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  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    Imoen will search for traps, hear for noises and all that stuff when Minsc opens the portcullis.
    @Awong124 "Kivan, you won't get more than deaders from him, he's mad man"
  • lockmundlockmund Member Posts: 354
    Jaheira will use whatever senses she has as a half-elf, a druid and a healer, to try to find out what is wrong with Cyric's mind. Not even Minsc is this crazy.

    What grates her most is that Faldorn may well be right. Cyric may have to be put down for the safety of others. Still, that is a last resort.
  • Fenris308Fenris308 Member Posts: 118
    Minsc scans the room for hanging ropes.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    You find no traps. This room is 20 by 60. The ceiling is arched, low and wet with moisture. The walls are lined with broken tuns of wine, their bands rusting, and their contents long since spilled on the floor. You feel a slight, cool breeze blowing over your skin.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Alora searches the room to see if she can find the source of the cool breeze.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    It's coming from a crack in the wall. (Literally). There is no light beyond, so you can't see anything in the crack.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Alora will see if there are any loose bricks so she could make the crack bigger (without making the room collapse on her). If there aren't she will listen at the crack and call "Is anybody there?".

    If she doesn't find anything and doesn't get any answers she will give up searching in here and go over to the big, double doors. She will check for traps, unlock them. She will also listen and look through the keyhole. Then, if she doesn't hear or find anything she will cal the big strong fighter types over and then open the door.
  • Fenris308Fenris308 Member Posts: 118
    "Haha Minsc and Boo will heed the call of the little one. For what use are these strong arms if not for opening doors and crushing evil!?"

    Boo *Squeek squeek* #onomatopoeia
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    There is no answer and the wall is *very* solidly built. Perhaps a Potion of Gaseous form would let her pass, but little else. She hears nothing at the double doors, and they are unlocked and untapped. When the doors are opened, you see a 60' by 30' room that acts like the bar of the T compared to the hall you just came from. At either end is a single door in the middle of the wall.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    Darkness, as cold as winter sweat, wraps around you. This room is filled with battered and broken tables, some in pieces, others nearly reduced to sawdust. Dark stains cover the floors and walls. There was certainly a battle here at some point in the past, but it's long been over. It was so ferocious that even the intact pieces of wood are scarred and marked with what look like claw marks.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    "Gulp!" Alora gulps. She tentatively makes her way to the door to the left and listens, checks for traps, peeps through the keyhole and, if she finds nothing nasty, opens the door.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    She hears nothing, and finds no locks and no traps. The door opens on a 40' long corridor that turns to the left at the end. 20' down on the right side is an archway. The hall is deathly silent, but cool, damp air blows out of the archway on the right.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Alora sneak down to the archway, checking for traps as she goes. When she gets beside the arch she will use her Cloak of Blending to try to blend in with the walls of the corridor. Then she will peep round the corner to see what is beyond the archway.
  • EvinfuiltEvinfuilt Member Posts: 505
    Is Cyric up yet? I'd like to question him about the battle in this room, and what made those claw marks.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    edited December 2013
    Through the archway, sickly yellow lichen covers the ceiling of this 50' long passageway. There is a stone wall at the end of the passageway and 10' long and wide alcoves on either side of the passageway. Rotting cots and rags are visible in the alcoves. A deathly silence fills the hall, making Alora want to be quiet and hold her breath for some reason- not wanting to break that sense of quiet and stillness.

    Cyrus is starting to come around. He looks dazed, though. He pats Faldorn's armor and giggles quietly. The way he is doing it is starting to make her feel uncomfortable. She is not quite sure how- it's just very unsettling.
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  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    Wait, the man is named Cyric of Cyrus? Or is he a shapeshifting Avatar?? I'm confused now :/
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    It's Cyrus. Sorry.
  • lockmundlockmund Member Posts: 354
    Cyrus is a lot better than Cyric. :)
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Alora doesn't want to go into the passageway with yellow lichen on the ceiling. She moves past the archway as stealthily as possible and continues down the corridor and looks round the corner where it turns left.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    Alora finds another 10' of corridor and a spiral staircase of dusty stone blocks leading upwards. It's obvious no one has come this way in a very long while.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Alora is starting to think we are going the wrong way. If we are looking for the girl that the count has abducted isn't she going to be in a more inhabited bit of the castle? Maybe we should retrace our steps?

    Or shall we just go up the spiral staircase and see where it leads?
  • EvinfuiltEvinfuilt Member Posts: 505
    LadyRhian said:

    Cyrus is starting to come around. He looks dazed, though. He pats Faldorn's armor and giggles quietly. The way he is doing it is starting to make her feel uncomfortable. She is not quite sure how- it's just very unsettling.

    What is it you find so funny Cyric. Reminiscing on the horrors in here? Or just that you haven't seen a female in a long time. We need to know more, and I currently trust you not a bit. Tell us what happened down here, who was that stew for?
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    edited December 2013
    OOC If Cyric shows up I'll just lie in the corner and have a heart attack. It will save me a lot of pain :)
  • lockmundlockmund Member Posts: 354
    edited December 2013
    mlnevese said:

    OOC If Cyric shows up I'll just lie in the corner and have a heart attack. It will save me a lot of pain :)

    That's fitting as i think he is the Lord of lies. Bad pun! I know.

  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    OOC: hey, Cyric is a god, the guy that was stewing the zombies is named Cyrus, you're confusing me! I thought you've had find an Avatar of Cyric trapped in the castle!!
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    Cyrus continues to finger Faldorn's armor, and now she realizes why it's so disturbing to her- the gesture seems… possessive. Not towards her, precisely, but towards the armor. "Battle? Oh, the guards fought, yes they did, as the two masters clashed. And my master won and the castle was his solely. It happened long before I was born, yes, but sometimes the master and his castle… show me things." His smile was not that of a man entirely sane. "I have served my master all my life, I have, as my father did before me. And when I am gone, my treasures will be all that are left behind."
  • Awong124Awong124 Member Posts: 2,642
    Kivan thinks what Cyrus wants to finger is underneath Faldorn's armor.
  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Treasures? Alora is interested in treasures.

    "Is there any chance we could see your treasures? Where do you keep them?"
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    Alora is rooms away and not hearing the conversation.
  • EvinfuiltEvinfuilt Member Posts: 505
    If you can tell me more about your master, I maybe able to... awaken your senses to nature.
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