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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7337755" data-attributes="member: 6777052"><p>Norn glanced at the others for assent before getting a complex piece of arcane equipment out his backpack. It was like a bronze tube on a folding tripod, which he set up carefully with the tube upright but pointing slightly towards the cave mouth. Then he got out a number of cylinders, about the size and shape of scroll cases, which he laid carefully on the ground beside the tripod.</p><p></p><p>"What are those?" wondered Od.</p><p></p><p>"Fireball scrolls." came the pre-occupied reply. Norn took out one one the scrolls and dropped it, still bound with its ribbon, into the bronze tube then stood back and made a somatic movement. There was a <strong>whoomph</strong> noise and the scroll shot out of the tube, flew in an arc through the air and dropped into a clump of bushes to one side of the stream, whereupon the spell inscribed on the scroll detonated with the appropriate low roar and set fire to the bush and quite a lot of bushes around it.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: blue">I lay down a blanket of mortar fire</span>, announced Norn's player, <span style="color: blue">to left and right of the stream.</span></p><p></p><p>The smoke from the burning vegetation hung in the air like a pall. A giant badger emerged from of the bushes, glared at them and trundled away grumbling, its fur streaked black and white where it had been scorched as it slept. Moments later, a herd of gazelle bounded out of the smoke and stampeded in a blind panic, kicking over Norn's tripod and trampling the remaining scrolls into the dust.</p><p></p><p>"What was that?" asked Herewulf, startled. They were only small bushes and there didn't seem room inside it for a herd that size to have been concealed.</p><p></p><p>Jeli examined their tracks, looked knowing, and announced that a herd of gazelle had passed this way recently and, to judge from the impressions of their hoofprints, they had been in a hurry to escape something.</p><p></p><p>"Er .." began Od but stopped when Jeli glared at him. He changed the subject. "Herewulf," he asked, can you do <em>Protection from Caves</em> today?"</p><p></p><p>"Don't think I know that one," admitted the Paladin, "I've only got first and second level slots."</p><p></p><p>"Oh, well, we'd better go in anyway."</p><p></p><p>"Why?" demanded Jeli. "A far as I know, the cave is empty. Unless you're thinking of going in there to take a short rest? It's a bit early for dinner."</p><p></p><p>"We ... er ... we're <em>supposed to</em>? It's where we start the next section of the adventure?"</p><p></p><p>"Look, if there were monsters in the cave for us to go in and kill, I'd understand. But there are no monster tracks outside the cave mouth. Don't you think there would be, if there was anything living there? Else what do they eat, if they don't come out to hunt?"</p><p></p><p>"Trust us, we know what we are doing, okay?"</p><p></p><p>"Alright, but Od goes in front with his ten-foot pole to search for traps."</p><p></p><p>"Deal."</p><p></p><p><span style="color: blue">A short way into the cave, as your eyes adjust to the gloom, you find ...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7337755, member: 6777052"] Norn glanced at the others for assent before getting a complex piece of arcane equipment out his backpack. It was like a bronze tube on a folding tripod, which he set up carefully with the tube upright but pointing slightly towards the cave mouth. Then he got out a number of cylinders, about the size and shape of scroll cases, which he laid carefully on the ground beside the tripod. "What are those?" wondered Od. "Fireball scrolls." came the pre-occupied reply. Norn took out one one the scrolls and dropped it, still bound with its ribbon, into the bronze tube then stood back and made a somatic movement. There was a [B]whoomph[/B] noise and the scroll shot out of the tube, flew in an arc through the air and dropped into a clump of bushes to one side of the stream, whereupon the spell inscribed on the scroll detonated with the appropriate low roar and set fire to the bush and quite a lot of bushes around it. [color=blue]I lay down a blanket of mortar fire[/color], announced Norn's player, [color=blue]to left and right of the stream.[/color] The smoke from the burning vegetation hung in the air like a pall. A giant badger emerged from of the bushes, glared at them and trundled away grumbling, its fur streaked black and white where it had been scorched as it slept. Moments later, a herd of gazelle bounded out of the smoke and stampeded in a blind panic, kicking over Norn's tripod and trampling the remaining scrolls into the dust. "What was that?" asked Herewulf, startled. They were only small bushes and there didn't seem room inside it for a herd that size to have been concealed. Jeli examined their tracks, looked knowing, and announced that a herd of gazelle had passed this way recently and, to judge from the impressions of their hoofprints, they had been in a hurry to escape something. "Er .." began Od but stopped when Jeli glared at him. He changed the subject. "Herewulf," he asked, can you do [i]Protection from Caves[/i] today?" "Don't think I know that one," admitted the Paladin, "I've only got first and second level slots." "Oh, well, we'd better go in anyway." "Why?" demanded Jeli. "A far as I know, the cave is empty. Unless you're thinking of going in there to take a short rest? It's a bit early for dinner." "We ... er ... we're [i]supposed to[/i]? It's where we start the next section of the adventure?" "Look, if there were monsters in the cave for us to go in and kill, I'd understand. But there are no monster tracks outside the cave mouth. Don't you think there would be, if there was anything living there? Else what do they eat, if they don't come out to hunt?" "Trust us, we know what we are doing, okay?" "Alright, but Od goes in front with his ten-foot pole to search for traps." "Deal." [color=blue]A short way into the cave, as your eyes adjust to the gloom, you find ...[/color] [/QUOTE]
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