The Misadventures of the Missed Adventurers

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[We don't really have any way to deal magical damage (I could bake a clay golem with a hot sun, but I can't really do anything to stone without flooding the cavern), so that won't work well. Besides, we did that with the golem. However, we may be able to use one of the fallen heads to sneak a dispell past the defenses into the source behind the wall to cut off its supply of power, causing it to become normal stone. Like so:]

Jack notices that he can now get to the fallen first head without being in the range of the surviving third, and walks over to examine it more closely. After a few minutes, he says
"I think I know how we can unravel the enchantment now. It seems the defenses watch for spells coming from outside. We just need to put a delayed dispel into one of the heads, and repair it. After that, it will rejoin, the dispel will go off, and it will skip the defenses."
"Retarde Le Charme"
Jack puts his hands together and then draws them apart; as they separate, half of a small glowing green sphere can be seen between them.
"D, dispel this for me."
D casts dispel at the half-orb, but just before the dispel takes effect, the orb completes itself, encompassing the dispel-spell. Jack then places the glowing sphere into the mouth of the first fallen head, and closes it. He then taps his fingers together, and again, glowing green lines can be seen flowing between them. He quickly writes several runes on the severed head, then backs away.

The fallen head then rises and re-attaches itself to the wall. Jack smiles and incants
"Dégagement"
At that, the heads slow down, the glow leaves their eyes, and they are still.

"We should be able to proceed now."

[ June 13, 2003, 07:21: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]