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[pfrpg] follow me into shadows


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Sindri makes the first two, then overshoots and slips off the third. He desperately attempts to grab hold of the pillar, but his fingers scrape lines in the dust on the surface, failing to grab hold. He plummets downwards, breaking through the webs beneath him, and lands with a crash a long moment later.

The light on his spear illuminates the webs from below, but then winks out as he hits the bottom. The hole in the webs is dark.

Julius: the platform is safe, where you are standing and everyone else can fit. The pedestal is the thing with the Gem sticking up out of the platform. You have yet to search the pedestal, since arriving on the platform.
 



[sblock=DownBelow]Sindri groans, scrambles to his feet and stretches so that his back cracks loudly with three distinct pops. Sighing in relief though still thoroughly bruised and sore he kneels and starts feeling around in the dark for his spear. Once he gets it back in hand he'll attempt to re-Light it. Only then will he take a look around. Perception: (1d20-2=18) "How far did I fall," he mumbles to himself as he stare upwards towards the hole in the thick cobwebs.

Yep, I'm aware any one of these actions could be interrupted by whatever nefarious plans you have for me, FitD. I'm ready for it. ;) Initiative: (1d20+3=8)

Sindri: AC 17; 32/48 hp; F +4, R +5, W +3; Spells: cantrips - unlimited, 1st level 3/5, 2nd level 2/4[/sblock]
 
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[sblock=Sindri/GM giggles] Ready for it? With an 8?! I don't think so! (ahem)

Sindri shakes off the stun of the impact, feeling a sharp pain in his head and a wet, warm trickle running down his brow. His spear is thankfully nearby, landing beside him instead of through him with the fall. As he takes it in his hand, however, there is a tickle across his hand as if tiny legs were crawling across his skin.

The area below is dark, so that the torchlight from above cannot be seen, nor the canopy of webs above you.

Lighting the spear with your spell... does little. The light is like that of a candle, and while white it can be dim at best. The shadows here, however, crowd around it, such that you cannot see past them more than a few feet. You cannot see up, either, and as your own light dazzles your pupils you wonder: could you have fallen so far?


The nearby walls are carved, you notice as your light illuminates whatever is close to you. Whatever formed them is far from human, and the shapes seem distorted, as if the artist who carved them was mad... or inhuman. A great shape, like a bloated man or frog, raises its arms above its head to hold up the ridges above it; its arms end in long-fingered hands, tapering into claw-like points. Its mouth is an explosion of what could be worms, that trail down its chest, over its round belly and pooling at its knees. Two milky white eyes, round white stones unlike the rest of its body, stare out and up. You can see little else above it, for the shadows, and to either side more such grotesque figures.

On the edge of your vision you see movement, obscured though it may have been. The shadows are thick here, like a fog that pushes up against your dim light spell. You can see past it that the impenetrable darkness shifts and scuttles around the edges, giving off shadows the way coals give off light.

In this well you've fallen into, you realize, the darkness crawls.

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Angus digs his flint and steel from his belt pouch and starts to say "I think we need to see what's below the spider's webs. I wonder if they will burn. Be... " Angus breaks off as Julius and Sindri start to cross. Followed by a "Oh s**t" as Sindri falls.

Angus starts fishing around in his backpack and pulls out a rope. "So anyone any idea how we can get this down to Sindri, while Jack and I stay here and pull him up?"
 

[sblock=CreepyUnderbelly]Sindri glares at the poor light given off by his spell and shakes his spear as if that is somehow going to make it work properly. "What the... That's not supposed to be like that." Then he notices the other features of this dark, demented underbelly and he falls silent. Never one to go without stating the obvious, he says, "This is not good."

Feeling a visceral chill he knows he needs to get out of this place. Thinking his option is to look for some sort of exit he shakes loose a tendril of shadow twined around one ankle and moves towards one wall. He begins following it around looking for some sort of door or hall that might lead up and around so that he can rejoin his companions.

I think Sindri just entered his own personal slasher flick (and he's too stupid to survive til the end)! lol[/sblock]

Jack races to the edge of the hall where the floor falls away. He perches there and seems to be in as near a panic as any of the others have yet seen him. With a despairing cry he howls, Siiiiindrrriiii!!!" Then he is quiet; poised and hopeful of an answering call.
 
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