BrOp's Age of Worms Adventure Path: The Whispering Cairn (IC)

[Bront]

Zan looks around, examining the etchings to see if they are writing or symbolic.

Zan spouts off a generic lecture as to what he remembers studying about this place and places like this. (DM assistance needed)*

OOC:[sblock]Decipher Script +8

*KN: History +8, and KN: Local +8. Please actualy fill in what I say if I actualy have any usefull knowledge to add.[/sblock]

 

[Ranger Rick]

Sniffer - Ranger

Sniffer just cleans up after everyone. When he sees everyone going off willy nilly in different directions, he just goes to a wall (hides +6) and waits. While he does he also looks for anything that is 'out of place' (Spot +7).

 

[Branding Opportunity]

OOC: Sniffer carefully breaks a leafy branch to use as a broom & trys to sweep away the foot prints out side the entrance, shift the vines so it looks like no one has entered and than will sweep the footprints of the party. He ties the branch to the botom of his bow. This means the bow is always ready as it is used as a broom.Maybe he might grumble about how there are so many different foot prints instead of one set.

After a few attemps (OOC: Survival checks: 4 + 7 = 11, 17 + 7 = 24) you manage to both erase the footprints from the front of the cairn entrance and rearrange the vines in a convincingly natural way.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

His attention is almost immediatly drawn to the wall carvings, and he lingers a moment to examine the patterns and see if he can discern what might have caused the damage. [perhaps a search +2]

Examining the geometric wall carvings more closely you can see that the damage was probably caused by small bladed weapons of some sort. Other damage to the patterned bands is simply the result of the passage of at least a thousand years, probably a lot more. You think you've seen stone carvings this old in the Mror Holds, although most have been kept up and do not bear the neglect that these do.
You're about to turn back to reveal your findings to the rest of the group, when you see that there are thin hollow tubes hidden within the patternwork. The strange whispers filling the hall seem to emit from these holes.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

[ooc: just a couple questions: Are all the paintings geometrical designs, or are some of them realistic paintings? and, just to be sure, when you said: "Outside, the wind picks up, and a chorus of almost human sounds rises from the darkened hall" does it mean that it´s the wind that makes that sound?]

OOC: It's more than just the wind, but it is also just the wind. Mulch can tell you more about it (see above post).

 

[Branding Opportunity]

OOC: Pak will take enough time to perform a search check(+6 on searching)

The pile of cloth turns out to be an ordinary bedroll, hardened and brittle with age. As you examine it, it breaks apart in your hands. Looking at the area around it more closely you turn up whittling shavings. It contains nothing of value.

All of you who grew up in Diamond Lake are familiar with these kinds of locations. Places where kids dare each other to spend the night, to prove their bravery. More than a few of you have spent the night in supposedly haunted (but ultimately harmless) cairns in the vicinity.

Kerwin, Fixit:[sblock]Seeing the bedroll you remember a story of a teenage girl who went missing from Diamond Lake about 6 years ago.[/sblock]

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Zan looks around, examining the etchings to see if they are writing or symbolic.

Zan spouts off a generic lecture as to what he remembers studying about this place and places like this. (DM assistance needed)

Carefully examining the horizontal patterns on the wall, you are unable to decipher any meaning from them. They simply seem to be abstract, geometric patterns, all leading further into the Whispering Cairn.

The tomb itself seems older than most of the other local cairns, which stem from the early, human pre-Galifaran settlement of the area. These post-date the Dhakaani Empire of the goblinoids, are are generally between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Great chieftans were often buried with their retinue and treasure, but these tombs were generally of lesser value to all but historians and collectors of antinquities.

There are a few cairs in the area which date from the Dhakaani era which yielded more treasure, and these are generally thought to be between 5,000 and 12,000 years old. This cairn does not appear Dhakaani, but it is at least this old, if not older.

 

[Bront]

Zan begins to inform everyone "The tomb itself seems older than most of the other local cairns, which stem from the early, human pre-Galifaran settlement of the area. These post-date the Dhakaani Empire of the goblinoids, are are generally between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Great chieftans were often buried with their retinue and treasure, but these tombs were generally of lesser value to all but historians and collectors of antinquities.

There are a few cairns in the area which date from the Dhakaani era which yielded more treasure, and these are generally thought to be between 5,000 and 12,000 years old. This cairn does not appear Dhakaani, but it is at least this old, if not older."

Zan smiles, quite sure that most of his friends tuned him out.

 

[Candide]

it..." Pak curses, "You know what would have been better than nothing? ANYTHING! There has to be something here. It's not just a little cave or room. Some secret something." Pak starts searching franticly for any sign of passage or another room, something.

 

[Bront]

it..." Pak curses, "You know what would have been better than nothing? ANYTHING! There has to be something here. It's not just a little cave or room. Some secret something." Pak starts searching franticly for any sign of passage or another room, something.

Zan points down the hallway that extends at least 100' "How about that way? There's a glow down there too. Might be worth checking out."