Phyrric Legacy - Shackled City IC Thread

[stonegod]

Jon sighs when nothing else is reveled. "We could try the lever, but that may be a risk no one wishes to take. If none of you have any other objections, the other 'Z' door it is."

 

[Question]

"The lever probably opens the secret entrance to this room, to prevent anyone from getting trapped in it." Liracor hazards a guess. "Lets take a look through the tunnel first.......strange the skulks or their allies must have dugged it, but how would they know of the secret room in the first place?"

 

[stonegod]

Jon looks a bit anxious as Liracor's suggestion. "Have a peek then, but keep Remen close. You may see something useful, but let us not get distracted from our goal."

 

[Legildur]

Flannad decides without waiting to explore the tunnel at Liracor's suggestion...

 

[Malvoisin]

Flannad, after stashing away the gray bag, decides to heed Liracor's suggestion over Jon's. The whisper gnome leads the way west into the mouth of the tunnel, which turn north, then west, then north again, before exiting forth into a new room.

Metal wreckage and broken gears lie strewn about the oddly-shaped chamber. Standing in the middle of the room is the half-built metal framework of a four-legged, five-foot-tall construct with one arm ending in a spiked wedge. Its other arm is nowhere to be seen. Gear doors are set into the north and south walls (The northern is marked with a 'Z' glyph, the southern with a 'U'). In addition to the tunnel from which the group just emerged, another of the roughly hewn tunnels leads north, just near the 'Z' door. Webs fill the corners of the rooms.

Suddenly, before anyone can react, something darts out from behind the unfinished automoton. It's a skulk that appears to be covered in rags. It swiftly scrambles away and out of the room, running into the darkness of the northern tunnel.

Actions?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"So much for them not knowing about the secret door!" Arak snarls. "Bring the light!"

 

[stonegod]

Seeing the paladin begin to rush after the thing, Jon quickly buy cautiously follows. "I don't like this. It could be leading us into a trap!"

OOC: Did we see which direction it left afterwards?

 

[Legildur]

Flannad follows Arak.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Seeing the paladin begin to rush after the thing, Jon quickly buy cautiously follows. "I don't like this. It could be leading us into a trap!"

"What would you prefer? Letting them come to us in force? Abandoning the children altogether? We have few options, Goodman Jon."

 

[stonegod]

"What would you prefer? Letting them come to us in force? Abandoning the children altogether? We have few options, Goodman Jon."

Juggling his torch in one hand, Jon pulls out his crossbow with the other. It awkward, especially for the scholar. "I just do not like this rushing around. We are on their turf, and could easily be led astray by them. If we are going to give chase, lets do so, if it is not already too late."