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

[TiCaudata]

[sblock=OC]yeah if the next leg is anything like the last leg, we will need all the spells we can get[/sblock]

 

[michael_noah]

"As much as I like the idea of being at full strength..." replies Brannak, "the other cultists are surely going to take notice that everyone from the vicinity of Hextor's little palace has gone missing. If we stay here for another day, someone is bound to come investigate."

 

[TiCaudata]

"The other groups will likely send grunts in first, and as long as we don't fall for any of their traps, we aren't likely to get in too much trouble. Besides," adds Llyr, "It doesn't seem like any of these people really trust each other anyway. So the odds of the other groups having keys that lead them this deeply are rather low."[sblock=oc]I can also take the wand of CLW during the next leg, it seemed to work out pretty well with Llyr having it.[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

"I can't say much about it I guess, other than i'm pretty sure the Eban Triad has to do with an extremist cult trying to 'unify' Hextor, Vecna, and Erythnul into a 'single' entity. I can't say as to how.... but I certainly intend to find out how exactly and stop it."

"I'm torn as well about whether to rest here or not. My inclination is to wait. I can't say i'll contribute to much to anything we encounter, and i agree with Llyr that anyone who comes to investigate, will at least initially be minions. If the other temples are as involved as this one, we should be at top performance. But if the majority of you want to go, we will go."

 

[Dichotomy]

"The problem is that inept minions will come in and immediately realize that something is wrong when they don't find these people greeting them, and then turn back to their masters and come with force. But, yeah, that might not happen, since these people don't seem to like each other. But they sure do communicate..." Dav shrugs his shoulders.

He also exchanges his greatsword with one of the masterwork greataxes.

 

[TiCaudata]

"I don't believe that waiting one full day is enough of a risk that we shouldn't allow our main healer to gather spells. We can leave as soon as she gets her spells. Besides, maybe we'll catch them sleeping."

 

[worthley]

"The best thing to do is to take a defensive front at the hallway that starts off this wing of the fort. That way we will have the strategic advantage, and be able to wait here until Alexis is able to regain her divine powers. We have completely searched this end, and know that they will not be able to send troups in to pin us down."

 

[michael_noah]

"I will gladly wait with you. Let me know when we're ready to embark," agrees the barbarian.

"I disagree slightly with the plan to wait in the main hall, however. It seems that the arena or our sleeping chamber is the safest place. I would suggest having someone keep watch on the hall, and fall back if any intruder is spotted."

 

[o3caudata]

Alexis looks questioningly at Viktor as he speaks and says "Hmm. The more I think on it, perhaps Dav and Brannak are correct. We've gained a serious advantage with all we've found here and by entirely eliminating this area before moving on. Healing can be provided by the wand. If we're lucky we can catch another whole section of this complex on their heels. I don't know that we would have been as succesful in this venture had we given them any more notice than we did. I don't want to go against a similar group after they've had time to entrench themselves and I don't think we should risk the possiblity of it happening by waiting. I assure you I'm not entirely useless without my magic."

""Let's move on. We'll proceed carefully and if we need to fall back we at least have some amount of defensibility here." she continues and begins to assemble her things.

 

[TiCaudata]

"The wand covered us AFTER we had used up all of your spells, and we used it ALOT. We can't rely on it covering us for a full frontal assault. Well we could, but it wouldn't be very smart. Brannak's plan is a good one. If no one comes forth, then we charge into the next wing at midnight, but if someone appears, we fall back and lay an ambush.

By the way, which wing WILL we charge next? I'm for the one marked with the eye."