The City Beautiful

You can feel the growing heat, and the coughing is clear amidst the screaming in the hall.

Ralan holds his breath and shoves through the crowd, now having an easier time of it.

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He reaches Sparrow taking a look at the pushing crowd, and the few people shoving into an alcove he makes for there instead, dragging Sparrow with him. Sparrow gets a breath of somewhat fresh, if fragrant air and recovers.

Ralan and Ozon are now standing next to a human coughing and trying to keep the way into the alcove clear. Smoke is now filling the alcove as well. Ozan, still trying to direct others breathes in a lungful of smoke and starts coughing. None of the other strangers nearby seem to be concerned with anything but themselves. Two climb down quickly- while the third is coughing helplessly. Two more humans holding thier breaths try to push past Ozon, Ralan and Sparrow to reach the alcove. You can tell that that only 2 or 3 people can climb down each round.

Below Thaimon helps the eldery gentleman out of the sludge, his leg obviously broken. "Da help me." he murmurs and with a gesture, his leg heals completely. The light begins to fade as it moves away. There isn't much light for humans down here, but you can see a little.
The dwarf who just came down calls out - "there is a ladder to the north" and points away from the light.

OOC: Ralan Str 20. Sparrow sv 20, Tote sv 11, (1 pt nonleathal damge) Ozan sv 12
Neither Tote nor Ozan can act next round.
maps are made with the {code} tags


Code:
Large Map X=10’ 

^exit 
|Stage -> blocked exit 
.XXXX
.SXXX 
.XXXX=p
.XXXX 
.XXXX
.XXXX
.XXXX
  Fire  

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Small map . = 5' 

...R|            Ralan 
...O=.bp     Ozon,entreance, coughing bystander, privy
.bbT|        Pushy bystanders, Tote 
....|
....|
 
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Kneeling, coughing his lungs off and crying because of the smoke, Ozan understands he´s done all what he´s able to do and it´s time to climb down to the sludge.
 

Thaimon dithers only a moment over his next action. Grabbing the next person who slides down the rope by the arm, he whispers, "There's no need to panic. There is a way out over there. Stay here and help the rest down." [diplomacy +2] He gestures towards the ladder the old man refered to.

Then, drawing his rapier in one quick motion, he goes running down the tunnel in the opposite direction. Towards the fast fading light. He tries to keep silent, but will not sacrifice any speed in his pursuit. [move silently +8] Gado, his lizard familiar, clings to his neck, darting his overly large eyes in every direction at once, alert for anything unusual. [listen, +5; spot, +4]
 
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OOC: Editing to remove Sparrow (see OOC thread). This post rewrites part of the previous round. After SG posts we will have to wait for an alternate/new player.

When Ralan reaches the point he last saw Sparrow she is gone, craning his neck he sees that she has pushed her way close to the free exit. Looking at the crowd, and smoke he realizes that he may never make it to that exit, his only chance now is the alcove.
 
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Seing that Sparrow is too far, Ralan extends his hand to the human that is coughing helplessly. With an almost distant tone, he says: "come friend, this is no time to stay put".

He then heads to the alcove to get out. [OCC: How long would ralan need to wait for his turn down the rope? Can Ralan see the bottom of the opening? Could he jump (using catfall)? If the wait is more than 1 round and if people are getting violent, he'll jump]
 

Being out of immediate danger himself, Miraln (the elderly gentleman) will stay where he is , ready his crossbow and look around [spot +2], in case this sewer sports dangers of its own. If he could, he readies an action to shoot any sewer aberrations that come within range.

Miraln mentally goes through his inventory of spells and find nothing that could help those above. And he is certainly not climbing back up again - it mightn't be just a leg next time. He mentally shrugs... *I'm sure they could take care of themselves.*

[OOC: symbols: *thought*, "speech",
OOC: .]

[OOC: can he see any of the others above?]
 
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Above –
Ralan you grab the humans hand and help him up, pulling him into the alcove. Unfortunately the act of speaking is too much and you inhale, coughing helplessly. The two people push past you, knocking down the man coughing helplessly by the privy and both climb down the rope. Both Tote and Ozon recover this round and can use 5’ steps to enter the alcove. Ralan you are standing at the edge, while Tote is behind you and then Ozon.

Ooc Saves Ralan 11(Failed), Ozon 21(recovers), Tote 16 (recovers) Only two can climb down the rope, in a round, more can make it if they jump. Jumpers would have to go first or endanger climbers. You can fast climb at penalty.


Below
The man Thaimon grabs pulls away and without a word heads for the exit. You notice his nose has been broken repeatedly. Thaimon runs down the hallway, silent until his footing slips – and he splashes into the sewage channel – only ankle deep. From around the corner there is a cry of pain and a flash of multicolored light. [sblock] a low sonorous chant preceded the flash but you couldn’t make it out (spellcraft 10) [/sblock]

Miraln you caught a glimpse of the light, and you can see Ralan above you coughing.
Anything dangerous is defiantly in the direction the elf went.

Ooc: Thaimon Balance 9, Move Silently 14
 

Ralan will jump to let the others climb down.

[OCC: If the fall is less than 10 ft. (and he can see the bottom) Ralan will do a tumble check and jump. If not, he'll use Catall.]
 

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