Scene: "They're Ruins! Ruins, I Tell Ya!"

[DinbinFanfoom]

Marching Order:
Damelon
Crashing (torchbearer)
Sigurd
Erik
KT
Lamsi
The party creeps up to the opening and peers down the stairs. The darkness swallows up the light about 20 feet down the incline.

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What now?

[Greebo]

How many torches did we bring with us? Can we afford to toss a lit one down the stairs?

If we've only got half a dozen, we've only got 6 hours of light and can't go wasting them...

[DinbinFanfoom]

How many torches did we bring with us? Can we afford to toss a lit one down the stairs? You each have one. So 6 total. It's funny that this is the first group I've seen that didn't include a wizard. Oh, what unique challenges that poses! :D

You can afford tossing one down the stairs if you feel like retreiving it afterwards, yes. :D

[Greebo]

Ok - light one, toss it down the steps.

[EricStratton]

Does anyone want to not play their toon anymore? We could light them on fire and send them down the steps.

[Greebo]

May the flaming head of Togor light our way!

[DinbinFanfoom]

May the flaming head of Togor light our way!
Shades of Monkey Island, that.

[Shiz]

Adventuring kits include sunrods. Did we lose ours?

[Greebo]

Shipwreck - see previous thread for discussion on same

[Lycos]

Let's go. Sigurd tosses a torch down.

Damelon, check for them trap thingies!

Move out. We're losing torch light. :D

[DinbinFanfoom]

Since there wasn't much detail posted...

Sigurd tosses his torch to the bottom of the stairs. It clunks down through the darkness... spiderwebs flare and melt briefly as it passes. The party moves down, and Damelon detects no traps on the stairs. At the bottom, they find themselves at the edge of a foyer of sorts. Sigurd retreives his torch. The light bounces off bas-relief carvings on the walls... more water motif, it appears. There appear to be four openings leading out of this room... counting the stairs you came down. The western one appears to have caved in, but the north and east ones are open, though dark.

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[Lycos]

Sigurd willl let Damelon check the area for traps, and then he'll take his torch and look down the hallways for a little closer look by looking from the entrance of each hallway.

[Greebo]

What detail were you expecting before we knew what we saw?
KT will continue to stay near the rear, bravely ready to scream like a girl and flee...

[EricStratton]

> Go North

[Lycos]

> Go North

Yeah, we'll go North once we check the other stuff out.


Oh, and Sigurd will check the walls here. Anything of use? Writing? Magic swords and axes stuck in the walls? Magic staffs of Awesomeness lying on the floor. You know the usual.

Oh, yeah. A 15. Come to papa, magic Axe of Destruction. ;)

[Shiz]

I am a bit confused by the tiles. Where can we actually walk?

[Greebo]

I'm guessing that black = not illuminated, redbrown = rubble, and sand = floor we can stand on

So lets advance and peer down each hall

[Shiz]

Ok now I got it.

Yes, let's move in formation to the entrance of the east hall.

[DinbinFanfoom]

Yeah, we'll go North once we check the other stuff out.

Oh, and Sigurd will check the walls here. Anything of use? Writing? Magic swords and axes stuck in the walls? Magic staffs of Awesomeness lying on the floor. You know the usual.
The party moves around the room by torchlight. The carvings are intricate, and all seem to indicate peaceful scenes involving water. Some depict humans bending and drinking at some sort of fountain. Damelon finds no traps. Moving towards the northern opening, the party finds themselves at the top of another wide set of stairs that leads down to another landing... that appears to have an opening in the side and more stairs to the north. The narrower eastern passageway in this main room looks clear, but the western one is completely caved in.
I'm guessing that black = not illuminated, redbrown = rubble, and sand = floor we can stand on.Yes.

[Shiz]

I say east before we go deeper.

[Lycos]

That's fine with me.

[DinbinFanfoom]

Updates will be a bit slower than normal because of the season...

The party moves towards the eastern passage and slowly picks it's way down it. The surface plaster of the walls have crumbled down to dust, but the stone underneath still looks solid. They come to an opening at the end of a short hallway. There must have been a wooden door here at one point... you can see where the door has rotten away and only bits of the frame remain. The doorway opens into a long, north/south oriented room that you can't see the other end of yet due to the darkness.

Map (http://www.primeaxiom.com/rpgt/scene.asp?ID=w2ti7okinetyoy51nuez4on8k6r3get9cwv7c q8ytyl7izogdz7jdgqi136hgz93)

[Lycos]

Move further into the room. Let's look at the room better.

[Shiz]

Damelon motions to Crashing to hold and moves to L6 as quietly as he can.

Ignore the 8-5 on the stealth. It is a straight +8 = 28. Perception = 13.

[Greebo]

I'll take rear guard and stay in the first room.

[DinbinFanfoom]

I'll take rear guard and stay in the first room.
Who's got the torch? Sigurd?

[Lycos]

Yup

[DinbinFanfoom]

Damelon moves further into the room. The light of Sigurd's torch doesn't extend very far, as he's still in the passageway. Damelon sees another opening leading further east, with a crumbling wooden door that looks like it is about to fall off it's rusty hinges. The room he is in extends north, but he can't see much without Sigurd's torch here. The room is deathly silent. To his left and right there appear to be the remains of heavy wooden tables, most of which have collapsed down to the floor. He sees rusty metal objects strewn about as well.

[Greebo]

I'll stay in the rear at the edge of torch light - moving with the torch.

[Shiz]

"Sigurd, bring that torch into this room. All clear."

[Lycos]

Sigurd will move to L8

[Asharad]

I'll check out the rusty metal objects. What dey be?

[Shiz]

Also, Crashing should get the torch for now. If we get attacked, Sigurd needs two hands for his weapon.

[Lycos]

Also, Crashing should get the torch for now. If we get attacked, Sigurd needs two hands for his weapon.

I can hold it in my mouth. :D

Well, if Crashing doesn't mind coming over into the room, that would be good.

[DinbinFanfoom]

As the party moves into the room, Sigurd passes the torch to Crashing (Vengelis theme here) who in turn stoops to examine some of the dusty metal items on the floor. He almost immediately recognizes them as metal dishes and cups. Perhaps this was some sort of dining hall? As the light from the torch spreads a bit, the party can see that the room is longer than they thought... they still can't see the far end.

They do hear some sort of flapping, though.

Initiative!

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[Lycos]

Initiative


6.

[Shiz]

Finally!

Damelon init +3 = 6

[Greebo]

Oh look rats with wings!

[Asharad]

initiative+1

[EricStratton]

Init: 11+2