Island Paradise IX

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I like the name!</div> <div> Missiledine: Doc is up</div> <div> Dukejr01: ty</div> <div> Docportal has entered the room.</div> <div> Dukejr01: yah. i invited him</div> <div> Dukejr01: hey</div> <div> Missiledine: Hello!</div> <div> Docportal: Oh no not Certain doom.......</div> <div> Docportal: hi</div> <div> Dukejr01: I like to be pessimistic, that way mere failure and disaster is a pleasant surprise</div> <div> Docportal: still is not fun, but what the heck</div> <div> Missiledine: lets give Dawn a couple minutes</div> <div> Docportal: k</div> <div> Missiledine: Has anyone heard from Fin?</div> <div> Docportal: nope</div> <div> Docportal: How about rev?</div> <div> Missiledine: he has not answered my emails</div> <div> Missiledine: Rev's come back undeliverable</div> <div> Docportal: that not good.</div> <div> Missiledine: Well the elf is now an NPC</div> <div> Missiledine: so is Thorin</div> <div> Docportal: Well at least now we know his is still out there...</div> <div> Missiledine: Fin?  or Thorin?</div> <div> Docportal: thorin</div> <div> Missiledine: corpses are npcs too</div> <div> Docportal: Well maybe his is out there. True I was hoping for him to make it. Oh well.</div> <div> Docportal: Dawn is here but I can invite for some reason.</div> <div> DawnUnicor has entered the room.</div> <div> DawnUnicor: hello</div> <div> Missiledine: i</div> <div> Docportal: Hi</div> <div> Missiledine: Hi</div> <div> Dukejr01: hi Dawn</div> <div> DawnUnicor: hi</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, let me collect your toe tags and we'll get started</div> <div> Docportal: lol</div> <div> Dukejr01: Mine reads: Do not open til Xmas</div> <div> Docportal: I will not take one.....</div> <div> DawnUnicor: mine said beware</div> <div> Missiledine: Okay, everyone has descended, via ladders, to the main floor of the old mine. You appear to be alone at the moment</div> <div> Dukejr01: "circle the room in pairs. Look for a exits. especially a stone door or secret way"</div> <div> Docportal: I will move with Dawn and check the room out.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren circles the room counterclockwise. he inspects the walls and floor</div> <div> Missiledine: The walls are not smooth and regular, they are rough, unfinished with many inlets and depressions, both at floor level and well above your heads</div> <div> Dukejr01: check for tracks in the dust</div> <div> Missiledine: the whole area seems well churned up, as thopugh there is much activity down here</div> <div> Docportal: Use the tourch to look for air moving form the walls. Walk slowly around the room with it.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will use the bakside of his axe to tap the walls and search for exits. he suspects a secret or concealed door.</div> <div> Missiledine: scattered through the center of the room are old piles of rubble, abandoined tools, rotting lumber and decaying carts and barrow</div> <div> Missiledine: the lower chamber is reamrkably drafty for an area so deep in the earth. The dominant breeze draws upwards, but there is one section of wall where the torch flutters even more then usual when you approach</div> <div> DawnUnicor: I will look at the pile </div> <div> Missiledine: There is nothing obvious about the section though</div> <div> Dukejr01: <good thinking doc></div> <div> Docportal: "Here is the door." <It works in the buildings I work on.></div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren strides over</div> <div> Missiledine: The piles look like equipment that was abandoned when the mine played out. But one pile reveals itself as a mouldy piece of tarp draped over something, or somethings</div> <div> DawnUnicor: I will check under the tarp but I am careful</div> <div> Docportal: I walk over to the pile and look for a pick to use on the door.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will inspect the door.</div> <div> Missiledine: under the tarp you find what looks like a foot locker, a lantern/stove a small keg, a couple stools and a folding camp table</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren and Vance:  After some feeling about in the area oif the draft, you determine what seems to be the outlines of a door. It is carefully made and blends into the rock so as to be invisible at  more then a yard</div> <div> Dukejr01: cool. Corren will look for a mechanism.</div> <div> Missiledine: you are unable to locate any catch or locking mechanism tho</div> <div> DawnUnicor: dawn will pick up some of the things she sees</div> <div> Missiledine: like what?