The Marches Campaign

WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

[you guys keep your sleep spells ready, and we'll be fine.]

Scott · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

[Let me know marching order and light sources.]

This stone staircase is at least a dozen feet wide, its steps crumbling in places, and stretches twenty, twenty-five yards into the cold air of the Underworld. A faint whiff of guano and ammonia emanates from below ...
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John Thompson · (Ymmas Ragah) Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 116

[Can we adopt a standard marching order of Lars and myself in the front, Bhartec and Kexy ten paces behind, and Sinlocah ten paces behind them?]

Scott · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Let the boy go up front with a torch, he's been whining about it all day. Besides, he's small will be harder to kill with crossbow, firetraps, and giant venomous snakes.

*The boy gulps and goes to the front of the party with a light torch*

WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

[That standard marching order is fine with me.]

TheMyth · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

Kexy takes her place in the center of the party, her bow readied to shoot between her companions.

Scott · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

The torchboy, somewhat glassy-eyed, nods at Bhartec's command.

"Yes, Master Bhartec," he says, walking down the stairs, his torch held out and above his head.

The stairs end, entering the south side of a large, square chamber. A simple archway is positioned in the center of each of the east and west walls; there is an ornate, carved archway leading from the center of the north wall. The walls were painted once in bright colors with scenes of ceremony and worship being performed by men in strange garb, but are now faded, worn, chipped, and discolored.

It is instantly apparent that the vaulted ceiling is home to several hundred bats, who stir irritably at the torchlight -- a few wing wildly around the room. The air is heavy and stinks of bat shite, and the torch flares brighter in the fumes. You look down with disgust to find the floor is slick with slick, chalky guano.
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John Thompson · (Ymmas Ragah) Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 116

[If we were to turn in the approximate direction of the other underground structure, what would that be? To the right?]

WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

Lars is going to creep from door to door, sniffing the air through each one.

TheMyth · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

Kexy will target Lars with her bow as he moves...just in case something big and bat-like hears him skulking around.

Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:22 am Post subject:

Bhartec will follow behind Lars, directing the boy to where he would be most useful in shining his torch.

Nick · (Sinlocah) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 121

Sinlocah guards the rear, waiting to hears screams of pain and torment before heading forward to his almost certain doom.

Scott · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject:

[The small black building would be to the southwest. Nothing smells like anything but batshit.]

As the light of the torch's radius falls beyond the northern archway, you hear a great buffeting of wings ... literally thousands of bats seeth forth from the north, batting and thumping against your faces, some becoming entangled in your hair and gear, squirming and flapping blindly. Vision beyond a few feet, even by torchlight, is impossible in the filthy, furry tempest, and you hear little beyond muffled yells over the bats' whirs and shrieks.
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