(YBA) Kalath in Wicht's Tomb Again

[Wicht]

The door is opened by a giant, though not one that Kalath recognizes.

"Come on in."says the giant amiably.

As Kalath enters through the door, a voice booms out, "Its the inspector, on your best behavior boys!" It is Girfang, sitting at an enormous table. There is one other giant in the room, sitting at the table with Girfang. All in all, Kalath feels dwarfed.

The room itself is fairly large, with a twenty foot high ceiling and measurements of thirty by thirty. To the three giants however it probably is fairly small. There is a fireplace in the wall to Kalath's left with a fire burning cheerily in it. There is also a large fifteen foot high door on the wall across from the door Kalath just came through.

 

[graydoom]

"Hey Girfang. Glad to see that you and the rest are doing well, and still doing a good job. Not officially inspecting this time, though... I'm just heading on through. I'll probably be coming back through here sometime later, but it might be after you go off duty."

Kalath nods to Girfang and walks over to the door, opens it and goes through, closing it behind him.

 

[Wicht]

The door handle is seven feet off the ground but Kalath manages to pull on it and get the door to swing open. The giants chuckle at his efforts but make no move to stop or aid him. Kalath exits out into a cobbled street. There are buildings packed close on either side and there are a number of people walking in both directions. "People" being a loose term to describe an assortment of imps, goblins, giants, orcs, kobolds, humans, dwarves and other races. There is a cavernous cieling far, far overhead, lit with an orange fire, suspended in the center of what be an enormous room. There seem to be four pillars arranged, stretching from floor to ceiling at four points of a square around the room. In fact, it appears as if Kalath has just exited one of those pillars. What he had taken for a large room was in reality just a small hole in a very large piece of stone, the top of which it hurts Kalath's neck to see. There are buildings built right up against the pillar on either side. A glance at the buildings on the street reveals that they are of different architectural styles and the doors are of various sizes.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath makes a careful note of where he came out, and keeping careful track of where he walks, he turns left, and starts down the street, looking for any sign of the Whistling Dragon. Kalath will try to look around town a bit for any mention of the Whistling Dragon before he asks someone for directions.

If he can't find any sign of the Whistling Dragon on his own, he attempts to stop someone who doesn't seem to be in a hurry and ask "Could you give me directions to the Whistling Dragon?"

 

[Wicht]

Kalath walks to his left for about a block, passing 8 buildings on either side of him. There appear to be signs over none of them.

There is an intersection at this point with the street continuing on in front of him and another crossing it. Interestingly enough, Kalath still sees no space betwen any of the buildings. As he gazes around he sees that the buildings along the street crossing the one he is on have signs and they seem to be businesses.

Kalath can ask someone (what sort of person?) or he can look around further.

 

[graydoom]

For now, Kalath decides to continue to try to find it on his own, and turns left down the street with businesses that have signs, reading each sign as he passes it.

 

[Wicht]

Turning left, Kalath quickly notices that the fifth building on his right has a wooden sign of a dragon hanging above the door (a giant had been blocking his view of it earlier). The dragon is doing something funny with its mouth and it could well be an artists impression of a puckering dragon. The building is of stone with peeling paint and two windows onthe ground floor, one of which is boarded up. There are dim lights inside and the place looks like a cheap bar, albeit a possible four story cheap bar.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath stops for a moment, trying to remain inconspicious as he watches the people walking down the street, seeing if any of them go into the Whistling Dragon.

After a little bit of walking, Kalath walks up and down the street a bit, staying out of the way and looking at the signs of the other businesses, while trying to keep an eye on the Whistling Dragon.

 

[Wicht]

People are certainly going into and out of the building with the dragon sign. All sorts, though they normally seem a little less steady on their feet coming out. There are several other shops on the street and they appear to sell a variety of things, from potions to weapons and armor to silk fineries. Very few of them have written names but instead they have painted signs with emblems and pictures.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath heads into the Whistling Dragon.