The Retrievers - Chapter 2

[Elocin]

Chapter 2 - Cave Passageway

Durnn cautiously creeps down the path that the creatures, you think they are kobolds, entered the previous room from. The walls are pretty bare except for the occasional spider web or lizard that scurries away form your approach. The floor is pretty well worn rock so there is not much of a trail that you can follow. The light from Mindal’s torch illuminates about 20' in front of you and past that is complete darkness. As you slide down the passageway with your back against the wall and your Battleaxe out in front of you, looking around the cave for any unknown presence your foot falls into empty air where the floor should be. With a loud crash you find yourself falling through the floor to landing with a thud and the wind knocked out of you for a moment.

Muttering a curse you look up to see Mindal's face peering over the edge of the pit roughly 10' above you, looking down to see if you are alright. With the help of a rope you are easily able to climb your way out of the pit and now that the pit is open you can easily see a small 1' wide path that goes around the pit. Mumbling something about death to all kobolds you continue down the passageway....

[sblock]The pit is located right where Durnn is now on the map. Let me know if you guys want to do any searching while you continue down the passageway and how often. I am also assuming that at least one of you will have a torch as it is pitch black in here and the party is made up of mostly humans.[/sblock]

 

[Harvey]

Durnn, Earth Genasi Fighter 1 (HP 4/13)

Durnn climbs up the rope, but it looks as though he must have landed on his battleaxe the wrong way. "What in the name of..." he mutters as he climbs up Mindal's rope. "Thanks for the assist Mindal... when I find the creatures that dug this hole, I'm gonna..." you hear him mutter under his breath. "You know, maybe someone better suited at tracking should go first." Durnn stands there, and though the rest of you see he's quite close to passing out, he stands silent, as if he is too proud to ask for help.

 

[Scotley]

Durann

"God's that's quite a bruise Durran. I bet it hurts almost as bad as the last hangover I got drinking with you. Maybe some healing would be in order before we continue? I'll take the lead for a bit." Holding his torch aloft Mindal skirts the pit and searching (1d20+2=10) as best he can for more traps, moves another ten feet down the passage while waiting for the others to negotiate the pit and arrange themselves.

OOC: He may not find any traps, but at least it's better than his weather predicting.

 

[tyrlaan]

Koraero Firironna - Sun Elf Rogue 2

Koraero breaks from his position in line and starts following Mindal, somewhat creeping behind him and occasionally looking over his shoulder.

OOC: Koraero does some searching of his own (d20+10, result = 19)

 

[Erekose13]

”Someone mention healing?” Sten replies squeezing by everyone to make it to Mindal and Durnn. He pulls the wand from his belt. ”Here let me take a look.” He says as he uses a charge from the wand to heal the bruised warrior.

 

[Harvey]

Durnn, Earth Genasi Fighter 1

Durnn replies to Mindal: "Let me tell ya, I'd take the hangover over falling in a pit anyday," he says with a chuckle.

As Durnn is healed by Sten's wand, you can see that he feels like a new man... er, a new genasi. "Thanks Sten. I owe ya a drink once we get back to civilization..." Durnn realizes that he hasn't ever remembered seeing Sten drink. "... or how about a good meal" he chuckles.

 

[Mimic]

Reinn Aasimar warmage 1st

Reinn shakes his head slightly at the actions of the others, this wasn't a very well organized group and part of him wanted to take charge and show them how its done right.

But that was just the academy talking unfortunately not everyone had benifitted from such a place, no for now it was best just to stand back, watch and learn. See what these people could do as individuals and as a group, its not like they didn't have potential.

so Reinn stays watching the back as the others cross the pit, only then does he proceed.

 

[Harvey]

Durnn, Earth Genasi Fighter 1

Durnn, still slightly embarassed, takes a position behind Mindal in the marching order, but also prepared for anything that comes out of the darkness for them.

 

[Erekose13]

Sten nods a little too stoicly, "A good hearty meal would be nice." before returning to his place in line. He leaves the front to the warriors, ready to help from where he is.

 

[Elocin]

Chapter 2 - Cave Passageway

The party continues down the passageway with Mindal in the lead, the darkness receding from the light of the torch. Every now and then stopping to see if anyone hears nothing, but the only thing you hear are the party members behind you. Kor suddenly reaches out and grabs Mindal's shoulder stopping him from taking one more sep forward. Mindal looks confused as he sees nothing in front of him, until Kor kneels down and carefully outlines a section of the stone that you can easily see now is some kind of pressure plate. You are not sure what would have happened had you stepped on that plate but you are pretty sure you would not have liked the outcome. Mindal silently thanks Kor and the party moves on. As you come around a turn in the passageway you can see that there is a feint light just up ahead.

Concentrating hard on looking for traps of any kind Mindal, Kor and Durnn fail to hear the commotion from the passageway in front of them. Pemberton, Sten and Reinn frantically and quietly get their attention to stop and at that time they do hear the commotion in front of them. From around the corner they can again hear excited yapping sounds coming from down the passageway.

For those of you who can speak Kobold.
[sblock]<smack>"Would you hurry up and bring the master his food, unless of course you want to be food for his pet."

"Now what is taking ‘gdshahj’ so long to get back here with that prisoner? We can have some fun with it before we feed it to ‘gdasjgj’."[/sblock]

You are unsure of the number of creatures around the corner but you can assume that this is where they live and sleep.

[sblock]
Mindal - Listen=14
Kor - Listen=5
Durnn - Listen=7
Pemberton - Listen=18
Sten - Listen=20
Reinn - Listen=20

Mindal - Move Silently=7
Kor - Move Silently=16
Durnn - Move Silently=7
Pemberton - Move Silently=13
Sten - Move Silently=3
Reinn - Move Silently=12

Kobold - Kobold Listen=4[/sblock]