Legacy of the Silver Dragon: Chapter 1 (Chickens, Demons, and a Missing Girl)

[Toric_Arthendain]

"I suggest caution," Myst states and slowly follows the dwarf. He casts a look back at Antares and says, "Come along. We should stick together. Best not to be caught by these things later on with our guard down."

 

[gambler1650]

Antares is overcome by a fit of coughing in spite of his preparations, eyes stinging briefly.

OOC: Antares loses 1 HP.

OOC: Will do the saving throw for Myst on moving through the smoke/cube remains, since Toric may have missed the request:

Myst passes through the smoke without a problem.

OOC: Waiting to see Bosco's action.. It's the next 'round' as he used the last one to move back towards the intersection.

The smoke is getting less intense as it finishes burning the gelatinous cube, spreading out a bit through the corridor. Antares doesn't see anything behind him as he spins, and from his vantage point the wall where the Gelatinous Cube was first seen appears to be solid. Some items glitter on the ground there also. The skeleton appears to be about the size of Mysthyr - probably a human. Where the skeleton collapsed, following the disintegration of the cube, the coins that were 'floating' also lie on the ground.

OOC: Please let me know how Myst and Muzdin are following the creatures. Are they actively trying to catch them by moving quickly? Myst's reaction seems to be of the 'slowly follow' variety, but I'm unsure of Muzdin's pace...

OOC: Unless Antares spends minutes looking at the skeleton, that's all that he's going to get right now.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bosco picks through the cube, making sure to wipe off and rescue all the coins.

 

[Binder Fred]

the wall where the Gelatinous Cube was first seen appears to be solid. Some items glitter on the ground there also.

... Muzdin's throwing axes maybe?

Myst casts a look back at Antares and says, "Come along. We should stick together. Best not to be caught by these things later on with our guard down."

"Is not the assumption that there are only two -ah- somewhat premature?" Tearing his eyes away from the glints at his back: "And, though I sadden at the thought, we may yet have already found the subject of our quest," with a greaved gesture at the now sprawled and scattered skeleton at his feet. "Friend Stellan, might you delay a very short while, that we may look and see? And gather funds," he adds, somewhat deadpan as he spots the returned hafling on his knees and hears the clinking of coins. "Welcome back, Bo."

<Response Bosco?>

Indeed, their other torch is striding away from them even as he speaks, and he no longer has that incredibly providential lamp (a charred, slimed and broken mess now, poor reward for its services).

<Response Stellan?>

[Sblock=Actions]If Stellan doesn't delay, Antares will hasten to follow the lead group so he isn't lost to the dark.

If he does delay, Antares will examine the skeleton (already done) and then dip back and see what the glittering items are at the back of the east tunnel before running to catch up with the others. If the items appear useful, pick them up, of course, including if it's only Muzdin's two throwing axes.[/sblock]

 

[gambler1650]

As Muzdim and Myst move towards the retreating creatures, they continue to race along the walls apparently as fast as they can, easily outpacing the two clerics. And they stay on their respective walls as they reach the Y shaped intersection at the western end of the tunnel that the party finds themselves in. The one with the glint on its finger darts into the left (southwest) tunnel, while the other moves into the (northeast) tunnel. The latter pauses for a moment to look back, and bares its wide jaw into another hiss before vanishing from sight.

Stellan pauses, realizing that some of the party doesn't appear to be moving with Myst and Muzdim, and that they're torchless, so he stands near Antares and Bosco, but still watching down the tunnel that Myst and Muzdim are walking along. His light extends to give the halfling and the elf some illumination.

The coins are slightly acid scarred, but reasonably legible: a dozen gold pieces of the variety used in Ascadar. The skeleton, on somewhat closer inspection appears to be almost completely whole - and while the flesh and clothes have been eaten completely away, there's very little damage or pitting to the bones themselves except for the change of their color from gleaming white to a dullish grey.

The axes thrown by Muzdin do lie in the eastern portion of the corridor, but beyond that - where the Gelatinous Cube had originally been, other things 'glint'.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Pocketing the coins, Bosco heads down the corridor to see if anything else that glitters is gold.

 

[Binder Fred]

"A human soul, it seems," murmurs the young mage, staring into the empty sockets, "and somewhat tallish for a young maid." A glance at the disappearing coins. "not to mention oddly rich." Probably not Anna then... Who was this? Why did he (or she) come down here? Antares takes the time to lay tender fingers on the roundness of the skull, somewhat bothered by the others lack of consideration, white things or no white things: did they not realize this was once a living being, now thinking and feeling no more? Very softly: "Rest for now. We will return shortly and burry you under the stars..."

Antares rises and looks to Stellan, ready to catch up to the others...Although the draw of what glints behind; the pressure of not knowing its nature; and surely master Stonehand would appreciate... He turns, almost despite himself, only to find that Bosco is already heading down that corridor, to see if anything else that glitters is gold.

"I'll be right back," he quickly tells Stellan without looking his way, already trotting after the halfling with the small, anticipatory smile of the terminally curious.

OOC: Follow Bosco, sticking close to the wall of the passage so his tall shape desn't hide the light too much. Pick-up the throwing axes, examine the glinting stuff side-by-side with Bo.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Myst stops a few feet short of the Y-shaped intersection and glances down each passageway. He then turns to Muzdim. "Well? I don't think splitting up is a great idea and we should probably go back and retrieve the others before venturing further."

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Aye brother, I'll stay here, go collect the rest. I don't trust these little white newts." Muzdim says, gripping his axe, not even staring at Myst, his eyes sank somewhere in the dark beyond, some palce that escapes Myst's own eyes.

OOC: Thanks fer picking me axes lad!

 

[gambler1650]

As Mysthyr and Muzdim look down both tunnels from the Y intersection, they can see the whitish creatures disappearing into the darkness. Both tunnels hint at opening up into larger spaces further down their lengths, especially to Muzdim who is sure he can see a larger cavern at the end of the southeastern tunnel about 40 feet away, and pretty sure he can see the beginnings of one around 60 feet down the northeastern tunnel.

OOC: I will get back to what Bosco and Antares find tomorrow... Notes are at home!