer says to Tahldar before stepping onto the stone Vuzyl points out. "We're gonna need it..."

Didit circles the group and ties everybody together with the rope. "We don't want to risk getting separated again." After that she enters into position with the bow in hand.

Kahan approaches the door and inspects the handholds to see what they would be used for. Do they look like they would be for lifting or for moving left-right? He will also run his fingers along the handholds first then the dragon carving to see if any parts of it seem like they were pressure points or switches.

Shae will also get on one of the steps. "So we're all getting on one of the stones, right?" she confirms.

"Sure, what could possibly happen?", Leo says a bit dryly for a hobbit, on top of a half smile.

Tahldar casts stoneskin while Kahan goes to inspect the handholds.

What they appear to be are two handholds per square tile.  The user would grab the handholds and lift up to raise the gate like a portcullis.

Checking for traps doesn't reveal anything, except the bauxite stone surrounding the room and touching everything, including the ladder, had a lot of metal running through it.

OOC:
For stepping on the steps, please indicate which one you will step on (1 through 10), left to right:

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