</div> <div> Dukejr01: corren pushes pulls prods etc</div> <div> Docportal: <Use the key and open the trunck.></div> <div> DawnUnicor: keg </div> <div> Docportal: I will look for the mechanism aslo.</div> <div> Missiledine: The box does not appear to be locked</div> <div> DawnUnicor: try to see what might be in the keg</div> <div> Missiledine: It seems to be beer</div> <div> DawnUnicor: look on the table</div> <div> DawnUnicor: take the keg</div> <div> Missiledine: after much effort, you conclude that the door opens outwards, not in</div> <div> Dukejr01: can it be pried open?</div> <div> Missiledine: The keg holds about five gallons and weighs around forty pounds. The table is currently folded up</div> <div> Missiledine: with tools, maybe</div> <div> DawnUnicor: look in the locker</div> <div> Dukejr01: Alright Corren will look for some usable prybars</div> <div> DawnUnicor: leave the keg</div> <div> Missiledine: the pick Vance finds has been lying untouched for decades. Tho the head is rusty it is still servicable, but the handle is rotted and weak</div> <div> Docportal: "any body got a staff we can use for a short time?"</div> <div> Missiledine: Opening the locker you will find some cooking gear, mugs, plates, skillet, a bag of flour, some bacon, beans and cheese. There are two pints of oil, a couple candles, a pouch with some dice in it and a slate and chalk</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will wander over to dawn. he looks things over, unfolds the table. looks for usable tools or a legnth of wood usable for a pick handle</div> <div> Missiledine: table leg might work</div> <div> DawnUnicor: open up the table</div> <div> Missiledine: or part of a laddere</div> <div> DawnUnicor: nm</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren rips a leg off the table and hands it to Vance.</div> <div> Docportal: "Alright a table lag then...."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "The oil wil lcome in handy for the lamps. also, we can use the lamp here.</div> <div> Missiledine: it will be a bit short, but it should work</div> <div> DawnUnicor: ""</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will help Cance open the door. "Elf, keep an ear out for trouble."</div> <div> Missiledine: Long says, "Won't hammering on the door announce our intentions?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Got a better idea?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: are there any other exits from the room?</div> <div> Docportal: "I hate it when he is right but has no better ideas."</div> <div> Missiledine: "Uhmmm, go back and try crossing the water?"</div> <div> Missiledine: No, no other exits, except the ladder</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren snorts. "Good luck crossing the water without a boat i nthe face of a siege crossbow. My dwarven Armour saved my bacon. what you got?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren applies himself to the door.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Well, we coould gather the materials to build a raft."</div> <div> DawnUnicor: "could there be any other door ways we have seen"</div> <div> DawnUnicor: Hve not seen^</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren grunts with effort and doesn't reply</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Could be. Go ahead and look."</div> <div> Missiledine: "What makes you think there won't be a siege bow on the other side of this door?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "There will. but there won;t be a lot of deep water." </div> <div> DawnUnicor: I look around  on the floor walls</div> <div> Missiledine: Your torch search shoed no other doors on this level. Doesn't mean that they aren't there tho</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn, poking around in the odd corners, you will find a bundle of cloth rolled up and thrown aside</div> <div> DawnUnicor: pick up the bundle </div> <div> Missiledine: Corren, you start hammering away at the door</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren is prying first.</div> <div> Docportal: I will start the hammering</div> <div> DawnUnicor: bring the bundle back to the group</div> <div> Missiledine: the cloth appears to be of very good quality, but looks to have been wet when tossed aside. Do you unrioll it?</div> <div> DawnUnicor: yes</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren, you will need to chip away the stone near theedge of the door to get a spot to pry from</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay,. gotcha</div> <div> Docportal: <How many PC and NPC are in the room? 4 yes?