[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[Hjorimir]

OOC: SORRY! I didn't notice we had started back up since the honeymoon. My bad!

Sweat pours down Bill's face. The display of "magic" has shaken him and he has since emptied the last of his flask of spirits. Coming out of his stupor he looks about as if he is not exactly sure where he is now. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he shakes himself into awareness and slows his breathing.

OOC: Did I say I was sorry?

 

[BryonD]

Finding nothing informative here, Joshua will start down the passage going straight back.

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Brigitta clucks like a mother hen and asks Hambrick and Haskins to stop for a moment.

"Tsk, tsk, gentlemen. Keep this up and we will have naught but your battered corpses to keep us company. Hold still for a moment and let me look at those assorted bruises and contusions."

As she tends to their injuries, she looks around at the others and her normally stern face softens a bit.

"Gentlemen, I wish I could tell you exactly what I am looking for...a particular statue, a specific tapestry or a peculiar jade necklace. Unfortunately, I will only know what we seek when we find it...that is to say...I will know it when I see it. I am sorry to be so vague, but I am operating on gut feeling and tantalizing, but incomplete, clues. What we have experienced thus far confirms that this is the place we seek...but what we seek is still out there."

She concludes her speech by waving her hand into the darkness.

She finishes tying the last bandage around Joshua's battered head.

"There we go...almost as good as new."

[OOC: She will "take 10" to restore hit points to Haskins (2) and Hambrick (4). Rolls here: http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=163668 ]

~ OO

 

[nakia]

"Gentlemen, I wish I could tell you exactly what I am looking for...a particular statue, a specific tapestry or a peculiar jade necklace. Unfortunately, I will only know what we seek when we find it...that is to say...I will know it when I see it. I am sorry to be so vague, but I am operating on gut feeling and tantalizing, but incomplete, clues. What we have experienced thus far confirms that this is the place we seek...but what we seek is still out there."
~ OO

Teddy had heard this before -- ". . .I know it when I see it. . . not that corpse, Teddy. No, the other one. Well, the other other one. Don't make that face at me. This is important. No, this body won't do, either. I need something a little more. . .stiff. Maybe that fellow over there. What? He's heavy? Well, you're a strong guy aren't you? That's what I'm paying you for, right? No, I'm sorry. I know. It's been a long night. Yes, that corpse will do. Let's get out of here. . ."

Sometimes, Teddy wondered if it was all worth it.

 

[ragboy]

As the group paused to attend wounds, T. Rawley digs into his tobacco pouch, coming up with just enough for one last cigarette.

"Ah hell, Brindle," he murmurs, as he lights it. "It's going to get real tense down here in about an hour."

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

The passage led down to a suite of well-preserved rooms. At one time, perhaps, these rooms would have been quite comfortable. There were piles of dust that might once have been wooden furniture, but there were also worked stone and metal pieces of an antique nature-- all carved with the ubiquitous snake theme.

The group also found a few ornamental crystals in various shapes, sizes, and colors-- but nothing that seemed of the least interest to Brigitta.

Facing another cave-in at the end of the passage, they retired again to the main junction.

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Brigitta fumes silently with impatience and weariness brought on by several significant adreneline surges throught the day. She pours a bit of water from her canteen onto a cloth and wipes the worst of the grim from her face. What if this is all just a wild goose chase, she muses?

Clearing her throat and forcing a glimmer of cheer into her voice, she quips, "We are quickly running out of possible routes. This seems to be the next logical choice. Shall we?"

She points down the angled corridor and waits for the "scouts" to take the lead, fading into Teddy's reassuring shadow.

~ OO

PS - [OOC: Quick thread hijack...Nakia...can you head over here OO's PhD Thread? Thanks in advance]

 

[Hjorimir]

With a newfound sense of urgency - as if he wants to put this whole place behind him - Bill moves towards the front of the group to hurry it along.

 

[BryonD]

Joshua takes a moments amusement at Bill's zeal. And then follows.

OOC: I've still got Haskins torch. Just say if you want it back, but the torch/rifle combo seems a safe plan to me.

Survival - last passage (1d20+7=21)

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Nah keep the torch

Haskins falls in line behind Brown and Hambrick. "Now you keep steady up there Mr. Brown, no need in heading to our deaths any faster than we are now" says Haskins with a dry chuckle.