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<blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6773224" data-attributes="member: 11146"><p>Raza had been in the cell longest. In the dark, time stretched interminably, making it hard to tell just exactly how many days had passed, but she guessed it was twenty four. The pair of drow who captured her handed her off to a caravaneer who brought her to this place. The drow here dumped her in the cell and promptly forgot about her. She had been neither fetched for service at the outpost, nor mentioned in the intervening time. Left to die, a shriveled thing deemed worthless. Brinn arrived hours after Raza. However long she had been here, he'd been here the same amount of time, or very nearly. He was strange, had strange ways, and kept to himself, she observed. On Brinn's third day, a myconid sprout he hadn't noticed sidled up the Haruchai warrior. The sproutling lacked features that might permit it to form words, but nevertheless stayed closed at Brinn's side. It didn't speak, but he sensed it watched him.</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/1zoyyk1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><strong>Stool,</strong> Myconid Sprout</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Credit: Wizards of the Coast</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps ten days into Raza's and Brinn's stay, Kago, Kamael, and Solace arrived. None of the three had been conscious when the drow upended the litters to deposit their bodies on the uneven floor. There they lay, waking a day later, groggy and disoriented with poison.</p><p></p><p>The food prisoners were given, what little of it remained after Bront and His Highness helped themselves, was a thin mushroom broth in small clay bowls passed through the bars of the gate once a day. The broth tended to arrive mid-day. Solace noted the cook was a creature with features highly similar to His Highness. A quaggoth. Tall, covered in a pelt of thin shaggy blue-grey fur, forearms roped with muscle, the claws affixed to her digits razor-sharp. Cook was escorted by two drow armed with short swords, one with a light crossbow at his back. She pushed through the broth through the bars with the pair of guards stood ten feet away, then turned and left. She never spoke. Or looked at the captives, even.</p><p></p><p>Three clay chamber pots lined the open space of one of the cavern's sloping walls. Once per day in the morning, three armed drow guards accompanied by a quaggoth unlock the cell gate and direct three random prisoners to take the full chamber pots and upend them over a cliff into a pool. Each of prisoner had done this duty at least once, and so in this way learned that the outpost was named Velkynvelve, and that it sat perched high amidst large stalactites hanging from the ceiling of a chasm. Narrow rope bridges connected rooms built in secret niches carved into the hanging stalactites. At the far end of the outpost was a ledge perhaps twelve inches wide. It was along this ledge the drow guards pointed prisoners, directing them to dump the chamber pots into a pool on the chasm floor, some 100' below the outpost. More than one prisoner had contemplated the fall as potential reprieve from their suffering. So far, however, no one had jumped. The outpost relied on a waterfall in its center as a source of fresh water. It was this waterfall that produces the ever-roaring sound of water.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC]Raza and Brinn have been in Velkynvelve 24 days. Kago, Kamael, and Solace have been in Velkynvelve 14 days. If you think your character would know the precise number of days, feel free to roleplay it that way. I posit that it would be hard to tell the passage of time in the dark in an unfamiliar environment. For ease of reference, however, we're going to have to use terms like "morning," "afternoon," and "evening." Those of you who have discovered a discarded item inside the cell have received a PM. Feel free to interact with the environment and with any of the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/group.php?discussionid=1418&do=discuss" target="_blank">Velkynvelve Prisoner NPCs listed in the Community.</a> [MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION], I think it's time for Jorlan to make an appearance.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CanadienneBacon, post: 6773224, member: 11146"] Raza had been in the cell longest. In the dark, time stretched interminably, making it hard to tell just exactly how many days had passed, but she guessed it was twenty four. The pair of drow who captured her handed her off to a caravaneer who brought her to this place. The drow here dumped her in the cell and promptly forgot about her. She had been neither fetched for service at the outpost, nor mentioned in the intervening time. Left to die, a shriveled thing deemed worthless. Brinn arrived hours after Raza. However long she had been here, he'd been here the same amount of time, or very nearly. He was strange, had strange ways, and kept to himself, she observed. On Brinn's third day, a myconid sprout he hadn't noticed sidled up the Haruchai warrior. The sproutling lacked features that might permit it to form words, but nevertheless stayed closed at Brinn's side. It didn't speak, but he sensed it watched him. [IMG]http://i67.tinypic.com/1zoyyk1.png[/IMG] [b]Stool,[/b] Myconid Sprout [size=1]Credit: Wizards of the Coast[/size] Perhaps ten days into Raza's and Brinn's stay, Kago, Kamael, and Solace arrived. None of the three had been conscious when the drow upended the litters to deposit their bodies on the uneven floor. There they lay, waking a day later, groggy and disoriented with poison. The food prisoners were given, what little of it remained after Bront and His Highness helped themselves, was a thin mushroom broth in small clay bowls passed through the bars of the gate once a day. The broth tended to arrive mid-day. Solace noted the cook was a creature with features highly similar to His Highness. A quaggoth. Tall, covered in a pelt of thin shaggy blue-grey fur, forearms roped with muscle, the claws affixed to her digits razor-sharp. Cook was escorted by two drow armed with short swords, one with a light crossbow at his back. She pushed through the broth through the bars with the pair of guards stood ten feet away, then turned and left. She never spoke. Or looked at the captives, even. Three clay chamber pots lined the open space of one of the cavern's sloping walls. Once per day in the morning, three armed drow guards accompanied by a quaggoth unlock the cell gate and direct three random prisoners to take the full chamber pots and upend them over a cliff into a pool. Each of prisoner had done this duty at least once, and so in this way learned that the outpost was named Velkynvelve, and that it sat perched high amidst large stalactites hanging from the ceiling of a chasm. Narrow rope bridges connected rooms built in secret niches carved into the hanging stalactites. At the far end of the outpost was a ledge perhaps twelve inches wide. It was along this ledge the drow guards pointed prisoners, directing them to dump the chamber pots into a pool on the chasm floor, some 100' below the outpost. More than one prisoner had contemplated the fall as potential reprieve from their suffering. So far, however, no one had jumped. The outpost relied on a waterfall in its center as a source of fresh water. It was this waterfall that produces the ever-roaring sound of water. [sblock=OOC]Raza and Brinn have been in Velkynvelve 24 days. Kago, Kamael, and Solace have been in Velkynvelve 14 days. If you think your character would know the precise number of days, feel free to roleplay it that way. I posit that it would be hard to tell the passage of time in the dark in an unfamiliar environment. For ease of reference, however, we're going to have to use terms like "morning," "afternoon," and "evening." Those of you who have discovered a discarded item inside the cell have received a PM. Feel free to interact with the environment and with any of the [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/group.php?discussionid=1418&do=discuss]Velkynvelve Prisoner NPCs listed in the Community.[/url] [MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION], I think it's time for Jorlan to make an appearance.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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