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<blockquote data-quote="hbarsquared" data-source="post: 2842522" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p><span style="color: royalblue"><strong>Chapter Three, Page 9</strong></span></p><p></p><p>OOC - "We got the eye spider." "How will it protect us?" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>"Who's on first?" "Yes." <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Majakilar lands in the rubble at the bottom of the shaft, torch raised to illuminate the damaged surroundings. As the others climb down the shaft, steadied by the rope, the chamber remains quiet and no hidden surprises attack from the shadows. Gregor climbs down last, easily finding the acid-burned handholds in the rock.</p><p></p><p>The four-way intersection at the edge of their light beckons the group forward. Cautiously, everyone walks forward and gradually become aware of a soft buzzing sound. When they reach the intersection, everyon glances down the branching hallways to the chambers beyond.</p><p></p><p>To their right, the see the walls of the chamber taper in somewhat, and in the nook of the far wall rests a wide stone basin backed by a five foot tall shelf. A hardened orange paste spills out over the two foot basin lip and covers much of the shelf. Thousands of tiny beetles with bright blue carapaces skitter and tunnel through the chalky substance. A keening insect chorus fills the room. Recognizing the insects from the swarm he, Owen, and Alexi defeated above, Kenneth takes small steps back and looks into the other chamber.</p><p></p><p>Eight man-sized stone slabls, about four feet off the ground, are arranged in two rows in this large room. A long-dead corpse, possibly human, lays sprawled out upon one of these slabs, his red leather armor the only hint of color in the otherwise drab room. Like the other chamber, the walls taper in somewhat, and the short far wall abuts a small stage. The red clay statue of a powerfully built warrior wielding a cylinder-headed greatclub stands tall upon the stage, its eyes surveying the room.</p><p></p><p>Stumbling about between the sleeping slabs is a giant beetle, its iridescent blue carapace reflecting the light of their torch and lamp.</p><p></p><p>Further down the hall a flight of stairs descends into a large chamber at the limit of their light sources.</p><p></p><p><strong>silentspace</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">OOC: Gregor meant we killed (got) the eye spider <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Curses! Everyone back behind the intersection, behind me. Let them come to us," Majakilar says, readying an attack against the first creature that comes within range. "You guys said the oil worked pretty well on the last swarm, huh? Might be a good time to use some now!"</p><p></p><p><strong>Mista Collins</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Beat them back with your torch if possible! Or hand it to me!" Stepping right behind Majakilar, Owen waits for them to approach, just as he was told.</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Since the others appear to have the beetle swarm well watched, Azten is more concerned about the single large beetle and the ?dead? guy on the slab. Unless the group really seems to be needing him, he keeps an eye out for an attack coming from the room to the left.</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Previously to Alexi . . . "It was another eye thing with a bunch of legs including some big slicing ones. While the bugs went up it came down and attacked Majak, Atzen, and me. We got it so it won't be coming after us again. You should be able to see it's body in the rubble at the bottom of the shaft. I don't know if the bald people in the statues have anything to do with these eye things but that is the second one we've seen in here." . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Upon hearing what the others see in the chambers Gregor readies his metal club and tabletop shield in case the big beetle comes out looking for people to eat. "Are either of them coming after us?"</p><p></p><p><strong>Thanee</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“Ohh... we got the eye spider. Now I got it... wait, what's that sound!? Oh, no, not those again... anyone got some oil handy? Oil! Quick!”</p><p></p><p>The adventurers retreat several feet back from the intersection with weapons readied, prepared for an onslaught of beetles from either of the two rooms. As they breathe heavily and their eyes dart around the hall, the keening of insects does not grow and nothing attacks. Kenneth loosens his grip on the flask of oil in his hand and cautiously peers around Gregor's massive legs. The intersection remains empty.</p><p></p><p>"Well," he says, "It looks like they didn't notice us. Anyone want to take a look in either of the rooms? Or should we keep going?"</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"I think if the bugs don't bother us we should not bother them."