Shackled City Adventure Path

[Aereas]

Aldreneth
[Sblock]Flying north about 100 feet the corridor opens up into a wider cavern. This place reeks of swaety, unwashed brutes and scorched meat. Four 12-foot-long stone beds covered with filthy animal skins lie near the walls. A huge firepit dominates the middle of the cave, under a chimney hole in the 40-foot-high ceiling above. The charred dismembered skeleton of a huge ape lies over the bed of ashes. A pile of 1 foot diameter polished spheres of rocks is stacked neatly against the south wall, with a hammer, a chisel, and an emery nearby. Four large burlap sacks sit against the west wall.

3 10 foot tall humanoid figures make thier way around the room doing thier own individual thing and seeming to have no care about anything at the moment. Using common sense Tiayrerak takes the right path and soon comes across the opposite side of the wooden wall. The wall has no locking mechanism and looks more like a makeshift doorway than anything. Despite the lack of a lock it is still propped against the rest of the wall rather tightly and looks to weigh over 1,500 lbs.
Vaprak's Voice[/sblock]

 

[Dog Moon]

Out of the hole flies an owl. It perches on Aldreneth's shoulder. After a few moments of quiet discussion, Aldreneth turns to the others. "On the other side of this is a wheel that can be turned to open the portcullis. However, my owl is unable to turn it on his own. To the north is a wooden wall, but it appears to be quite heavy. We may be able to chop our way through it, but it will of course make enough noise to draw the large Humanoids towards us.

"Worse comes to worst, we can simply wait a day and I believe there is a spell I can then cast to remove the obstacle of the portcullis. Does anyone have any better ideas?"

 

[Charberus]

Senses [+2 Listen, Spot, Init]

Slitz looks at the owl, and then the hole. "Slitz do it!" He then goes to the hole, and seems to be comtemplating how he will fit. After stretching and shifting his body abit. He gets on all fours [like a dragon] and goes into the hole.

[sblock]I am looking inside the whole (if I need a light source, I will get one from laguz. If not, then I will go in.)
I will take 10 and have dex mod of +5, and small.

Hide and Move Silently (1d20+20=29, 1d20+5=20)
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[Lordgrae]

Unless the lizard is able to do anything, I'd wait the day. Can try the brute force method if that doesn't work.

 

[Laguz]

Laguz keeps an eye on Slitz, in case he needs a grease spell to help him through, "I have the power to enhance someone strength, or maybe some acid to eat through the material, but that is about all I can offer."

 

[Aereas]

Slitz
[sblock]
As you crawl through the cave and come out in the middle of V4. Droping to the ground with barely a sound you quickly move to the side to try and rehide yourself. A quick survey of the room revelas the following:

A wide balcony looms over the north face of this passageway. An enormous inch system on the balcony above connects to a pair of chains and pulleys attached to the portcullis. A giant-sized stool sits behind a 3 foot tall wooden platform that runs along the balcony. Several spherical rocks are heaped near the balcony's edge.

Despite that the map shows V7 you currently do not see it or know anything about it.
Vaprak's Voice[/sblock]

 

[Dog Moon]

Ug, nevermind.

 

[Aereas]

As Slitz crawls through the small opening he soon after drops into the middle of the room on the opposite side of the portculis. After looking around the room he moves to the side and begins climbing up the wall and over onto a small ledge just barely within sight. As he makes his way toward the back he drops out of sight just as a loud growl issues and a thundering slam of something hitting the ground hard. Not even more than a couple seconds later another slam follows but this one sounds alittle softer, almost like the object slamed into something not quite as solid as the ground.

OOC:
Slitz
[sblock] The giant slams its greatclub down, missing you, with such force that it bounces in his hands leaving a momentary opening (AoO). After a moment he readjusts his grip and swings again only to connect dead on with you.
You take 21 damage.[/sblock]

 

[Dog Moon]

"Hey!" Aldreneth calls out. "Lizard! Maneuver the enemy over here."

 

[Laguz]

Laguz quickly moves to the gate to see where Slitz went and gets ready to let off a spell. "YES! get closer to the gate!"

OOC: if slitz gets within touch, Laguz will cast fly on him.