Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Filthy]

Finding nothing of note further down the sewer tunnel, Valana returns to the rest of the group.

"I went a little further down the tunnel, but didn't find anyt--", she stops when she sees the open door in the back of the room. "Looks like you all found something."

Valana stops to read the engraving on the floor before following the others in.

[sblock=ooc]Can I get a knowledge roll to see what Valana knows about Blurrah? Like her role/what she's the goddess of? I know who she is, but I want to make sure I'm not metagaming.[/sblock]

 

[Wool]

For the past several minutes Thurst Steamhammer has been locked in a contest of wills with his most daunting opponent yet. Politely ignored by his more patient group members, an occasional curse can be heard as the soot-stained dwarf wrestles with his mechanical mace. Fine by all outside appearances, Thurst is nevertheless dissatisfied with the contraptions apparent lack of performance.

Upon hearing the sound of grinding rock, Thurst looks up. "Oh, you got it working did you?"

Eyeing the new passage askance, "Not te be a sour grape, this is intersting and all, but do we have any reason to believe this is where we wanna go?"

"And just what is a Blurrah?"


[sblock=ooc]I'm a bit stupid, I don't know how what little research Thurst did is relevant now. I suppose do a knowledge check to compare what he thinks he learned from the schematics with Ella's map and with their current location? Does that even make sense? I don't know! He knows how far is up, maybe he can guess which hill he is under![/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[sblock=ooc]Thurst's research helped get them to the right area. Without it, you'd be halfway down the Giant's Staircase, up to your ears in dark elves or worse.

Valana knows nothing about Blurrah, but Mata read something about her in the Runewardens' journal back in the library.[/sblock]

 

[Aeshen]

"Hmmm", Aeshen ponders to noone in particular. "Well, what do you guys think? Shall we continue on to see if this passage is related to our rat problem?", he continues.

"Personally I'd like to see what's down here - if nothing else we might find something worth selling"

 

[Vdou]

"This stinks like swamp cheese." Ella looks unsettled but continues...

"I wonder if this rat even exists. I doubt a rat would be intelligent enough to figure out how to open this passage."

 

[Voca]

"Blurrah is the Goddess of Comfort in Sadness", says Mata. "The Runewarden's mention her shrine being here. The Order of the Ancient Egg thought the transmuter's laboratory was in this vicinity too, though they never found it."

She pauses, looking at Thurst.

"I have no idea if we want to go here or not. But I can't helping thinking, transmuter, four-armed ratling, transmuter, four-armed ratling."

 

[Wool]

Thurst simply raises an eyebrow. "Whelp, I s'ppose you do have a point." Pausing a moment in thought before continueing, "You lot realize what this means donn you? It means we are smarter than these orderly egg fellows!" Thurst convieniently forgets that he had little to do with the discovery.

Turning to Aeshen, "Limited time offer lad, get yourself banged up by some traps or some ornery transmuter and you just might receive a gift of restoration from the Mother. How do ye like the sound of that?"

 

[Vdou]

"Uhm..." Ella pauses.

 

[Fyrie Windlitened]

"Well if we find a transmuter type down here, all the better, it will save us another errand. Check it out to make sure we're okay Aeshen and lets get going."

 

[Vdou]

Ella glances at Thurst wide eyed "Orderly Egg fellows?"

"Silly Dwarf." Ella laughs, lets out a slight snort and promptly drops her torch which bounces and rolls down the dark corridor touching off the frayed loose edges of Ella's robe, and almost catching the map.

Ella quickly moves to brush out the small fire and chases after her torch.