[Ptolus/AD&D] IC Thread #2 - Underground (part 1)

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 04:09:13 PM

Ludolf snorts with obvious disdain: "I don't need to care about any of those things. See this?" He shows his black long bow. "That is all the expertise I need. Flies over traps, and hits magicians in the eye before they have any chance to say a word. What else is there to it, really?"

Cole · May 04, 2011, 06:41:55 PM

Quote from: Benoist;455725Ludolf snorts with obvious disdain: "I don't need to care about any of those things. See this?" He shows his black long bow. "That is all the expertise I need. Flies over traps, and hits magicians in the eye before they have any chance to say a word. What else is there to it, really?"

"With the candles, shoot under. Otherwise, they shoot back."

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 07:00:43 PM

Ludolf nods in agreement, and yet, his face makes it plain he's wondering if he understood the words right.

Cole · May 04, 2011, 07:18:03 PM

Quote from: Benoist;455763Ludolf nods in agreement, and yet, his face makes it plain he's wondering if he understood the words right.

"The candles are magic. They throw fire, poison, who knows what else. Seems to depend on the color of the flame."

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 08:50:17 PM

"Oh, really... are they now..." Ludolf nods slowly as he walks past Ulas, like he's suspecting the assassin to be mildly demented.

"So? What do we do now? Do we kick ass or somethin'?"

Cole · May 04, 2011, 09:23:44 PM

Quote from: Benoist;455797"Oh, really... are they now..." Ludolf nods slowly as he walks past Ulas, like he's suspecting the assassin to be mildly demented.

"So? What do we do now? Do we kick ass or somethin'?"

"There is probably a chamber past the wall on the far side of those candles. We ought to find out what's in there. But be wary - in the chamber on the other side of the room, there was a huge monster."

Cole · May 04, 2011, 09:26:14 PM

Meanwhile, Ulas moves down to the entrance of the hallway with the candles and takes a look at the opposite wall from there. What does it look like?

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 10:00:04 PM

Quote from: Cole;455812Meanwhile, Ulas moves down to the entrance of the hallway with the candles and takes a look at the opposite wall from there. What does it look like?

The corridor itself is very similar to the one you saw on the other side of the dais; an iron door, also similar to the one that stood between you and the tentacled creature earlier, stands at the end of its curve. The general difference, however, is that the corridor you are presently facing appears unspoiled. The walls on the opposite side of the candles bear no scorching marks, no evidence of blasts or thermic shocks whatsoever. Even the sand on the ground doesn't seem to have been moved at all.

Cole · May 04, 2011, 10:03:15 PM

Quote from: Benoist;455818The corridor itself is very similar to the one you saw on the other side of the dais; an iron door, also similar to the one that stood between you and the tentacled creature earlier, stands at the end of its curve. The general difference, however, is that the corridor you are presently facing appears unspoiled. The walls on the opposite side of the candles bear no scorching marks, no evidence of blasts or thermic shocks whatsoever. Even the sand on the ground doesn't seem to have been moved at all.

How thick was the sand layer in the other corridor?

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 10:24:33 PM

Quote from: Cole;455820How thick was the sand layer in the other corridor?

A few milimeters, maybe. The gradual accumulation of thin dust eroding from the stones above, if you had to venture a guess, though it was moved all around the place, probably when the creature went through.

Cole · May 04, 2011, 10:28:35 PM

Quote from: Benoist;455822A few milimeters, maybe. The gradual accumulation of thin dust eroding from the stones above, if you had to venture a guess, though it was moved all around the place, probably when the creature went through.

"Keep an eye on the corridor," Ulas says to no one in particular and looks at the far west wall to see if there is a comparable separate wall portion to the one in the east wall - or slide marks in the floor.

Benoist · May 04, 2011, 11:14:15 PM

Quote from: Cole;455824"Keep an eye on the corridor," Ulas says to no one in particular and looks at the far west wall to see if there is a comparable separate wall portion to the one in the east wall - or slide marks in the floor.

The dust and rubble and goo in the area has been disturbed there as well. Ulas does not discern slide marks on the ground, but as soon as he steps closer to the wall, he notices the contours of a large wall section in all points similar to the one he and the others just discovered on the other side of the dais.

Cole · May 04, 2011, 11:23:45 PM

"Belak, you have stonecutting skills?" Asks Ulas. "Do these sections match up to the sections of the smaller circular room, so that it would close off smoothly if they moved in?"

He then returns to the eastern doorway.

Drohem · May 05, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

Belak walks over to the west wall and examines it once Ulas points out that he discovered another anomaly in the wall.

After examining it for a moment or two, the dwarf nods in agreement as he says, "yes, it appears that these sections of wall move forward to close off the outside chambers and passageways."

thedungeondelver · May 05, 2011, 02:44:01 PM

Ylarum comments, "There has to be more to this than that. There has to. I'd pay a weeks' fighting wage - not yours, lads - for a dwarven or gnome sapuer to come have a look at that wall, see how we can crack it. Mayhap if we all heaved at it with prybars or the like...I'm no engineer, though."