></div> <div> Missiledine: The cloth is, or was a cloak. But it appears to been made for a child, judging by its size. The detail and stitching shows it to be upper class and there is a large rent in the middle of it</div> <div> Missiledine: <You, Corren, Dawn and the Elf></div> <div> Docportal: <k thanks></div> <div> Docportal: "Dawn, you and Long, go up to the next level and use the tourch trick to check for doors up there."</div> <div> Missiledine: it will take a good dozen blows to bet a leverage point on the door edge, but finally you do</div> <div> DawnUnicor: "ok "</div> <div> DawnUnicor: when get to next leave look on walls and floors for anything</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn:Climbing up the ladder to the landing above the main floor, you notice, looking upwards, that the first ladder, from the entrance down, is missing</div> <div> DawnUnicor: take the cloak with me</div> <div> Missiledine: Corren: As soon as you start straining the makeshift handle snaps</div> <div> DawnUnicor: go back down to tell the others</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren sighs. he goes to get another table leg</div> <div> Missiledine: <Ladders have stronger wood></div> <div> Dukejr01: okay, okay. Corren will take a piece of the shorter ladder</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: He fixes the pick and hands it to Vance, he takes a look atthe cloak. inspects it, looks at the rent. WEapon? looks for traces of blood, smells it for telltales oders.</div> <div> Dukejr01: inspects the seams, looks for badges or symbols</div> <div> Docportal: "Well we are stuck here. Unless we open that door." I go to work on the door.</div> <div> DawnUnicor: go back up and look at floors and walls</div> <div> Docportal: <with the torch></div> <div> Missiledine: The cloth has been lying wet and rolled up in a dank mine for, Mitra knows how long! It smells mouldy. However the cloak clearly was upper class and had a pin to hold it, which is missing. The rent may have been weapon made, hard </div> <div> Missiledine: say for certain</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren grunts, stashes it.</div> <div> Missiledine: Using the remaining long ladder, how many levels do you go up? All the way to the top?</div> <div> DawnUnicor: one</div> <div> Missiledine: you will need to pull the ladder up after you</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Missiledine: Using the torch you find nothing unusual. The only draft is upwards, towards the entrance</div> <div> DawnUnicor: will go back down and join the others</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. lets get this door open</div> <div> Missiledine: After much grunting, swearing and sweating, you hear something 'SNAP' inside the door and it gives slightly, moving about an inch. Not enough for a gap tho</div> <div> DawnUnicor: " can i help with any thing"<everyone></div> <div> Dukejr01: reset the pry bar. heave</div> <div> Docportal: Go over to corren and whisper to him "Lets try this we put out all but one lamp we move it up one or two level then come back down."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren just heaves.</div> <div> Dukejr01: <we are not going to surprise them anyway time is of the essense></div> <div> Dukejr01: essence</div> <div> Docportal: I heave whit him then.</div> <div> Dukejr01: <Soon Lord Sharpstone's troops wil lbe coming down on us like the Hamemr of God. We don;t have a lot of time.></div> <div> DawnUnicor: <brb></div> <div> Docportal: I wonder over to the tool pile and look to see if they is anything else that might help.</div> <div> Missiledine: Heaving together you manage to force it open about six inches. It is now too wide a gap to use the pick in</div> <div> Dukejr01: shine the light in. ready with spear</div> <div> DawnUnicor: <back></div> <div> DawnUnicor: has a spell ready just in case</div> <div> Missiledine: which one?</div> <div> DawnUnicor: sleep spell</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> DawnUnicor has left the room.</div> <div> Dukejr01: oops</div> <div> Missiledine: the light shines against a wall about six feet in, it seems to be rough tunnel, similar to the rest of the mine work you have seen.  No one is visible</div> <div> DawnUnicor has entered the room.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "I will guard. Vance, If you will heave it open a bit more..."</div> <div> Missiledine: <Hello?></div> <div> Docportal: <what?