</p><p></p><p><strong>Thanee</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“Now that's something I can agree with. But just in case we should have a plan on how to deal with them...”</p><p></p><p><strong>Mista Collins</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"How to deal with them? Oil and fire sounds good to me!" Owen looks down each corridor. "I'd like to know what is in each room, but I'm not sure if I want to deal with them. But I don't want to leave potential danger behind us."</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I must say I too am reluctant to leave danger unfettered behind us. Ahh, if only I had my mother's talent for stone shaping, I would just seal them in their respective chambers.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Perhaps if anyone has a bell and some string we could rig up a simple alarm to let us know if the big beetle comes out of the room. But then again, that would not work for the swarm.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Hmm.</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Gregor looks over at his friends concern and hefts his mace. "I'll go past them, if neither reacts I think we can safely ignore them, a predator the size of the beetle probably would come after me if it were hungry, so if it ignores me I think we can all get by." Gregor then moves down the corridor, ready with his mace if the big bug comes after him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Azten readies his hammer and shield so that if any of the beetles decide to risk it's life by attacking Gregor or another of the party, he can do his part to make that life as short as possible.</p><p></p><p><strong>silentspace</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Eh, I hate bugs!" Majakilar shivers. "Hold up Gregor, let me go first. Maybe I'll get a shot in if it approaches," Majakilar says as he moves forward past the intersection.</p><p></p><p>The party cautiously steps through the wide intersection with weapons and flasks of oil at the ready. Light from Owen's lamp and the torch dance across both neighboring cambers, causing the swarms of beetles in the one to surge back and forth and completely ignored by the single large beetle in the other. None approach their light sources as they pass and within a few moments the threat has been left behind.</p><p></p><p>Kenneth takes one last peek before the rest continue down the hall.</p><p></p><p>"Why, they're bombardier beetles," he says with sudden realization, hurrying to catch up with the rest. "The little ones and the big one, they're poisonous. When attacked, the giant beetles release an acidic vapor."</p><p></p><p>He turns to Alexi and Owen. "And remember that sludge from the swarm? That was acid, too, that the vermin release from their underbelly. We were lucky not to get overrun by them, yesterday."</p><p></p><p>OOC - Kenneth's bardic knowledge check, +4: rolled 22, success.</p><p>They passed two alcoves on either side of the hall on their way to the stairs that descend into a much larger chamber. numerous pegs extended from the walls of the alcoves, all empty.</p><p></p><p>At the top of the stairs, Owen's lamp reflects from the surface of a dark pool, completely submerging the lower chambers in water and lapping gently at the stairs five feet down. Rising from the waters are four pillars and a central structure that reach to the ceiling, composed of tan stone and containing a series of strange fixtures about eight feet off the ground.</p><p></p><p>Kenneth wraps his arms around himself, as if to keep from getting wet. "I'm not taking my shoes off this time," he says emphatically.</p><p></p><p><strong>silentspace</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"That's interesting," Majakilar says. "They're not attacking, as if they are set there to guard something. Can vermin be trained like that? Like guard dogs?"</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Wow Kenneth, you really know a lot!"</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Majakilar begins poking around in the water with his guisearme.</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Acid? Ugh.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Azten grimaces and absently wipes at his armor as though removing the corrosive fluid.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I have never heard of anyone training them like dogs, but all the same, something is keeping their interest in the room. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I wonder what they eat? He pauses for a moment, then with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, offers: Humans?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Later, with the rest of the party at the stairs - Majakilar, how deep is the water? Because I would rather not swim either.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">OOC: So, If the water is five feet down from the steps, and the fixtures/structure are eight feet off the floor, how far out of the water is the structure? