As you travel down the staircase (order: Grimm, Lancel, Koren, Tiberian...yes?) The walls around you begin to be in worse and worse repair. By the time you have walked down many more steps the walls appear to be little more than piles of rubble holding up the towers above, deeply pitted with many loose stones. Through the light of the sunrod, you all notice a bend in the stairs at last.
Grim, with the rest following close behind, rounds the corner and finds the staircase end almost immediately at the source of the wonderful smell Skakan introduced you all to. The sewers. The channel of water is ten feet wide and barely ankel-deep. It runs swiftly to the east, through a large grate set across the water passage. To the west the water's source spans back to the limit of vision, as Koren is still around the bend.
Grim steps foward into the passage a bit, allowing room for the others to file out of the stairway. As Koren steps into the sewage, and Tiberian nearly takes his last steps off of the staircase, the four of you hear rocks and morter shifting behind Tiberian. A Warforged jumps from a concealed depression in the wall, striking at Tiberian from the shadows, his rapier piercing the air with deadly efficiency, slipping in-between the links of Tiberian's chainmail, stunning him in both surprise and pain. (Crit+Sneak Attack, 9 damage)
At the same moment, the light of Koren's sunrod shines down the passageway, illuminating two shadowy forms standing roughly 60 feet (west) upstream, their outlines clear to Grim, Lancel, and Koren.
The setup: Grim and Lancel are next to each other in the sewer channel (Grim 1 square north of Lancel) with 60 feet in between them and the shadowy forms. Koren is standing in the water immediately east of Lancel. To Koren's immediate east is the sewer grate, and to his immediate south, Tiberian in the stairway. To the immediate south of Tiberian, the Warforged attacker.
Initiative: Tiberian (20), Grim (16), Shifter Thugs (14), Sewer Spew (12), Warforged Assassin (10), Lancel (9), Koren (5)
OOC: I NEED to stop starting all of my sneak attacks with a crit! At least you won Initiative Shieldhaven. Okay, lets start posting these combat rounds. Roll for yourselves. I trust you!
