The Breaking of Gavar IC Thread: Chapter 1: The Search for Helmdos

[Kamard]

OOC: The I on the signet ring is stylized enough so that it would be readily recognizeable by anyone. It is basically a capital letter "I' with two short lines running through the vertical bar.

Those of you who wish to go into the sewers may do so. Ten feet down, the ladder stops, reaching the wet, mossy walkway. The "water" is very fast and looks cold. Again, it smells like a foul sewer, mixed with a salt reek, and you can see salt encrusted around the metal fixtures and at the water level of the sewer.

The sewer itself heads off in a straight line approximately thirty feet in either direction. To see any further, you must make a light with a torch or spell.

 

[Priest]

OOC: I will light my lantern with the hood half down so as not to blind folks, and then wait for the others to decide which way we should head first.

 

[Kamard]

Great. The lantern throws off a much greater light radius. In the gloom, you can barely make out the tunnel branching in two directions some forty feet southwest of your current position. To the northeast, the tunnel takes a steep corner and angles upward a bit. You can see small, barred grates with water flowing out of them spaced along the wall, pouring filthy water over the walkway about every twenty feet or so.

The squeaking of curious rats, drawn to your light, becomes common, and soon on the walkway opposite your own, there are a half dozen normal sized rats, peering at you inquisitively.

From far off, the repetitive sound of something heavy and mechanical chugging echoes through the tunnels.

 

[Priest]

"Cursed beasts" Ashe whispers " I Hate rats" and then ignoring the rodents begins to listen to the surroundings trying to figure out which way the deep mechanical chugging sound is coming from.

As soon as he decerns it he suggests the check whatever the noise is first.

OOC will wait for the rest of the party to decide which route to take as of tommorow)

 

[Festy_Dog]

After much difficulty getting Mzarem down the ladder, Saxon gets a look at the situation.

"I suggest we take the northeast route, but I haven't got much reasoning to back up that whim. Where's that sound coming from? Maybe we should go that way?" Saxon says.

Saxon also tries to discern where the sound is coming from, while deterring Mzarem from barking at the rats.

 

[Vargo]

Before leaving the study, Vargo looks on the floor of the room for any signs of a struggle - bloodspots, scuffmarks, etc.

If he finds nothing, he joins the rest of the party in the sewer.

"I would suggest that before we scuff up the floors too much, that we should look around for any signs, such as footprints, or dragmarks, as of a body being carried."

OOC: Is the sewer wide enough and deep enough to permit a boat of any sort?

 

[Festy_Dog]

"Yes, good idea," Saxon agrees with Vargo.

Saxon will give up listening for the machine and search for tracks.

"I'm fairly competent at following tracks. If anyone else is as well this shouldn't be too hard," he says with smile.

 

[Rathan]

*Marcus makes his way down the ladder every so often slipping a foothold or the like and looking up to see if Arin noticed......*


"I see now why Arin didn't want anything to do with this sewer.... it's even worse here than up there...and the salt smell it makes my nose raw........"


*As Marcus sets down on solid ground he also searches from recent foot prints in the salty wet ground......*


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[Kamard]

-Vargo finds no signs of a struggle in the study. In fact, there are no signs anywhere in the house.

-There are no tracks of any sort. The floor is wet stone. Mzarem does seem to smell something besides the rats, who flee on the sight of the pale wolf.

-The sewer is definately wide enough for a gondola-like boat, though the tunnel is too short for someone to stand on aid boat.

-The machine sounds like it is coming from below you, more than anything else.

 

[Vargo]

OOC: When you say "below" do you mean "directly below" or "the vibrations are muted in the air by the large body of water, but we feel them travelling through the stone beneath our feet 'below'?"