CB's The Sunless Citadel v3.5

[CanadienneBacon]

As Kiaphas skirts around the pit and enters the tower, Karl wrenches the spear free from the wall. The goblin corpse that had been held fast to the wall slumps to the floor with a thud, revealing bloody and deep-set runes of power etched into the wall.

As Kiaphas heads into the room, he quickly finds a concealed door cunningly secreted into the tower's south wall.

 

[Boddynock]

"Guide, Rogue - and watch the hole in the ground, my friend!"

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Grotzkoshter

Circling the pit Grotz enters the crumbled tower, he puts down the basket and the keg and scans the area, seeing the spear Karl just pulled out from the dead goblin, he pick it up and inspect it.
Nice spear, should be handy
He says to himself and tests the balance and the sharpness of the tip.

OOC - Long spear or short spear ?

 

[hafrogman]

Karl gives a grimace at what was hiding beneath the goblin's body. He reaches one hand out to trace the runes, but then thinks better of it and pulls his hand back sharply. While Grotz examines the spear, Karl turns around to the cleric.

"What's this?"

[sblock=ooc]Just the kind of time when having a bard who could SEE things would be useful [/sblock]

 

[Guest 11456]

Kiaphas Liadon Elven Cleric of Corellon Larethian

Kiaphas turns to Karl. "Huh? Who me? Let me take a look." As he moves over to where Karl is, he waves behind himself, nonchalantly. "By the way, there is a concealed door over there in that wall." Once he has arrived at the runes, Kiaphus examines them closely trying to decipher them.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The smell in the tower shell is not unlike the smell emanating from the bottom of the pit trap. The four goblin carcasses in the tower shell have been thoroughly gnawed through by both rats and, judging by the wider-set teeth marks embellishing the corpse that had been speared to the wall, some sort of larger creature. With Elyan and Rogue, Grotz, Kiaphas, and Karl all in the room, Korgrave hangs back just outside the stone door. Obviously suddenly very reluctant to enter the portal, Korgrave peers into the gloom of the tower shell and hesitates.

The spear is neither a short nor a long spear but just a spear, designed for two-handed use. The weapon is still intact, even after gutting a goblin and being extracted from the wall mortar.

Turning to look at the runes pointed out by Karl, Kiaphas finds the lettering quite foreign and is unable to read nary a word. The runes are chiseled fairly deeply into the wall--if one traced the chisel marks with a finger, one could conceivably read the inscription by feel alone.

 

[Boddynock]

"What have you found? Rogue, guide!"

Elyan runs his fingers lightly over the carved runes, feeling not only the shape of the letters but also, in the depth and the sharpness of the cuts, the force with which they were carved.

He cocks his head to one side, as if listening for the whispered echoes of half-remembered lore.

[sblock=OOC]Bardic Knowledge +2[/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

With nimble fingertips, Elyan caresses the inscription carved into the stone wall. To his surprise, the inscription is chiseled in a language he knows, Draconic, and reads naught but a single word, "Ashardalon." Searching the reaches of his knowledge and trying to think of all the tidbits of lore and tall tales that he's gathered through the years, however, leaves Elyan drawing a blank as to the meaning of Ashardalon. Though clearly a name of some sort, perhaps after an important personage, Elyan is left with no other hint as to the word's meaning or gist.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Grotzkoshter

Kiaphas turns to Karl. "Huh? Who me? Let me take a look." As he moves over to where Karl is, he waves behind himself, nonchalantly. "By the way, there is a concealed door over there in that wall." Once he has arrived at the runes, Kiaphus examines them closely trying to decipher them.

A secret door you say
Grotz replies with awe, he looks around but spots nothing, he never saw a secret door unless he counts the hidden door back in the tavern.
Let's check what behind the door.
He then ties the spear to his belongings and draws his Greataxe

 

[hafrogman]

Karl looks over his shoulder to see Grotz peering at the empty wall. Did they really want to push on now?

"Camp?"