Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den

[tuxgeo]

Aeiyan smiles at Swift and turns toward the hallway again.

He says to the others, "The note from Lord Wolf mentions a place that he called downstairs, as well as a place that he called the catacombs where he was to be laid to rest. We found what we took to be his remains in the first room we opened off this hallway, so I suppose we should call this hallway the catacombs; does that sound about right? Have we now fully explored this hallway?"

OOC: Aeiyan has minor use for daggers: they're not his choice for melee, since he has a scimitar for that; and they're his third choice for thrown weapons, behind hammers and axes. Since Swift seems impressed with the new dagger, and appears to use daggers for melee, that's an apt use for it, and Aeiyan appreciates the suitability of the tool for the use.

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus nods slowly. "It could be. In any event, lets press on for now. We can return later if need be."

 

[tuxgeo]

After waiting a few seconds to allow the others to offer their opinions on the matter, Aeiyan continues: "Pressing on, then, would involve going which direction?"

He gestures at the ladder going straight up toward a trapdoor above the hallway. "I would guess that this leads to the keep, which we avoided because it was full of bandits when we arrived here. The bandits would probably spend any money they had, so that seems not to offer a wealthy target for conquest; however, it would offer more comfortable accomodations than these dead halls, possibly including the prospect of baths and clean beds."

He then gestures toward the other end of the hallway and says, "Otherwise, we entered this hallway from a room that might have had -- if I recall correctly -- other doors that were not standing open when we got here."

Aeiyan shrugs his shoulders and asks, "Ideas?"

 

[Kobold Stew]

[ooc: ref. posts 339, 343]

Bartleby speaks.
"We came through the caves past the ghouls and found the tomb of the Wolf King. From there we found this corridor, with its three doors, and we all remember what we found in each of these rooms.* I believe we are under the keep right now. If we head up, that will put us into the heart of the enemy. But that is the way I intend to proceed."



[* ooc: I don't, but I think we've pursued all the doors? Was there one we missed? Anyways...]

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - Yeah, I feel like there's a door we haven't looked in, but I can't remember for sure.)

 

[tuxgeo]

(OOC: There were two rooms containing sarcophagi: a first room containing three of them, and a second room to the west of it containing one, which one had been opened and looted (by the ghouls?).

I posted a text-only map of the first room here. The indication on that map where it shows a "door at south" is the entry we used to reach the catacombs. We didn't find any other doors in the second room to the west (through the "open door"). /OOC)

Edit to add: that was last July.

 

[Li Shenron]

Bartleby speaks.
"We came through the caves past the ghouls and found the tomb of the Wolf King. From there we found this corridor, with its three doors, and we all remember what we found in each of these rooms.* I believe we are under the keep right now. If we head up, that will put us into the heart of the enemy. But that is the way I intend to proceed."



[* ooc: I don't, but I think we've pursued all the doors? Was there one we missed? Anyways...]

[OoC: Small recap about visited rooms after the ghouls' cave:

- the three-sarcophagies room > you opened and looted all of them, then unlocked the door to the corridor
- the open/empty single-sarcophagy room > searched and looted
- the corridor leading to the next three rooms and trapdoor (not much to note here)
- the black knight skeleton room > you killed the giant centipedes and freed the cursed thieves
- the zombies and grim statue room > you killed the zombies, searched and looted, but failed to unlock the heavy door
- the fine lady skeleton room > searched and looted

That means there are still two doors you haven't gone past: the heavily locked door in the zombies room, and the trapdoor leading up.

Of course it is also possible to just go back, exit the catacombs through the caves, and do something different ]

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

A thought stirs in Tock's memory.

"That room with the shambling corpses... did we manage to unlock the large door in there? Would it be worth trying this key?"

[OOC: Thanks for the recap Li Shenron, not sure about anyone else but I'm definitely guilty of totallylosing track of where we'd been and done so far...]

 

[Kobold Stew]

"Good thinking, Tock," enthuses Bartleby. "Your mind's like a steel... er. Sorry. Good idea. Let's go back and see, shall we?"

 

[Leif]

Swift, halfling rogue

"Sounds good to me! Let's go back there!"