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

[Cole]

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."

"The trigger may be around here somewhere. Where's that map?"

[Benoist]

"Where's that map?"

[Cole]

(Thanks, Ben)

Ulas examines the map for a moment, then shrugs.

"Hm. May well be that those sections are concealing something, maybe even passages out. But if they do, this group didn't seem to have found them. I'm going to try to open that iron door unless someone has a better idea."

Is there space to stand up on the other side of that last chartreuse colored candle between it and the door, if Ulas manages to crawl past the candle hallway?

[thedungeondelver]

(Thanks, Ben)

Ulas examines the map for a moment, then shrugs.

"Hm. May well be that those sections are concealing something, maybe even passages out. But if they do, this group didn't seem to have found them. I'm going to try to open that iron door unless someone has a better idea."

Is there space to stand up on the other side of that last chartreuse colored candle between it and the door, if Ulas manages to crawl past the candle hallway?

Ylarum ponders this for a moment.  "Wait, Ulas.  Someone hand me a length of rope.  Tie it off to your belt; if something untowards happens we can haul you back."

[Cole]

Ylarum ponders this for a moment.  "Wait, Ulas.  Someone hand me a length of rope.  Tie it off to your belt; if something untowards happens we can haul you back."

"Good idea, Ylarum. Use mine - It's a silk rope, so it will weigh me down less if there is trouble."

[Benoist]

Is there space to stand up on the other side of that last chartreuse colored candle between it and the door, if Ulas manages to crawl past the candle hallway?

Yes. It'd be possible for Ulas to flatten himself against the iron door and do so, assuming he's not wearing backpacks, heavy equipment and the like.

[Cole]

Yes. It'd be possible for Ulas to flatten himself against the iron door and do so, assuming he's not wearing backpacks, heavy equipment and the like.

Ulas divests himself of his backpack and cloak and hands them over to one of Ylarum's porters. He crawls low under the candles and takes a closer look at the iron door.

[thedungeondelver]

"Liir, Dallow, get ready to haul Ulas back if need be, on my command."

[Drohem]

Klob takes up a position behind Liir and Dallow, and has his crossbow ready to fire.  Likewise, Belak readies his crossbow, cocks, and loads it.  He stands next to Klob behind Ylarum's men-at-arms.

"We have your back, Ulas," Belak says to him when everyone is in place and ready for him to start crawling through the chamber.

[Benoist]

"Liir, Dallow, get ready to haul Ulas back if need be, on my command."

The two fellows do not say a word, but take up position and hold the rope as asked. They seem a little nervous, but not to the point they would have to directly put their lives on the line.

Klob takes up a position behind Liir and Dallow, and has his crossbow ready to fire.  Likewise, Belak readies his crossbow, cocks, and loads it.  He stands next to Klob behind Ylarum's men-at-arms.

Ludolf joins the two dwarfs, and remembering Ulas's words, despite his earlier doubts, will kneel and flatten his longbow in an horizontal position to be able to shoot under the invisible, imaginary lines going from the candles to the tiny, hollowed, half-spherical receptacles positioned in the wall in front of them.

Ulas divests himself of his backpack and cloak and hands them over to one of Ylarum's porters. He crawls low under the candles and takes a closer look at the iron door.

Ulas proceeds, and soon reaches the door without trouble. It is a large iron door with a handle on its right side. It seems to open away from him, towards the inside of the room beyond, in an swing motion to the left. Before the assassin does anything else, he notices something puzzling, however...

DM: Roll 1d6.

[Cole]

Ulas proceeds, and soon reaches the door without trouble. It is a large iron door with a handle on its right side. It seems to open away from him, towards the inside of the room beyond, in an swing motion to the left. Before the assassin does anything else, he notices something puzzling, however...

DM: Roll 1d6.

5

[Benoist]

Ulas hears a sound coming from the other side of the door.

It is continuous, and feels like many little fingers scratching lightly at it.

[skofflox]

chuckling a bit at Ludolfs rejoinder Runch sets himself w/sword drawn to the left side of the now open secret door, observing Ulas's progress.

Nimten stays where he is...whom we all serve...somewhat distracted.

[Cole]

Ulas lowers down and crawls back in reverse.

"Something is scratching at the other side of the door. Do any of you you think we could make a pulley, or failing that, just a low-mounted ring, so that we could tie a rope to the handle and pull it open from afar with the rope routed low, under the level of the candles?"

[thedungeondelver]

Ulas lowers down and crawls back in reverse.

"Something is scratching at the other side of the door. Do any of you you think we could make a pulley, or failing that, just a low-mounted ring, so that we could tie a rope to the handle and pull it open from afar with the rope routed low, under the level of the candles?"

Ylarum: "Put a loop in the end of the rope we were going to haul you back with and try to lasso the switch - that's my suggestion."