Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's more trash in this tunnel than elsewhere in the ratlings' complex, and it seems to be getting deeper, higher and fresher as the tunnel progresses toward the north.

 

[Vdou]

"Oh, this is lovely." Ella whispers.

 

[Filthy]

Keeping an eye out for potential ambushes, Mairan continues slogging through the accumulated trash.

***

"What are they stealing from the guild house? Its chamber pots?", Valana says in disgust as she follows Mairan north.

 

[Voca]

Aeshen keeps pace with Mairan, his face twisted in disgust at the scents rising from disturbed garbage.

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Mata falls in beside Valana. "Maybe the idea was to eventually drive the bankers out by the smell?"

 

[Wool]

"Auch, how many wee rats does it take t' make all this garbage anyway," Thurst complains.

 

[Voca]

Mata looks down at the piles around her feet as they move forward. "I wonder if it really is all from the ratlings, or whether they are actually" ... she grimaces at the thought ... "collecting it."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Mairan pauses. Where the tunnel turns west, and the heat and stench rise to as yet unheard of levels, she spots the glinting red eyes of several ratling scouts, along with the chirping of what sounds like young ratlings.

 

[Filthy]

[sblock=ooc]How far away are the ratlings? Close enough to charge/reach in one round of movement?[/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[sblock=ooc]You can reach them with a charge, if you like.[/sblock]

 

[Filthy]

Mairan quickly ducks back behind the corner, hopefully before the ratling scouts had a chance to spot her.

"Ratlings ahead, more than one."