Of Sound Mind III

[Other Guy]

Jason Master

Jason looks up from his spellbook for a moment. “Sounds like a good idea to me. I’ve only got one more scroll of spider climb left,” he says. “I wish I had known they’d be this useful. Oh well, I’ll have to scribe a bunch the next day I’m not preoccupied with things haunting my dreams and trying to kill me. Anyway, If you don’t think the one scroll will be enough then tell me now so that I can prepare another one instead of a second sleep spell.”

 

[GnomeWorks]

"Hmm..." Seraphina muses, sitting up from her studies. "Jason, I don't suppose you could show me your notes for that spell, could you? I really am a good student when it comes to that kind of thing... I'd let you copy one of my spells into your book, too, if you'd like. Of course, it's too bad we can't do that now... it would take a couple of days. But it's a thought."

She pauses, flipping the page in her spellbook. "Well... hmm. We've got two lengths of fifty feet of silk rope. If we tie them together, then put knots every five feet or so, you could all climb down it easier, right? And you don't have to worry about me climbing down it, so the knots can be far apart. That will help. Hmm... if Gholog goes up the cliff first, using that spider climb spell, and then lowers the rope, if he could find something to attach it to, that could work, I think."

She shrugs, then returns to reading her spellbook.

 

[Zhure]

Gholog

"I'm game to make the initial climb, but that cliff is treacherous enough it'll be too difficult for me without the spell. Having a second one as back-up, or in case we need to retreat sounds like a really good idea."

 

[Other Guy]

Jason Master

“Alright then, I’ll do it,” Jason says. (OOC) preparing spider climb and sleep, instead of two sleep spells.

“Oh, and Seraphina,” he adds, smiling, “my spellbook is open to your eyes anytime you want.”

 

[Jarval]

OOC: So, no update just yet. For more detail about why see this thread, but the short, to the point version is that it'll be Friday before I update. I'm sorry about this, but I've got a rather overdue assignment that I've been struggling with all week. It's got to be handed in tomorrow (Thursday) by midnight, hence the Friday morning update...

 

[Jarval]

Packing up your gear, you all make your way back towards the mountainside. Gholog scouts around the base of the face, finding a suitable route up, that seems to be out of sight of the goblin's cave.

Jason quickly invokes his spider climb spell, and Gholog starts upwards...

**********

Fifteen minutes later, you're all standing on a small shelf of rock about seventy feet above the cave mouth. As far as you can tell, the goblins are unaware to your presence, as you can hear no sounds of activity from below.


Current Hit Points:

After the night's rest, everyone's back up to full hit points, except for Gholog and Jason:

Jason: 8/12 hp
Gholog: 10/18 hp


OOC: I've moved forwards quite a bit here. If anyone wanted to do anything before making the assent, just mention it in your next post and we'll count it as having happened earlier.

 

[Zhure]

Gholog

For the descent back toward the goblin caves, Gholog will take the last position, as anchor on the ropes.

 

[Jarval]

Umm, bump?

 

[Piratecat]

OOC: Is this the part where the half-dragon mindflayer troll comes out?

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

OOC: Is this the part where the half-dragon mindflayer troll comes out?

OOC: GURK!