Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[sblock=Tales from the Tavern!]Between Ghul the Skull-King and all the other wizards that have had laboratories, vaults, lairs and crypts beneath the streets of Ptolus over the centuries, almost anything can be found down there.

There are strange living (or half-living) experiments, magical constructs waiting for new orders that will never come (and carrying out their final orders indefinitely), magical pollution, whole societies of former minions, dangerous traps and much worse.

And that's assuming one doesn't stumble across one of these wizards, or whatever's left of one ...[/sblock]

 

[Filthy]

Walking along next to Ella, Valana nods in agreement. "Hopefully we'll find the ratling we're looking for."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As the group makes their way down Shadow Road, they pass over another manhole.

Further down the street, dire bats circle the top of the Clock Tower and its base is still surrounded by watchmen.

 

[Filthy]

As she approaches the clock tower, Valana eyes the enormous bats warily. "Glad we're going down and not up."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The watchmen turn from the sport of watching their fellows trying to evict the dire bats as the group approaches.

"Hey, the bard is back. Going to try again?" one grins at Aeshen.

 

[Voca]

Mata looks at Aeshen in confusion. "Bard?"

 

[Vdou]

Ella's face lights up.

"Oh! Sing us a song, Bard!"

 

[Aeshen]

Aeshen chuckles at the guard "The first time through told me very loudly that I'm not really the sort to be evicting 200lb bats." He directs his attention to his party before continuing, "I've been called worse then a bard so I take no offense, but if he heard me warble out a tune he'd know how wrong his assumption is."

"As for how we get to the ratlings? I'll take whichever way gets me into a warm bath faster" Aeshen finishes, careful to not touch the drying guano coating him.

 

[Fyrie Windlitened]

Mairan wonders out loud "Are we getting closer to Delver's Square? Kunstler will have our heads if we don't take care of this soon."

 

[Voca]

I believe we can enter the sewers through the clock tower Marian.