IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part I

[michael_noah]

The dwarf walks past the party as they examine the orange slime once again. "I don't think I'll be of much help there, and I'm anxious to see where the other coridors may lead. I shall meet you at the top of the elevator," he says as he heads back up toward the sarcophagus.

 

[o3caudata]

"I think i've had quite enough of mysterious goos. We shouldn't go too far alone either.... I'll go with Boldak."

Alexis rushes away from the others, glancing over her shoulder as she rounds the corner.

 

[Dichotomy]

Alendar pulls out a waterskin and spills the contents onto the floor. He tosses the empty skin to Breth. "Let's hurry this up and get out of here."

 

[TiCaudata]

Breth takes the skin and gingerly lowers it into the sludge while trying not to directly touch it.

"I wonder what would happen if something pretty close to living were put in here. You want to help me with that body Viktor?"

Breth then proceeds to put the corpse of the rock thing into the fountain.

[sblock=ooc edit]Breth is trying to fill the skin without him touching the sludge. he wants to touch the skin and the skin kind of has to touch the sludge.[/sblock]

 

[worthley]

Viktor moves to his recently dead enemy, and starts to drag the corpse to the fountain. "Time to find out." He replies to Breth.

 

[Dichotomy]

As Alexis and Boldak head up, Breth fills the waterskin with the sludge. As he and Viktor attempt to put their defeated foe into the fountain, they find that the creature is slightly too big to fit nicely. As they set what they can't of the creature inside, they don't notice anything obvious happen to it.

When Alexis and Breth (and the others, if they follow) reach the top chamber again, they find it precisely as they left it.

 

[michael_noah]

Boldak does a quick scouting of the area and, finding it unchanged, returns to the center of the chamber. "Well, hopefully we can continue the exploration with another turn of the sarcophagus."

He sets his weight against the thing and moves it one more click.
[sblock=ooc]To be clear, Boldak still brings up anything that looks useful from the sculpture room. I'll list all our treasure in the OOC thread sometime soon.[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

Alexis moves to help Boldak rotate the sarcophagus.

"I hope moving this doesn't trap them. I suppose we can always move it back."

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]I'm going to assume that everyone goes up just to move this along.[/sblock]
After everyone reaches the chamber above once again, before Boldak sets to moving the arrow another tick, Alendar quickly halts him. "Let me move the torch again first." After the elf puts the everburning torch in place in the green lantern, he rushes back to help move the arrow.

With a bit of effort, the group manages to push the arrow clockwise again. Just as it aligns with the passage to the north, it settles into another groove with a "clunk." Suddenly a cacophonous creaking of stone against stone emerges from the ground below the green lantern.

Alendar's face creases as he turns to the others. "Ummm... I think that's bad..."

 

[michael_noah]

Boldak shrugs, "Uh-oh." He quickly finds a place to hide.
[sblock=ooc]Behind the sarcophagus if that's the only place available.[/sblock]