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[AU] Siege on Ebonring Keep - Part 2
- Thread starter Rybaer
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Rybaer
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The group carefully approaches the main entrance. The hall beyond is only a dozen feet wide and extends back into darkness at least forty feet. It's clear that this place was built with function in mind - it is rough cut stone with no attempt made at artistry. There is one open doorway on the right side of the hall about twenty feet back. Nothing else can be seen due to the poor lighting.
There is a pungent, animal smell to the place - somewhere between a stable and a bear's den. Ritsar inspects the floor just inside the door more closely and finds a few clearer tracks. They have a humanoid shape, but are longer and narrower than a man's imprint. There are other prints, circular and linear, intermingled that are unlike anything Ritsar has seen before.
A hooting, screeching sound echoes loudly through the place. Other "voices" reply in kind with animal calls that sound almost like laughing. It's difficult to tell how far away the creatures are, or whether their cries indicate an awareness of their presence.
There is a pungent, animal smell to the place - somewhere between a stable and a bear's den. Ritsar inspects the floor just inside the door more closely and finds a few clearer tracks. They have a humanoid shape, but are longer and narrower than a man's imprint. There are other prints, circular and linear, intermingled that are unlike anything Ritsar has seen before.
A hooting, screeching sound echoes loudly through the place. Other "voices" reply in kind with animal calls that sound almost like laughing. It's difficult to tell how far away the creatures are, or whether their cries indicate an awareness of their presence.
Liminal Syzygy
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Pyior casts heightened Glowglobe (Lesser) and follows his companions inside.
Rybaer
First Post
The screeching and hooting of the creatures abates, leaving only the quiet jangling of armor and the popping of Ys-Korros' torch. The additional light reveals a passage littered with feces and cleaned bones, crumbling stone, and a couple rats that scurry off in the distance.
As the group passes the doorway on the right, they take a quick look in and find that it is merely a small, square room devoid of any interesting content and has no other doors leading out. A short distance down the main passage is an open doorway on the left side. This opens into what may have once been a communal dining hall as there is a cold fireplace suitably sized to handle a large spit set in one wall. It is also empty of furnishings or anything else of interest.
A short howl again echoes through the complex - from further down the main passage. The group continues to explore deeper and finds that the main hallway ends abruptly at a vertical, cylindrical shaft about twenty feet in diameter. It appears that there was once a spiral staircase leading up (right) and down (left), though most of it has crumbled away. Fragments of steps and landings can still be seen running along the walls, though it would take a considerable feat of balance to climb them.
Looking up the shaft, the group can see at least one and possibly two landings directly overhead. They can also see the ceiling some forty feet up. Downward, they see no other landings, nor can they see how far the shaft descends. Another short outburst of hooting and "laughing" seems to come from somewhere up above the group's current location and is clearly echoing through this shaft.
As the group passes the doorway on the right, they take a quick look in and find that it is merely a small, square room devoid of any interesting content and has no other doors leading out. A short distance down the main passage is an open doorway on the left side. This opens into what may have once been a communal dining hall as there is a cold fireplace suitably sized to handle a large spit set in one wall. It is also empty of furnishings or anything else of interest.
A short howl again echoes through the complex - from further down the main passage. The group continues to explore deeper and finds that the main hallway ends abruptly at a vertical, cylindrical shaft about twenty feet in diameter. It appears that there was once a spiral staircase leading up (right) and down (left), though most of it has crumbled away. Fragments of steps and landings can still be seen running along the walls, though it would take a considerable feat of balance to climb them.
Looking up the shaft, the group can see at least one and possibly two landings directly overhead. They can also see the ceiling some forty feet up. Downward, they see no other landings, nor can they see how far the shaft descends. Another short outburst of hooting and "laughing" seems to come from somewhere up above the group's current location and is clearly echoing through this shaft.
Rybaer
First Post
With Ys-Korros' torch directly in the shaft, the bottom of the shaft becomes barely visible...some fifty feet below. There appear to be no landings downward until the bottom, which is strewn with the rubble of the collapsed stairs.
Above, there is no sign of the creatures that are making the noise...aside from the sounds they occasionally make. The two landings are both directly above the one the party is standing in, each about fifteen feet above one another.
The ruined steps appear to have a bit more purchase in the upward direction, but they're still going to be tricky to navigate either way. It will necessitate free hands (without considerable penalty).
*Is Ritsar going to try climbing? And if so, which direction? And what are the others doing?*
Above, there is no sign of the creatures that are making the noise...aside from the sounds they occasionally make. The two landings are both directly above the one the party is standing in, each about fifteen feet above one another.
The ruined steps appear to have a bit more purchase in the upward direction, but they're still going to be tricky to navigate either way. It will necessitate free hands (without considerable penalty).
*Is Ritsar going to try climbing? And if so, which direction? And what are the others doing?*
