[IC Thread] Delving the Mists

[Telsar]

Natalie Bayne -- Wizard/Rogue

It takes Natalie several minutes to get out of bed, still woozy from the excessive ale. When she sees Orum through hazy eyes, she shakes her head, trying to rattle herself back to coherance. "I'll need just a minute to get ready," then she goes to her bedroom, leaving the door open, and changes out of her bed clothes into something more professional, calling to Orum to explain to her what's going on through the open door. After explanations, she emerges with trenchcoat, weapon, and her hair tied back up, but still with eyes a bit bloodshot and just a bit of unsteadiness in her walk.

 

[Gramcrackered]

"Grabbed somebody who may be a murderer," Orum explains, rolling an arm about as he tries to work out the kinks. "The others want the group rounded up so we can root through his things."

Well, while Orum waited patiently enough, he's a bit light on the explanation part. 'Course, it isn't like there's all that much to explain anyway. Well. From his point of view.

 

[Cerebus13]

Kalri rubs her arm and says that she will stay behind as she might just get in the way if a fight breaks out again.

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Orum, Natalie and Alyson arrive to the butchery and walk quietly through the building looking for Quilan and Anton. After a minute or two of searching they find the two of them looking down into a hole in the ground in one of the rooms. Laying next to them is a large heavy grate that used to cover the hole.

Anton takes Quilan's bullseye lantern and shines it down the hole looking for anything in the dark. Both of the adventurers have to cover their mouths and noses with a cloth to block out the horrible stench wafting up from below.

[OOC: Check the linked map here for what they can see.]

Underneath is a large tunnel with walls of brick and mortar. Running down the middle of it is a stream of liquid whose contents you would rather not think about. On either side of the stream is about 10 feet of a sloping surface that you could walk on slowly. Directly below the hole this surface is stained a dull red from materials dropped down into it.
North of you the stream only runs about 10 or 20 feet before it reaches a wall that encloses most of it in...it doesn't look like you could go far that way unless you completely submerged in the liquid. To the south the tunnel stretches beyond the bright illumination of the lantern and into the more shadowy light it casts. On the west side of the tunnel there is a small corridor that leads off into the dark.

[OOC: Pyrex and Salzorin are gone so I'll be making some basic decisions for them, but the rest of you folks will have to lead :>]

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Alyson - Anatomist

"What's in the hole?" Alyson asks, wondering why she was woken up to come looking into the grate covered hole...

 

[Telsar]

Natalie Bayne -- Wizard/Rogue

Looking down into the hole, seeing the sickening stream [OOC is it a moving stream, or stationary?], she feels the last ale she drank trying to come back up. Swallowing hard, she says "I'm as hazy as Alyson. You expect our murderer is using this place, or just want to see what this Omar fellow was doing down here? And a sloped, slick surface... I think I should have skipped a few drinks tonight. Hmmmm..." Ignoring the vertigo and sticking her head all the way down in the hole, she sees the corridor to the west. "Yes, it does seem to lead somewhere. But our access here leads to the wrong side of that mess... how are we going to cross ten feet of that gunk to get to the corridor?" She adds, with a wry smile, "And if it's just wading... I'd like to point out how important I thought a bathing area in our office was going to be."

 

[Cerebus13]

Anton describes what he saw below to everyone. He ponders for a bit before suggesting: "If anyone has a quarter staff we could attempt to leap over the stream with it and keep ourselves from getting wet. Otherwise I'm sure there may be a suitable piece of wood or tool around here that would work."

[OOC: Check the link above for the map again if needed.

Telsar, the stream is moving but not terribly fast so you could easily ford across it without being swept away.

In case you need it...there is 10' pole to be found within the building.]

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Alyson - Anatomist

Alyson quickly grabs her needle, and sticks it onto her clothing. Suddenly, there is light. (Continual flame needle) Once there is enough light, and she spies the red stains beneath them, she listens first, listen+7 and looks around Spot+7, to make sure it is safe to decend into the tunnel below. If she hears nothing or sees nothing threatening, she will say, "I will go down first. I want to see about those stains before proceeding."

She will then lower herself into the tunnel. if nobody objects. (Tumble +7 just in case she slips) She will do a search/heal check of the stains to see what she can discover. (If that is an anatomy check, let me know. Search +8, Heal +16 without kit, Knowledge Anatomy +10)

One scalpel will be drawn, just in case...

 

[Gramcrackered]

Orum frowns; he would have much rather gone first. Nonetheless, he will wait up above for Alyson to finish her examination.
He will, however, be doing it with his polearm pointed down into the hole, ready to thrust or even leap in as needed.

 

[Telsar]

Natalie Bayne -- Wizard/Rogue

Putting her hand on Orum's shoulder, Natalie says "She's a bit headstrong. But she might need help, do we really want to wait?" Natalie asks Anton and Quilan to find some boards long enough to make passing over the sewage below a bit less unpleasant. Whether Orum goes first, or stays above, Natalie asks for his help descending into the nauseating area below, covers her mouth with a scarf, then begins to look around.

 

[Salzorin]

Quilan -- Rogue

Quilan looks about for some long planks, but only long enough to appease Natalie's request. He then makes his way down into the tunnel, eager to see what's to come, and significantly less eager to smell what's to come. "In the near future I will be investing in a very nice pair of nose plugs. Or perhaps ten pair, judging by what the job has entailed thus far."

[[OOC: Mostly back now. My schedule's off and on crazy for the next couple weeks, so I might be delayed from time to time, but I should be relatively frequent with posts]]