IG's "Those Left Behind" Chapter 3

[Leif]

Bumpity Bump

OOC: Oh, no! Not the Fourth page! Horrors!

 

[industrygothica]

Talashia grimaces. "A half-orc?" she whispers. "Why couldn't it be..."

She lets that trail off, then squares her shoulders resolutely.

"Lets hope he likes some forwardness. With the others coming from below, we don't have a lot of time to mess around."

With that the sorceress stands up, turns pointedly away from Caerwyn as if refusing some advance, and turns around to look directly at the half-orc, quickly picking him from the crowd because of his attention on her. She pushes through the crowd without looking away from him, a determined, crooked half-smile on her face.

On reaching the orc she looks up at him with that challenging smile, despite his towering height and weight advantage, and says, "Aren't you going to buy me a drink?"

The half-orc smiles, giving Talashia full view of his broken, mangled tusk. He turns his head to the barkeep without saying a word, and gives him a quick nod, his thick muscled arms still folded over his chest.

Almost immediately a plump halfling barmaid flies around the corner with a steaming concoction of a brew, waving it the sorceress's face.

"Here now, compliments of Grunk. Go'n leave 'em alone now, he's busy!" The halfling looks dead into Talashia's eyes as she pauses. "'Less there be somethin' else yer wantin'"

Talashia can't tell if her smile is genuine, or there is something more mischievous about it.

Getting up, still grumbling, Rogash uses a hem of his cloak to remove anything slippery and takes a new grip before having another go at opening the door.

OOC: Str. Check (1d20+2=18)

After a minute, the door breaks free of the dirt and grime holding it shut, and opens with a thick groan that will surely alert anything down here that there are new victims visitors.

Beyond it is dark.

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP35/35

"Excellent work, Rogash! You have conquered the door, but, alas, I fear we will not be making a stealthy entry now. Still, let us press onward -- you do know how to get where we're going don't you?"

 

[Shayuri]

There's a snicker from up above, where Shazi flutters like a large, man-shaped bat.

"Know how to get where you're going? You don't even know if it exists or not," the mephit points out. "You could go right under that tavern and never know it."

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP35/35

"Shazi has a point, but if he lets his hair grow, no one will notice. Seriously, the creature speaks the truth, but what choices do we really have now? We can either press onward looking for this 'back door' that we are relatively, moderately sure really exists, or we can tuck our tails between our legs and hastily return to the group in shame. What do you think we should do?"

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

Shai bites his lips at Talashia's bid to woo her way downstairs. He sidles up to Buurt and whispers. "That thing downstairs, it's supposed to be for fighting, right? Maybe we could get down by playing like we're fighters?"

He frowns. "You know, we prolly should have asked Rogash how he got down there before we left him. It's so hard to think ahead sometimes..."

 

[Scotley]

Rogash

"I can see well enough down here, but you might want to light a torch or something." Rogash takes up his axe again and prepares to explore. "You may be right Shaz, but it is the best option open to us just now, so let's see where it leads us." He wait for any preparation his companions might make to stave off the darkness.

 

[industrygothica]

"I can see well enough down here, but you might want to light a torch or something." Rogash takes up his axe again and prepares to explore. "You may be right Shaz, but it is the best option open to us just now, so let's see where it leads us." He wait for any preparation his companions might make to stave off the darkness.

A long, steep corridor descends deep into the bowels of the city. Rogash senses that they are even deeper than before, as if on an entirely new level of the subterranean maze.

At the end, yet another iron door. A quick listen tells you that there is something on the other side trying to be quiet. Maybe more than one something, at that.

 

[Shayuri]

Talashia lifts an eyebrow, then looks around furtively before leaning down and saying in a lower voice, "I'll be frank. I came here in hopes of a fight breaking out. Not with me, of course, but this place is one of the rougher in town, and I've heard through the grapevine that it's the place to go to if you want to see a good brawl."

"Are the rumors true? It seems pretty quiet so far."

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental, Cleric7, AC18,FF15,T13, HP35/35

Uulark will just stumble along behind Rogash as best he can in the darkness until they reach the door and hear the sounds behind it. Then he will cast a light orison on the chain around rogash's neck (so that it can easily be concealed/obscured by tucking it inside his shirt, if need be. He will then wave Rogash on, indicating that he should open the door.

OOC: Love the new avatar, IG! Very cool! Goes with your handle somehow, too.