[sblock=Dungeoneering 17-Shaft]The stonework here appears to be more well kept and of an older quality than the ruins directly above.[/sblock]
Euphie just smiles and watches as the others talk about what to do with the guys that surendered. Back home they would have been killed so she didn't know what they did here. It's not like you could drag them through 100 miles of jungle to take them to jail...
Shanairra blinked as she watched the others, wondering if her skills would be adequate for more lethal bouts of exploration... but she couldn't hold up the group. If worst came to worst, she could likely 'fade' and appear closer to the bottom or the top, depending where she falls.
"B-But wait!" Filo cried a bit too late to stop everyone's mad dash to climb down the hole. He moved up to the mouth of the pit and gave a small shrug.
"Well good luck to us then." crossed his fingers and attempted to climb down.
Elec-Squall began to descend and immediately lost his grip, as if he'd greased his hands before handling the rope. His piton, tight into the wall catches the slack and Cairn's hand shoots out to steady the wizard. They then continue their decent into the room slowly. They find the floor about 30 feet from the ceiling but before they do more interesting information reveals itself.
About twenty feet to one side they see a waal, that opens in to areas to what must be another room, or series of rooms. In front of this wall, inbetween the two entracnes, a statue slowly comes into view as they desend with the light. He is large for a human, but small for a giant, with a bald head and serious demeaner. In one hand he holds a sword and the other a shield.
Near his middle, on the wall behind him, a large eye comes into view of a strange design. As soon as you see it it suddenly snaps shut and the area before it, is covered in darkness, ending mere inches from where Cairn and Elec hang.
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[sblock=ooc]I lost my work after I wrote this post once, so I'm not going to look up the rolls I made. Just rest assured there was some kind of roll for Elec's piton holding up and another for Cairn catching the rope.
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Status
Cairn and Elec are on one rope in the lower room.
Filo just started descending that same rope.
Stasi is hangin upside down, from a different rope, about 30 ft into the shaft.
Euphie, Shannairra, Edward and the Prisoners are still in the upper room. They will each get +2 to their Athletics check.
Maps:
Note: The red square represents the shaft above.
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