You enter the burnout house realizing that its a lot bigger then you thought.
The walls are black of smoke but only small parts of the mud and hay walls has cracks or has fallen apart. Water damage is extensive and there are several cracks in the floor.
You quickly find enough half burned furniture to make torches.
Trujillo points out that this must have been a workers house, but the low activity of the fabric of late had few people living here.
As usual this big houses had a mid garden what is the case in this house to. The garden though had seen better day being populated by some sick plants and burned out grass. A water pump stick up from the ground dripping and echoing on he bare walls of the workers rooms.
The place is eight by eight rooms, thirty two in total and a second floor facing the main street with another two rooms, kitchen and bathroom.
The air has a strong smell of smoke with undertones of bad water the darkens is thick and you are all weary as it seems like someone follows you trough the hallway to the garden. The echo in the place seems almost unnatural.
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Feels like there is someone here. stay alert.
The professor leads the group to the garden and close the dripping pump. spread across the garden, search for some clues.
Uribe
The professor turns to the reporter. Do you where he died ?
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Zirat Igruf, Gladiator (Rhun's ToEE): OOC ; IC ; RG
Feels like there is someone here. stay alert.
The professor leads the group to the garden and close the dripping pump. spread across the garden, search for some clues.
Uribe
The professor turns to the reporter. Do you where he died ?
As you try to close the old fashioned waterpump the plumbing makes a squeaky noise and the pump stops dripping for five seconds returning to the dripping. You decide not to put more effort into it.
Uribe takes out a notepad from his jacket searching trough it. 'Room #8. It would be that one' Uribe points towards a burn out room.
Felix that was moving towards the second floor turns around and enters the room with the others.
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The professor makes his way to the burned room and walk along the walls with his torch, throws a glance to the cieling and check the floor.
Felix ... stay in the main entrance, see if there is any activity around ... if so, alert us please.
OOC - What kind of furnutire remains are here?
I'll take 20 in the search.
Not much of furniture is found. Some burn out sticks being the remains of some chairs and the metal frame of the bed.
Moving from side to side over the partial wooden flor searching the walls the journalist exclaims 'look the floor!' the ashes and other dirt was falling troug to a lower level as your weight displaced the wooden flor.
The trail of sunken dirt moved toward the outside garden. You rapidly find a hatch that Felix rapidly breaker open. A stair takes you down to a some sort of large room that seems to have connection to the well as humid and still air hit your faces with a gush.
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An hidden passage!
calls the professor Felix, lead the way and watch your step
Felix slowly deceands into the pitch blacknes below, you lose him of sight and after several minutes Felixs head reappears 'come down its ok' 'just mind the old stair i almost fell down'. The artificial cavern is larger then you thought. As you get down you can se behind you some thirty feet away a wall stretching towards you and passing on your right side, the other walls are hidden in a thick darkness. Your torches flickeras a stenchy wind moves slowly to the open hatch. The rock floor is covered with fungi and dripping ecoes fills the air.
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Jesus, what is this place?
The Professor whisper The gambler had some secrets beneath his house.
The Professor rise the torch to inspect the area Let's go to the source of the wind, wind tell us that another exit lies in the other end.
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Zirat Igruf, Gladiator (Rhun's ToEE): OOC ; IC ; RG
The room is large, with several ducts and tunnels, the larger ones are most going deep into the excavated hill behind the old "acienda" block. Uribe and Felix spots dragging marks into several of the larger tunnels. The room has a well and the tunnels are made in the style of a mining complex.
Dr.Trujillo tell you about the old silver mines that was begun already in 1520 with the Spaniards arrive to the new continent. The old man has been strangely quiet all the way. 'This place has a lot of history' 'this caverns are old... there's native stories about this kind of silver mines that stretches back in time as any can remember' 'a colleague of me is actually traveling all south america, picking up the stories of the old peoples of this continent' 'he got some good horror stories about this old part of Buenos Aires history'
Uribe walks towards the well sticking a torch to it illuminating about a sixth of the room. Uribe leans to the pipe going to the surface and the water pump.
Dripping echoes come from the walls and the slowly moving wind comes from the north wall.
Uribe light himself a new torch and loosens his revolver, watching at the old Trujillo. 'Dr. this place gives me the creep'
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Sweat was in the air. Three persons sits at a table grinding metal powder and salt together. The room was warm from the use of the fireplace, adding the thirty so Celsius outside.
A forth person is in the second floor shuffling trough books and perms in the library/office room. Sorting out some notes, books, telephone numbers and addresses, the rest thrown in a corner.
At a corner of the room the limp body of a female lied, obviously beaten and abused. Blood dripping from her nose she regain consciousness trying to say 'stop' as a reaction from when she passed out. Instead, a gurgle of blood and vomit falls out of her mouth making her gasp for air.
'You will live, for now' 'we grant you permission to live for that last information' 'we are glad you came to reason to' 'but, you will come with us, not negotiable'
The woman tried to say something but she passed out again.
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Turning to his new companions the professor say. Dragging marks, someone was dragged into this tunnels, who knows which maniacs can be in those mines and that is why I suggest the following
He clears his throat and continue We should go back and bring supplies, those mines could be dangerous and I've been in the past in cave like places where south American natives lived. Let's go back and resupply
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Zirat Igruf, Gladiator (Rhun's ToEE): OOC ; IC ; RG
1. Back to the hideout (Uribes apartment)
2. To one of the Hotels where Juan or Felix are living.
3. To the Dr.Trujillos home.
4. Another lodging place. Hotel, Motel's or Hospits.
Take in consideration that Uribe has his gear, Felix and Juan got their stuff to. Dr.Trujillo has his things at his home. Its late, so the cabs in this neighborhood isint great.
Make a 1d20 roll to see if you find a cab or other means of transportation.
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We must return to the hideout and resupply. my intuition tells me that we need to be more ready ... weapons, light. i don't know who lies in those mines, but those dragging tells me that could be the murderers.
Juan says to the party and prepares to leave.
Come, let's try to find a taxi, if we'll not find one, we'll have to walk a little bit.
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Zirat Igruf, Gladiator (Rhun's ToEE): OOC ; IC ; RG
You finally arrive to Uribe's hideout in the morning after a long night walking from the suburbs. You are all tired and wanting to sleep.
After some hrs Trujillo awakens you all with a round of mate, bread and butter.
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Gathering his weapon, his flair and his flashlight in the morning, the professor eat and mutter. Bread, butter ... god damn, I was supposed to be in the hotel right now, eating a lovely breakfast, what have I entered into?!
Oh well ... off we go to the burned house.
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Zirat Igruf, Gladiator (Rhun's ToEE): OOC ; IC ; RG
The caverns and tunnels. Friday 4/9-1931 15:00 hrs
ooc:
Spoiler:
want me to public all the rolls i make? not just success ones?
ic: you should pick a tunnel or duct
The north wall is about 300 ft into the cave, as you walk towards it you see in the light of your torches smaller holes from where it pours out stinking water.
The caves goes slightly down until this 100ft wide 60 ft high wall.
Three man size tunnels leave into the dark of the hill. There is five big ducts, big enough so a man can crawl into it. One of them with dragging marks. Into these ducts a steel wire lies, the steel wire is used with a motor to pull crates with wheels.
Felix makes it clear that two of the tunnels has footprints coming out to the edge and back in. The footprints disappears just some 10 ft into the tunnels where the terrain goes from mud and soil to level rock floor.
The air is thick and warm, fungi grow everywhere on old wooden material along every tunnel.
Felix loosens his gun, Uribe makes as him and Trujillo keeps some feet behind watching the rear.
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