[AU] Butterfly Cage
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*Aa-Namay curses visciously in Giant when she hears Scinathar's story, and glares at the faen with undisguised hatred.*
"When the little slip awakens, he will have much to answer for," she says in a low, tight voice.
"You must show us where this second rock fall happened," her sister says, slowly standing upright. Aa-Ma'ray has regained much of her color in the hours since you left her. "It did not take us too long to shift this load, and I have no desire to let the author of my tragedy have a chance to escape. Voes and Telof could go to Hardak with what information we have, just in case something goes wrong."
"I saw two dead ends, but didn't think to test them any farther," he says, looking at the sibeccai curiously.
*Galen returns the way the party came and goes to look for additional passages around the rockfall and in the adjoining cavern. You thoroughly search the walls, and encounter one thing of note. The "endless" well of darkness in the second corridor, the one between Lornae's cavern and the one with the illusionary rock fall, has a current of wind running through it that is very strong. So strong that perhaps even someone could step into it and fall up, rather than down. It may be that there are other entrances further up, or down, the well-like shaft.*
"When the little slip awakens, he will have much to answer for," she says in a low, tight voice.
"You must show us where this second rock fall happened," her sister says, slowly standing upright. Aa-Ma'ray has regained much of her color in the hours since you left her. "It did not take us too long to shift this load, and I have no desire to let the author of my tragedy have a chance to escape. Voes and Telof could go to Hardak with what information we have, just in case something goes wrong."
*Voes is the one that answers your question, as it is clear from the hole the made through the rubble could never accomadate one of the giant's frames.*Grathis said:
"I saw two dead ends, but didn't think to test them any farther," he says, looking at the sibeccai curiously.
"Sure thing, I wasn't even thinking of looking for illusions, let's go," Voes says, and squirms through the small hole. Grathis has to squeeze carefully through, and almost dislodges some of the stones. Voes has to help ease him through the hole so that he doesn't collapse him. Holding a sunrod high, he proceeds down the narrow twisted corridor.Grathis said:
*Galen returns the way the party came and goes to look for additional passages around the rockfall and in the adjoining cavern. You thoroughly search the walls, and encounter one thing of note. The "endless" well of darkness in the second corridor, the one between Lornae's cavern and the one with the illusionary rock fall, has a current of wind running through it that is very strong. So strong that perhaps even someone could step into it and fall up, rather than down. It may be that there are other entrances further up, or down, the well-like shaft.*
Erekose13
Explorer
"I think we all will have questions for this little non-mojh when he wakes. For now I can show you this cave in. I would like to catch up with the mojh who has been causing all of this." Scinathar says just as Galen returns. "Ah yes I had seen that chute previously, though I didnt really want to be the one to take the first step. Our giant friends here would like to have a look at the cave in, shall we?"
"Yes, let's," says Aa-Namay, and gets up to follow the party. Her sister follows, but calls for Telof, who was guarding the front entrance. She tells him to watch for Grathis and Voes, and then both giantesses go with Scinathar, Mochor, Galen, Sanje, and Connor. If you wish to leave the unconscious faen here, or if anyone wants to stay here with Telof and wait for Grathis and Voes, feel free.
*Showing the giants to the cave-in, they examine it and both nod in unison.*
"Yes, I think we can shift this. It shouldn't take us more than an hour or two to make a stable passage. Care to lend a hand?" they ask, and then begin to carefully shift the rocks out of the way. Lornae continues to cling to Connor's shoulder, watching everything with wide eyes.
"Little faen... I remember the little faen now. Yes... he wasn't part of the mojhy-mojh's band, no he wasn't. He was helping red-stick man, Javdak, yes he was, he was helping me trick the mojh, yes he was yes... But the mojh tricked you, sealed himself in with rocks, didn't want you to follow, see what he's found..." she whispers into Connor's ear, her voice in a strange sing-song.
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*Grathis, you carefully scour the passageways and caverns with Voes, taking careful stock of all the walls, and looking carefully for any illusionary passages. After two hours of careful searching you come to the irksome conclusion that there is not a blessed thing in these passages.
*Showing the giants to the cave-in, they examine it and both nod in unison.*
"Yes, I think we can shift this. It shouldn't take us more than an hour or two to make a stable passage. Care to lend a hand?" they ask, and then begin to carefully shift the rocks out of the way. Lornae continues to cling to Connor's shoulder, watching everything with wide eyes.
"Little faen... I remember the little faen now. Yes... he wasn't part of the mojhy-mojh's band, no he wasn't. He was helping red-stick man, Javdak, yes he was, he was helping me trick the mojh, yes he was yes... But the mojh tricked you, sealed himself in with rocks, didn't want you to follow, see what he's found..." she whispers into Connor's ear, her voice in a strange sing-song.
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*Grathis, you carefully scour the passageways and caverns with Voes, taking careful stock of all the walls, and looking carefully for any illusionary passages. After two hours of careful searching you come to the irksome conclusion that there is not a blessed thing in these passages.
*The party dives into the digging with a will, helping the giant women with moving the stones as their direct. Both seem to have a knack for making a stable tunnel out of unstable rock, and in under two hours there is a passage big enough for for even Mochor to squeeze through. Though the oathsworn was on guard the entire time, no danger materialized whilst they were digging. Assuming the party decides to wait for Galen, after his fruitless search of the other cave-in, the party can enter this new passage together. The faen hasn't awoken yet, and the giants' party will stay behind to prevent an ambush, as well as to keep an eye on their "guest."*
*Carefully squeezing through the little tunnel, you pop out into a long corridor. If you have light, you can see that it stretches on for a ways. About a hundred feet along you come to a break in the wall, leading to another passage, though the original one stretched out in front of you. About twenty feet beyond that break, which seems natural, is another break which seems to have been made by someone hammering into the passage from the other side, using mining tools. Indeed a pick can be seen lying on the ground even from here. And yet much further up the passage takes an abrupt left turn, obscuring what might be ahead. The wind that whistles through the mined passage obscures most other sounds.*
*Carefully squeezing through the little tunnel, you pop out into a long corridor. If you have light, you can see that it stretches on for a ways. About a hundred feet along you come to a break in the wall, leading to another passage, though the original one stretched out in front of you. About twenty feet beyond that break, which seems natural, is another break which seems to have been made by someone hammering into the passage from the other side, using mining tools. Indeed a pick can be seen lying on the ground even from here. And yet much further up the passage takes an abrupt left turn, obscuring what might be ahead. The wind that whistles through the mined passage obscures most other sounds.*
Erekose13
Explorer
"I think we should check around that corner up ahead, just to make sure there isn't anything dangerous. However I believe that we should be heading down that more natural passage. Signs of wind have dominated the more occult findings and that wind makes an awful racket to be completely natural." Scinathar says.
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