></div> <div> Missiledine: <Thought I was off the chat for a second></div> <div> Dukejr01: rehi Dawn</div> <div> Docportal: I will heave.</div> <div> Missiledine: Only with considerable effort are you able to drag it open another foot. You have room to slip through one at a time, but that is as far as it is going</div> <div> Dukejr01: <Dawn says here messages won't post></div> <div> Dukejr01: corren moves in</div> <div> Missiledine: <In the Chat room or regular screen?></div> <div> Dukejr01: <chat room, presumably></div> <div> Missiledine: <Does she see ours?></div> <div> Dukejr01: <yes></div> <div> Dukejr01: <I advised her to reboot></div> <div> Docportal: drop the pick and ready my sword and wait for corren to enter.</div> <div> Docportal: <with out the lit end</div> <div> Missiledine: <Ok, she should reboot or try coming on using her other ID.></div> <div> Docportal: <I could not invite her as Dawn12></div> <div> Missiledine: Unless Dawn is renewing the light spell regularly, it has long since expired (1 minute duration)</div> <div> Docportal: <We will just say she has not save a lot of trouble working out.></div> <div> Missiledine: <agreed></div> <div> Dukejr01: Well, is corren attacked?</div> <div> Missiledine: <Dawn, if you see this. Log off and reboot></div> <div> Missiledine: Sliding through the opening, Corren sees about fifteen feet ahead of him an iron gate that is barring the tunnel. The gate is closed and has a thick chain twined through it, locking it</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren advances. he has lamp and sword.</div> <div> Dukejr01: he looks beyond the gate.</div> <div> DawnUnicor has left the room.</div> <div> Missiledine: The tunnel beyond widens and splits in two directions. One passage is almost directly opposite the gate, the other is slightly to the left. The passage opposite has a wooden half wall, about four feet high, blocking it. As you </div> <div> DawnUnicor has entered the room.</div> <div> DawnUnicor: ok</div> <div> Missiledine: approach the gate, two men with large crossbows, pop up, aiming at you</div> <div> Missiledine: Yeah!</div> <div> Dukejr01: <hey hey hey! Hi Dawn!></div> <div> Docportal: <rehi dawn></div> <div> Dukejr01: Ccorren throws himself left to the side of the wall</div> <div> Missiledine: <Wecome back!></div> <div> DawnUnicor: I trow th e sleep spell at one on the men </div> <div> Dukejr01: He will drop the lantern, unlimber shield, and strike at the chain in that order.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, Dawn. Your spell goes off...before either man can discharge their crossbow, the both collapse behind the barrier</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Well done." Corren whispers.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren wil lpry open the chain link rather than strike the chain.</div> <div> Missiledine: the chain looks pretty thick to hack at with your sword</div> <div> Dukejr01: inspect it for weaknesses. is it butted? if so use the axe to pry open the link.</div> <div> Docportal: <Try to drag one of the body closer and look for a key.></div> <div> Dukejr01: <that will wake him, and he is behind a wooden wall></div> <div> Missiledine: They are too far away and on the otherside of the barricade</div> <div> Docportal: <oh well</div> <div> Missiledine: the links are butted, but are quite thick</div> <div> Dukejr01: hmmmm.. put the end of the pick in the link and twist.</div> <div> DawnUnicor: "could i metle it?"</div> <div> Missiledine: it takes a lot of effort, but at last it twists some. A second try opens it enough to slip it loose</div> <div> DawnUnicor: nm</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. Corren tries to quietly undo the chain.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Need Heat to melt or soften metal></div> <div> Missiledine: in the stone tunnels even your careful efforts seem loud! However the noise does not wake the sleeping guards and does not seem to raise an alarm</div> <div> Dukejr01: open gate and move to the men. Corren signals the rest of hte party. he plans to nab each man in turn, and tie them up. and gag them.</div> <div> Docportal: I go frist. </div> <div> Docportal: putting up my sword so I can help.</div> <div> DawnUnicor: i will go next</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren signals Dawn to guard the second man with her sword, while Vance and Corren deal with the first. the elf can guard</div> <div> DawnUnicor: ok</div> <div> Docportal: This works</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, the barricade is actually a heavy, oak plank table laid on its side. The two men, scruffy looking types in scale hauberks and cassis hems, are out cold</div> <div> Dukejr01: any house colors?