The Scattered Ones

[Hollowtree]

Amaryllis wrote :-
> Hollowtree, that's exactly the room Amaryllis is currently looking
> in (why am I starting to get the feeling that my posts are
> invisible). Also, how do you know its a kitchen?

Sorry, I skimmed over your last post and had a failure to synapse.

The room is likely to be a kitchen because of the adjacent common
area with dining facilities, and shelves with stuff on them.

Tomas has a nose for these sort of things <g>.

Morbidity wrote:-
> OOC: Off to GENCON UK on Friday. Looking forward to it.
> Hopefully it will be fun. Everyone have a great chocolate eating
> festival which apparently has some sort of religious
> significance.

Enjoy.

Have a good weekend, all. I will be recovering from the last few
days of overtime. Got to love being a registrar...

I agree largely with Amaryllis' plan i.e. search the area we've
covered, THEN go downstairs.

 

[Atticus_of_Amber]

Neblin shrugs, agrees to Amylaris's suggestion and moves to guard the front door.

 

[Amaryllis]

Thanks DM! The lights will move in a slow clockwise sweep. The lights will be positioned at the corners of a 10 foot square as they do this. They will be (approx) 10 and 20 feet from the boundary wall. Amaryllis will listen out for any word from Seebor as to whether he wishes the lights to be moved.

I think we have a plan for the next round of action (after a mere two weeks!)

 

[Morbidity]

To summarise:

Neblin is apparently guarding the front door ...

An invisible Seebor is going downstairs.

Amaryllis is going to send dancing lights downstairs in a way which she hopes will enlighten Seebor's life ... if not lots of fun with balance checks going down the spiral staircase.

Tomas ... as described earlier you've already investigated this floor and the one above. It was a kitchen with a pantry attached - let me know if you want to investigate more closely.

Namfoodle ... haven't heard from for a while, presumably his master is also enjoying the hours associated with being a medical professional.

Off now, hopefully Luna won't be killed over the weekend and the pagans will appreciate her limericks.

 

[Amaryllis]

Amaryllis is doing a closer search on the ground floor. As I understood it, Tomas was doing a closer search on the first and second floor. For my own part, I am looking under barrels etc.

 

[Malin Genie]

OOC: No - not work problems, server problems. Anyway, seem to be fixed. Still waiting to see what was in those cauldrons - on the assumption nothing explodes too much ...

IC: After satisfying his alchemical curiosity Namfoodle declares that he will follow Seebor downstairs, to provide him with backup and protection from the magic circle. As he starts to descend, the garish stripes on his tunic magically shift colour and shape, reforming to match the patterning of the walls. His small form becomes almost invisible, especially in the strobing shadows of Amaryllis' dancing lights. Remarkably, the fat gnome's footfalls too are close to inaudible.

OOC:
Hide: Take 10 +15 =25
Move Silently: Take 10 +11 =21

 

[Amaryllis]

That leaves no-one to guard the first floor entrance to the crawlways. To fill the gap, Amaryllis will leave Mouse guarding the first floor crawlway and will herself guard the downstairs crawlway (trying to remain hidden).

[Hide = 3+3=6; Mouse has already rolled]

 

[Morbidity]

OOC: Survived GENCON … despite it being incredibly disorganised. More importantly Luna survived and levelled … she’s now level 4. Woohoo!!!! I’m exhausted – very little sleep seemed to happen. On a bright note, I introduced a group of people to Bartok, so the madness can continue to spread. Of course starting playing at 1am and finishing at 5am meant it was all very, very strange.

Namfoodle peers into the cauldrons … to find … nothing except some traces of tar. An intelligence check above (say) 10 will tell you that these cauldrons were likely used to move hot tar from the fire to the open window where it could be poured over individuals who wish to experience being made into a road.

Everyone who is searching … you don’t really find anything. Anything worth having on the top floor was burnt. The main floor contains some cutlery, pots, pans, some cooking stuffs (grains, spices, dried meat, etc). Let me know if you want to take any of this.

Amaryllis and Mouse are guarding the crawlways on the top and main levels. You can see that they extend further down.

Okay, I’m somewhat confused. Amaryllis are you guarding the crawlways … ie nowhere near the spiral staircase and yet you’re sending dancing lights downstairs to light Seebor’s way? I don’t think you can do this. You’d have no idea where he was so you could attempt to correctly position the lights.

Once I know where your lightsource is coming from, everyone who wants to can go down to the next level. Is anyone going to do anything regarding the different coloured step

 

[dorin]

[OOC: congratualtion on leveling up - Gencon sounds very exciting. We may be going with B to Indiana in July!]

Seebor has checked the step for traps - see above.

 

[Malin Genie]

OOC: Just to put an end to the controversy, Namfoodle will use his gnative gnomish dancing lights ability for the trip down the stairs. ASF - rolled 43% (spell succeeds.)