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Ok, so its like a big soup bowl!</div> <div> Docportal: My spelling is a little off tonight.</div> <div> revrat235: sorry, couldn't resist</div> <div> Dukejr01: Crockhunter?</div> <div> Missiledine: you beat me to it</div> <div> Docportal: Ok now for the Red tape to start.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Now, Iham gonna to stick me hand into thees cage full of rabid, unfed Ghouls! Now, thees ees reeeeslly Stupid!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Crikey!</div> <div> Docportal: "No we are just opening a coffen tonight.</div> <div> Missiledine: lol</div> <div> Dukejr01: That was my best Aussie accent</div> <div> Missiledine: not too bad</div> <div> revrat235: and a lovely one at that.</div> <div> Missiledine: let me open a couple files and we'll get on to the dismemberment part of the evening's entertainment</div> <div> Docportal: Now to let the blood and gore start.</div> <div> Dukejr01: test</div> <div> Docportal: <Has red tape started I want to fill the others in on what the letters read.></div> <div> Docportal: <passed></div> <div> Missiledine: Everyone ready to rumble!?</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. that is one of the next things to do, we should also look at the maps</div> <div> revrat235: all set.</div> <div> Dukejr01: good to go</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, when we closed you were trying to decide on what to do with a coffin you had found</div> <div> Missiledine: what is your plan?</div> <div> Docportal: "Take everything out of the room other than the coffen and lock the doors."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes over to the torture equipment. So any hide a secret exit or bolthole?</div> <div> Missiledine: There are some big things in the room, pillory, table etc... Do you take those out?</div> <div> Docportal: What way dose the doors open?</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren. If there is anything behind the stuff, its not obvious to you</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren tries to shift and push things. he is going to look for hidden catches and secret opening on the walls.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Those fellows have to be somewhere. maybe they hid in the storeroom."</div> <div> Docportal: "No we checked there already."</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren. You aren't finding anything</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Docportal: "Everyone help me with the table. I want to put it over the Coffen."</div> <div> revrat235: I stand up and run a hand through my hair</div> <div> revrat235: "so,,,"</div> <div> Missiledine: <Its all still there></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren scratches his head. "Okay. lets assume that those fellows came down here and released the ghouls. I head chains rattle and a bang of some kind</div> <div> before the ghouls came. Where did they come from and were did they go?"</div> <div> Docportal: "Did you check the other rooms like I was in?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Can that gate with the chain be used to block the passage from here to the cells as well as the stair up to the bedroom?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Yes. that is another thing to check."</div> <div> Missiledine: "Well," Rolb rubs his chin, "Mebbe Sharkey has neh problem cavortin with ghoulies, but the sword swingers that be werkin fer im</div> <div> dunno seem the type..."</div> <div> Docportal: "I want the table over it to make nose if something try to get out."</div> <div> Missiledine: <Yes it can></div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb will help you push it over</div> <div> Dukejr01: "So the ghouls were shut up in this passage guarding the storeroom and this room, then were released by the escaping men to attack me....."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "... That would mean that they stayed in the stairway going up into the bedroom."</div> <div> Docportal: Ok me and Rolb push the table over the coffen.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes to the stairs. he checks them for secret ways out.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Aye, seems like... At least till the ghoulies were past."</div> <div> revrat235: "wait- But who released them?</div> <div> revrat235: "and are there more likely to be coming for us?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "We are missing a couple of Sharkey's men who we thing fled somewhere.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Yes. the Necromancer got away and not all his troops wre here when we hit the place."</div> <div> Dukejr01: thing think</div> <div> Dukejr01: =</div> <div> Missiledine: "They may ave snuck out durin all the fighten... "</div> <div> Docportal: "Another idea, Unlikily as it my be the Coffen may be a stairs also."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Was the front door barred when we originally went took that room?</div> <div> revrat235: I heard a penny dredful where that happened once- the secret passage was built under an altar.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Hmm, I dunno ken abot that... It'll get bloody damp if ye dig much lower."</div> <div> Missiledine: Not barred,</div> <div> Dukejr01: locked?</div> <div> Missiledine: <I don't recall you trying it></div> <div> Docportal: <Oh great all this work and they got out the front door.></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren has been in and out of that door looking for equipment and hauling our zombie bodies.</div> <div> Dukejr01: and Dawn was there watching the front door the whole time</div> <div> Missiledine: <Good point... No it was open></div> <div> Missiledine: yes, she was</div> <div> revrat235: "Well, if you'll excuse me for a moment, I'm going to outfit myself with some better weaponry" (I start prepping more flaming arrows</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. When did we leave the front door unwatched?</div> <div> Missiledine: <PCs under GM control are never as reliable as PCs under player control!></div> <div> Docportal: <yap></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren gathers up some stuff from the table the bottles etc and goes upstairs.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren puts the bottles and such on a table and goes outside.</div> <div> Docportal: I take a few moments to change back in to my own armor.</div> <div> Dukejr01: he then goes to look at teh boats to see if any are missing</div> <div> Missiledine: <There were several points during the respective fights when Dawn's attention wavered.></div> <div> Missiledine: There appears to be a dugout missing if your memory serves</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren returns to the manor</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Dugout missing."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Can Dawn take a look at these bottles and see if any are magic? does anyone know anythign about alchemy?</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb muses, "I be wonderin, why don't those bloody undead attack their boats when they float on by?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Probably all called onto the island to fight us.</div> <div> Docportal: "I would think there is something on the buttom that tells them it is one of theres."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Lets loot this place and get the hell out of here. I want to look in that coffin. I suspect the Hunchback is in it"</div> <div> Docportal: ""Hold off on openning it just yet. I want to be ready as I can be."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Since Ashley is not here to run Dawn, can DAwn look at the bottles to see if any are magic?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, she does, she says that two are</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. how about the one found in the cubby?</div> <div> Docportal: I hand her my one bottle.</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, that too</div> <div> Dukejr01: does she know anything about alchemy?</div> <div> Dukejr01: arethese all one dose bottles?</div> <div> Missiledine: She says that they look like potion bottles to her But she is not an alchemist</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren takes a look at the big jug of blood, could it be troll blood?