Against the Storm: Luskan (Summoning shaff)

[DM_Matt]

Near the bridge she submerges herself into the water, to dampen the sound, and casts a quick spell (Detect Magic). The water doesn't seem to hinder her in the slightest. She surfaces again and starts to scan the area.

There is magic in the bridge mechanism, but none on the bridge itself. There are alarm spells cast in front of the grating. There is some magic in the towers, but apparently only from personal weapons and such.

 

[Thanee]

Careful with those grates, Rahja says in a whisper, there are spells active, which sound an alarm, if we get too close. We'll have to dispel those, if we are heading this way.

 

[Thanee]

OOC: Just so we are talking about the same thing... Here's what I believe to see in that map... please correct me!

The building in the center holds the shipyard (basically a hollow building?), the ships can get in and out through the grate and beneath the drawbridge, where the party is right now. The two temples with those guard towers can be visibly accessed only from the inside through the doors marked on the map (there probably is a walkway along the inside of the center building, I guess).

Unfortunately, I cannot read the text written on the map (I can guess some, but it's too blurry to read). Could you post the texts that are written there (just one after the other with no explanations necessary, I'll figure out which they are)? Thank you!

 

[DM_Matt]

OOC: Just so we are talking about the same thing... Here's what I believe to see in that map... please correct me!

The building in the center holds the shipyard (basically a hollow building?), the ships can get in and out through the grate and beneath the drawbridge, where the party is right now. The two temples with those guard towers can be visibly accessed only from the inside through the doors marked on the map (there probably is a walkway along the inside of the center building, I guess).

Unfortunately, I cannot read the text written on the map (I can guess some, but it's too blurry to read). Could you post the texts that are written there (just one after the other with no explanations necessary, I'll figure out which they are)? Thank you!

(Roughly top to bottom)

Bridge over river and grating
Building, 100ft tall
Guards Towers (40 tall, not counting the buildings they are on).
Temple of Gond (the one on the left), 70ft tall
Round (topped) Building, 80ft tall at peak
Platform, 20ft under bridge
Grating
Drawbridge
Dock
River-->Sea

There are doors to the towers on the roof level of the buildings they are on.
You have no idea what the building with the ships is like inside. However, the tube-like tunnels between it and the temples are a couple stories up, so presumedly its not entirely hollw, as it seems that it must have upper levels.

 

[dead_radish]

Elone nods. "I can dispel the wards, though I worry someone might notice if the wards were to drop - is there any other way up? Somewhere we could climb, perhaps?"

 

[dead_radish]

Elone considers further. She nudges Ubaar. "Remember how we set off the wards before? With the critter?" She thinks. "Solonor's creatures would not be harmed, and it might be interesting - we could perhaps hide invisibly by while people came to look. Or we could use the distraction to sneak in elsewhere...."

 

[Thanee]

We want to get one of those ships, right? So using the grate here as a distraction would not be very helpful, as this seems to be the way we have to leave this building with the ship eventually! We also have to consider, that we might need to shut down those guard towers, otherwise they might be able to hinder our exit in some way.

 

[DM_Matt]

We want to get one of those ships, right? So using the grate here as a distraction would not be very helpful, as this seems to be the way we have to leave this building with the ship eventually! We also have to consider, that we might need to shut down those guard towers, otherwise they might be able to hinder our exit in some way.

It seems easy enough to sneak by them. They are more intended to watch the bridge than the platforms below it.

 

[dead_radish]

Elone shrugs. "Perhaps so."

OOC: Is there a way up that doesn't involve the grates, now that we're here?

 

[Thanee]

I think we should dispel those alarms, then Ines can look for mundane traps of sort, and afterwards we open the grate and move in that way. At the very least we should be closest to our target then. What do you think? Rahja shrugs. We don't know what's inside, so every way can be the wrong one.