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by mushgnome » Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:31 pm
Dame Simonetta sees the boulder is too large for a hobbet to move. She thinks only a large, athletic human could have put it there. (18 str, man-size or larger) The best she could hope for, if she really put her back into it (bend bars check) would be to shift the boulder a few inches, enough for one of the party Burglars to slide through for a look-see.
One interesting detail is a thin, taut cord. The near end of this cord is attached to a spike in the wall. The other end passes through the gap between the wall and the boulder, into the unseen area behind the boulder. Dame Simonetta doesn't recognize the material, but the cord is thin and strong, like fishing line.
As to the shrieking noises themselves: There are multiple, overlapping voices. Dame Simonetta estimates a half-dozen screamers. There are no words, just raw cries of emotion. If the voices are coming from hobbets or other sentient creatures, then something is very wrong with them: perhaps they have been tortured senseless. "AAAAAHHHHH!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!!!"
Dame Simonetta's imagination runs wild, what could be making these shrill, unnerving sounds? Her mind briefly flashes to a nest of baby dragons, calling for their mother to feed them. Whoever or whatever is screaming, the cries are welling up from a source of raw, exposed id.
[f=59]
Stern (
Strong Hero, MV 9′′, AC 3, HD 4, hp 20, FC 4 men/hero, SV F4, L)[/f]