Waysoftheearth's Hinterlands PBP
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"Kill your torch, Padrig!" Olaf whispers hoarsely, "Look he points out the twinkle of light coming from up on the opposite lip of the canyon."waysoftheearth wrote:Olaf, whose eyes are sharper than most, is the first to notice the twinkle of a torch fire glimmering from amid the broken stone-work above, on the opposite lip of the canyon... perhaps only two or three score yards distant.
And if you can see their light, well it might only be moments before they see Padrig's flickering fire...
"If we go in, you two will stay here and guard the mule and cart." Olaf says gruffly, "Does that suit you?"waysoftheearth wrote:With only the light of dusk upon the stone works above, and a premonition of the evening's chill already about the canyon floor Padrig sets his bulky pack down and extracts a torch from a bundle of such and then works at striking flint against steel to set a spark to a tiny bundle of dry tinder. Meanwhile Anwyn leaps enthusiastically up to iron door and begins searching about its edges carefully while the company discusses its course.
"Well I ain't settin' foot in there fer less than double pay," declares Boris resolutely, glaring at a bundle of old bones with distaste.
"Nor I," agrees Fix.
"So much for any sort of secrecy." Olaf sighs and points at the twinkling light from the opposite lip of the canyon, "Before we venture inside, let us deal with whoever is shining yon light."(1d6) "I see nothing untoward," chirps Anwyn merrily, just as Padrig gets his torch afire, and then (wisdom 6) she heaves mightily on the great iron door ring.
(1d6=6) Despite her fine build, the Elf maid's strength is formidable. The heavy iron ring gives a hoarse creak, and then there is the extended grind of rusted hinges turning as she drags the heavy door slowly to half way open.
"It's open," she beams, and peers into the dark passage yonder.
"Go about it gently, though," Dieter warns. "The way things have been going, it's another blighted soul that wants to join us."eris wrote:"So much for any sort of secrecy." Olaf sighs and points at the twinkling light from the opposite lip of the canyon, "Before we venture inside, let us deal with whoever is shining yon light."