[PbP] Treasure Hunt - Emerald DMing

[Emerald]

There is no more south. You have explored all the obvious routes.

 

[Manzanita]

Reinert

"OK. There's at least one path we haven't explored. The pit. Let's get this dead guy & toss him into the pit. Then I'll climb down there & check it out. Maybe there's a secret door down there or something."

"Otherwise, maybe I'll try to climb down the well. Yuck. We need to keep moving though before those orcs dig their way in."

 

[Creamsteak]

Cid shivers at the thoughts of a person's body being treated like such in it's death, but accepts the need as justified, sadly sadly justified.

He turns his head over to the group, "They are coming. They are all coming. They are going to kill us, if we don't hurry. We need to hurry. They are coming. We must hurry."

He rambles into something more silent, and waits for the horrible proposition that has been made to complete it's ramifications. He then encourages the group once again, "We must hurry, those who want us killed our digging thier way out of the rubble we came from. If we leave now, we would be much better off. And as for triggering that wretched trap, I do not condone the use of bodies in such a way, but I will tolerate it given the concern of the times. I assume we cannot reset such a trap, but it would have aided us to have left it for the villainous and mob-like pursuers we have recruited. Please, concern yourself not with things of value, as the gods make sure that we divine races are shielded from the need for that which we cannot have. Make haste, make haste!"

Cid seems ready to run down the halls, away from the threats of so many non-believers. He sure as hell would love to try convincing them all of his beliefs, but he's crazy, not naive.

 

[Krug]

Jarrad scowls at the priest. "Does he ever shut up?"

He helps pick up the body and moves it to the well. He'll toss it down and see what happens.

 

[Capellan]

"I'll keep watch."

I let the others manhandle the corpse into the pit: no way I'm touching it.

 

[Emerald]

You toss the body on the crumbling floor. It sits there a minute and then the floor colapses. The body falls 40 feet and splashes in the water.

 

[Manzanita]

"Oh, God." Mutters Reinert. "Perhaps we should try the well. Maybe I could climb down there. But yuck. I hate water. Not proper dwarven terratory."

Does there seem to be an underground river down there? Or just a pit with a pool of water at the bottom? Have we then exaughted all doors? Does there appear to be no other way out of here?

 

[Capellan]

"We could tie Cid's cloack-rope to you. It won't help in the slightest, but it might give you a false sense of security."

 

[Emerald]

Reinert: You listen and hear a loud rushing of water from in the well, it sounds like there is an underground river.

You have gone through all of the doors and there is no apparent way out of here.

 

[Manzanita]

Reinert

"Cid, do you remember anything else about that dream of yours? Did she say anything about how we get to the underground tunnel leading out of here?"

"The note that guy left says he hid the entrance to the crypt really well. So there may be a secret door somewhere. My best guess, though, at this point, would be to go back to the well. Did we look up where the bricks fell when we moved that second tapestry? Maybe there's something up there. Otherwise, perhaps I could climb down into that well & hopefully climb back out again, if I don't find anything. Does anyone else have any ideas?"