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

[Vargo]

Eh, you're a moron. Juuuust kidding!

Actually, I do have a light crossbow - just didn't have it at ready. No probs with "speeding things up" - in fact, sometimes it can be handy to "prime the pipe" with a kind of "pre-planned" set of responses, I've found...

 

[Kamard]

In any case, the rats are dead, and in the future, I will wait at the end of a combat round for at least people to react, unless they have said before their tactic for following rounds.

Mzarem seems unimpressed by the corpses of the rats, and seems like he wants to continue.

 

[Priest]

Ashe wipes the rat gore from the rapier off in the moss, and looks about at his fellow delvers with a hint of exasperation " Those beasties were unkind to my stomach, I so hate rats"

OOC Huzzah is all I thought at the speed of combat (though for really touchy combats you might slow her down a little bit for us to decide) I wouldn't be adverse to you using this combat mode for small non plot important parts, or for random encounter fights anyway.

 

[Rathan]

"We should go on.... and wait a minute.... the one rat that didn't flee.... that bothers me.... does that bother anyone else????"


" It looked like it was watching our little battle we just had with those hairless rats.... seems a bit funny to me......" says Marcus....

 

[Kamard]

Well. Using the walkways, you can go back the way you came, or continue on past the rats. I presume this is what you are doing, so in an hour or so, I will continue, unless anyone has a different idea, or wants to do something else.

 

[Kamard]

You continue on past the rats, tossing the third's body into the water as you pass. The reeking smell of the sewer is getting stronger, and you come on to another fast flowing tunnel. Your only option is to turn right, and you do so, following the tunnel another hundred yards or so.

At this point, there is an eerie, greenish-silver light glowing from the water, and the walls are painted in places with gibberish words in the common and dwarvish alphabets. Nothing actually spells what might be a word- there are too many consonants and vowels in rapid succession, and even some numbers and nonsense symbols. The rats are quite thick on the other side of the water here- instead of every hundred feet or so, seeing a clump of them, you see dozens at a time, running about and peering at you with their beady eyes.

The tunnel starts sloping downwards, and at this point, the tunnel breaks away from the edge of the water, heading downwards at a 30 degree angle diagonally away from the water, which continues along behind a wall.

I presume you continue, and thus, after walking down this grade, you come to a large, iron door. There are several symbols drawn on the door in a red chalk, and there is a line which appears to be made of salt drawn at the base of the door. The door is etched with words: "Lower Level".

 

[Priest]

Ashe sighs at the thought of going deeper into the fetid horror of the sewers" I say fellows let us meander back to the rotting rope, by where the fight was to see if we can not open the Ringed trap door or whatever that was."

 

[Vargo]

"Now, just wait a moment here. I'd like to get a closer look at those runes... Besides, that was just a mooring point for a boat."

Vargo peers closer at the runes, but does not touch them.

 

[Jemal]

Arin will approach and look at the markings closer (Though careful not to touch them, or cross over the line of salt). She will see if she can make out any words as recognizable.
(She knows Common, Celestial, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Giant, Goblin, Infernal, Orcish, Sylvan)

 

[Kamard]

Arin- in Sylvan, it reads:

"Those who seek naught but wealth, power, and fame shall find naught but suffering, for the Rats shall again rule their birthrights."