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Or, conversely, how deep is the water? </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Or am I totally misreading the description...</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Gregor looks at the water dubiously. "I guess I could carry you across one by one so only I get wet. How cold is it Majak?."</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Heh. The cold or wet does not bother me so much as the having to breathe water. I never have gotten the hang of that, and since I swim like a rock...</p><p></p><p><strong>Mista Collins</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Owen starts laughing at Azten's comment. "You don't breathe water, silly! You hold your breath in the water. That might be why you have never gotten the hang of it."</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Can you verify how deep it is by poking with your polearm and make sure nothing is waiting to bite me while I carry everybody else?"</p><p></p><p><strong>Thanee</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“Yesterday the bugs appeared to have quite an appetite for us at least. I hope they stay where they are.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Alexi looks around for a few pieces of rock or anything similar to throw into the room and into the water, to see if something gets stirred up maybe.</p><p></p><p>Holding his guisarme near the head, Majakilar kneels at the water's edge and lowers it into the murky and cold water. The tip prods the next few stairs and the torch he holds allows him to estimate the depth of the pool. The stairs continue down to meet with the floor about five feet below the surface. A short wall rises slightly above the water a few feet in front of the stairs.</p><p></p><p>The water, although dirty, is clear enough to see to the bottom and does not seem dangerous. Gentle ripples emanate from the submerged guisarme, but Majakilar sees no aberrations swimming or rising to meet them.</p><p></p><p>OOC - Okay, I will assume in my next post that Gregor will carry over the rest of the party one at a time. Just two questions: who wants to go first, and in which direction will you go?</p><p></p><p><strong>Azten</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I will stay back here at the top of the stairs to watch for the beetles. Since I have better vision in the dark, and all.</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Gregor strips off his gear and almost all of his clothes, (blushing a little when he looks up at Alexi) and then picks up Majak. "I think that center structure looks like a good first destination to check out." With that he starts descending to the water. With a deep breath to prepare himself for a shock in case the water is cold, he then steps down one step at a time.</p><p></p><p><strong>silentspace</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Wait a minute Gregor, you think a little water's gonna deter me? I'll walk too. I'll probably be able to use my guisearme better that way. We'll both get wet. It still beats the mines any day!"</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Assuming Gregor picks up someone else, Majakilar will wade in the water ahead of them.</p><p></p><p><strong>Voadam</strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"All right then, next. Ready Alexi." Gregor scoops her up and is careful to keep her out of the water as he enters it himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hbarsquared, post: 2842522, member: 4550"] [color=royalblue][b]Chapter Three, Page 9[/b][/color] OOC - "We got the eye spider." "How will it protect us?" :D "Who's on first?" "Yes." :D Majakilar lands in the rubble at the bottom of the shaft, torch raised to illuminate the damaged surroundings. As the others climb down the shaft, steadied by the rope, the chamber remains quiet and no hidden surprises attack from the shadows. Gregor climbs down last, easily finding the acid-burned handholds in the rock. The four-way intersection at the edge of their light beckons the group forward. Cautiously, everyone walks forward and gradually become aware of a soft buzzing sound. When they reach the intersection, everyon glances down the branching hallways to the chambers beyond. To their right, the see the walls of the chamber taper in somewhat, and in the nook of the far wall rests a wide stone basin backed by a five foot tall shelf. A hardened orange paste spills out over the two foot basin lip and covers much of the shelf. Thousands of tiny beetles with bright blue carapaces skitter and tunnel through the chalky substance. A keening insect chorus fills the room. Recognizing the insects from the swarm he, Owen, and Alexi defeated above, Kenneth takes small steps back and looks into the other chamber. Eight man-sized stone slabls, about four feet off the ground, are arranged in two rows in this large room. A long-dead corpse, possibly human, lays sprawled out upon one of these slabs, his red leather armor the only hint