Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Voca]

Mata shrugs and falls in behind Mairan.

 

[Filthy]

Valana looks back at the guild hall entrance for moment, then shrugs. "Not likely to make a difference, anyway", she says, following the others to the sewer entrance.

 

[Fyrie Windlitened]

Mairan offhandedly shrugs and says "They told Kunstler that they didn't want people seen going in from the inside, I don't think they'd have changed their mind."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Looking up and down the street, Mairan spots a large manhole cover half a block down Palace Road. The group clusters around it and examines it. It's approximately four feet across and appears to be made of iron.

 

[Voca]

Is there an obvious way of lifting it?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There are two holes on either side of the plate. Scratches in the tarnish suggest they're used to pry up the cover.

 

[Fyrie Windlitened]

Mairan nods at Thurst and asks "Can you pry this open with that hammer of yours?"

 

[Wool]

Thurst says nothing, he simply kneels before the plate and begins to examine it closely, as if he were making precise technical calculations in his mind. Before any onlookers can stop and laugh at the absurdity of the scene the dwarf unhooks his mechanical mace and gets to work.

The mace is unlike anything anyone in the group has seen before. With only a few subtle movements, and a fair bit of whirring and clicking, it is transformed into a shape more appropriate to the task at hand. Those watching are so caught up in trying to figure out what it is they are looking at they don't realize for several moments that the sewer entrance is open and ready.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"Ollom's straining bladder!" comes a voice. The group turns to see an immensely obese dwarf watchman hustling their way. His black whiskers start just below his eyes and conceal all of his lower face other than his red nose. "Have you taken leave of your senses? You Delvers can't just go around, opening up holes in the street! Get out of here, the lot of you!"

 

[Vdou]

Startled by the Dwarf's cry, Ella drops the map case she had clutched under her arm. The case spills onto the street ejecting the map up into the air. The case rolls towards the open sewer entrance and falls through.

*sploosh*

The map, meanwhile was caught by a slight gust of ocean breeze and flutters off into the crowd.

"Oh dear."

Ella chases off after the map, but trips over her staff sending her careening into the watchman.