[IC] Halfling Quest - Rooting Around

[Ferrix]

Ringly examines the fence. It is a split-rail construction fence of old weathered timbers which has about three zig-zags making it about eighteen feet across the tunnel opening. Sturdy enough to keep the oxen-type creatures from easily knocking it over, and obviously strong enough for Alton and the others to climb on it. It could very easily be built by anyone who had seen a cow pasture with fencing, as it is very common.

As you begin to make your way down the tunnel you are quickly entombed in the darkness, there seems to be little of the bioluminescent moss in this section, although a slight breeze ruffles your clothes as it pulls down into the darkness of the tunnel.

Far ahead there seems to be the muffled murmer of activity echoing towards you.

 

[Boddynock]

As you begin to make your way down the tunnel you are quickly entombed in the darkness, there seems to be little of the bioluminescent moss in this section, although a slight breeze ruffles your clothes as it pulls down into the darkness of the tunnel.

Far ahead there seems to be the muffled murmur of activity echoing towards you.

"Eddie, Kiylea," whispers Alton, "can you scout ahead? Be careful - and quiet! Let us know what you find."

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Kiylea nods at Alton, apprehension momentarily replaced by curiousity. "I guess so." She turns to Eddie. "You coming?" She takes the lead, heading down the passage, making her way quietly from shadow to shadow.

OOC: Move Silently +7 and Hide +9

 

[Slippshade]

Bubbles hunkers down with the rest of her friends and watches Eddie and Kiylea move off into the darkness. She keeps her body coiled, ready to spring forward if there is any indication of danger.

 

[Jdvn1]

Ringly's eyes grow wide as Eddie and Kiylea agree to go off into the darkness. <Wow, that's got to be scary. Hope they don't die. They're useful.> But he shakes that thought from his head. <I mean, they're good people, aren't they? We're all trying to help a situation larger than ourselves.>

 

[Ferrix]

Eddie and Kiylea
You make your way slowly down the dark corridor, being unable to see you follow the right hand wall down the gentle grade. The corridor seems to curve gradually to the right as it descends, ahead in the darkness you can make out the blurriness of light ahead. The progress is however slow and not particularly quiet as you cannot even see where you are stepping.

Another three or four minutes and the tunnel spills out out into another cave, however this one is worked and supported by crude stone and beam buttressing. What is alarming however is that spreading off to both sides are two open-air forges with the left seemingly in use for weapons and the right for armor, another section appears to be used for tanning leather. The dull light radiates out from the glowing coals of the two forges amid a few burnt down torches. The smell of grime mixed with the acrid sulphuric air forces you to shield your nose and eyes. Oddly, there is no one of any sort in this area at the moment, although you can hear the dull murmer of activity coming from an opening at the far left corner of the cave.

The Others
You wait patiently at the top of the dark tunnel as Eddie and Kiylea move off into the darkness, occasionally you can hear one of the two shuffling in the darkness ahead until they have gone too far for your ears to pick anything up. You wait.

 

[Boddynock]

Ah, Ferrix, you forgot to put the entries in sblocks.

 

[Ferrix]

Ah, Ferrix, you forgot to put the entries in sblocks.

Wasn't an accident.

 

[Boddynock]

Wasn't an accident.

OK.

 

[Boddynock]

Alton shifts his weight backwards and forwards, trying to find a position where his side does not ache so much. Again he considers using Father Alton's poultice and again he decides to wait.

Waiting in this darkness is not easy. He'd much rather be facing an enemy he can see, in a battle which was straightforward and clear. "Jerran's right, of course. We don't know that those we encounter here are the enemy. We just have to be careful - and prepared."

"I hope they'll be all right." This is said quietly, not to anyone in particular.