</div> <div> Missiledine: Hard to tell</div> <div> Dukejr01: "I am wondering if this is human blood or something used to make healing elixiers."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "What do those papers say?</div> <div> Docportal: Oh yeah...</div> <div> Docportal: 1st one. "the three are letters to Sharkey asking how operations are proceding and for a full report"</div> <div> Docportal: "The writer wants to know how many skeletons and zombies have been made, armed and armored etc..."</div> <div> Docportal: "The next letter wants to know if the "delivery" was received safely"</div> <div> revrat235: Does that mean that the person behind all this is not actually even behind all this?</div> <div> revrat235: Egad.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Sharkey has toes to the Scarlet Cult"</div> <div> Docportal: "Threed is lot of numbers and stuff that dose not make sice."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Take a look at those maps. see what is on them. is there anything that matches the third letter?"</div> <div> Docportal: "I show Corren the page with numbers on it also look at the map."</div> <div> Missiledine: The letters seeking status reports are signed "KROLL" The one asking about the delivery is a different hand writing and paper, it is</div> <div> signed with a red circle/seal about 3" in diameter</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren is LOOTING the place while this is happening. pack up silverware etc.</div> <div> Missiledine: gotcha ya</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Anyone know anythign about heraldry?"</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb grunts, "A bit."</div> <div> Docportal: I too will loot... Weapons and things small enought to carrie.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Anyone know carpentry or woodworking?</div> <div> Missiledine: the maps are of the southern area of Argentium, the region around Lendale and west to Drunmore... There appears to be nothing too</div> <div> odd about them, except that they have a familiar looking seal in the corner</div> <div> revrat235: a little.</div> <div> revrat235: just enough to do some work around the house.</div> <div> Dukejr01: I was thinking we can turn a couple of those dugouts into twin hull rafts. put a couple planks between them and pile stuff on top.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb looks at the circle, "Neh, ave nevbbit seen thot befer."</div> <div> revrat235: "Well, I certainly think that all that time chained to a wall is worth some compensation- I'd like the chance to come away from this with some plunder.</div> <div> Missiledine: "But this..." He points to the maps "That be an Ordance Seal of the Royal Army. These are issued to senior officers."</div> <div> revrat235: We'll need rope, timber, nails, and some tools.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Anything on the map mark anything in the Palood?</div> <div> Missiledine: there is a red dot roughly where you think you are at present</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Senior officers..... maybe who command a troop of Royal cavalry.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Mebbe."</div> <div> Dukejr01: anything else in the Palood?</div> <div> Missiledine: no, nothing</div> <div> Dukejr01: "What village did Sharkey keep his girlfriend?"</div> <div> Docportal: I go to the store room and grab as much of the weapons and such. Take a load out to the boats. Once I have me a boat I pull one of the</div> <div> others to shore and flip it.</div> <div> revrat235: But why would a necromancer have papers with the seal of the Royal Ar-</div> <div> revrat235: uh oh.</div> <div> Missiledine: Doc...When you roll the row boat over, no easy task by the way, you find three parallel white lines running the width of the hull</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren says to Rolb. "We are hurting. think I should take a taste of one of these potions to see if its a healing potion?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: <good thinking Doc></div> <div> revrat235: do you think tat's wise?</div> <div> Missiledine: <Neuss, the town Sharkey has a girlfriend in></div> <div> Missiledine: "I dunno ken, lad. Seems a tad risky."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "No, but I am barely fit to fight, niether is he (corren jerks a thumb at Doc's charactor) and the elf is out"</div> <div> Docportal: <It is vance right now></div> <div> Dukejr01: "WE are going to need everyone's blade and back for the trip out of here. No doubt Sharkey has a contingency plan"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Aye, but a dose of poison shan't do us any good either."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Aye."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren lots the place. how many boats do we have?</div> <div> Dukejr01: llots</div> <div> Dukejr01: loots</div> <div> Docportal: loot till I drop.</div> <div> Dukejr01: are there anty other outbuildings?</div> <div> Missiledine: "Might be better ta hole up ere fer a day or two till we heal asome. Plenty of food."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "WE should be ready to leave in a hurry."</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, two out buildings... one of which you think is the storeroom</div> <div> Docportal: "Ture and also hard to get in to the place if we lock the doors."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Okay. Corren will go investigate the other one. Anyone want to come?</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren is all for rest. </div> <div> Dukejr01: "I think we need to deal with teh coffin"</div> <div> revrat235: I'll go.</div> <div> Docportal: "No, I most find some oil fist. I have some nastly Ideas."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Okay. Corren and Thotin Who-wants-to-be-unchained go toteh other outbuilding</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, the other out building is also of log, daubed with mud and clay. There is a door, but no windows</div> <div> Missiledine: the roof is of wood</div> <div> revrat235: I aim an arrow at the door</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren looks at the door. locked?</div> <div> revrat235: "okay, open it"</div> <div> Missiledine: it has a padlock on the outside</div> <div> Docportal: Can I find oil?</div> <div> Missiledine: in the store room, yes</div> <div> Dukejr01: reinforced door?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren tries the key he found on the padlock</div> <div> Missiledine: nope</div> <div> revrat235: I think I still have a key</div> <div> Dukejr01: steel latch?</div> <div> Missiledine: <By the way, Rolb wants that key when you are done with it></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren hands it to him</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Try yours"</div> <div> Missiledine: the lock is steel, the hasp... hard to say</div> <div> Docportal: I take some to each room.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok Vance</div> <div> revrat235: I try the key</div> <div> Missiledine: Thorin, your key doesn't work either</div> <div> Dukejr01: did we find a thord key somewhere?</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. Try the key that Doc found</div> <div> Missiledine: nope</div> <div> Dukejr01: hmmmm.......</div> <div> Docportal: <I have one but I think it only will work in the door with the coffen behind it.></div> <div> Dukejr01: <it was worth a shot></div> <div> Missiledine: correct</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren searches the armoirs for keys while he loots them</div> <div> Docportal: Ok once I have move the oil around. I look for more Cubbies in the floors and walls of each room.</div> <div> Missiledine: didn't find any others</div> <div> Docportal: <who?></div> <div> Dukejr01: Look on the walls in the dining/entrance room</div> <div> revrat235: I think we're back to he 'big key'</div> <div> Missiledine: <I'm getting a lag in res[ponse></div> <div> Missiledine: <Sorry, Corren didn't find any other keys></div> <div> Missiledine: Vance, you poke around the different rooms for secret panels etc.. That will take some time</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Maybe we should investigate the coffin"</div> <div> revrat235: I'm game.</div> <div> revrat235: Or maybe just suicidal.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb shrugs, "Aye."