Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

Lying on her back with her eyes still closed, Valana mutters, "This has to stop happening."

When the dizziness finally passes, Valana sites up and uses the protruding leg of a chair to help herself to her feet.

"What did I miss this time?"
 

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Thurst scratches his head and replies, "I don' know." Satisfied that Valana has recovered adequately, the cleric unceremoniously rises and leaves his patient to her own devices.

"Say, Marian, Aeshen, you two mind checking the wee rodents for anything useful? Oh and cut off their tails for me would you?"
 

Mairan and Aeshen get to noisily hacking the tails off the slain ratlings, the light of the green-flamed torch making the spectacle even more eerie than it would be normally.

The dead human the ratlings had used as target practice is now unidentifiable, although his suit of studded leather armor looks relatively intact.

Two tunnels along the east wall, one along the north corner, one along the south, lead further into the complex.
 

After climbing down the easter side of the barricade, Valana stops and stairs at the two tunnels.

"Well, which way should we go now?"
 


Ella waits patiently for the scouts, all the while poking through the garbage pile for anything of use -- or anything curious.
 




Aeshen returns a moment later.

"The passage turns north after about 10 feet and then turns west after about 20. It's a long straight corridor there. I couldn't see how far it went, but it sounds like there's an open space somewhere ahead and it smells like a big musky animal is somewhere nearby."
 

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