House Millithor in COSQ: part 4

[Endur]

Please post the exact words that Carcelon tells others regarding the Lake of Shadows.

Once Quertus tp's everyone back to Szith Morcane, Carcelon heads off to find the Matron (and for now only the Matron) to fill her in on the details of her "audience" with TWSID

 

[Endur]

Who exactly is doing the work on the rock walls?

Meanwhile (When they learned that the heroes were in Shadowdale) the work begins to weaken sections of the walls of the chasm, a hundred feet above the noble level, using layers of Bebilith webs to hold the many tons of stone into place. The traps are designed to appear like normal webs, and are balanced in such a way that the boulders will topple outwards and be able to hit any space beneath them in the chasm.

 

[Serpenteye]

Who exactly is doing the work on the rock walls?

Vampires, Bebiliths and a few skiled commoners under the direction of (Tierak? if she's up for it, or whoever else feels competent).

 

[Pyrex]

OOC: Tough call. It'd be sooo much fun to totally make something up... If only my Bluff were higher. *sigh* I guess I'll have to stick with creative interpretation.

"What is your asessment, Carcelon?"

"The kuo-toa do not appear to be interested in an alliance. The sole purpose of the trip was so that TWSID could deliver a message.

I was shown an image of a wand, " Carcelon describes the wand in detail, "and told that Lolth's silence would end with it's destruction. I was also told that we will find this wand in Maermydra, and that it is protected by powerful enchantments. After that, TWSID left."

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Vampires, Bebiliths and a few skiled commoners under the direction of (Tierak? if she's up for it, or whoever else feels competent).

Tierak is more than glad to supervise; it's work that emphasizes her authority without exposing her to excessive danger, and she's needed to watch the Bebiliths anyways.

 

[Endur]

An old, mostly blind bugbear seems to be the commoner with the most engineering skill (ooc: does Quertus have Knowledge Engineering or Trap-building). He tells Tierak that Trap-building is a science, not an art. He explains to Tierak that the ceiling would be a much more reliable and predictable trap than the walls.

"Hard to reckon where the rocks will fall with a collapsing wall trap. Might also cave in the noble level if we crack some of the support.

"On the other hand, a ceiling trap lets you control exactly where the rocks will fall. And you don't have to worry as much about caving in the existing levels."

 

[Uriel]

Kripp stood before the Matron, along with the two Drow Clerics, the Chosen, as well as the newly recovered Narcelia.
Carcelon's words and what the Claw had said to him were disturbing.
Did the servant of Kirianselee have His Wand? The Great Enemy was silent for many tides, and He-Who-Swims-In-Darkness was pleased, but if His Wand was still at large, nothing was safe ior sure...

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

An old, mostly blind bugbear seems to be the commoner with the most engineering skill (ooc: does Quertus have Knowledge Engineering or Trap-building). He tells Tierak that Trap-building is a science, not an art. He explains to Tierak that the ceiling would be a much more reliable and predictable trap than the walls.

"Hard to reckon where the rocks will fall with a collapsing wall trap. Might also cave in the noble level if we crack some of the support.

"On the other hand, a ceiling trap lets you control exactly where the rocks will fall. And you don't have to worry as much about caving in the existing levels."

"I understand the need for precision, but too long a fall will give the intended targets time to evade. How swiftly could a ceiling trap strike?"

 

[Endur]

A nine foot tall fiend with huge wings and a snaking prehensile tail appears out of a cloud of sulphur in the commoner area. His body is covered in red reptilian scales and horns extend from his head. He wears robes covered with arcane symbols written in languages from the lower planes. He does not appear to have any weapons, other than a scroll case.


"Take me to Ki'Willis Millithor. We have business to transact."

 

[Endur]

The bugbear engineer thinks to himself. hmm, 500 feet from ceiling to river, 30 feet per second acceleration, hmmm), maybe six seconds for the rocks to hit the river, add to that the time between when the web is lit and when the web breaks.

The bugbear announces,
"They will be dead before they knew what hit them."