Kulan: Knightfall's Heroes of Carnell Game [IC]

Scott DeWar said:
placing his spiked chain in its holding loop, Quinn attempts to break the chain with brute strength.
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The end of Quinn's chain wraps around part of the iron chain holding the body up on the flagstaff. Try as he might, Quinn is unable to break the heavy chain holding Lord Pendour's body. His chain weapon pulls away from the binding chain suddenly, nearly breaking under the strain.
 

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"That didn't work," Caerth mutters dryly. He looks around, searching for a way to get both the body and the chain down, and possibly the flagstaff itself. "How do people take down flags? Could we do that same thing?"
 

Knightfall said:
Once all together again, the group heads back upstairs to the ruined armory to find a way up to the next level of the tower. In a small walled-off alcove, another set of stairs spiral upward. The stairs come to a five-foot-wide walkway of a look-out. The walkway is slick making it hard to stand properly. The stairs continue upwards. The sky is darkening above with rolling clouds and sharp winds. The air is cold and damp. More rain is coming.

Up the stairs beyond the look-out stands the tower's highest point. You can hear the flagstaff shifting in the wind. The climb takes you up onto a signal tower. The water of the sea is hundreds of yards below. It's choppy waters are dark and anger -- a mirror to the storm growing above your heads. The metal pole of the flagstaff is like the mast of a small sailing. It rises at least 30 more feet into the air and leans precariously in the wind. Chained to the top of the pole is the body you saw from below.

Cruel Justice speaks to the group. "The one called Pendour," the blade intones. "He must be brought down and laid to rest."
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Scott DeWar said:
placing his spiked chain in its holding loop, Quinn attempts to break the chain [addm] holding the body[/addm]with brute strength.


Strength check: 1D20+4 = [20]+4 = 24
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[sblock=ooc to Knightfall] If you think Quinn's spiked chain was used to bring sown the body, you would be mistaken. But perhaps I am misreading what you posted. You will see, though, his chain is on his holding loop on his belt is what I was insinuating and he, Quinn, was pulling on the chains holding the body.[/sblock]

[[sblock=ooc for ic] am I reading this right? the flag pole, waving and being a lightning rod for any who are trying to climb it, is 30 ft up with the typical pulley at the top, except there is not rope in the pulley, just the chain holding the body of the deceased?
so, . . . . . .
if one were to climb up with a rope tied to him or her so if they fall they will only come to the end of the rope, and to make sure, it would be tied to to the base of the flag pole,
then another rope would be threaded through the pulley and tied to the body, then find out how the chain is secured and unsecure, it followed by the rest of the party lowering the body with the rope threaded through the pulley.

does that make sense?[/sblock]
 

Scott DeWar said:
[sblock=ooc to Knightfall]If you think Quinn's spiked chain was used to bring sown the body, you would be mistaken. But perhaps I am misreading what you posted. You will see, though, his chain is on his holding loop on his belt is what I was insinuating and he, Quinn, was pulling on the chains holding the body.[/sblock]
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[sblock=OOC to Scott D.]Ah, I did misread what you were trying to do. I thought you were trying to get him down by having Quinn use his spiked chain to wrap around and break the chain holding up the body.[/sblock]
[sblock=ooc for ic] am I reading this right? the flag pole, waving and being a lightning rod for any who are trying to climb it, is 30 ft up with the typical pulley at the top, except there is not rope in the pulley, just the chain holding the body of the deceased?
so, . . . . . .
if one were to climb up with a rope tied to him or her so if they fall they will only come to the end of the rope, and to make sure, it would be tied to to the base of the flag pole,
then another rope would be threaded through the pulley and tied to the body, then find out how the chain is secured and unsecure, it followed by the rest of the party lowering the body with the rope threaded through the pulley.

does that make sense?[/sblock]
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[sblock=OOC to Scott D.]Correct, the body is chained to the top part of the pole with no rope in the pulley. Your plan to have Quinn climb the flagstaff to the top with a rope to place through the pulley is good one. The Climb DC is 15 with the current conditions. Quinn will also need to make a Dexterity check (DC 22) to get the body down or another character (likely Aureus) to make a successful Open Locks check (DC 20) to unbind the chain from its locking mechanism.[/sblock]
 

Quinn stares at the body with a passionless expression for several minutes. He then suddenly stops and immediately starts speaking facing everyone.

" We will need 3 ropes and two people. the two people climb up, one feeds one rope through the pulley at the top that is used to raise and lower a flag normally. while the people who are not climbing will hold one end of that rope to lower the body, the other two ropes we will tie off on each climber and on the base of the flagpole as an anchor.

if something happens to one or both climbers, they will only fall the length of the rope and not die on the rocks below. I figure it best to have one person undoing the chains with the other assisting.

I will be one of the climbers. Who will join me?"

He then starts digging for something on his pack.

"Strange, I have a net but no coil of rope." His voice is flat monotone as he redoubles his search in his pack.
 

"I have a rope" Lorien says and pulls out the end of a silken rope from his backpack. "I also have a spell to save the climber from falling." He hands the rope to Quinn. "And I believe Phar knows a spell for flying." He turns to the other elf and asks in elven: "Or did you prepare it only once?"
 


"Screech can fly, but I doubt he can carry a lot. He does grab big rats, though."

As if realizing that the others might not know what he's talking about, Caerth adds, "The owl, I mean."
 

"Even better, fly like Screech?" How does one thread the rope through the pulley if the arms become wigs like the owl?"
 

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