Shackled City - Chapter II

[Majin]

Zeric hefts his morningstar and smashes it into the hobgoblins skull, effectively caving it in. The hob drops like a sack of bricks. Short work is made of the last goblinoid as well, it being outnumbered so.

Searching the bodies reveals each hobgoblin was equipped with banded mail, light steel shields and longswords, 4 javelins, and coin purses totalling 16 gp, 23 sp.

A door leads deeper into the stronghold to the southwest. Alinis notices a peculiarity with the southern wall as she passes by.

 

[kirinke]

Alinis pauses at the peculiar wall in question and pays closer attention, looking for signs of a secret door of some sort. "Raven? There's something wierd with this wall, could you give me a hand?" she asks the half-orc female politely.

 

[Verbatim]

Dragging the bodies onto the lift, Zeric gathered up the javelins and slung the quiver across his back. While they were not the best he had seen, the tips were sharp and if there were any more hobs down here, using their own weapons against them seemed fitting to Zeric.

~I am sure the dwarf would appreciate the gesture.~

Once the last body had been placed on the lift, Zeric returned to the others and saw them staring at a section of the wall.

"What have you two found?"

 

[kirinke]

Alinis looks at the hex-blade. "Dunno. There's something... Not quite right about this wall. I was asking Raven if she could detect anything more than me." she looked back at the wall examining it more closely. "I think it might be a door,"

 

[hippocrachus]

Orpheus pockets the money, not wanting it to go to waste amongst all of these moral characters.

 

[kirinke]

Alinis doesn't miss a beat and glances at Orpheos as he pockets the money. "We all have expenses too you know," she said mildly and turns her attention back to the wall, gently brushing the surface, looking for irregularities. "We'll divy up the gold later though." she added with a slight grin, tracing a crack in the wall, too regular really for it to be natural.

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

Raven smiles at the elf's perceptiveness. "You're a sharp one." She says respectfully. Then she will join Alinis in trying to identify the door and its opening mechanism. "It looks like we downed those hobgoblins before they could sound an alarm. Good work."

 

[kirinke]

"You too. My eyes are more suited to picking up a faint trail than spotting traps though. And I have no skill at disarming them. At least not without setting them off anyway." she chuckles at the dark humor.

 

[hippocrachus]

"Well, it's a good thing I was around then, wasn't it," he mumbles in reply.
Seeing is how nobody was going for it...

 

[Majin]

Looking closer at the wall Raven discovers it is indeed a secret door. Checking to make sure there are no traps and finding none, she opens the door revealing a small cramped room with a single lever jutting out of the wall. It appears this is the lever the activate the lift when it is stopped above.