Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Titus looks around, frowning, then shakes his head.

"You know, enough with the running," he whispers, shrugging his backpack off. "I never was good at it. Fact is, Kel and Sul either have to find a way out of that warehouse that gets them out the ground floor, or they're trapped. The peanut's done good by us, and if the elf's a little proper, it's probably in her blood. I say we stick this out together."

The ranger glances around for signs of the guards, and if he sees none, he works off his chain shirt and stuffs it in his backpack, saying "This won't do me any good if I fall, anyway. Can you see anywhere we can tie off the rope, Blunt?"

Titus pulls an unlit sunrod out of the bag, sliding it into a large cloak pocket for easy access, then hefts the backpack onto his shoulders again, ready for the descent.

[sblock=OOC]Thanks for the advice, RA. I think this works (and Titus is Chaotic, so it's in his nature to act capriciously every so often, anyway).

Titus is taking the minute to remove his armor to bump his Climb, Jump, and Balance back up to +2 (possibly coincidentally, his Hide and Move Silently bump up to +6, as well). Once that's done, he'll climb the rope down to the window and proceed from there.[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Titus manages to climb the rope down the wall into the window and onto the top of a stack of crates. However, since there is no rope to use to climb down the crates, it may be a bit dangerous to do so. It seems that Kel and Sulannus did this, and they are on the floor of the warehouse searching and seemingly more-or-less fine, but they may have just been lucky.*

 

[Legildur]

Blunt searches for a way to tie of the rope and then does so (take 20).

 

[Boddynock]

let's assume Kel finds a secret passage in the back wall that leads to a crypt full of undead

Damn! I forgot my holy water.

Um ... does anyone know where Shan is?

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

*Titus manages to climb the rope down the wall into the window and onto the top of a stack of crates. However, since there is no rope to use to climb down the crates, it may be a bit dangerous to do so. It seems that Kel and Sulannus did this, and they are on the floor of the warehouse searching and seemingly more-or-less fine, but they may have just been lucky.*

"Spent my whole life training to take on invading hordes of undead," Titus grumbles as he surveys the boxes. "I'm gonna be mighty upset if I wind up taken out by a bloody stack of boxes."

He takes a moment to see if Sul and Kel notice him and come to play catch, since he doesn't want to make the noise it might take to call their attention to him. If they don't notice after a few moments, he squares his shoulders, takes a deep breath, and tries to carefully descend without cracking his skull open.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Sul's keen eleven eyes spot Titus, and she can come to help catch him if he's having trouble. And what trouble he is having! After 18 seconds of fidgeting without being able to descend at all, nearly slipping and falling each time, he manages to descend 15 feet and then just plain loses his grip, managing to barely push off for a short jump that helps shorten the fall before very-luckily being caught by Sulannus, who isn't exactly strong enough to hold him up and winds up falling backwards to the ground under his weight, winding up uninjured but very awkwardly positioned on top of her, staring into her eyes and all in disarray like two lovers who have been rolling in the haystack. The crates also creak as if in danger of falling after that violent display, but they remain stable. Still, too much force might knock over any of these stacks.*

 

[Boddynock]

"Wow! Are you all right?" Kelloran offers a hand to help up, first Titus, then Sulannus.

"Glad you could drop in." He snickers, then breaks into a fit of (quiet) hysterical laughter. It's clear that the stress has been getting to young Kel.

[sblock=OOC]Bloody hell! The filter won't let me write 's n i g g e r s' - a perfectly reasonable and very expressive word (and far better than 'snorts'). Hmm, that's a racial slur we never hear here in Australia - except on American movies.[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Try the alternative that means exactly the same thing: 'snickers'.

But yeah, in the US, political-correctness is rampant. A few years back, a man was fired for using the completely-innocent word niggardly (meaning stingy) because the idiots who complained didn't know the word and so thought he was saying something else)

 

[Legildur]

(OOC: So who is still on the roof? If Blunt is the only one up there, and he has tied the rope off, then he'll also make his way into the warehouse.)

 

[Boddynock]

(OOC: Try the alternative that means exactly the same thing: 'snickers' )

OOC: Thank you. 'Snickers' isn't really a part of my ideolect (except as a chocolate bar) but it'll fit the bill nicely. Actually, I remember having this problem about 6 months ago, and deciding on 'snickers' as a workaround - although at that time I didn't realize that the filter was picking up a possible racial slur (it was at the same time as the April Fools filter phenomenon - got to love that alliteration ). 'Nock