Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Vdou]

Ella pauses anxiously and shrugs. Wincing with each step, she attempts to stay as quiet as possible... making her movements as deliberate as possible.

 

[Wool]

Thurst eyes Valana dubiously, Mata skeptically, and Ella with an intense sense of foreboding and dread. For the moment, he decides to hold back and watch over the others. Leaving his back to a wall, Thurst maintains a vigil over the points of interest in the room.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With a start, Mairan and Aeshen realize they're nowhere near the stairs, and hustle over to the group.

 

[Filthy]

"There are ratlings on the other side of the barricade, and sounds of metal on stone. This could be where they're digging through to the guild house.

Aeshen, do you think you could climb to the top of the barricade and peek over without attracting too much attention?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"I think I liked it better when everyone thought I was a bard," Aeshen sighs, but he's already looking appraisingly at the barricade. "I can climb it, for sure. I will do my best to avoid making too much noise, but I can't promise it."

He stalks over to the barricade, looking up at it, plotting his route.

 

[Filthy]

"I think crawling through that tunnel is probably a bad idea. It would be too easy for the ratlings to trap us. Drawing them out here or climbing over it is probably a safer idea.

Let's wait and see what Aeshen learns."

 

[Vdou]

"Unless we could try and lure something through the pipe...." Ella says sheepishly.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"What do you suggest?" Mairan asks, curiously.

 

[Filthy]

"I'd like to draw them out, but the problem is we don't know how many there are or how far the digging has progressed. The four armed ratling could escape through their tunnel if he's over there.

It depends on what Aeshen can learn, but in general I think a couple people should sneak up this side of the barrier while the others form up outside the entrance to their makeshift tunnel through. The people up top throw a couple lit flasks of oil to get the ratlings attention.

If the ratlings try to flee, everyone else hustles through the tunnel to catch them while the people up top slow them down with missile fire or spells. If they charge through the tunnel towards us, we'll be waiting for them."

 

[Voca]

"I agree with Valana, lets see whether Aeshen can tell us anything more." Mata grins and offers Aeshen a leg up.