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

[gambler1650]

As Bosco moves towards the edge of where the tunnel appears to open into a larger space, he catches sight of a pale skinned humanoid along the left wall - about 5 feet up. Possibly it's the one that went this way - but it's hard to tell. It hisses once at Bosco, and then vanishes suddenly, appearing to have gone right into the wall. The cavern is uneven in nature, the right wall extending from the right side of the tunnel the group is in a few feet forward, cutting off the view of most of the right side of the space. The ceiling appears to be about 15 feet high, and the air feels a touch less dry in this area.

Muzdim can tell that the group has probably gone about 10 feet further underground as they moved to the west and southwest, compared to the well's bottom.

 

[Binder Fred]

Antares straightens, annoyed as usual by the dwarf's arguments - or lack thereof: "They are not undead, master Stonehand. Even I can see that they behave as living creatures: investigating, running away when outnumbered, trying to intimidate." (And, seeing the Dwarven cleric's own lack of turning attempts so far, probably even he does not believe such. Mere verbal flimflam then.) "And if attacking your own abrasive self is the only proof needed for evildom, then sadly half the youths in Ascandar are of demonic descent." An emotional weight passes the point of equilibrium, decisions coales before the mind can fully grasp their content: "I *will* attempt to parlay with them when next we meet." And there it is.

<Response Muzdin/any?>

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Do what you want, elf, just don't get in my way." the dwarf grunts back.

 

[Binder Fred]

Where are we compared to the street above? worries the elven mage when the front line slows and tenses -- awaiting some sort of signal from their diminutive scout? He feels a sudden need to draw a map, to keep it all neat and easy to understand, simple dark lines on a sheet of rough velum... But then again: how vast can this burrow possibly be? In truth..?

OOC: In the spirit of saving time, Gambler, Whizbang, can we assume that the standard MO is for Bosco to investigate any and all rooms we encounter with his stealth turned on "high" (the room ahead in this case) while the group behind just keeps on walking forward in the stated positions unless 1. Bosco signals otherwise, 2. They come to an intersection or 3. Something unexpected happens?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

OOC: Yep.

Stifling a small squeak of terror, Bosco takes a step back and draws his weapon, eyes locked on where the humanoid vanished, and waits for the others to catch up -- quickly, he hopes.

 

[gambler1650]

OOC: Sure! In the meantime, let me know what you plan to do here... after the description below.

The cavern that Bosco is on the edge of appears empty as the rest come up. Stellan brings up the rear still. The torchlight flickers against the ceiling and the walls. From the vantage point of the party, there appears to be a darker spot about 5 feet up on the south wall of the cavern where the creature disappeared into. The opening itself doesn't appear to be very large.

OOC: (Sorry for the map below... turns out I lost the power point I was using (or at least can't find it), so ignore the abbreviations for the characters as I know you aren't there anymore.. The party is at the red X. There's a break in the cavern wall to the south where the creature went into. The line of sight to the northern and eastern part of the cavern is blocked by the northern wall)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"I wouldn't put my face in that hole without stabbing a spear into it first," Bosco says quietly.

 

[Binder Fred]

"Hum?" As the other concentrate and orient on the crack - or hole, or whatever it is - Antares sort of naturally slips west with the movement of the group, hand trailing on the right-hand wall as he leans over and peers around the rocky bulge into the rest of the cavern...

OOC: Antares hugs the wall and peers into the unseen part of the cavern (hopefully he can jerk his head back before any attack come his way). What does he see?

<Assuming nothing too urgent comes up:
"I can offer you no lance, Bo, but if brother Myst holds his torch just so, I could perhaps peer into it from afar?" he offers.

[sblock=Conditional actions]Assuming no visible threat in that end of the chamber, Antares will step into the cavern and line himself up with the hole, trying to peer into it from the other side of the room, as it were.[/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bosco holds up one finger as he considers how he feels about the possibility of Antares getting his face ripped off. The halfling is clearly torn.

 

[Binder Fred]

OOC: Well, unless that one has arms five meters long or something...