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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yami no Hon" data-source="post: 3471047" data-attributes="member: 29447">2nd content update - the trip out to the ruins5.3.10.1894    The party set out along the Old Road early in the morning.  Old might certainly have been true, the word “road” was a definite misnomer.  It was little more than a series of wooden markers sticking up out of the snow.  After half a day of slogging through the deep snow, they reached the top of a chasm.  It was perhaps thirty feet across at the narrowest point, widening to forty, a gap which continued for some distance.  Around the edge of the precipice on both sides were a few scattered columns and granite blocks, the remains of some large building, which had apparently dropped straight down when a crack opened in the ground beneath it. From the bits left on the surface, it looked as though they were from the general architectural style known as Sturdy Hasekifian Fortress that had been in fashion for over six centuries, in other words, massive, overbuilt, closely spaced things which could be relied upon to hold five times as much weight as was put upon it, without ever having to worry about the roof collapsing under the snow.    Near the narrow point of the gap, a small clearing had been made in the shelter of one or two columns.  Goblin graffiti had been scratched into the columns and a few stones arranged into a fire circle, which bore signs of frequent use.  A rope had been anchored to one of the blocks at the edge of the gap.  It was a well made thing, such as could be found in any outfitter’s store in any city, although somewhat worse for the wear after being left to the elements for several months.  After a moment or two of looking, the adventurers found that hand and footholds had been carved into the rock of the canyon wall.  It would clearly not be all that difficult for them to descend at this point.    Then, they started talking to one another.  Goblins are crafty tricksters they decided.  Goblins are well known for setting traps they decided.  This is too easy they decided.  This must be a trap they decided.  We should try to cross the chasm and find another way down they decided.    They went a ways north, along the edge of the chasm.  They dropped the obligatory rock, and counted the seconds.  They never heard a sound, partly because the fighter was counting out loud and they got into an argument about how much time actually had elapsed, and partly because it was at that point really, really, deep.  It was decided that this, the widest point within view, would be the place for them to try their crossing.    The first plan created by Marf, was that the fighter, with assistance from the rest of the party members, would throw Animus to the other side.  For safety’s sake, a rope would be tied to his waist, and when he reached the other side, he would secure the line to a likely looking bit of miscellaneous architectural debris, and allow the others to cross.  Then they would all descend.      Animus objected to any plan involving him being thrown forty feet over a chasm of indeterminate (but undoubtedly fatal) depth.  Palandora pointed out that it would be extremely unlikely for any of them, even the fighter, to succeed in throwing a fully grown human ten feet, let alone forty.  Plan B was hatched.After Gus did some quick work with a grappling hook, they managed to string a rope across the gap, and anchor it on their side in such a way that they thought it might be able to hold the weight of a person.  Animus, as the most well balanced of the motley crew, was persuaded to be the first person to cross.  He crawled hand over fist along it, until he was about ten feet out, and really got a good look down.  The monk quickly came to his senses, and returned to his companions on the near shore.  Gus was then persuaded to try it.  He did not even get as far as Animus had before he too gave it up.  They spent a few minutes struggling with the rope, until they were able to work the grappling hook free and reel it back in.  Grumbling about how it was all assuredly a trap, they returned to the narrow place with the hand holds.__________________________Note from the DM:If this all sounds like the Sunless Citadel, that's because it is.Please, leave questions or comments, any feedback at all.  Tell me one of you cares that I'm writing this out.How am I doing on post length?  Event pacing?A know I ought to try to update a bit more frequently.  I've got plently of material to go through, but I have to balance that against the demands of school (escpecially as I enter the run up to finals) and work against time spent working on this.  Not to mention planning new sessions.Also, in these early stages, I'd be interested in hearing how other groups reacted to the Sunless Citadel.  Maybe that would be a little more pertanent after a few more posts from me.</blockquote>

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