IG's "Those Left Behind" Chapter 2

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP28/35, -4 wisdom=12

"Yes, that sounds most agreeable, Talashia! Let us go there straightaway!"

 

[Scott DeWar]

((OOC: The closest inn sounds good to me.))

]ooc[ sounds good to me too ]/ooc[

 

[Scotley]

Rogash

"Aye, a good meal and a pint or three would be just the thing. Let's slip out of here quietly, lest the watch find us where we shouldn't be." The dwarf slips back upstairs with surprising stealth and peeps out the window before motioning the others out.

 

[industrygothica]

In my haste, I must've forgot to mention that the laboratory also has another exit besides the stairs leading back up into the shop. There is a thick wooden door that looks to have taken some serious damage on the wall at the base of the stairs. The corridor beyond looks similar to those of the underground tunnels you've been traversing all this time.

Would you all like to check that out before you go back upstairs? Completely voluntary, of course... it's not going anywhere.

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP28/35, -4 wisdom=12

"Hey, here's another door that we overlooked before. I guess it will keep until we're fully ready to continue. Or do any of you think that we should take a quick look through it now?"

 

[Scotley]

Rogash

Having just reached the top of the stairs as he hears Uulark's words, a heavy sigh escapes the dwarf's lips. "What is it with these people, down the stairs, up the stairs, down the stairs." He retraces his steps grumbling all the way. "This better not be a broom closet..."

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP28/35, -4 wisdom=12

"Smile when you say that, Grumblepuss! I just noticed another door and thought I should bring it to everyone's attention. I don't care if we open it now or next year!"

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

Shai screws up his face, hand falling to scratch Dyspeer's head as he thinks. Finally, tentatively, he says, "What are the chances he'd have a third chaos critter in the house?" by way of assenting to the search.

 

[Shayuri]

Talashia sighs, but rejoins the others.

"Unlikely...but calling chaos beasts at all is a sign of an unbalanced mind," she says dismally. "It's not like they can serve any useful purpose. They're not capable of forming pacts, and there are far better guardians. And who knows how many creatures were infected before we came along."

That brings her up short.

"You know, it's lucky we did. Those things could have spawned in the sewers until there were too many to stop."

Shazi blanches.

"Wait. Chaos beasts? We're talking about the same thing, right? Goopy things...make other things turn goopy?"

"Yes," Talashia replies wearily.

"And one got loose in a -sewer-?"

She nods.

Shazi bursts into laughter. "Oh, you guys are DEAD! Was it you?"

Talashia gives Shazi an irritated look. "No, it wasn't ME! Do I look like I have an unbalanced mind?!"

Her winged familiar opens his mouth...then closes it. Then he says briskly, "Anyway...if you found two, there's probably more. Think of all the little...rats and things you find in sewers."

"And his notes mentioned kobolds down there," Talashia muses worriedly.

"Yeah, or as we call them, 'chaos beast chow.'" Shazi amplifies ominously.

Talashia looks at the others. "There could be more," she reports.

"A LOT more," Shazi chortles.

 

[industrygothica]

Alas, my twisted plan comes into focus...