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "I don;t want a vampire stalking us at night, is all"</div> <div> Missiledine: It's been over an hour since the end of the fight</div> <div> Dukejr01: still light out?</div> <div> Missiledine: another two hours or so till sundown</div> <div> revrat235: where's the nearest route outside?</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. Corren opens the doors and props them open so we have a clear shot at getting the coffin outside.</div> <div> Missiledine: down the tunnel to the steps to the bedroom, then up and out the back door</div> <div> Docportal: "Any body have holy water on them????"</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. but that turns more corners, yes?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "No"</div> <div> Missiledine: lot of corners, but the sortest route</div> <div> Missiledine: shortest</div> <div> Docportal: "You all of are loads of helps"</div> <div> revrat235: Did anyone notice any big mirrors anywhere?</div> <div> Missiledine: nope</div> <div> Dukejr01: how many crossbows do we have lying about that they used on us when we were busting in?</div> <div> Docportal: "Every body get a wood stick out now."</div> <div> Missiledine: between the arsenal in the store room and the ones from the dead, seven</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Who can use a crossbow?"</div> <div> Docportal: "I can"</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb can</div> <div> Dukejr01: load those crossbows up and set them ready.</div> <div> Missiledine: <DX-4 default></div> <div> Dukejr01: okay./ loaded crossbows. stakes. doors propped open, torches ready. anything else?</div> <div> Docportal: I get 4 of them and set them up and have them loaded. Find as many bolts as I can.</div> <div> revrat235: Pray.</div> <div> Dukejr01: lets chain the coffin closed</div> <div> Docportal: <I have a skill of 15 in crossbow and fast draw on arrows/bolts></div> <div> Missiledine: "ye only need four bolts." Rolb says, "Ye'll not be reloadin if there be a blood sucker in yon box!"</div> <div> Missiledine: <Still need to cock the cross bow</div> <div> Dukejr01: <you need speed load crossbow too></div> <div> Missiledine: "Chain it shut?" Rolb asks "Dunno we want te see the inside?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "for the trip to the sunlight."</div> <div> Missiledine: "Ah!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. ready?</div> <div> revrat235: ready.</div> <div> Docportal: Ok I do what every they want me to do. and have at lest one crossbow in hand. "Ready!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren wil carry one end. </div> <div> Missiledine: you can find some chain... Rolb takes the key you gave him and collects the padlock it fits.. Uses that to secure the chain</div> <div> Dukejr01: cool</div> <div> Dukejr01: can;t hurt. might help</div> <div> Missiledine: He will pick up the other end... The coffin is well made, but is not very fancy... Looking at it you would guess that it has been buried at</div> <div> one time</div> <div> Dukejr01: We heft the coffin and fst walk it to the outside. "Ready... steady... go!"</div> <div> revrat235: "there was a time in my youth when i dreamed of adventure</div> <div> Missiledine: The box is heavy, but you can't decide if that is the workkmanship or the contents, if any</div> <div> revrat235: "Now I think it's overrated.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren would respond to that if he could spare the breath</div> <div> Missiledine: <lol></div> <div> Docportal: I look at the floor quickly make sure there is not a hole where the coffin was.</div> <div> revrat235: I'm keeping an arrow at the ready and following them</div> <div> Missiledine: Getting it up the steps to the bedroom proves impossible, the stairwell is curved. "They must ave brought it te other way!" Rolb grunts</div> <div> Dukejr01: go the other way.</div> <div> Missiledine: no hole that you can see</div> <div> Dukejr01: <which I thought was the best way anyway></div> <div> Docportal: Ok then I follow them try to stay aimed at the coffin.</div> <div> Missiledine: Up through the tunnel, stepping over the ghoul body, you climb the steps</div> <div> Missiledine: About halfway up Rolb stops, "Bloody Hell!" He curses suddenly</div> <div> revrat235: what?!?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "faster"</div> <div> Docportal: I look around to tire to see what he is cursings about.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Where's the other ghoul?!" He snaps, looking downstairs</div> <div> revrat235: poop!!!</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Shit"</div> <div> Missiledine: There is only one ghoul body on the cellar floor</div> <div> Docportal: Oh shit</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes faster. who is in front?</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb</div> <div> Missiledine: He climbs</div> <div> Dukejr01: who is in front front?</div> <div> Dukejr01: one guy in front, then box, then last guy, I thought</div> <div> Missiledine: Thorin is following</div> <div> Docportal: One of us crossbow men is in front of you.</div> <div> revrat235: I've got the rear</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance is in front!</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Docportal: Great.</div> <div> Missiledine: <lol></div> <div> Dukejr01: "Point your crossbow forward, Vance"</div> <div> Docportal: I aim forwards. and "pray loudly!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: and move your ass</div> <div> Docportal: I move as fast as I can but looking for some beast that will eat me.</div> <div> Missiledine: Ok... Vance... you come out the cellar door in time to see, to your left, the ghoul reaching the top of the steps to the balcony... <Dawn</div> <div> is with you> </div> <div> Dukejr01: "We should dismember the other one when we get the chance."</div> <div> revrat235: <do I have a clear shot?></div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb, also seeing this shouts "The Elf! It'll kill im fer sure!"</div> <div> Missiledine: no Thorin</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance does tho</div> <div> Docportal: I try to hit my self with the bow.</div> <div> Docportal: Try to hit it with the shot.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Ehhhh, what?></div> <div> revrat235: ?</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren proceeds out the front door.</div> <div> Missiledine: You only have time for a snap shot</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Go after it"</div> <div> Docportal: Shoot the dam thing.</div> <div> revrat235: Go vance!</div> <div> Missiledine: you shoot... and miss. The bolt 'wangs' off the wall behind the beast</div> <div> Missiledine: The ghoul enters the room with the unconscious elf</div> <div> Dukejr01: "GO AFTER IT!"</div> <div> Docportal: I follow it droping the crossbow and pull my swords as I run.</div> <div> revrat235: where in the hell did you learn to shoot?</div> <div> Dukejr01: <I think you should shut up and go after it></div> <div> Missiledine: You charge up the steps and into the room in time to see the Ghoul leap onto the unconscious elf, it's muzzle at his throat! <One</div> <div> chance here, or the elf dies!></div> <div> Docportal: use running.</div> <div> revrat235: I run up the steps</div> <div> Docportal: hack the head off.</div> <div> Dukejr01: <Called shots have a lesser chance of hitting></div> <div> Missiledine: you attack, hacking at the head...</div> <div> revrat235: I take aim at the ghoul</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance is between you and it</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance... You miss</div> <div> revrat235: Get down!</div> <div> Missiledine: the ghoul, blood dripping from it's muzzle, turns on you and leaps at you</div> <div> Docportal: I drop to the floor</div> <div> revrat235: I shoot</div> <div> Missiledine: you hit</div> <div> revrat235: I fast draw another arrow</div> <div> Missiledine: the arrow takes the ghoul in the chest and sends it tumbkling backwards onto the bed</div> <div> Missiledine: and onto the elf... It is still thraashing about tho</div> <div> Docportal: I roll over and try to stay out of the way and ready my swords</div> <div> Missiledine: ok Vance... Thorin?</div> <div> revrat235: Ill shoot again</div> <div> Missiledine: your fast draw was good... You aim?