waysoftheearth wrote:
heartless wrote:"Check it is safe out there, and no one is hiding at the top of the ledge, then we can locate Victor and the cart", asks Padrig.
Pelenwin, and then
Mads, steps out onto the narrow ledge, while the invisible
Highbough remains in the doorway with the others muttering and whispering behind him.
Both Men stand up straight, stretching their backs, as they peer about. The first hint of coral orange is visible on the underside of the clouds away over the horizon -- the sun still being well below the shadow of the rocky chasm.
The air is chill and damp, and the ravine about the old backdoor is a dark alley -- run perpendicular and full of awkward rocks, boulders and even deeper shadows. A gentle babble reveals the near by stream even though it cannot be seen.
Ulric's lantern light, still half a dozen paces back in the tunnel is by far stronger than the faint beginnings of the new dawn.
There is no sign nor sound of
Victor,
Fix and
Boris. If they are as good as their word, they will still be a few hundred yards back down the ravine -- where the floor is less rocky.
[f=32]
Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]