Academy of Drell, Part IV

[Lichtenhart]

Vic slips another copper coin down the passage, this time trying to guess its lenght with the sound. Then he takes one of the lantern of the party, secures it to his belt and tries to slip slowly down the tunnel grabbing the rope with a hand and his crossbow with the other.

There we go. It seems this passage was to be used as a slide. I only hope there's nothing hungry waiting for me at the end.

 

[Jeremy]

Goat-loving sons of cockatrice... We're gonna find Serbanas, and round up the guard, and grab Palasant, and we're gonna make those pig-faced cow udders wish they'd never been born...

Spot 5 (4 roll +1 mod), Listen 15 (12 roll + 3 mod)

 

[GnomeWorks]

Spot: 18+1=19

Listen: 11+1=12

Keith might know what to do... he might be able to figure out what's going on better than I can...

 

[Zhure]

Victor

Victor drops a small copper coin down the shaft. Again it shoots out of sight quickly, almost as fast as if it were falling straight down.

Listen check please

Victor slips and slides down the length of the rope, all fifty feet. The floor is almost unnavigably slippery. Even with the rope it's more a controlled fall then a climb for Victor. At the edge of the rope, the sloped passage continues past his vision, apparently with no change.

 

[Zhure]

Charlotte, Ellie, & Rallyn

Charlotte sees a glimmer of light on the mountainside that extends northward over the campus of Drell. She stops for a moment and stares more intently and an orc is visible, apparently trying to sneak through the underbrush. This orc is wearing black leather and carrying an orcish short composite bow, a lethal medium-range weapon.

The orcish composite bow is a horn and steel composite bow identical to a Mighty Bow +2. They are almost always used by snipers.

At almost the same moment, Rallyn thinks he hears a rustle in the nearby underbrush but he isn't certain and cannot pinpoint it.

 

[novyet]

"What's going on? Are there more?"

Listen: 3 (3 + 0) Spot: 6 (6 + 0)

 

[Zhure]

Re: Charlotte, Ellie, & Rallyn

Still need a Listen and Spot check from Ellie. Charlotte has definitely seen something and Rallyn believes he has heard something.

 

[Lichtenhart]

[OOC: oops I forgot the boards problems ate my last post. Victor just need to know if the tunnel is much longer than the rope to decide what to do.]

Listen: 18+8=26

 

[Dalamar]

Sildarin appears confused.
"I thought you were guarding the passageway? How did, whoever it was that put the arbalest there, get past you?"

 

[GnomeWorks]

"I don't know," Charlotte says, "but I can see an orc. Different from the ones we were up against before... it looks like this one is a sniper. Got a shortbow, dressed in black, moving through the undergrowth."