</div> <div> revrat235: I aim for the side, try to knock it off balance</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> revrat235: 1 sec</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Missiledine: you hit it (Critical success!)... It jerks once and lays still</div> <div> Docportal: I grab it and pull it off the elf. and cut it to pices.</div> <div> revrat235: I fast draw again</div> <div> Missiledine: it seems to be dead</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance hacks it to bits</div> <div> revrat235: I still ready an arrow</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> revrat235: "is it dead?</div> <div> revrat235: "is it dead?"</div> <div> Docportal: "You go take care of the other one. then come back and help me with the elf."</div> <div> Missiledine: <It was dead when it was moving!></div> <div> revrat235: "It came right at us!"</div> <div> Docportal: As soon as I am done hacking it to bits. I check the elf.</div> <div> Missiledine: you are starting to feel a bit woozy again</div> <div> revrat235: " I do not like this. I DO NOT like this one bit."</div> <div> revrat235: "ARE YOU SURE IT'S DEAD?</div> <div> Missiledine: The elf looks terrible... in addition to his bandaged wounds he has several fresh ones... The elf's breathing is ragged and irregular... it</div> <div> stops</div> <div> Docportal: "It is dead when it attack us."</div> <div> Docportal: First aid fast. Mouth to mouth.</div> <div> revrat235: I do NOT like this- i need to sit down for a minute.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Mouth to mouth? Hmmm...></div> <div> Docportal: I yell as loud as I can. Corren, Rolb I need you help now.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Can Corren hear that?</div> <div> revrat235: "mummble <stare at the floor> mutter mumble..."</div> <div> Missiledine: <Ok Doc, you had a REALLY good First Aid Roll, and Fin made his HT roll... He starts to breath again... Barely></div> <div> Dukejr01: <whew></div> <div> Missiledine: Yes you hear it... The coffin is outside now</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren puts the coffin down.</div> <div> Docportal: "Quickly I need your help with the elf"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Shit. I will guard the coffin. here. givethe elf this." corren hands his last healing grass to Rolb"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Hmmmph, Aye." He goes up to the elf</div> <div> Missiledine: <Grass or tea?></div> <div> Dukejr01: tea</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> revrat235: I go to see if I can help the elf</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb comes in with a small flask. ere, pour that doun es throat." He hands you the flask</div> <div> revrat235: okay</div> <div> Missiledine: you trickle it down the unconscious elf's throat... after a few minutes he looks a bit better, but he is still out</div> <div> Docportal: Ok I let the others take care of the elf and take the remans of the beast in the room down to the other one. Put oil on them both and</div> <div> burn them.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren sits down and rests</div> <div> revrat235: I sit down next to the elf.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok...both Ghouls seem to be history</div> <div> revrat235: " I don't know what else we can do for him.</div> <div> Docportal: "I call out to the others any more undeads I need to burn???"</div> <div> Dukejr01: make a fire outside.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb will come back outside.."The elf made it." He comments flatly</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren grunts as he stands up.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Lets see what is in here." Corren raises his voice. "Care to join us beforerthe sun goes down?"</div> <div> revrat235: I go outside and start scorunging wood</div> <div> revrat235: for a fire</div> <div> Missiledine: There is a large stack of firewood outside</div> <div> revrat235: I build a fire, then.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Who are you talking to Corren? Your party or the coffin?></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren is talking to Vance and Thorin</div> <div> Docportal: I come out and ready one of the crossbows.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren unlocks the padlock</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will use the boar spear to open the coffin lid.</div> <div> revrat235: I ready an arrow</div> <div> revrat235: and aim into the coffin</div> <div> revrat235: (well technically at it)</div> <div> Docportal: aim at the coffin where the body should be.</div> <div> Missiledine: The lid is slow to open... it takes some effort to lever it up, but then it opens fully</div> <div> Missiledine: It is...... empty</div> <div> Dukejr01: corren reverses his spear and prods he space</div> <div> Dukejr01: the</div> <div> Missiledine: The inside is clean and neat tho, there is a blanket lining it</div> <div> Docportal: I check it for cubby in side it.</div> <div> Missiledine: prodding with the spear shows it to be empty</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Didn;t feel empty"</div> <div> revrat235: "well, I feel that we've accomplished something today."</div> <div> Missiledine: Pulling out the blanket you find no sign of a cubby or false bottom etc</div> <div> Dukejr01: corren sets hte spear aside and looks atthe blanket</div> <div> Docportal: I look at all of the members that are out side with us. "Since we don't have a Holy Man with us. I think we should burn it."</div> <div> Dukejr01: isthere anything on the coffin?</div> <div> Missiledine: The construction is very heavy... When Dawn approaches it she says, "It's enchanted."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Don;t like the sound of that."</div> <div> Docportal: "Ok forget what I jsut said."</div> <div> Missiledine: no markings on, or in the coffin.. The blanket seems ordinary, though well made</div> <div> revrat235: well can we still burn it?</div> <div> Docportal: Less do something with it frist.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Enchanted coffin? yech. Could do anything. Raise undead?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren looks at Vance.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Like what?" Rolb asks Vance</div> <div> Docportal: "Well it is enchanted less put the elf in it. To see if is a healling coffin."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "I think I have seen enough undead for today."</div> <div> revrat235: I've seen enough today for the rest of my natural life.</div> <div> Docportal: I think about it for a few minutes. Then I sit down in the coffin. and close the door.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Well, what are we gonna do with the bloody thing?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Burn it. at night, when the smoke isn;t visable."</div> <div> revrat235: well, i DID already build a fire...</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb says, loudly, "When the lid opens, lay into im, canna take a chance he isnna ghoul or summat!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "This will make a big fire."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren stifles a laugh.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren readies his spear.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren opens teh coffin with his spear again</div> <div> Missiledine: You see Vance laying in it... He looks a bit pale</div> <div> Docportal: "Ok burn it"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "The Church might pay a bounty for somethign like this if it is a necromantic thing"</div> <div> revrat235: "really? They do that sort of thing?</div> <div> Dukejr01: how heavy is it?</div> <div> Missiledine: "Hmmm," Rolb perks up. "Ye might be right!"</div> <div> Docportal: Fine whatevery just chang it shut.</div> <div> Missiledine: You and Rolb managed it with a bit of effort... probably 150lbs +/-</div> <div> Dukejr01: hmmmmm.....</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Lets get busy readying our way out of here. I will geta mace and bash off that lock on the other building.</div> <div> Missiledine: "We should take their boats an leave ours." Rolb suggests</div> <div> Dukejr01: Coren nods.</div> <div> Docportal: "I think that a good idea"</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren, you can't find a mace, but you do find a small sledge hammer</div> <div> Dukejr01: that will do</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren is going to bach that lock off. anyone coming?