Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult" (IC)

[Yttermayn]

Tuk jostles John a little closer to Rosalia's chest, and she begins to check out the mechanism on its front. After a moment she is satisfied there is no trap and inserts her lockpicks. Almost the moment she puts pressure on her tensioner, she feels something give inside the lock. Small chunks of rusted metal come out when she withdraws her tools. The lock was apparently made mostly of rust. Opening the chest reveals a quantity of gold pieces and garnets. Rosalia quickly estimates about 300 gp worth of each.

Ooc: scrag and Roderic are the only ones to have crossed the river. Everyone else is on the side you all came in on, as is the chest. You all can see each other and communicate across the river, shouting over the water noise, but those on one side cannot directly interact with those on the other without crossing the river.

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Jackpot" says Tuk with a greedy grin in his face.

 

[Amaury]

Rosalia shines as she discovers the treasure: "Mummy, that's a serious number of coins!" she says in a bright smile.
It's as if all this black goo had disapeared in a second.. which makes her think: is it real gold or another of these gooish aberrations?

She picks one coin and taps it on a stone to check its solidity. If satisfied, she places it back and closes the chest. She puts a few strings around it to keep it close and proposes that Scrag carries it.

She then checks where the chest has been found by bringing the torch or John's staff close to it.


OOC: was there anything else with the chest?

 

[Leif]

Grok Half-Orc Cleric2

"One chest was all I saw in water," grumbles Grok.

 

[Yttermayn]

ooc: nOTHING ELSE IN THE CHEST, APPARENTLY. cHECKING THE WATER REVEALS THE SKELETON ONCE AGAIN, BEARING ONLY A FEW SHREDS OF CLOTH and flesh. Sorry for the caps. Too tired to retype.

 

[Leif]

Grok Half-Orc Cleric2

Grok will look carefully at the bits of cloth on the skeleton. Can he recognize a uniform, some insignia, or anything that might give us a clue as to who this person was?

 

[Yttermayn]

The tatters of cloth and flesh turn out to be cloth and leather, any actual flesh having rotted and scoured away ages ago by the action of the river. The leather bits would seem to indicate a lightweight leather armor was once worn by the individual, suggesting this individual may have been a bandit long ago.

 

[Amaury]

Rosalia considers their position and says: "Now what? What do we do? Cross the river and then what.. We don't seem to know what we're after do we?"

 

[Scott DeWar]

"yes, I guess we need to cross the river, no we do not know who or what we are after. Nor do we know how to, uh, 'contain' the menace. Sorry also about the fact that you are going to get very wet and cold as well."

John delivers his message of impending doom to Rosie's beauty with a smile, though he is probably still dripping from his last attempt to cross.

 

[Leif]

Grok Half-Orc Cleric2

Hearing John's words to Rosalia, Grok lets out a longsuffering sigh and says, "These oversexed humans! What's a half-orc to do?!"