of color in the otherwise drab room. Like the other chamber, the walls taper in somewhat, and the short far wall abuts a small stage. The red clay statue of a powerfully built warrior wielding a cylinder-headed greatclub stands tall upon the stage, its eyes surveying the room. Stumbling about between the sleeping slabs is a giant beetle, its iridescent blue carapace reflecting the light of their torch and lamp. Further down the hall a flight of stairs descends into a large chamber at the limit of their light sources. [b]silentspace[/b][indent] OOC: Gregor meant we killed (got) the eye spider :) "Curses! Everyone back behind the intersection, behind me. Let them come to us," Majakilar says, readying an attack against the first creature that comes within range. "You guys said the oil worked pretty well on the last swarm, huh? Might be a good time to use some now!"[/indent] [b]Mista Collins[/b][indent] "Beat them back with your torch if possible! Or hand it to me!" Stepping right behind Majakilar, Owen waits for them to approach, just as he was told.[/indent] [b]Azten[/b][indent] Since the others appear to have the beetle swarm well watched, Azten is more concerned about the single large beetle and the ?dead? guy on the slab. Unless the group really seems to be needing him, he keeps an eye out for an attack coming from the room to the left.[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] Previously to Alexi . . . "It was another eye thing with a bunch of legs including some big slicing ones. While the bugs went up it came down and attacked Majak, Atzen, and me. We got it so it won't be coming after us again. You should be able to see it's body in the rubble at the bottom of the shaft. I don't know if the bald people in the statues have anything to do with these eye things but that is the second one we've seen in here." . . . Upon hearing what the others see in the chambers Gregor readies his metal club and tabletop shield in case the big beetle comes out looking for people to eat. "Are either of them coming after us?"[/indent] [b]Thanee[/b][indent] “Ohh... we got the eye spider. Now I got it... wait, what's that sound!? Oh, no, not those again... anyone got some oil handy? Oil! Quick!”[/indent] The adventurers retreat several feet back from the intersection with weapons readied, prepared for an onslaught of beetles from either of the two rooms. As they breathe heavily and their eyes dart around the hall, the keening of insects does not grow and nothing attacks. Kenneth loosens his grip on the flask of oil in his hand and cautiously peers around Gregor's massive legs. The intersection remains empty. "Well," he says, "It looks like they didn't notice us. Anyone want to take a look in either of the rooms? Or should we keep going?" [b]Voadam[/b][indent] "I think if the bugs don't bother us we should not bother them."[/indent] [b]Thanee[/b][indent] “Now that's something I can agree with. But just in case we should have a plan on how to deal with them...”[/indent] [b]Mista Collins[/b][indent] "How to deal with them? Oil and fire sounds good to me!" Owen looks down each corridor. "I'd like to know what is in each room, but I'm not sure if I want to deal with them. But I don't want to leave potential danger behind us."[/indent] [b]Azten[/b][indent] I must say I too am reluctant to leave danger unfettered behind us. Ahh, if only I had my mother's talent for stone shaping, I would just seal them in their respective chambers. Perhaps if anyone has a bell and some string we could rig up a simple alarm to let us know if the big beetle comes out of the room. But then again, that would not work for the swarm. Hmm.[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] Gregor looks over at his friends concern and hefts his mace. "I'll go past them, if neither reacts I think we can safely ignore them, a predator the size of the beetle probably would come after me if it were hungry, so if it ignores me I think we can all get by." Gregor then moves down the corridor, ready with his mace if the big bug comes after him.[/indent] [b]Azten[/b][indent] Azten readies his hammer and shield so that if any of the beetles decide to risk it's life by attacking Gregor or another of the party, he can do his part to make that life as short as possible.[/indent] [b]silentspace[/b][indent] "Eh, I hate bugs!" Majakilar shivers. "Hold up Gregor, let me go first. Maybe I'll get a shot in if it approaches," Majakilar says as he moves forward past the intersection.