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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6818289" data-attributes="member: 11146">[sblock=Insight DC 12 or better]Shuushar is placid.  His nature is to be calm, disinterested.  There is nothing in any of his responses so far that is contrary to that nature; all his movements have been their usual slow selves, and the intonation and inflection of his speech have not altered since you first met him in the prison cell.  He took no part in any fight, choosing instead to peaceably wait out confrontation.  He neither starts argument nor participates in argument.  He silently took any punishment administered by the drow.  He was neither surprised nor defensive when Raza and Kago challenged his veracity a moment ago.  His responses appear to be truthful.[/sblock][sblock=Insight DC 11 or lower]Shuushar's fishy.  He doesn't say very much, and the little he says is said inordinately slowly.  He chooses each word carefully, as if weighing their import and meaning.  He admitted to having been in this cavern before, which is interesting since it is at least a seven-day walk from his home city, and very near the drow outpost.  His intonation and inflection are dead.  Measured.  Careful.  He is cautious about how he responds to being challenged, choosing to withdraw rather than engage.  And he has never once involved himself in the defense of another, nor did he fight the drow captors.[/sblock]Raza walked the compass rose three times, carefully.  She thought portions of the etched line in the floor needed shoring up.  And the runes on the wall could be refreshed, but where to get the red pigment?  She deemed the teleportation circle broken but repairable.  Given perhaps four or five days of foraging and possibly brewing pigment, and re-engraving the ruined portions of the etching, Raza thought there was a chance the circle might function.Time here in the dark was indeterminate.  Solace knew she'd rested and her rest had been undisturbed and long enough for the worst of her injuries to repair.  "Morning" was a convenient shorthand for having woken, so morning it was.  The water was good; cold, clear, quenching.  She set off to the southern reach of the cavern to explore, Turvey at her side.  After scrabbling up the 15' earthen berm, Solace scouted a raised rocky outcropping containing a pair of small shallow caves to the west.  Finding nothing there other than perhaps a good resting place, she and Turvey peered east across the stream into the mouth of what looked like a narrow tunnel.  What lay inside the tunnel, Solace couldn't say, not without more immediate exploration--which required a trek across the ladder or through the stream.  She did, however, find that the extreme southern part of the berm dropped down, giving way to an open area where the stream pooled a little before bending in a crook back toward the west.  There was no path alongside the stream there, however; anyone following it would have to get in the water.Shuushar blinked at Brinn.  Nodding once to himself, very slowly, the kuo-toa croaked, "The stream meanders, but comes in time to the Dark Lake, a day's walk south of my city.  There is a chasm, and teeth, and a drop before it reaches the lake."  He paused and added, "It is a shorter route, I think, than the passageways.  But more dangerous.  Perhaps."<a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Dz_SGxDMJm7CAsOQLTmIaFwI2Aq3mdhg7nQYSn0FRPI/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Dz_SGxDMJm7CAsOQLTmIaFwI2Aq3mdhg7nQYSn0FRPI/edit</a><img src="http://i.imgur.com/NQKgY35.jpg?1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i.imgur.com/bm7PQBe.jpg?1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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