Shackled City - Chapter II

[hippocrachus]

"Gnomes like to hide things," he says to Althron, happily accepting a dwarven back-slap; something he's missed for several years.

(OOC: Knowledge (History) +3 to see if he can remember anything about gnomes and their mischievous secret rooms. It might help explain this one...)

 

[kirinke]

"Perhaps at one time it was not hidden? I mean, this place is old. Maybe it was just meant to be a storage room of some sort and gnomes are known for their love of secrets," Alinis ventures.

"It would be well like them to make a hidden room simply for the purpose of storing unwanted items until some use could be found." she says, making darned sure that the door behind them doesn't close. The last thing she wants is for this small room to become an obliette.

 

[hippocrachus]

"I can say from personal experience Alinis, that gnomes are never ones to 'store' unwanted items. They usually hang them from the ceiling..." he smiles at his own joke.
"I won't deny that they like to hide things," he reiterates with the subtlety of a very large and fast moving rhinoceros.

 

[kirinke]

Alinis smirks and keeps an eye on the area.

 

[Verbatim]

Zeric watched as the others began joking lightly with each other, and while a part of him wished to tell them to cease wagging their tongues and get on with the task at hand, he stopped himself as he knew those words would just further distance him from the others.

~Not that I need anymore help in that area...Let them bond and forge the invisible chains which will give them strength...I will stay alert for them...~

As the dandy and dwarf began running their eyes and hands along the walls, Zeric stood beside the archer and the scribe and eyed the map.

"If we do not find any of those gnomish keys, I suggest we follow the tunnels the grays have carved for themselves and see where they lead us. Perhaps by using them, we can find where they are nesting."

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

"Zeric is right. We have seen many empty rooms now. The gnomes have left, and the skulks have evidently taken over to some extent, but they are not numerous. Their tunnels are probably to evade the doors, and thus in that way our purposes are one. Let's head back to the long room. There were a couple other corridors leading out of there. Perhaps one of them will be useful."

OOC: She would like to try going West out of the bottom of the south central long room.

 

[Verbatim]

Zeric nodded his head in agreement with Raven's words, glad to hear that the half-orc female still continued to see a clear logic in the ruins around them.

"We shall give them time to search the room before we move on. Perhaps there is a tunnel the gnomes made that reached this room."

~Or perhaps an empty room is simply an empty room...~

 

[Majin]

Searching from wall to wall of the small secret room Althron's hands bump against something that appears to be invisible. Three objects, an inch thick, long and rectangular can be "felt" leaning against each other in a stack against one wall.

 

[Verbatim]

Zeric saw the dwarf beginning to trace an outline of something against the wall, but to Zeric's eyes it looked as if he was merely making a rune in the air.

"What have you found priest? Is it another door or entrance to a passage?"

 

[Mimic]

"Not sure," Althorn replies concentrating on the invisible objects as if he can break the enchantment by force of will. "Three objects, rectangular and long though, about an inch thick. Got to be carefull, gnomes usually bobbytrap stuff they don't want stolen."

"Where's the half-orc? Maybe she can find any traps I have missed."

<ooc1: I don't think that Althron knows her name, thus the reason he said half orc.>

<ooc2: He will feel around and attempt to figure out what these invisible objects are.>