</div> <div> Missiledine: next tpo the men are three siege crossbows, two cocked (the bolts have fallen off tho) and one uncocked)</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren and Vance nab the first of them, pinoning his arms and covering his mouth. then we drag him to the side and tie him up and gag him. repeat for the second one.</div> <div> Missiledine: no, no colors or identification marks. In addition to the crossbows they have broadswords and daggers</div> <div> Docportal: Take sword and daggers off of them as we move them.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok... The man awakens as you manhandle him around, but his resisdtence is futile and you soon have him tied.</div> <div> DawnUnicor has left the room.</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. good. disarm him, then do the other, then search them both.</div> <div> Missiledine: Vance, as you draw the man's broadsword, you notice something odd. It is a single edged design that is popular with fighters from Khun Dhagra.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren grunts at the sight of it.</div> <div> Docportal: Make note of this and moves on.</div> <div> Missiledine: The second man puts up more of a struggle, but it's nothing that the two of you can't handle and he is soon trussed up.  His blade is similar to the first one</div> <div> Dukejr01: Search them.</div> <div> Dukejr01: strip off their armour too. look for identifying marks, tattoes</div> <div> Missiledine: <Finding such a blade is not conclusive evidence of any connection. There are many thousands of them in use throughout Velitrium, captures from raiders, confiscated from the rebellion days etc.></div> <div> Docportal: Take off the left and right arm armor.</div> <div> Dukejr01: <gotcha></div> <div> Missiledine: no marks, brands or tatoos etc</div> <div> Dukejr01: look down the passages. any open area?</div> <div> Dukejr01: anty key on them></div> <div> Dukejr01: ?</div> <div> Docportal: <Stats for Segie Crossbows? Where to find them></div> <div> Missiledine: yes, you will find a key on one man</div> <div> Dukejr01: check it against the padlock.</div> <div> Dukejr01: good idea. cock the third xbow and load them all.</div> <div> Dukejr01: can the conceled door be closed and secured?</div> <div> Dukejr01: concealed</div> <div> Missiledine: (A Siege Bow like this does a max damage of 3d)</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, it can be dragged shut, but the internal lock is broken</div> <div> Dukejr01: firstthings first. look down the passageways</div> <div> Missiledine: <The Siege Crossbow requires a windless to cock it.  It has a ST of 30></div> <div> Docportal: I look for one.</div> <div> Docportal: in this area</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, the unguarded passage opens into a chamber that is cluttered with boxes and barrels etc</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Missiledine:  There are three windlass laying at hand</div> <div> Dukejr01: I thought a siege bow's windlass was built in</div> <div> Missiledine: The Guarded passage leads off downwards, curving to the right as it goes</div> <div> Missiledine: <Some are, some aren't></div> <div> Dukejr01: k. get the ladders inside the gate. close the door. relock the gate using what is left of the chain and the padlock.</div> <div> Docportal: I pick up one of them an a segie crossbow that is cooked and load it. Then check out the ungarded path.</div> <div> Missiledine: <Convenience calls for them to be built in, but it adds weight></div> <div> Dukejr01: "Good idea. take a look round their lair"</div> <div> Docportal: 'Yeah and If i see something I put a hole thought it."</div> <div> Missiledine: the unguarded chamber is an irregular cavern, partially natural, partially carved out. It roughly the shape of a kidney bean and is about 60' long and 20' wide</div> <div> Docportal: anything in here worth my time?</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren busies himself securing the area as specified. he will then check the prisoner's bonds. <let me know when he is caught up></div> <div> Missiledine: The center of the area has crates and barrels stacked and scattered about. There does not seem to be anyone in here and there are no lights lit, though there is an oil lamp on a barrel</div> <div> Docportal: pick up the lamp and step back out in to the light to light it.