Deuce Traveler's Sewer Rats

[Herobizkit]

"Ah, don't take it so hard, Chernguk," Pickwick said with a wide-toothed grin, "I mean, sure he's hung, but dat's about ALL he's got goin' for 'im."

"'Sides, none of ain't ain't too pretty that we couldn't use some kinda mutation. I'd like to see what kinda stuff might happen..."

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"Looks like you volunteered to place the gem," Needles adds to Pickwick's comment. He awaits Artemesia's response though, as she may have more to this mirror and gem than was first revealed.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

"We could try to track down the party which caused this problem in the first place, but you would be depending on their good will, as they are a bit more combat experienced. We could go to the City Councilors, but the six of them normally allows adventurers to act freely in the depths below. And then there is the fact that we would be revealing the possibility of other workshops to loot below. There are several helpful and powerful non-humans that work in those depths, and I would like to avoid a sudden surge in adventurers stomping around and looking to throw fireballs among the sewers we are employed to keep safe. The repairmen will meet you at the entrance to the Black, Section 2 sewers. As you know, the passageways below descend from the highest black level to white. The bands are Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and White, with black being almost entirely modern sewers and white being completely a set of passageways from an older city that ours was built upon. The repairmen know the way and carry maps with them. All joking aside, your question about possibly being mutated by this thing is a good one. According to Mr. Stinks, his employer was studying the tool but never used it as he felt the danger was too great. Because of that he only has a theory on how it works. He believes that the portal that is created may be defective. Normally a planar portal is supposed to only act as an entranceway, but not transfer planar material. There are safeguards built into such devices to prevent accidents. However, he believes that the tool is defective and once the energy from the other side builds too much, it pulses forth into our world. He believes that as long as you avoid being in front of the portal when it is about to pulse, you should be fine. Here is the spare gem that can be used to seal the portal so you can destroy the device."

Saying this, the clerk slides a small, pink gem across the desk for you to take.

OOC: Hope I got all the questions covered.

 

[Herobizkit]

Pickwick's eyes gloss over as Miss Artemisia rambles on about politics and portals and colors until she withdraws the pink gem. Pickwick starts to shuffle forward, entranced by the gem's shape, its texture, its easily pocket-able size. "So all we gotta do is smash the tool, then we each get a gem like this one?"

 

[Deuce Traveler]

"The portal must be sealed by placing the gem onto its surface. Then the portal should close and be replaced by a mirror-like substance. Smash the mirror to destroy the artifact. I imagine that the gem would have completed its function by then, and since Mr. Stinks didn't mention what to do with the gem afterwards, I assume you can keep and sell it."

 

[[OMENRPG]Ben]

"Are we expected to run into much resistance? Should we be fast or sneaky? Or both?" Chernguk gurgles thoughtfully, sliding his heavily calloused finger along the flat of a throwing axe attached to his belt.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Needles had taken his chance to speak, and it looks like it has at least been given some weight. Listening to the answers, and the ability to keep the gem, he knows there is only one, and there are 5 of the Sewer Rats. "One gem to split among us all..." he mutters, shaking his head.

"What type of creatures are populating this level of the sewers that we are headed to. A little knowledge on what to expect and how to deal with it would help us all in this little job. Heading into a zombie infested lair without anything to deal with them would suck.."

He wonders just how many things will end up looking like a pincushion when he's done with this job...

 

[Herobizkit]

Pickwick stares off into space, pondering what kind of things he could make with the money he'd get from a pocket full of gems just like the one he holds now...

 

[[OMENRPG]Ben]

Chernguk eyeballs Pickwick suspiciously as he seems to grow fond of the large gem he is holding. "Remember Pick, we need that to do our job..."

 

[ghostcat]

Hardnose sees Pickwick eyeing up the gem and decides to take matters into his own hands. He snatches up the gem before anyone else can grabs it and puts it in his pouch. "Everybody ready?" he says "then lets go."