RJK'S Cairn of the Skeleton King

[zoons]

Zanax approaches the gash in the earth slowly, trying to get a feel for what might lie beneath the surface, and how easily it might be to exit again if he should proceed forward.

"I sincerely doubt it'll be much warmer in there" he says to Rupert. "But it'd get us out of the breeze, and maybe closer to some answers."

"By the way," Zanax says to the strange hooded figure. "We're looking for a fugitive from justice. Would you, perchance, have seen someone matching his discription"

Zanax goes on to briefly describe their unaccounted for ex-prisoner to the ghostly guide.

 

[Vertexx69]

Looking at Zanax then around at the enchroaching mist and freezing cold, Titus steps toward the chasm. "We couldn't find a flaming dragon in this mist. Perhaps we should investigate the source of this godless darkness now, and once solved we can search for a petty thief later. We have ways of covering ground much faster if our sight is not clouded by unholy spells." As he pulls a small feather from his pouch. "May swift wings carry me where terrors of the ground cannot harm me." Battlehammer's feet lift from the ground, then he turns to the rest of the party with a smile on his face. "This evil will meet it's match this day I think."

[sblock=OOC]Casting: Fly - 70 minute duration[/sblock]

 

[Kafkonia]

Timrek peers cautiously over the edge."Would it not be possssible to climb?" he asks. Seeing his companions willingness to leap before they look, he shakes his head ruefully, but joins them.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

"By the way," Zanax says to the strange hooded figure. "We're looking for a fugitive from justice. Would you, perchance, have seen someone matching his discription"

Zanax goes on to briefly describe their unaccounted for ex-prisoner to the ghostly guide.

With his clinging voice, the maked man answers. "I saw the Liowan you are talking about. Chased by forces beyond our understanding, he went down into the barrow labyrinth shortly before you came." He points down into the hole.

Timrek peers cautiously over the edge."Would it not be possssible to climb?" he asks.

The masked one lays his hand om Timrek's shoulder. It's unpleasantly cold.

"Just follow me, youngster, and learn."

With that, the cloaked warrior jumps into the hole and vanishes...

- No sign of him can be seen any more... And the ground appears to be empty.

Battlehammer's feet lift from the ground, then he turns to the rest of the party with a smile on his face. "This evil will meet it's match this day I think."

[I assume that this little trikery won't hold Titus back from flying down the hole.]

With the frightened faces of his friends looking after him, Titus descends into the darkness...

- Only to find that the ground is way more near than he had thought, about two meters under your position; barely enough for Adam to stand...

First, a glowing red doorknob in form of a skull holding a round iron door sealed...

Then he hears the voice of the masked wanderer behind him, and will see the man cowering behind him.

"Cheap illusions, made to frighten those who venture here uninvited. Don't let them trick you."

The wanderer's voice is cold as ice...

Over the stony bassin that is floating over, Titus will see his companions looking down as if they would not see him...

 

[DM_Matt]

Adam joins them, grumbling "Stupid dark hole. I like rocks that go up, not down. ". He fastens his grappling hook to come down, although aparently it proves unnecessary.

 

[Kafkonia]

"Warmbloods," Timrek mutters again, before jumping into the pit.

 

[zoons]

Zanax catches Timrek's arm before he enters the hole. He hands him a Gold Piece and says. "Throw this back out if the way is safe, lest we all follow, like lemmings to the sea, to our doom."

Zanax waits after Titus and Timrek enter the hole and disappear for some signal from them that it is safe to enter and that they have not just fallen prey to a trap. When the signal is clear he and Moja will follow.

 

[Vertexx69]

Extending an arm up out of the hole, Titus bekons the others down into the hallway. Trying to indicate through hand gestures that it's safe to follow.

 

[ethandrew]

"Am I the only one that heard that creepy guy say labyrinth? Isn't that like a maze? So we're being lead into a maze by some statue's guardian? Hmph. I don't want to be the last one up here, lest we be caught unawares by some new evil."

Rupert waits until Adam's hulking form is out of sight until he'll jump down. He seems very ancy.

 

[Kafkonia]

When all seems clear, Timrek tosses the coin back to his companions.