(057) Dawn Patrol

[mushgnome]

Highbough stays close to Ulric and observes as the others test the bridge to the Chapel.

[flightcommander]

Armando reaches the courtyard and watches various of his companions head towards the chapel. He pauses at the base of the wall, however, and observes as much of the courtyard as he can from his vantage point. Then, dagger at the ready, he peers into the doorway ...

[Olroda]

Beringar sticks with Wen for the time being. As before, he's ready to shoot anything that isn't a Company member.

[waysoftheearth]

| Are there other timbers we can use to build a second bridge over to the section busted down by the Tar Fiend? |

None that are immediately obvious, but given time all sorts of raw materials could be salvaged or "re-purposed" from the general abbey structure.

[waysoftheearth]

Very good.

Dieter, Dorgan, and Torben find the make-shift bridge of timber planks to be "adequate". It is roughly 7ft wide and almost 20ft long from end to end, supported in the center by a narrow pier of stones rising from the smoldering moat.

Ulric, Highbough, Wen, Beringar and Olaf move into supporting positions on the far side of the bridge while Dieter, Dorgan, and Torben cross to check the state of the great double door.

Josiane and Armando linger at the inside of the wall they have just descend, across the wide courtyard.

Armando notes that the door there is hanging ajar, and takes a moment to peer inside... it is dark within, but seems to be relatively sparse chamber containing modest furnishings jumbled against the walls. There are interior doors to the left and right...

Meanwhile at the chapel door, Dieter and Co. find the stout double door barred against them.

What now?

[sully]

Dorgan will look to see if there's another route into the Chapel, perhaps through another building, or if the double door is the only way in.

"I'd rather go around than waste time and effort choppin' this door down."

[flightcommander]

Armando draws back to confer with Josiane. "I suspect this to have been a kennel of sorts — I believe our canine foes charged forth from within. I investigate ..." And with that, he sneaks inside with utmost quiet. Armando's first target is the door to the right, at which he stops to listen.

[coffee]

Dieter inspects the front of the chapel.

Are there any other openings in the wall, aside from the barred double door?

Do the doors appear to open inward or outward?

Is there a gap at all between the doors? (I.e.; one wide enough a strong man could slide a thin blade through, and so lift the bar?)

What do we remember of the roof of the structure -- any possibility of entry from up there?

[danhem]

"There are doors in the interior of the chapel that lead to the rest of the complex," Ulric says to Dorgan. "But I'd imagine those are barred as well."

"Last time we were able to make our way around the edge of the moat to some windows. We could likely do so again to reach the hole in the wall."

[waysoftheearth]

"Last time we were able to make our way around the edge of the moat to some windows. We could likely do so again to reach the hole in the wall."

This is true; there is a narrow lip of earth that slopes from the foundation of the chapel down in to the moat. It is just wide enough to navigate, one abreast, around the perimeter of the chapel to its rear, where the smashed out wall is.