</div> <div> revrat235: like I said- back to the "big key"</div> <div> Docportal: I will follow corren.</div> <div> Docportal: "What big key???"</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb goes, Dawn will stay with the Elf</div> <div> revrat235: the Big Key- "when reason fails, force prevails"</div> <div> Missiledine: at the door, it takes four or five good whacks to break the hasp</div> <div> revrat235: Every tool is a hammer, and every axe is a great big key</div> <div> Missiledine: <lol></div> <div> Dukejr01: <When all you have is a hammer, all teh world is a nail></div> <div> Docportal: I ready my swords. "Look ready your bow would you."</div> <div> Missiledine: Door opens in</div> <div> revrat235: ready</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren kicks it in.</div> <div> revrat235: aiming inwards</div> <div> Docportal: <Ok what is inside????></div> <div> Missiledine: Beyond is gloomy darkness... the room is full of boxey shapes.. some covered with tarps... You realise, as your eyes adjust, that the</div> <div> room is full of coffins!</div> <div> Docportal: oh shit.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren steps in slowly. checking to both sides. and the cieling.</div> <div> Missiledine: looks like at least twenty</div> <div> Missiledine: nothing to be seen</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren steps in.</div> <div> revrat235: "whatever it was that we were planning to do with that coffin, we need to plan better."</div> <div> Missiledine: nothing happens</div> <div> Docportal: <lol></div> <div> Dukejr01: "I bet he has been looting graveyards."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes over to a coffin.</div> <div> Docportal: "Why keep the coffins?</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb nods, "Aye, these all look to ave been in the ground."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Transport. maybe the undead go BACK in them and are buried in graveyards to await an army later</div> <div> Missiledine: there is still dirt on the coffin</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren drags one out to sunlight</div> <div> Docportal: <I think it is dark></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren asks DAwn. "Is this enchanted?"</div> <div> revrat235: well they needed to get the bodies from somewhere, right?</div> <div> Missiledine: This one is a cheaper and older coffin then the enchanted one</div> <div> Dukejr01: Coren opens it</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn is with the elf</div> <div> Dukejr01: use spear</div> <div> Missiledine: Still daylight for another hour</div> <div> Docportal: Ready swords for anything.</div> <div> revrat235: readying arrow</div> <div> Missiledine: inside is a whithered and decayed corpse dressed in the rotting remains of what appears to be a commoner's 'best' clothing</div> <div> Missiledine: it doesn't move</div> <div> Docportal: I stab at it some.</div> <div> revrat235: ick</div> <div> Dukejr01: "The bastards are looting graves! I bet this is the "shipment!"</div> <div> Missiledine: the blade enters the dessicated corpse... nothing happens</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren looks at Vance. "Save it"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Coren goes in the shed and looks at the coffins. he opens a couple more.</div> <div> Docportal: "ok I just wanted to be sure."</div> <div> Missiledine: all have bodies, in various states of decay</div> <div> revrat235: like I said- they needed to get the zombies from somewhere</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Now what?" we can't just leave these poor bastards here to be reanimated. Then we will have to fight them later"</div> <div> Dukejr01: how many?</div> <div> Docportal: "Yeah but what are we going to do with the bodys?"</div> <div> Missiledine: a full count... 26</div> <div> Dukejr01: can the coffins float?</div> <div> revrat235: Isay we burn em</div> <div> Docportal: I think he is right burn them all.</div> <div> Missiledine: they might float, for awhile... Some are probably too old to float</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren stratches his head.he drags the coffin back inside, he searches the shed some more then closes the door</div> <div> Docportal: I do a quick check all the coffin for loot.</div> <div> revrat235: Look- I'm not a religious man, but it seems to me that burning is a more respectful than just hacking them up.</div> <div> revrat235: and they're both a hell of a lot better that reanimation</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Hmmm... I bet this coffin is supposed to help create zombies out of mitrean corpses.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb says to Vance, "If ye wish to rob them poor bastards, have at it. I'll ave no part of it."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "No Honor in graverobbing"</div> <div> Docportal: "I just what to check something. I am not robbing them."</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb walks away</div> <div> Docportal: "I want to see if they have been looted."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren finishes his search and returns to teh house. lest close up and bar the doors. then Corren will want to search the house thoroughly</div> <div> Dukejr01: was tehree any identification on the coffins? any idea where they came from?</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance... You start opening coffins, you conclude that someone has already done this</div> <div> Docportal: That was what I was thinking.</div> <div> Missiledine: none of the ones you looked at had any Id</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Docportal: Head back for the house.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Top to bottom search of the house. we should also eat</div> <div> Missiledine: plenty of food available... Enough for a hundred men for a couple weeks</div> <div> Docportal: I go back down to where we found the coffin. And burn the undead there after a quick county.</div> <div> Missiledine: you already did that</div> <div> revrat235: and rest- this has been a rather trying day</div> <div> Docportal: I thougth I had only burn the things on the stairs.</div> <div> Docportal: What every. So there is not body in the house that are dead?</div> <div> Missiledine: you burned the two ghouls</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will go search the storeroom for any healing hearbs. you mentioned last time that "most" were for cooking.</div> <div> Missiledine: There are quite a few zombies tho</div> <div> Docportal: I will pull them in to the cells where I was and burn them all.</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, most of the herbs have no medicinal value. You will not find any healing grass</div> <div> Dukejr01: most? </div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb says, "No, ye don't! I'll not have the stink of burnin flesh in the buildin all night!"</div> <div> Docportal: Ok fine then I throw them out the windows.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Burn them outside."</div> <div> Docportal: "In the morning. I will just throw them out for now. They should not come back to life."</div> <div> Dukejr01: we havea fire going already.</div> <div> revrat235: why does that not fill me with confidence</div> <div> Dukejr01: Which ghoul got up? the one Corren fought or the one Rolb fought? why wasn;t it down for good?</div> <div> Docportal: Ture I throw out the window some else get them from under the windows and throw them on the fire.</div> <div> Missiledine: you can find a few things like Jhodal leaves, some Snake Root and Andorra's Hnad</div> <div> Missiledine: Hand</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren takes those.</div> <div> Missiledine: the one you fought</div> <div> Dukejr01: adds them to his medical pack</div> <div> Dukejr01: hmmmm....</div> <div> Missiledine: sorry... no, the one Rolb fought</div> <div> Dukejr01: After a thourough search, corren will eat, then rest a bit,. then strip and wash. take care of his equipment.</div> <div> revrat235: I'm thinking food and a bit of rest\</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, in the hall you have accumulated a pile of loot... weapons, clothes, furnishings, bits and pieces of value, cash... You also have the</div> <div> contents of the store room, the stuff from the torture/coffin room, and the gold</div> <div> Dukejr01: yay!