(IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 1

[Hriston]

While Tenibor checks the giant-chief's hallway, Bible pulls a tinderbox from a belt-pouch and a torch she had wedged under her belt. Lighting the torch, she takes a few steps into the cavern at the back of the drafty cell peering into the gloom to see if it might offer a viable means of escape.

OOC: Wisdom (Perception): 1D20+6 = [6]+6 = 12 Bible AC19* HP 76/85 THP 0/8 HD 3/9 PP16 AS 0/1 2W 1/1 Ind 1/1

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Tenibor ventured a short way up the chief's hallway. Tamanar followed, saying (in elven), "I will stand by your side."

The hallway arched to the north-east as the followed it. Soon, it bent again northward, opened up into a chamber who's walls were made of very worn stones (many hundreds of years old). The ceiling must have collapsed, as it was missing large pieces of rock and dirt, and was reinforced with newer-looking buttresses. It had been cleared and repaired, but the east wall had a hole in it, relatively freshly dug through by the uncleared debris, and the far wall had collapsed. It was only partly cleared and opened to a larger natural space as it went further north and west, to the limits of the elves' darkvision.

Spoiler: Chief's Hallway

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Bible lit a torch and moved to the back of the cell that Tenibor had discovered. She held the torch out before her, and it illuminated a natural cave's tunnel-system. To the south it split into two around a natural column. To the north-east it split into a northern tunnel strewn with rubble, and an eastern tunnel that was damp and led downward. Directly across from Bible, to the south-east, was a hole that disappeared into darkness.

"Folks could get mighty lost in here!" declared Cordit at Bible's side, "I'd much prefer th'open sea air an' a fine stiff breeze, meself."

Her voice echoed in the tunnels and somewhere beyond the torchlight, something moved. There was the sound of a heavy weight dragging on stones.

"Yup." she whispered much more softly, "The sea seems mighty fine t'me. She's a'callin'."

Spoiler: Natural Caves

 

[Hriston]

"Stay back," Bible cautions Cordit when she hears the dragging sound in the darkness, "this ain't no safe place for you."

She steps forward again and tosses her torch in the direction of the sound, hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever it was that moved.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OOC: We are beginning to 'split the party'. I have no problem with that, but I should let anyone who hasn't posted in a bit catch up. I have been assuming that the others are interviewing prisoners ATM, but that can be done if anyone wants to jump in. @Shadowedeyes Valda is nearby Bible if you want to get involved there (for example). @VLAD the Destroyer Quinn, @Blue Eoghan, & @Lidgar Jack are not far off either (unless you want to follow Tenibor, which would also be fine) or if you want to go someplace else.

 

[Blue]

Eoghan was standing right outside the Chief's Hallway, so when Tenibor and his new elf friend went down it he followed behind them, the bandore ready to strum forth the magic in music.

 

[TerraDave]

They will go ahead by about 40 feet.

 

[Lidgar]

Jack sticks with Bible, covering her with Darling as she peers into the cavern.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The orcs had agreed to wait until the other possible directions had been briefly scouted. They were somewhat impatient, telling Eoghan that they wished to "liberate their kin". But they were in poor condition to fight giants on their own, and they weren't foolish. They waited in the large chamber, stretching, checking themselves over, and practicing with their newly pilfered morningstars.

Eoghan followed Tenibor, who was emboldened by his support to push on a little further to the north. They moved into the old cleared chamber. Through the hole in the eastern wall they could see a natural cavern formed from an old underground watersource, now just a swift-moving creek. To the north, the unfinished work of clearing the old structure left rock and debris all about, but they had cleared two paths: a dug tunnel to the north-west that after a false start, led to more worked stone blocked with an old iron portcullis.

The other path, directly north, dropped down a wide flight of stairs.

Spoiler: Tenibor & Eoghan

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Jack joined Bible and Cordit as the reeve threw her torch into the cavern, in the direction of a noise. The torch sputtered on the damp ground, but it revealed a large natural cavern that opened widely to the east. In the dim light beyond the torch, another hole bore into the earth, but no creatures could be seen.

Whatever had made the sound was either further away, behind a pillar of rock, or down one of the holes.

Spoiler: Bible & Jack

Note: The yellow circle is bright light from the torch, but dim light goes out to about the edges of the map.