[/indent] The party cautiously steps through the wide intersection with weapons and flasks of oil at the ready. Light from Owen's lamp and the torch dance across both neighboring cambers, causing the swarms of beetles in the one to surge back and forth and completely ignored by the single large beetle in the other. None approach their light sources as they pass and within a few moments the threat has been left behind. Kenneth takes one last peek before the rest continue down the hall. "Why, they're bombardier beetles," he says with sudden realization, hurrying to catch up with the rest. "The little ones and the big one, they're poisonous. When attacked, the giant beetles release an acidic vapor." He turns to Alexi and Owen. "And remember that sludge from the swarm? That was acid, too, that the vermin release from their underbelly. We were lucky not to get overrun by them, yesterday." OOC - Kenneth's bardic knowledge check, +4: rolled 22, success. They passed two alcoves on either side of the hall on their way to the stairs that descend into a much larger chamber. numerous pegs extended from the walls of the alcoves, all empty. At the top of the stairs, Owen's lamp reflects from the surface of a dark pool, completely submerging the lower chambers in water and lapping gently at the stairs five feet down. Rising from the waters are four pillars and a central structure that reach to the ceiling, composed of tan stone and containing a series of strange fixtures about eight feet off the ground. Kenneth wraps his arms around himself, as if to keep from getting wet. "I'm not taking my shoes off this time," he says emphatically. [b]silentspace[/b][indent] "That's interesting," Majakilar says. "They're not attacking, as if they are set there to guard something. Can vermin be trained like that? Like guard dogs?" "Wow Kenneth, you really know a lot!" Majakilar begins poking around in the water with his guisearme.[/indent] [b]Azten[/b][indent] Acid? Ugh. Azten grimaces and absently wipes at his armor as though removing the corrosive fluid. I have never heard of anyone training them like dogs, but all the same, something is keeping their interest in the room. I wonder what they eat? He pauses for a moment, then with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, offers: Humans? Later, with the rest of the party at the stairs - Majakilar, how deep is the water? Because I would rather not swim either. OOC: So, If the water is five feet down from the steps, and the fixtures/structure are eight feet off the floor, how far out of the water is the structure? ;) Or, conversely, how deep is the water? Or am I totally misreading the description...[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] Gregor looks at the water dubiously. "I guess I could carry you across one by one so only I get wet. How cold is it Majak?."[/indent] [b]Azten[/b][indent] Heh. The cold or wet does not bother me so much as the having to breathe water. I never have gotten the hang of that, and since I swim like a rock...[/indent] [b]Mista Collins[/b][indent] Owen starts laughing at Azten's comment. "You don't breathe water, silly! You hold your breath in the water. That might be why you have never gotten the hang of it."[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] "Can you verify how deep it is by poking with your polearm and make sure nothing is waiting to bite me while I carry everybody else?"[/indent] [b]Thanee[/b][indent] “Yesterday the bugs appeared to have quite an appetite for us at least. I hope they stay where they are.” Alexi looks around for a few pieces of rock or anything similar to throw into the room and into the water, to see if something gets stirred up maybe.[/indent] Holding his guisarme near the head, Majakilar kneels at the water's edge and lowers it into the murky and cold water. The tip prods the next few stairs and the torch he holds allows him to estimate the depth of the pool. The stairs continue down to meet with the floor about five feet below the surface. A short wall rises slightly above the water a few feet in front of the stairs. The water, although dirty, is clear enough to see to the bottom and does not seem dangerous. Gentle ripples emanate from the submerged guisarme, but Majakilar sees no aberrations swimming or rising to meet them. OOC - Okay, I will assume in my next post that Gregor will carry over the rest of the party one at a time. Just two questions: who wants to go first, and in which direction will you go? [b]Azten[/b][indent] I will stay back here at the top of the stairs to watch for the beetles. Since I have better vision in the dark, and all.[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] Gregor strips off his gear and almost all of his clothes, (blushing a little when he looks up at Alexi) and then picks up Majak. "I think that center structure looks like a good first destination to check out." With that he starts descending to the water. With a deep breath to prepare himself for a shock in case the water is cold, he then steps down one step at a time.[/indent] [b]silentspace[/b][indent] "Wait a minute Gregor, you think a little water's gonna deter me? I'll walk too. I'll probably be able to use my guisearme better that way. We'll both get wet. It still beats the mines any day!" Assuming Gregor picks up someone else, Majakilar will wade in the water ahead of them.[/indent] [b]Voadam[/b][indent] "All right then, next. Ready Alexi." Gregor scoops her up and is careful to keep her out of the water as he enters it himself.[/indent] [/QUOTE]
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