</div> <div> Docportal: I throw bodys out windows and I am taking first watch.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> revrat235: sounds good- I'll eat.</div> <div> Missiledine: <I will come up woth a complete 'take' later></div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Docportal: As I am throwing things out the window. take armor,swords, knifes, and such off the bodies. also is there a way to cover the window</div> <div> where the elf is?</div> <div> Missiledine: As you eat, Rolb says, "So, where has that Albino bastard gotten to? And how are we gonna find him?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "We could check the village he keeps his woman. Also, I am thinking the Army has a traitor in their midst. they might want ot chat with him if we bring</div> <div> proof of his activity. maybe he knows."</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb and Corren pretty much already stripped the dead, its in the pile down in the Hall. All the windows have shutters that can be</div> <div> closed and locked from the inside</div> <div> Dukejr01: do so</div> <div> revrat235: I help lock things down</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, done</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren charpens hos weapons and oils and takes care of his equipment.</div> <div> Dukejr01: he stuff his face with food. he needs to replace his blood.</div> <div> revrat235: < I know where ther's a whole jar full...></div> <div> Missiledine: yummy</div> <div> Dukejr01: <shup></div> <div> Dukejr01: Set watches.</div> <div> Dukejr01: close and lock the storeroom door too</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, Vance has first watch... though he is feeling pretty weak</div> <div> Dukejr01: andthe doors down to the basement</div> <div> revrat235: I'm in the best health- why don't I take first watch?</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will take first with him, then dawn and thorin,. then rolb.</div> <div> Docportal: "Ok that sounds good to me.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb says, "Why don't ye spend the night in the elf's room, just in case."</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay</div> <div> Dukejr01: Actually,. Vance should just sleep the night away</div> <div> Missiledine: "Aye, but if summat happens wit yon elf, e'll be there."</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay</div> <div> Docportal: I eat as much as I can hold then gos to the elfs room.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Where is there shitter? hate for them to sneak in on us thru that"</div> <div> Missiledine: outside, GM fault... There is an outhouse</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Docportal: "Find a corner and use it."</div> <div> Dukejr01: take a crap BEFORE dark</div> <div> Missiledine: lol</div> <div> Dukejr01: look for assholes with spears before sitting too</div> <div> Missiledine: okay... everything is secure, everyone is tucked in....</div> <div> Missiledine: lol</div> <div> Missiledine: It is dark outside</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren takes second watch.</div> <div> revrat235: zzzzzzzzz</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn has first?</div> <div> Dukejr01: Thorin first</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Dawn can take whatever she wants.</div> <div> revrat235: okay</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb third</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn will take third as well</div> <div> Missiledine: ok Thorin... everyone is asleep... The house is very quiet....</div> <div> revrat235: i pace for a while</div> <div> Missiledine: maybe an hour has gone by, when there comes a pounding on the door and a voice cries out "I will see you all burn for this you</div> <div> bastards! Your death's will be long and slow and the torments will last a lifetime!"</div> <div> Missiledine: "I shall have vengence!"</div> <div> Missiledine: there is silence after that</div> <div> Docportal: <Do I here that></div> <div> revrat235: UH UH Uh You guys might want to WAKE THE HELL UP!</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corern get up</div> <div> Missiledine: Everyone hears it, at least parts of it</div> <div> Dukejr01: He graps his shield, sword and spear. then pads up to the top level</div> <div> Docportal: I am up and try to open the window a little. to see who or what it is.</div> <div> revrat235: looks like i'll be redying another arrow</div> <div> Docportal: with sword in other hand.</div> <div> Missiledine: through the cracks of the shutters, you see a bright orange glow outside and catch a whiff of smoke</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren peeks out the window of the top level</div> <div> revrat235: I have bad feeling about this</div> <div> Docportal: "I yell to every one I think he is trying to burn us out!!!"</div> <div> Docportal: I pad up ready for a full fight.</div> <div> Missiledine: the store room is on fire, as is the door below you and, you think, the roof above you</div> <div> revrat235: I open a shutter a crradck and peek out</div> <div> Dukejr01: Can corren see anyone outside?</div> <div> Missiledine: you can't see anyone in the fire light</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. Corren goes to grab his shit</div> <div> Dukejr01: Does Dawn have extinguish fire?</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb has a couple sacks and is bagging loot as fast as he can</div> <div> Dukejr01: <HINT: if yoiu say nothing your charactor does nothing, guys></div> <div> Missiledine: <no></div> <div> revrat235: how high up are we?</div> <div> Missiledine: second floor, maybe fifteen feet</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren helps Rolb.</div> <div> Docportal: I grab my shit and the any thing else I can. Then I grab the elf and hope I don't kill him as I run for where the others are.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Pity abot the stores."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Thought we bagged alot of the loot already</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren shrugs. "Should been ready to ambush the bastard.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Wondering if you'd remember Fin.></div> <div> revrat235: Is it clear to go out the window?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes you did</div> <div> Docportal: <No she dose not have extinguish fire but she has shape fire.></div> <div> Dukejr01: <Can shape fire push a fire away from the house and prevent it from burning it?></div> <div> revrat235: I start tearing the blankets and sheets from the bed to make makeshift ropes</div> <div> Dukejr01: WE have rope</div> <div> Docportal: Lots of it.</div> <div> revrat235: or we could use that.</div> <div> Docportal: <lol></div> <div> revrat235: Dawn- can you shape fire away from the area by the window?</div> <div> Docportal: I look at the elf I am carrieing how dose he look.</div> <div> revrat235: It seems like the fastest way out</div> <div> Missiledine: Yes, she can</div> <div> Missiledine: At the moment the elf is alive</div> <div> Dukejr01: <my question?></div> <div> Missiledine: yes, she can move the fire</div> <div> Dukejr01: <yes, but will that put it out?></div> <div> Missiledine: not right away, if she moves to to where there is no fuel it will go out eventually</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Rolb and I can protect Dawn while she uses her spells on the fire, Thorin cover us.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Good idea?"</div> <div> revrat235: Wait-</div> <div> Docportal: I think so</div> <div> Docportal: "I have move to the room with the others.</div> <div> revrat235: if we go out the window, she can use shape fire to shield us until we get to the boats</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Rolb with me?</div> <div> Docportal: "We would loss most of the loot that way."</div> <div> Missiledine: 'Shield us? From what?" Rolb asks</div> <div> revrat235: well, obviously someone started this fire</div> <div> Missiledine: "Arrows? Spells? Mebbe more undead, but that's all."</div> <div> revrat235: and it's a safe bet they want to see us dead</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb readies his weapons</div> <div> revrat235: they might be waiting for us</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren just acts. opens the front door and sticks a helmet on the tip of his sword out to attract arrow fire</div> <div> Missiledine: "Aye, that be true."