Of Sound Mind III


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Jason Master

"Why am I wasting my time on this door?" Jason asks himself. "You can help the children in the cage, Gholog, but I'd really like to check out that dragon before I do anything else." He exits to the other room of the dragon's corpse.
 


Having been given contradicting instructions from his friends, Gholog follows his own idea and heads over to the cage. One of the children snarls aggressively as he approaches, another cowers in fear at the back of the cage, while the third remains slumped unmoving on the cage's floor. Examining the padlock holding the cage shut, Gholog finds it rusted and weak. It shouldn't be hard to smash...

Jason and Seraphina join Kerrick beside the dead dragon. A slight scuffling sound comes from inside the corpse, and as they watch, one of the ribs moves almost imperceptibly.

HELP MEEEE! The voice screams in agony, the words echoing painfully within the confines of your heads.
Piratecat said:
OOC: Settles in to watch the fun. :D
Shhh, we don't want to scare them, now do we? ... Actually, that's not entirely true... ;)
 

Gholog

"Looks like one of the human whelps is a little :):):):)-eyed," Gholog exclaims loudly.

"Ok, tyke. If you give me trouble I'll thwack you silly when the door is open," the half-orc threatens the feral-acting child. Gholog then pops the door open, ready to tackle the young human unarmed as soon as the door is no longer locked.
 

"Damn it." Seraphina curses as she watches one of the ribs move. She looks to Jason. "Silly me, I don't carry around anything sharp... we'll either have to go in through the mouth, or if you have anything that can cut through that hide..."
 



Gholog's threat seems enough to cow the feral child, and he shuffles back from the cage door. Taking firm hold of the padlock, Gholog pulls hard, wrenching the lock apart. The door swings open, creaking loudly on its hinges.

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On closer inspection of the dragon's body, you realize that someone at some point had wrenched open its jaw and actually burrowed down into its stomach. Its huge mouth is propped open with long spears, and there is a narrow crawl space down through its throat. A dusty smell of death and reptile wafts up the dragon's windpipe, and with a shudder you spot a piece of someone's armor still stuck in the sword-length teeth.

Jason runs into the mouth, but has to slow his pace once standing inside. The crawlway into the dragon is narrow, a tight fit even for the relatively unencumbered monk. While less of a squeeze for Seraphina, there would be little room to use her crossbow once confined by the walls of the dragon's mummified innards.
 

Kerrick Jonez

"Are you guys sure this is a good idea?" Kerrick looks dubiously at the dead dragons mouth as his friends dissapear into it.Pausing for moment he yells into the other room, "We're going to climb into the dragon! Be right back!" then, Kerrick, pulls out one of his daggers and cletches it tightly in his teeth as he attempts to follow his companions.
 

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