Ptolus- Palace of the Silver Princess (Campy)

[Brother Allard]

Guy comes life with a fierce "Ah ha!"

His rapier and dirk seem to leap from their scabbards of their own will. "It's rat for dinner tonight!"

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"No! Rats, don't be bad! Bad rats! No cheese for you!"

Thorg pulls out his mace and starts smacking rats.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Renard and Carl move first, the fox-man's arrow injuring the lead rat as Carl's rapier sails over it, but misses. Thym's blast rips into the creature before it can bite at Carl, killing it.

The next two rats rush forward, one biting Carl (-4 hit points to Carl) along the arm, leaving a slight swelling where the wound was inflicted. Guy moves on in, his rapier critically injuring a rat, but his short sword failing to connect and finish it. Samuel ends its life with a sling bullet, however.

Thorg's shadow causes the final rat to cringe before his heavy mace comes crashing down, upon its skull with a splattering of blood.

In the room behind the rats is a square room with each wall being 20 feet long. The door is in the center of the southern 10 feet of the east wall. In the center of the south wall of the room is a lever. The lever has two positions; up and down. The down position is unmarked. The position is marked "A". The lever is pushed down.

 

[Mista Collins]

Upset over the injury, Carl attempts to skewer the rat with his rapier. "I AM THE KEEPER OF THE CHEESE! YOU ARE A LEMON MERCHANT!!"

 

[Erekose13]

"Samuel, will your sling take point again and see if it can lift that lever?" asks Thym after the rats are dead.

 

[TheMagician]

'Course, 'course.". Samuel steps over to move the lever in the same manner he did the last.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Samuel tugs at the lever, but doesn't set off a trap. As he throws it to the 'up' position, however, the two portcullis' on the wall opposite the castle entrance open, but each seems to lead down a separate passage. You can either take the one to the right, or the one to the left.

 

[Erekose13]

"Excellent work sling. Left or right, right? Right then I think." offers Thym.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The passageway to the right side of the southern wall leads to a corridor that bends 80 feet to the west before bending once more to the south for another 190 feet. On the western wall of this passageway is a door in the center of the hall. Four more doors lie on the east wall, at 20 feet, 60 feet, 90 feet, and 120 feet to the south respectively. At the end of the passageway the corridor splits into a T-intersection.

 

[Erekose13]

"First door on the east wall then?" offers Thym, not really wanting to actually do the opening himself.