Immersive Ink

waysoftheearth wrote:
Um... I thought it was Gustave's plan to find a way down to the ravine door exit, picking Olaf and Victor up along the way. If that is indeed your path, then you still need to find a way down to the ravine floor...

tombowings wrote:
OCC: I thought the plan was not to get killed by the giant and hopefully find Olaf and Victor while we're at it.

But yes this is likely a way down into the ravine or an entrance to even more brutal pain...either way, Pelenwin's up for the job.

waysoftheearth wrote:
Pelenwin approaches the strange, dug out chamber, peering now in through the open door arch, with the others behind him in the narrow passage...

It is not entirely unlike this:


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P Pelenwin
G Gustave (with Lantern)
D Dieter
# Wall
.. This level
'' Ledge, 10ft below
:: Ledge, 20ft below
;; Ledge, 30ft below
%% Ledge, 40ft below
@ Darkness/Unknown

tonneau wrote:
"Looks like a quick way down, one way or another", comments Gustave, peering over Pelenwin's shoulder.
"What we need is a nimble - and light - scout...any takers?" he adds, over his shoulder.

heartless wrote:

waysoftheearth wrote: Wibert's original torch has burned through, and he has replaced it with another -- he has one more in reserve.
Dieter's lantern is approximately 3/4 full still.

Wibert will keep an eye out for anything he could use as a torch. He asks the others, "if you see anything that we can use as a torch it will be really great. Or else we will fine ourselves walking around in the dark once we use up these two".

tombowings wrote:
"I'm not so sure splitting up like this is a good idea," responds Pelenwin. "Should the scout find himself in trouble, I don't fancy charging down this wooden contraption to aid him. I say we move downwards in groups of three. Few enough to keep the wood from splitting beneath up, and enough men to hold off an ambush will help arrives."

mushgnome wrote:
"Forget about Olaf," whispers Highbough. "The odds he's survived this long are a thousand to one. But on the plus side, there's no way the giant could follow us down here. This structure reminds me of a tomb; perhaps there is treasure at the bottom (but watch out for undead)."

tombowings wrote:
"I agree, Olaf's chances are slim, but I'd hate to loose another of our cunning warriors," says Pelenwin. "Come, Highbough. Let us descend."

waysoftheearth wrote:

heartless wrote:Wibert will keep an eye out for anything he could use as a torch.

Alas, he spies nothing so useful along the way...

waysoftheearth wrote:
Pelenwin moves onto the stone ledge, in the scarcely illuminated chamber. By the flickering ochre light from Gustave's lantern -- that dances madly with tall shadows around great pools of darkness -- Pelenwin observes that only a rough trestle at the far right end of the ledge is crafted from timber... the whole of this ledge, and all the others it would seem, is stone.

It will not take too much to clamber down the first trestle and onto the second ledge, he decides, and makes to do so... thus enabling Gustave and Dieter space to move into the room and onto the 5ft wide ledge -- in the original marching order.

As Pelenwin climbs down the trestle, it seems to Gustave and Dieter that there might be a faint movement of air coming up from the darkness below...