</div> <div> Missiledine: Nothing happens</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes out the front door</div> <div> Dukejr01: shield up</div> <div> Missiledine: You charge out... nothing</div> <div> revrat235: okay, plan B- run out the front door</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn and Rolb follow you out</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren moves left</div> <div> Docportal: I follow them out also</div> <div> revrat235: likewise</div> <div> Missiledine: You are outside... Nothing is happening, but the building ias on fire at the roof</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren covers Dawn while she does her thing.</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. we can save the storehouse and use that as a base.</div> <div> Missiledine: <What should she concentrate on? Main house? Storeroom?></div> <div> Dukejr01: if we have looted the main house, then hte storeroom</div> <div> Missiledine: store room it is</div> <div> Docportal: Storeroom </div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren says to Thorin and Vance. "Check the boats"</div> <div> revrat235: i go check</div> <div> Docportal: Should I leave the elf here with you.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren nods.</div> <div> Missiledine: She is able, with some effort, to swwep most of the fire from the roof... dropping it to the ground where eventually it goes out</div> <div> Docportal: I set the elf down and go check the boats.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will takethe elf.</div> <div> Dukejr01: do we have time to save the house?</div> <div> Missiledine: Thorin, Vance... You run down to the dock... The boats that remain have been badly mauled... several are missing</div> <div> Docportal: How many are still there?</div> <div> revrat235: look to see if any are salvageable</div> <div> Missiledine: From across the water in the darkness you hear the same voice call, "You will never leave the Palood!"</div> <div> Missiledine: The voice trails off into laughter that fades away to silence</div> <div> revrat235: how close is the voice?</div> <div> Missiledine: at least a hundred yards</div> <div> Dukejr01: Coren rolls his eyes</div> <div> revrat235: I fire an arrow in the general direction</div> <div> Missiledine: It will take a fair amount of work to fix any of the rowboats</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, it vanishes into the darkness</div> <div> revrat235: <but it made me feel better></div> <div> Missiledine: lol</div> <div> Docportal: Can we save the house?</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn saves the store room... And gets the fire out on the roof, but not before a lot of damage to the third floor is inflicted</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> revrat235: now what?</div> <div> Dukejr01: is there any door on the third floor we can secure?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, at the top of the steps</div> <div> Dukejr01: corren will go up there and look around before closing and locking it</div> <div> Dukejr01: then he gets a few pieces of lumber and nails it shut</div> <div> Missiledine: there is still a lot of glowing timbers and smouldering wood... Dawn's spell hasn't doused it, only dispersed the active fire</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren wil lget some buckets of water and end it</div> <div> Missiledine: The good news, maybe, is that it looks like it may rain later</div> <div> Dukejr01: its not my house</div> <div> Missiledine: true</div> <div> Docportal: I go down to the boats and pick the one in the best condsion to be fix and pull it in to the house.</div> <div> revrat235: I'll help</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes gets the others</div> <div> Missiledine: ok... you might be able to salvage parts from the others</div> <div> Missiledine: others?</div> <div> Missiledine: Other boats?</div> <div> Docportal: ok we do so.</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. oull any and all boats and dugouts up</div> <div> Dukejr01: pull</div> <div> Missiledine: the dugouts are gone... all the row boats at the dock are smashed or sunk or missing</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Can we make a log raft out of the wall of the storeroom or house?"</div> <div> revrat235: we can manage something- it will take a day or so though.</div> <div> Docportal: Check other building quickly. If noting else lets use the coffins as building parts.</div> <div> Missiledine: need dry wood for that, these logs are pretty old and have almost petrified under their clay and lime</div> <div> Dukejr01: interior wood?</div> <div> revrat235: Yes- the coffins!</div> <div> Missiledine: that building is untouched</div> <div> Docportal: what about bodys?</div> <div> Missiledine: lot of intwerior wood</div> <div> Dukejr01: is any of the interior wood useful for boatbuilding?</div> <div> revrat235: We can empty the coffins, lash them together, and make a huge raft!</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb says, "Go check our boats! We landed on the side of the island, maybe they missed them!"</div> <div> revrat235: I mean, we were just going to burn them right?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Good idea"</div> <div> Dukejr01: is there white paint for their bottoms?"</div> <div> revrat235: ?</div> <div> Missiledine: Your boat, and the one Fin stole and paddled ashore are still there, apparantly untouched</div> <div> Docportal: Cut the buttoms out of the others.</div> <div> revrat235: why white paint?</div> <div> Missiledine: cut what?</div> <div> Dukejr01: "because that is what they have on the bottom of their boats to tel lthe undead not to attack"</div> <div> Missiledine: <Dawn is wiped out for Fatigue</div> <div> revrat235: i see...</div> <div> Dukejr01: Lts set up watch. again. let Dawn sleep</div> <div> Docportal: "If we need the marker for the bottom take it from the dead boats."</div> <div> Missiledine: "The skeletons rest on the bottom of the lake and the streams... They attack boats passin above." Rolb explains</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will go get our boats.</div> <div> Missiledine: the rest of the night passes quietly</div> <div> revrat235: zzzzzzzzz</div> <div> Docportal: I ask the others "Will the boats we have hold us and the loot?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. in the morning. we busily make up for lost time,. eat an enourmous amount of food. then repair the other boat as much as possible</div> <div> Missiledine: of the two boats you brought into the Palood, one, the damaged one, is on the otherside of the lake</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. for get that one for now.</div> <div> Missiledine: you have your good boat, and one of Sharkey's boats still intact</div> <div> Dukejr01: 2 good boats. can we salvage something from the smashed ones?</div> <div> Missiledine: you can patch one of them back together, but it will take at least a day to do so</div> <div> Docportal: <By the way it was not fin who stole that boat. It was my last act as a living person.></div> <div> Dukejr01: what about the one that was damaged?</div> <div> Missiledine: <Yes, but he paddled it ashore.></div> <div> Docportal: <Ok so it was a group effert.></div> <div> Dukejr01: how long to knock together a raft?</div> <div> Missiledine: the one on the other shore? It's in better shape then the damaged one your trying to fix here</div> <div> Missiledine: who is going across to get it, and how are they doing it?</div> <div> Dukejr01: the damaged boat? we haven;t decided to go get it yet</div> <div> Missiledine: you camoflauged it pretty well, so it is probably still there</div> <div> Docportal: I will take the stolen boat and will need some paint. brorw the ores from the other boat and got the other boat.</div> <div> Missiledine: to build a raft, probably a day and a half</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. how long to knock together a raft? all it needs to do is float with stuff on top of it.</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance, you have no idea where the other boat is</div> <div> revrat235: I still say to lash together the coffins</div> <div> Docportal: Skeleton will tare you a part once you are out there.