IndyPendant's Sunless Citadel

[Mithran]

"Heirmund, you speak goblin do you not? Do you have any experience dealing with them as a people?"

"I do speak goblin but no I haven't had a whole lot of experience with the creatures."

"Wizard! Come see this," he gestures to the glyphs on the shattered pillars. "Can you make anything of these? I'd like to know some more about this place if possible."

Heirmund walks over to the pillar Lehko is looking at [/B]"Ah yes, I can see learning all those languages when I was young was a good choice, though I hardly expected to be using them on studying pillars" Heirmund will study the pillar for a time trying to understand their meaning.

"Excellent suggestions Ydir. I am sure climbing in and out of the ravine will be easier in daylight and so a morning start giving Heirmund the opportunity to prepare appropriate magic if he can sounds wise."

Heirmund shakes his head "Unfortunately I can only cast the spell of which you speak a certain number of times, so I suggest that the spell be used only for the weakest climbers"

 

[IndyPendant]

Heirmund takes a look at the runes, and for a moment is mystified. They seem to be gibberish to him. Then he realizes, the runes are dwarven--but the language is goblin. They are thuggish warnings about the crudely horrible things that will happen to anyone who dares to challenge their supremacy.

Not noticing anything else of importance, you retire to wait out the night, setting up watches until the morning. The night passes uneventfully, and you awaken, some of you preparing your spells for the day.

((To make things easier, I'll assume random, paired watches each night unless otherwise stated in advance. And I'll need you to let me know here if you change your prepped spells for this day--and any other days to come.))

 

[Mithran]

Heirmund wakes up late in the morning and eats before opening up his spell book and studying it for an hour.

((OOC: Spells prepared:
0-level: Acid splash x2, Detect magic, Daze;
1-level: Feather fall, Feather fall, Charm person)

 

[JimAde]

Jerek awakes in the gray dawn and quietly goes about his morning tasks, including putting together a cold breakfast for the others. He also goes to have a look at the proposed climb, picking out handholds and deciding on his route down.

Once the group is gathered around their morning meal he suggests, "I'll go first and check the rope that's there. Whoever else is good at climbing can stay up here and tie a rope around each person, holding it to keep them from falling as they go down. Sound good?"

 

[Sorrow The Man Bear]

Lehko spends the morning binding the gatherings of dried twigs and the more difficult to burn sticks into makeshift torches, not needing to study. He pauses a moment in his mutting lamentations about how not one of us thought to bring a torch to the Sunless Citadel, to question aloud "Say, I wonder how well those mostrosities burn?" He glances at Jair's bag curiously.

[[OOC: Just out of curiosity, how far back are the bodies of those, I dunno, dire twigs? ]]

 

[Mithran]

"I'll go first and check the rope that's there. Whoever else is good at climbing can stay up here and tie a rope around each person, holding it to keep them from falling as they go down. Sound good?"

"That sounds like a good plan" Heirmund continues eating for a time longer "I do hope we don't have to try to burn them, who knows what burning that odd sap would do?"

 

[IndyPendant]

Since the twig blights were left behind about two hours' travel back towards Oakhurst, while Jair and Heirmund prepare their spells, the others each manage to gather and make one very rough torch apiece. Without proper rags and oil to soak them in, the torches are makeshift at best; since you don't have any rope either, other than the knotted rope already hanging down towards the ledge, it perhaps could be better to go back for supplies.

On the other hand, there is a knotted rope already available, and even at worst case the torches should last you a couple of hours total. Maybe you can find more light within the Citadel itself...

((Sorry for the lateness guys. Looks like I may be able to post only one day each weekend at most, myself. Basically, this is a question for you: continue on, or go back to Oakhurst for proper supplies?))

 

[Voadam]

"After you Lekho. Let's make a quick initial exploration then maybe return to the village and see if they have rope and everburning or even normal torches in sufficient numbers for prolonged explorations."

Jair will cast speak with animals to talk with Terrek about the spell and tracking the two individuals and see if he picked up any scents out here, human, goblin, twigling, or otherwise.

 

[Mithran]

Heirmund walks over to the edge of the hole and looks down it for a time "Hmm, hard to get back up from there looks like. I hope some of you are good climbers"

 

[jayaint]

As a not very strong climber, I would say that it is kind of now-or-never for going to get torches. Down, up and back down again seems like a lot of wasted effort. If we need things, lets just go get them.