Insight's "The Isle of Dread" - Chapter One

[Shayuri]

As Vrashek plays with the door, Astra's attention is on the walls. Chipped away at, like the ones in the cistern room. She's almost certain she'd heard the culprits herself as they'd passed by. Singing drunkenly in a dark sewer, inexplicably vandalizing the walls.

She reached into her pouch and looked at the old Dwarven note she'd retrieved from the ground. Related maybe...

"Do any of you read the Dwarven language?" she asked.

 

[drothgery]

"Do any of you read the Dwarven language?" she asked.

"I do." Cassi said.

 

[Shayuri]

Astra came over and offered Cassi the battered old piece of paper she'd found in the corridor.

"I think the ones hammering on the walls in here may have dropped this," she said. "What does it say?"

 

[Leif]

Questor, Halfling Chaos Sorcerer 6

"If you are not able to get the lock to budge, I do know a ritual of opening..."

 

[drothgery]

Cassi takes the paper and reads it.

 

[Insight]

Cassi takes the paper and reads it.

[sblock=Cassi]
Rake and Grunder,

That shard has to be somewhere below the shopping district. Barb. is too dumb to hide it somewhere clever. Maybe in the sewers. Check the places I marked. Don't tell no one. Get the guard involved again and it's your heads on the Master's platter tonight! This time, go in through the grate behind the quill shop. Near the corner of Halloway and Cord. There will be a shiny, new pickaxe for both of you. Don't lose them.

And no drinkin' on the job!

- Vas.
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[Rhun]

"If you are not able to get the lock to budge, I do know a ritual of opening..."

The orc-blood growls low in frustration. "It may be needed," he says to Questor. "This damnable dampness is certainly not helping."

 

[drothgery]

"It looks like whoever wrote this thought there was something of consequence hidden in the sewers." Cassi said.

After reading the message to the others, she added, "It wouldn't surprise me if 'Barb' is Barbarossa."

 

[Leif]

Questor, Halfling Chaos Sorcerer 6

"Ok, so who here can tell me where the corner of Halloway and Cord is, and how we are supposed to get there from here? Presumably the author of the cryptic message meant the sewers beneath that corner." As he says this, Questor is both looking near the ceiling of the sewers near a corner to see if street names are visible, and flipping through his Ritual Book to find Knock. "Ahh, here it is!" Questor now arranges 35gp worth of his ritual components in a semicircle before the door in question in the order in which they will be employed, and prepares to perform the Knock ritual to gain egress/ingress (whichever is apprporiate) through the door.

 

[Shayuri]

"Well, Questor," Astra said with a completely straight face, "I don't know this city's sewers well. Why don't we go back to where I saw those two dwarves chopping at the wall with picks and ask them where that corner might be?"