[AU] Stone Bones

*Atlas listens carefully to the scrabbling, and it seems like whatever it is is pacing the party through the walls. The grayfolk are moving pretty quickly through the mushrooms, almost going too fast for you to keep up. It looks like you're heading for that collection of large stalagmites over there, the ones almost like columns in a temple.*

*Dak, the ceiling seems to be lost in the blue radiance, but you could almost swear that it was moving slightly, like water ripping on a pond. It's almost like... breathing.*

*Phaern, the voices in Tonguesinger have been getting steadily louding as you go into the Twilight Chamber, rising in a chorus of flooding voices. You can even begin to make out some parts of words. Finally when they've gotten so loud that you're sure everyone can hear them, you hear one word very clearly.*

Beware! Then Tonguesinger falls into absolute silence.

*The grayfolk, well ahead of the party, are just passing the stalagmites and the party looks up to see them pass the first column... and vanishing. Here one moment, gone the next, with no outcry. At the same time the rat-scrabbling sound gets louder and louder, until you finally see its source. Out of the large stalagmites pour dozens, hundreds of rat-sized creatures out of the crevices in the rock. They're nothing but a pair of legs and a huge maw, no eyes, no nose, no ears, just wandering hunger. With a scream of a thousand voices, they charge.*
 

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~I knew it was a mistake to come in here~ *Atlas thinks as he prepares to defend himself and Dak from the seemily endless wave.*

OOC: +4 B.A.B +5 str -1 size -2 using medium weapon =
+6 to hit 1-6+5 dmg.
 

dak

rangerjohn said:
~I knew it was a mistake to come in here~ *Atlas thinks as he prepares to defend himself and Dak from the seemily endless wave.*

OOC: +4 B.A.B +5 str -1 size -2 using medium weapon =
+6 to hit 1-6+5 dmg.

[ooc: staff is a large weapon. Additionally, AU uses 3.0 size conventions for weapons, so you wouldn't get a -2 penalty even if it was medium-sized. Finally, the hand axe actually is usable by a large character, the eqivilent of a medium-sized character using a tiny weapon like a dagger. It has a better crit than the staff, but a large character couldn't use it in two hands like he could the staff.]

[How fast is the pack mule?]

*Dak looks up at Atlas and whispers "If I kin clear a path, you reckon you could keep her open?"*
 

*Darthallys steps forward, his Sibeccai Kopesh at the ready.*

"It's a veritable jungle underground, I've always said so myself!" he growls.

The Earth Spirits only know why they chose me of all the young pups out there as one of their champions!

*He'll step forward and start swinging at any of the mouth-rats that come too close to him or his companions.*

"Thinkers!" he shouts. "Do we go forward? Try to get through this mess to follow the grey folk? Or retreat?"

-Darthallys the Razor-Tongued
 

"Wow thats a lot. I think we need to see if our allies are in danger. Those dont look capable of flying so I'll take a quick peek round the stalagmite. Remember to stick together." Phaern says just before casting eldritch armor and taking to the air.
 

dak

[ooc: how far to the collumn where the greyfolk disappeared? And are there any one-pound rocks lying around within Dak's reach?]
 
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Erekose13 said:
"Wow thats a lot. I think we need to see if our allies are in danger. Those dont look capable of flying so I'll take a quick peek round the stalagmite. Remember to stick together." Phaern says just before casting eldritch armor and taking to the air.
"I wonder if they will be drawn to light? Should I uncover my glowglobe lantern? I might take to the air myself," *as I pull out a crystal container.*
 

Leesea takes to the air as well.

"I was thinking the same thing about the light," she says in hushed tones. "I'm just worried that it might make things worse in ways we can't anticipate. Maybe we should wait and use it as a last resort."
 

dak

*From the cloaked form of Atlas, Indakalis, and the donkey, comes a strangled whisper:

"Keep it dark! Keep it dark!" followed by a hissing speal of nearly untintelligible curses. You can just make out "spellbrained" and "rune spit."

*As Dak is admonishing Wil to maintain light discipline, he scoops up an armful of rocks and hoists himself onto the donkey's back. He mumbles a quick apology to the spirits of the donkey and the cavern and the rocks, and implores the rocks to blow up and kill lots of little critters.*

[ooc:Dak casts dimished earth burst on a rock and will hurl it into the midst of the mouth-rats (nice one, rknop :) ) when they come within 50 feet]
 

*Here's your situation.*

*The mule move not much faster than Indacalis on this kind of ground, and loaded down as he is (30 ft.). However there are a few small rocks around.*

*Flying up Leesea can see that it looks like the grayfolk fell into some kind of crevice right beyond the line of the stalagmites.*

*The picture below shows the stalagmites, where the grayfolk approximately are (in the crevice), where the two swarms of mouth-rats are, and where everyone else approximately is. The square are five-foot squares.*
 

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