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

[Voda Vosa]

"Now ye mention the gelly boy, they often shift their lairs when other creatures learn to give them a wide berth. I don't have any flask to give you pointy ears, sorry." Comments Muzdim, he still stares at the tunnels with intent, while waiting for the others.

 

[Binder Fred]

Antares glides to a spot behind the dwarven priest, growing more somber as he advances down the corridor... "Left?" he softly suggests while handing the throwing axes to their original proprietor.

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Thank ye lad." The dwarf picks the axes, stashes his battleaxe and holding the throwing axe above his head, he leads into the left tunnel. "Left is good, yeah."

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Myst merely nods at the mention of taking the left tunnel and move up beside Muzdim as they follow that path.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Holding up a finger for silence, Bosco slips past Myst, moving silently down the corridor a ways ahead of them, pausing to listen as he goes. When he reaches the edge of the available light, he pauses and waits for the group to catch up.

 

[Binder Fred]

"It comes to me to wonder," hushedly whispers the elf, mostly to rear-guard Stellan but the others too can hear, "why, or even how, such small creatures built such large tunnels. Are they guests in the burrows of other beings? Or, perhaps worse, children of larger parents?" He sounds a little worried, frankly.

OOC: So that would be our democratically established marching order, Gambler : Bosco scouting ahead, then Muzdin and Myst abreast, then antares in the middle, and finally Stellan at the rear. Advance away!

 

[gambler1650]

As the party moves down the left (southwest) tunnel, Muzdim can tell the floor is slanting downwards slightly - deeper beneath the small town of Ascadar above. The walls and ceiling continue to have the appearance of mostly packed earth with stones scattered throughout - some the size of large boulders, probably deliberately placed to maintain the structure of the walls. About halfway to the cavern, a small portion of the lower left wall appears to have collapsed, a mound of dirt covering the floor - perhaps a couple of feet high near the wall - down to only a couple of inches near the right wall. The mound extends about 10 feet along the tunnel.

Ahead, the cavern appears dark - with the hint of a wall on the opposite side of the tunnel opening, perhaps 20-30 feet away from the entrance. Sound is muffled, and no sign of movement or whitish skin is seen ahead.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bosco glances back to see if anyone has anything long and poky like, say, a 10' pole, that could be used to probe the mound.

 

[Binder Fred]

Antares raises questioning eyebrows at him: "The language of silence often is taught, but never have I succeeded in its learning, Bo, as well you should know." He looks beyond the hafling, then back, innocence personified: "Did somebody fall down the well?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"No, but keep it up, and someone might. Anyone got anything to probe that pile?"