Crossed Paths, Part II

[Jarval]

Brioc stops, looking closely at his glowing sword. He touches the blade experimentally, unsure as to if it's generating the odd dry heat surrounding him. He glances up from the scimitar as Dhormium and Marcus approach from opposite directions.

"I've never seen a sword do this before." He says to his friends, holding up the weapon for examination. "Why do you think it's glowing like this? Most peculiar..."

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

Octar survey's Ehldannis' summoned help with suspicion, watching it warily until it disappears, then lending his considerable strength to hauling the gnoll back.

 

[Manzanita]

Octar, Marcus and Tullius return to the others. Only Ehldannis is able to make sense of the coins. After some thought, he guesses that the dates refer to the calendar of the old Greek empire, and represent a time about 1000 years ago, about 200 years after the death of Alexander the Great. The picture seems to be of a King, Argos II, but Ehldannis can't remember if he's ever heard of such a man.

 

[eoghanbt]

Tulius trapses back down the long hall to the room, sheathing the short blade and resting the haft of the axe on his shoulder, occasionally glancing back into the dark until they reach the warm glow of lantern light and the safety of numbers.

 

[doghead]

Once they are all back in the room, Marcus outlines what they have seen up ahead, and his idea of leaving the bodies of the gnolls in the room. He also suggests that Octar have his wounds healed, as the roman seems to take pride in walking around bloody and ask for it for himself.

He also takes a moment to search through their gear to see if they have any handaxes, some other such throwing weapon. Anything else of interest he also takes and brings back for inspection or consideration. He moves quickly as they need to be pushing on. Once done, he suggests just that.

 

[Manzanita]

dead gnolls

A search of the dead gnolls and the room they were in reveals the following. 6 longbows, 120 arrows, 6 battleaxes, 1 great axe, 6 large wooden sheilds, a small amount of foodstuff, 24 silver pieces, and 36 gold pieces. Brioc finds that his scimitar only glows in about a 30 foot stretch of the passageway, starting where his is indicated on the last map.

 

[doghead]

There isn't anything of interest amoung the gear. He's looking for a throwing weapon. Marcus dumps the coin on the table.

"We ain't going to get rich off it, but take a share."

He is about to do so himself when he stops.

"Or we could pool it and use it for supplies and stuff."

Once sorted, he sets about a quick once over of the room (don't know if you included that in the first search - I didn't specifically state it.)

 

[Manzanita]

Yes. Nothing of further interest in the room.

 

[Krilith]

~after Dhormium entered the chamber he went over to a quiet corner in the room and began a prayer in angelic tongue, thanking Clangeddin for his help and guidance. When the prayer comes to an end the dwarf returns to his companions, specially Broic~

"You did not know that your blade could perform such a feat? would you mind lending it to me? I'd like to see if it will do thesame if I would hold it in the tunnel"

if Broic agrees and the others think it deserves investigating ~Dhormium holds the scimatar carefully and walks into the tunnel, up to the point where the blade starts to glow and there he concentrates on his surroundings, concentrating on any divinations, and later on the structure of the tunnel itself (manzanita, I don't have my character sheet with me at the moment, i would like a spellcraftcheck and stonecunning here). When the dwarf is satisfied he speaks in soft whispers and overlooks the surroundings again~

[spellcraft and stonecunning check when the blade starts to light up, or, where it aught to light up][cast detect magic to find any magical aura's]

 

[Jarval]

"You did not know that your blade could perform such a feat? would you mind lending it to me? I'd like to see if it will do thesame if I would hold it in the tunnel"

"Gladly." Brioc passes the scimitar to Dhormium. "Any light you can shed onto why it is doing that would be most welcome. It's never done anything like it before. Of course, Ive had it for less than a fortnight, so perhaps we should not be too surprised..."

He tails off, watching as Dhormium marches up and down the passageway. Kneeling, he rubs Wolf behind the ears, trying to settle his friend's nerves.