Under Strange Stars II

[Zerth]

"Some of these items are indeed magical. The shield with a lion's head is one; has some conjuration magic in it. I have no clue to what it does, but surely helpful to any warrior, who uses shields. Also, the falchion over there, I sense strong necromancy in it; perhaps a life-drinking weapon? Might be a bane weapon, who knows. This snake staff could be a summoning item. Last, there's the heart-shaped amulet. I have a strong hunch it will increase the wearer's health," the princess concludes her findings on the treasure hoard. "That's about all I can tell, because my repertoire does not include identification spells."

OOC: Amira's levelup is complete and new spells chosen. Should I level up Razeem or will you do it, Someone? He gains one HD (d8), +1 BAB, +1 to all three saves, 7 skill points and a feat (6 HD).

 

[hafrogman]

Menghil spares a glance for the items which Amira explains as magical, but seeing nothing of immediate interest, he returns to ogling the more mundane wealth. After all, gold has a splendor that is nearly magical all by itself. However, it's a lot of coins to move. He returns to the enterance of the cave and looks out for a moment, while trying to maintain cover. From his safe spot he tries to judge the distance to the edge of the plateau, the intact ship, and the nest of birdlings.

[ooc - a map of the plateau would be great, otherwise just a more complete description, please.]

 

[dead_radish]

"Conjuration magics? On a shield? How strange...." *Al-Khazad considers the lion's head with interest.* "Perhaps it conjures a lion from thin air? Or a lion's roar? Is such a thing possible? Is there a way to test its capabilities? As for that amulet, Menghil could do well with that, yes?"

 

[Ashy]

Jagra grabs the snake staff and concetrates upon it, trying to unweave the dweomered threads that wrap and wreathe the object in magic. He tries to imagine summoning a large bird, something strong enough to carry him down from this mountain...

 

[Someone]

[OOC: The cohorts are updated, too]

"Heyrl! I found those, do you realize." says Calzada. "If you know what they do, use them, but I´ll share only if you get me out here!"

Meanwhile Menghil examines the plateau.

At your back lies a rock wall. It continues left and right, spanning about 1500 feet; 100 feet at your left [I said right before: it was a mistake] there´s a big crevasse, some 35-40 feet wide. A stream deep enough to wet your feet runs at it´s bottom: apparently, the water comes directly from the rock wall and above it, and forms a diminutive waterfall. Beyond the crevasse, the plateau continues no more than twenty feet, and 50 in the widest part: the rock wall continues there (so the mountain closes the plateau from two sides)

The other side (thus the plateau is a rough triangle) is from where you came.

There´s no nest: the birds sleep and eat where they want, but for what you´ve seen and learned from Calzada it´s rare they all rest at the same time. The floor is highly irregular; it´s broken in many places, forming cracks (many of them wide enough to hide in them) Also, the ships, rocks and spires interrupt the landscape.

The rock wall continues upwards, to the top of the mountain, wich is not far.

Jagra concentrates hard with the staff in hand, but nothing happens.

 

[Ashy]

Jagra ignores the old man for the moment, thinking to himself, 'If you were worth your salt, or even worth saving, you'd be long gone from here now, cogger!' He hands the staff to Amira and asks, "Can you work this thing? I cannot seem to..."

 

[hafrogman]

Menghil wanders back into the cave and looks around at the others.

"Don't worry, Calzada. You've got enough coinage here to purchase the services of Menghil, sailor extrordanair. I'll carry you down the damn mountain if I have to."

At Al-Khazad's comment his hand goes idly to stoke the golden torque at his neck.

"Keep your necklace, I already got one that helps me out to no end. I'll just settle for plain ol' money. But before we can do anything with any of this stuff, we gotta figure a way to get us and whatever boat parts we need off this mountain top. Amira, could you send your Razeem to check that we still have a boat to go back to, and find out what exactly we need to get from the wrecks. Meanwhile, we can figure out a way to get those birds to pay attention to something other than ourselves. With luck, mommy will still be away for a while. The way I see it, we hurt one pretty bad, and with luck it'll keep off us or at least be slowed down. We wait until at least one of the other two is sleeping, and then we're down to one to deal with. . . if we're quick enough."

He finishes his uncharacteristic speech and sits down on top of the gold pile and gazes towards the front of the cave. Being pinned under that bird's foot had scared him more than anything ever in his life, and he really wasn't anxious to meet their parent.

 

[Someone]

(Sorry, I left a detail out of the description. The crevasse doesn´t end at the plateau´s edge, but it instead continues, cutting the mountain´s flank as far as you can tell or see)

 

[Ashy]

Menghil wanders back into the cave and looks around at the others.

"Don't worry, Calzada. You've got enough coinage here to purchase the services of Menghil, sailor extrordanair. I'll carry you down the damn mountain if I have to."

At Al-Khazad's comment his hand goes idly to stoke the golden torque at his neck.

"Keep your necklace, I already got one that helps me out to no end. I'll just settle for plain ol' money. But before we can do anything with any of this stuff, we gotta figure a way to get us and whatever boat parts we need off this mountain top. Amira, could you send your Razeem to check that we still have a boat to go back to, and find out what exactly we need to get from the wrecks. Meanwhile, we can figure out a way to get those birds to pay attention to something other than ourselves. With luck, mommy will still be away for a while. The way I see it, we hurt one pretty bad, and with luck it'll keep off us or at least be slowed down. We wait until at least one of the other two is sleeping, and then we're down to one to deal with. . . if we're quick enough."

He finishes his uncharacteristic speech and sits down on top of the gold pile and gazes towards the front of the cave. Being pinned under that bird's foot had scared him more than anything ever in his life, and he really wasn't anxious to meet their parent.

Looking up from the pile, Jagra replies, "There's only one problem wit' that plan, Cap'n. If the mother bird comes back, you can bet yer glimmery necklace there that she'll be none too pleased with havin' one of her chicks hurt. By my reckonin', if we're not gone by then, we likely not make it out after..."

 

[dead_radish]

*Al-Khazad steps up past to Menghil to survey the area as well.* "Those crevasses, though - they're small enough - surely we could use them to avoid the birds? Amira certainly has magic enough to hide us from sight?"