Metropolis (The World in Waiting) - Chapter One

[Phoenix]

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Again, with the Spoilers:
[sblock]Wasp looks at the potion, squinting a little in the dim light. "Yes, they were harvesting our souls to create magical potions...but that isn't one of them. It, looks kind of the same, even the same types of bottles they used, but our powers produced a strange black liquid, I know not what that is..."[/sblock]

The small boats splashed into the sea of filth, each of them carrying as many children and warriors as possible with Ba'aktar leading the way. The waves of offal, body parts, and other unnamable fleshy members, splashed gently out of the way as the rowers forced themselves across the damnable lake.

There was no interruption as the boats returned for the rest of their passengers, and within fifteen minutes the whole group was across the far side of the cursed lake. Many of the warriors moaned a little due to their injuries and the work that they were forced to complete, but each of them were happy to be away from the evil place.

As the group headed up into the sewers once more Ba'aktar, being at the head of the column, was the first to spot the floating light up ahead. It was no flame, but it bobbed up and down as if somebody was holding it. Somebody waited for them up ahead...

 

[Festy_Dog]

"We've company," the big orc said, raising his hand to indicate for the column to slow down. He turned to the closest of his comrades, "Can I get a little backup?"

He waits for a response but isn't terribly bothered if there isn't anyone willing to watch his back. Ba'aktar cautiously moves ahead to confront the wielder of the light.

 

[Bront]

Taran casts light on the tip of his own spear and walks forward with Ba'aktar.

 

[Fenris]

"psst, Bruno" whispers Jovik. "Perhaps the headlong route isn't the best. Just offering some stealth and scouting if'n you want it. But by all means rush forward into who knows what...." and Jovik will saunter up to the head of the column and follow Ba'aktar drawing his sword as he does.

 

[Phoenix]

"psst, Bruno" whispers Jovik. "Perhaps the headlong route isn't the best. Just offering some stealth and scouting if'n you want it. But by all means rush forward into who knows what...." and Jovik will saunter up to the head of the column and follow Ba'aktar drawing his sword as he does.

The forward scouting group of Ba'aktar, Taran and Jovik moves ahead of the group just as the light fades from the tunnel ahead. Past the ladder that leads from this tunnel, at the junction in which Taran discovered the first child, the group walk in to find a man hiding around the corner.

Completely surprised by the sudden appearance of the small group, his fecal-covered form has little chance to react to the group.

 

[jkason]

From Chapter Two...

The noise of the large group and the light that they are shedding up the corridor is easy to track, a large beacon to determine how close that they are coming to Ru's hiding place. The last thing that he was expecting was a smaller group, their dimmer light source disguised by the larger group's, sneaking ahead to scout the area.

It was a simple mistake, but one that had allowed a large half-orc, a halfling and a human, all covered in gore and filth, to sneak up on him...

[sblock]Please feel free to move to Chapter One for the moment. [/sblock]

[sblock]Woot! Chapter One! Now let's see if I can manage to keep myself from bloody death at the hands of a half-orc barbarian...[/sblock]

Ru sighs in frustration at his freshman mistake, retrieving his sunrod from the handy haversack again as he stands; no point in losing light when they'd already found him. He slides the sunrod back into his belt and tries for nonchalant, especially given how very angry and very covered with blood the half-orc seems to be.

"So ... hi. I'm Ru. I'm looking for someone name of Ghost Hound? I don't suppose that's any of you?"

 

[D20Dazza]

Ghost whispers to the children, trying to keep them calm as the group awaits the return of the scouts.

 

[Fenris]

"So ... hi. I'm Ru. I'm looking for someone name of Ghost Hound? I don't suppose that's any of you?"

"Nope" Replies the human cover in flith, gore and bile. "But just what are you doing down here looking for him, Ru? Seems an awful path to come find anyone."

 

[jkason]

Okay, so apparently they weren't going to chop his head off immediately. After all the crap--both figurative and literal--it was an amazing relief, and it loosened his tongue.

"That depends on who you ask. I started off looking for his help in tracking down an item the yellow robed cultists seem to have stolen from some acquaintances of mine. Then I got lost in the oh-so-fragrant sewer system, where a little group of shambling corpses seemed to think I'd be just the man to retrieve their son. Who, according to them, is the same person I was seeking in connection to that stolen item.

"What brings you to this paradise of body parts and fecal matter?"

 

[Bront]

"This place is an abomination, even in the sewers. Normaly they can be quite plesant, as my village can attest to. The one you seek is back with the children, but he is here." Says the little halfling Taran from attop his dire rat mount.