Endur's Return to TOEE part 2

[Xael]

Lylamwyn shrughs. "After the orcs? I figure any way is as good as another."

 

[Pyrex]

"Except it seems like they went that way." Raner says, then points east.

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah shrugs as well and sets off to the east toward the orcs, though at a slower pace.

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

Don't forget about the traps! Might very well be, that the orcs want to lure us into one of those! So, let's tread carefully and not hurry after them. It's not like we are in a hurry right now.”

 

[Endur]

The party heads east, around a bend in the corner, and finds a flight of stairs going up. The top of the stairwell is out of your sight. Orcish archers lurk up above and fire arrows at the party members down below.

You can also smell a particularly foul odor wafting down the stairs, as if the orcs might be cooking a foul soup or preparing to dump a foul soup down the stairwell.

 

[Dalamar]

"Wasn't me," Kerwyn says as the foul stench assaults his senses. "D'ya think I should blow some of the last whizzes from my stick on Toriah an' me so we'll sneak up on 'em?"

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

While already retreating back down, Lenya says: “Not a bad idea, but you should not stay up there alone for too long... we should follow you promptly.”

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah jokingly gives Kerwyn a nasty look as they go back out of sight of the archers. "Y' think maybe there's traps on th' steps an' an ugly surprise waitin' a' top? Y' got somethin' t' make us fly?" he says to Lenya.

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

“I'm afraid, no. I can't even make myself fly, less so anyone else.”

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah sighs. "We need some way of gettin' up th' stairs withou' gettin' shot at or settin' off traps." He thinks for a moment and then says hopefully, "C'n y' get rid of th' baddies with magic?"