Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Vdou]

"Well, it should certainly lead us into something. The map isn't very specific as to what we will find, and all other research we gathered at the Delver's Library was hardly very illuminating."

 

[Aeshen]

Aeshen sighs slightly and nods in agreement to Ella. "Well, at least your fruitless search didn't see you caked in bat leavings." To emphasis the point Aeshen pans his hands down his soiled leather gear, not that it would be possible to miss the stench wafting from the sticky white substance all over the sour elf.

Aeshen seems comfortable letting others lead him, confident the party will find a way into the sewers soon.

 

[Filthy]

As she looks down Shadow Road, towards the river, Valana stops with a sudden idea. "Ella, didn't you say there's an entrance in the old clock tower?", Valana says, pointing to the massive structure at the end of the street. "That would certainly be closer than the river."

 

[Voca]

Mata looks up at the clock tower and then at Ella. "That would certainly make it easier to find our way back to ..." she notices the crowds around her and remembers she is supposed to be discreet "ahem, back to our destination. Assuming the sewers follow the roads somewhat."

 

[Vdou]

"Well according to the map, there is a way into the undercity through a crypt under the clock tower. We would have to pass through several layers of old undercity to get to a passage that should allow access to the sewer. So, either we just go down into the sewer, or we go traipsing around old crypts and who-knows-what to find a passage that may or may not -- depending on whether or not you have faith in a Kunstler -- end up where its supposed to." Ella frowns a little on the last sentence and continues on,

"Personally, I'd rather not traipse about old crypts... didn't you hear about what happened to Rory Fifthsqueel?"

 

[Filthy]

"We could run into trouble either way, and at least the clock tower is only half the distance. Besides, the clock tower is at least guarded. The first few levels should at least be fairly safe. The Lady knows what's in the sewers that far from here."

 

[Voca]

Mata tries not to look too excited at the thought of traipsing through old crypts.

 

[Wool]

Thurst completely ignores the party's conversation and interrupts with his own more important thoughts. "Hey! I remember that place! The city hired me to reinvigorate, reimagine, and re-uhh-navigate that tower a few years ago. Something about awakenin' the glory of the great something or another."

While talking Thurst begins walking towards the clocktower, oblivious to the desires of the party. "I told them to burn it down and build a new one. Then they fired me. I wonder what they decided to do instead."

 

[Voca]

Her excitement at the thought of going through part of the undercity gets the best of her, and Mata takes off after Thurst.

 

[Vdou]

Sheepishly, Ella puts her map away and follows in line.

"Well, I guess we'll deal with the horrors of the crypt. I wonder what age it is from? Perhaps there will be some relics from the Days of Blood? My father used to tell stories about Wizards that were forced underground to carry out their experiments..."

Ella pauses for a second, as if she has figured something out and then continues on...

"Well, its a fine place for ratlings at least."

[sblock=ooc]I'd like to make a knowledge roll against any local legends Ella might have overheard in her father's tavern relating to underground arcane shenanigans[/sblock]