</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Docportal: then re enter the room</div> <div> Missiledine: (Going back in that chamber?)</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: "We should stay in pairs. Take the elf"</div> <div> Missiledine: Long will follow you in</div> <div> Docportal: Hand the elf the lamp</div> <div> Missiledine: he takes it</div> <div> Docportal: I look for any think out of the ordany. Things that can open and hide a person it them.</div> <div> Missiledine: none of the barrels are really huge, but they could hide someone inside. The same is true for some of the crates</div> <div> Docportal: Keeping an eye onthem if one moves I want to know. Look for secret doors</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, you prowl around looking for air drafts and such</div> <div> Docportal: k</div> <div> Missiledine: After a few minutes searching, you come to the conclusion that there is nothing here</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren caught up?</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, but Vance is still in the chamber with the elf</div> <div> Docportal: I take the elf and myself back to corren and report what little I have find.</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. Corren will check the prisoners bonds. He grunts at Vance's observations. Then drags one of the prisoners into the chamber,</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Put some wax in the other fellow's ears, if you would, Vance"</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Docportal: "Can I use this one as a test subjeck for my New toy?"</div> <div> Docportal: Give the other prisoner evil look.</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren props him up against the wall. He grins at Vance for that. "Lets see what he has to say first"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren pulls his gag out and says "What have you got to say for yourself?"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Who the hell are yoiu!?"</div> <div> Dukejr01: "The guy asking the questions. You havea Khun blade, why do I get the idea that you aren;t in the employ of the local Lord?"</div> <div> Docportal: "Him," looking at Corren "is the nice one. Me I am the the one you should worried about!!!"</div> <div> Missiledine: he looks back and forth between you. "You don't look like locals either."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren grins. "How long have you been hiding down here?"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Your making a big mistake poking your nose down here." He says. "If you think anyone is gonna thank you or give you a reward, your wrong. Dead wrong."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Maybe you should try scaring me some more."</div> <div> Missiledine: "You have no idea what your messing with! When Lord Shapstone finds out your here, he'll arrest you. What ever is left of you."</div> <div> Docportal: "Oh so you work for the lord?"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Yeah, that's right. I do. So unty me right now!"</div> <div> Docportal: "You got to be out of your mind."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "What were you protecting down that passageway?"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Just keeping nosy people like you from muckin about where they don't belong."</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Suppose you tell me, I am going down that way anyway."</div> <div> Docportal: "I would suggest you answer or I might just get to use this on you. Now tell us so I can test it on one of your comrads down there, instead of on you."</div> <div> Docportal: Big evil grin</div> <div> Missiledine: "You don't want to go down there. If ya do, ya won't be coming back."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren sighs "I don't scare easily. Maybe if you scare me enough, I won't go."</div> <div> Dukejr01: which is true but Corren is clearly not likely to be disuaded.</div> <div> Missiledine: <lol></div> <div> Dukejr01: <gotta play that truthfullness and easy to read></div> <div> Missiledine: the man just shakes his head. "Can you count?" He asks</div> <div> Docportal: Look to see if the others are there. and the other prisoner</div> <div> Missiledine: Dawn and the elf are there, so is the prisoner</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Yeah. I counted 12 zombies, 2 ghouls, 3 men that I defeated the last time I assaulted a fortified position. Try again"</div> <div> Docportal: "Dawn and long be on the look out for one more garud most likely to be another garud coming from the other passway."