</div> <div> Missiledine: Rolb shakes his head, "I'm no Mitraen, but it be bad luck ta build a boat of the dead."</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. can we pack up one boat with loot, then use the otehr to feeey use to the lakeshore,.then a couple of us hike alongsidet he boats to get to the</div> <div> cammoed damaged boat?</div> <div> Dukejr01: ferry</div> <div> revrat235: prissy</div> <div> Missiledine: <lol></div> <div> Missiledine: you can certainly try</div> <div> Dukejr01: how much loot is there?</div> <div> Dukejr01: will the coffin float?</div> <div> Missiledine: oh... you could easily fill six or eight rowboats from the storeroom</div> <div> revrat235: Ihave an Idea</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. but a lot of that goes to Rhone, so I am mostly interested in loot from the house.</div> <div> revrat235: exactly HOW much rope can we get together?</div> <div> Dukejr01: a few hundred yards i am sure</div> <div> Docportal: Get some help throw a few coffins into the water.</div> <div> revrat235: enough to reach shore?</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes.</div> <div> revrat235: how about this-</div> <div> Docportal: "We need to make sure there is not skeletons in the water."</div> <div> Missiledine: between you six and the stuff from the house, two boats full</div> <div> Dukejr01: is thre white paint somewhere?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. good.</div> <div> Dukejr01: I suggest that Corren and rolb go get the other boat, then we patch that one up and use three boats. one for insurance.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Waiting to hear the rev's plan></div> <div> Dukejr01: me too</div> <div> revrat235: We fill the coffins with loot, then tie them together. We take the two remaining boats back to shore, along with the other end of the rope. Then we can</div> <div> pull the stuff from the safety of the shoreline.</div> <div> Dukejr01: That doesnl;t help us get out of the swamp</div> <div> revrat235: okay, anyone with a plan B?</div> <div> Missiledine: you are many miles into the Palood</div> <div> Dukejr01: yes. get the other boat and patch it up</div> <div> Dukejr01: Who is with corren?</div> <div> revrat235: right. Let's go find some tools.</div> <div> Docportal: You two (Corren and Rolb) get the other boat. Me and Rev will try to fix one of these boats here so we have 4 boats.</div> <div> Dukejr01: in going to get the other boat?</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Missiledine: "If we spend another night, we could have four boats to use... Our old one, the damaged one from last night and the two intact ones."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Aye. we should be ready for another night assault.</div> <div> Missiledine: ROlb will go</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren and Rolb go get the other boat. they paddle out to the shore. Corren keeps his shield handy</div> <div> Missiledine: you and Rolb row across un molested.</div> <div> Docportal: Stolen boat or the boat we came in?</div> <div> revrat235: I check the storeroom for tools and white paint.</div> <div> Missiledine: stolen</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will step on shore and scout a bit. listen for wildlife. etc</div> <div> Dukejr01: make our way cautiously to the boat we stashed.</div> <div> Missiledine: everything seems... normal</div> <div> Docportal: i help him. and then check the elf.</div> <div> Missiledine: elf lives</div> <div> Docportal: I do anything I can to help him.</div> <div> Missiledine: you find the boat</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren pulls it out and floats it then we head back, we might have to bail</div> <div> Missiledine: it looks as you left it</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, it leaks, though not too quickly</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. with no weight in it, it should last</div> <div> Missiledine: "Tow it." Rolb says</div> <div> Dukejr01: yup</div> <div> Dukejr01: lash a rope to it nd tow</div> <div> Missiledine: you get back to the other boat</div> <div> Dukejr01: head back to the island</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren makes a pont of lookingaround for ambushers</div> <div> Missiledine: Nothing bothers either boat on the return trip</div> <div> Dukejr01: not even in the lake?</div> <div> Dukejr01: great</div> <div> Docportal: <yes we might make it out a live after all.></div> <div> Missiledine: "Mebbe we did in the skeletons." Rolb says. "Or, bein with this boat makes that one safe."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren turns the blue boat over to Thorin to patch and paint</div> <div> revrat235: Still looking for tools, glue, tar, paint, lumber- anything useful.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Missiledine: you will find all you need</div> <div> Missiledine: they maintained their boats with this stuff</div> <div> revrat235: good. I start paching the boat.</div> <div> Dukejr01: good</div> <div> Docportal: I take the tar and grab the boat that looks esay to fix and tar the inside of it to death.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren talks to Rolb about how to ambush another night attack.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Ye notice, that bastard didna fire the shed with the coffins." Rolb says</div> <div> Docportal: Lets move the coffins in side the house and storehose and make it our base.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren sighs. "Maybe we should. the church may not like it but its better than making them undead. I wonder whateh souls of the deceased would have</div> <div> to say"</div> <div> Docportal: Burn the bodys first.</div> <div> revrat235: "please burn me instead of letting them turn me into one of those things" is what they'd say.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren has an idea about that.....</div> <div> Missiledine: "He dunno care abot the boxes! Only the cadavers are of value."</div> <div> Missiledine: 'Ye burn those and he'll be free to fire everythin."</div> <div> Docportal: But you don't want to be inside a building with them do you?</div> <div> revrat235: I don't</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren suggests in a low voice and inside the house that we cut an open almost all he way thru the inside of the wall of the storehouse. then when he</div> <div> attacks at night we can whack it a few times and jump them from the flank</div> <div> Missiledine: "They be dead as door nails! If they weren't, we'd be fighten em by now."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Fire the corpses as we leave. not before if we are going to do it, in fact, fire the whole place.</div> <div> revrat235: how about this- we make a pile of wood and kindling, stack the bodies on it, and add some lamp oil. We don't actually light them up unless we need to.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Might work, but I dunno think he'll press an attack tonight, no need. We'll be awake anyway. He'll come fer us on our way back."</div> <div> revrat235: besides, if the're all he cares about, then we have hostages.</div> <div> revrat235: who don't try to escape.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren goes and does it anyway. he uses his axe to chop from the inside.</div> <div> Docportal: "One or two will not help that much. He will just kill us and take us as well."</div> <div> Missiledine: "Aye... Put the boats in with the coffins, he durst not fire the buildin to burn yon boats. To destroy them ell ave to come through the</div> <div> door."</div> <div> revrat235: good thought</div> <div> Dukejr01: WE could take them into the house. then allthe way thru to the storeroom. then in the morning if he doesnt attack us ,we can just takethem out the hole i</div> <div> nteh side. fully loaded.</div> <div> revrat235: yeah.</div> <div> Dukejr01: make a point of locking up the house. let him fire it.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Well gents, its getting late and I think we shall call it here. Next week yo may actually escape with your hard won loot!></div> <div> Dukejr01: noght</div> <div> Dukejr01: i</div> <div> Dukejr01 has left the room.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, good night all!</div> <div> Docportal: good night</div> <div> Missiledine: see you next week</div> <div> revrat235: right. night!</div> <div> revrat235 has left the room.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>