</div> <div> Missiledine: "How many of us were there, huh? Two, right? How many crossbows? Three, right? So ask yourself this. Where is the third man? Huh? Goin for reinforcements, that's where."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren puts the gag back in his mouth.</div> <div> Missiledine: "Tough fighter eh? Not tough enough I warrant. Not with that lot down there!"</div> <div> Missiledine: "Mmmph!"</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren pauses. have more to say?"</div> <div> Docportal: "I want to use my toy now. Harry up with it...."</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren ungags him if he nods.</div> <div> Missiledine: "You had best cut us loose and surrender. If you go down, you die. You stand and fight, you die. You try and climb out of here, you die."</div> <div> Docportal: "Well that sounds like fun. Lets start with you frist."</div> <div> Dukejr01: . Corren plans to drag him and his buddy out into the bottom area. and makethem climb the lagger to the next higher level. let them take the cheese and bacon and some water. that should effectively trap them weher they can;t do any </div> <div> Dukejr01: harm</div> <div> Dukejr01: lagger = ladder</div> <div> Missiledine: ok</div> <div> Dukejr01: then we reclose the concealed door. lock the gate. Corren will take a look round the chamber, open a few crates.</div> <div> Docportal: Grunt at his plan. but do as I am told.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "This way they can't get loose and attack us from the rear</div> <div> Missiledine: ok, you take the two out and they will climb up as you order, taking the food with them</div> <div> Dukejr01: let en have the beer if they can carry it.</div> <div> Missiledine: recovere the ladder <Bring it in again?></div> <div> Dukejr01: yah.</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Lord Sharpstone will find you soon enough. I reckon"</div> <div> Dukejr01: lock the gate.</div> <div> Missiledine: too much effort to carry the beer</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Missiledine: gate is locked</div> <div> Dukejr01: if there is something to carry water of beer in, give it to them. water will be theri biggest need</div> <div> Missiledine: yes, they have pots and such</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. once they are stashed. we go on.</div> <div> Missiledine: into the chamber?</div> <div> Dukejr01: lock the gate nd do a quick search. open a few crates.</div> <div> Dukejr01: look behind barrrels. make surehte barrels are not hiding something</div> <div> Docportal: "I suggest we move table as we move on down the line. I will watch the path way </div> <div> Dukejr01: "good idea"</div> <div> Missiledine: most of the contents are food, beer, wine, salted meat, dried fruits, biscuits, cheese, sausage... enough to feed a hundred men. Some of the crates have weapons.. arrows, spears, javelins, etc</div> <div> Dukejr01: "Hmmmm....."</div> <div> Dukejr01: corren munches absently while he searches. </div> <div> Dukejr01: "Everyone grab a bite to eat. may not get the chance later.</div> <div> Docportal: "Bring me some out here one of you. Please"</div> <div> Missiledine: some of the crates have strange substances, powders, salts, things you can't identify. Dawn says that they seem to be Alchemical ingredients, but she doesn't know what for</div> <div> Dukejr01: Corren will grab some food for Vance.</div> <div> Missiledine: Long brings you some food</div> <div> Missiledine: <ok></div> <div> Dukejr01: k. anythign hidden under barrels and such?</div> <div> Missiledine: not that you see</div> <div> Dukejr01: k. did they have shields?</div> <div> Missiledine: the guards? no</div> <div> Dukejr01: k</div> <div> Dukejr01: Okay. Lets head down the passage.</div> <div> Dukejr01: any shields in the room?</div> <div> Missiledine: <I think we will call it here. I want Dawn here for this next bit.>  Yes, a few shields</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. good get one for DAwn.</div> <div> Dukejr01: okay. night</div> <div> Missiledine: okay</div> <div> Missiledine: Good night</div> <div> Docportal: Well I thanks for runing us. Well I am now 19 it is my brithday to day.</div> <div> Dukejr01: happy birthday.</div> <div> Docportal: Thank you.</div> <div> Missiledine: Really, Happy Birthday!</div> <div> Dukejr01: night. thanks</div> <div> Dukejr01 has left the room.</div> <div> Docportal: night.</div> <div> Missiledine: night</div> <div> Docportal has left the room.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>