Ember throws a bolt of fire after the creature that Rase spotted.
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"Where Rase? Ember will try to follow where Rasellia is aiming at and tries to see what she is aiming at.
"Who's talking about beer?" Ember's a bit confused as the Gremlins attack them. "Hey! Watch it you little bugger!" Apparently the Gremlins were expecting normal sized people because the surprise attack went right over her head. Ember will turn and try to hit whatever attacker her with her hammer.
Ember gives a smirk of her own. "That's because we've only just met. You haven't had a chance yet to experience some of those benefits. We'll just have to wait and see if you're that type of friend."
Ember looks up at Keldor/Gauntlet. "There are occasionally benefits to being this short."
Ember at least has no problem with the low ceilings on the tunnels. "How about we go left?"
"So we are going to go and kill and or run away some little critters? Sounds like a waste of time, but nothing too difficult for us to handle."
Ember is patiently (for her) awaiting the results of the meeting.
Don't jinx it :p
"I suppose Silvester and Rasellia make sense. They talk well and me Basil or Hali would be bound to say something offensive and start a war or something."
Ember keeps her eyes wide open, looking for any sign of movement as they continue onward. "At least finding one of Khonnirs party members confirms that we are on the right trail."
"Any chance we could kill the mold with fire without harming the person?
Ember gasps is surprise and pokes Keldor in the thigh. "Psst! Hey guys, don't be too obvious about it, but I swear I just saw something personlike moving from that last junk pile to that pathway over there." Ember nods her head in the direction of it rather that being too obvious and pointing. "Anything that sneaky can't be up to any good."
My life always seems hectic. :/
Ember will follow Keldor and arrange a group of rocks into the shape of an arrow in the direction that they are heading in.
"That's true enough. There may yet be people still needing out help down here and we have no real idea of the size of these caves that we need to search. We should like start marking our path soon so that we won't get turned around and lost.
Unable to do anything for the dead, Ember pokes about the boxes and crates heaped in the room. Hoping to find something of either use or some clue as to what was going on here.
Ember's cheerful little voice pipes up at Keldor. "Don't worry, I'll be your helpful little seeing-eye gnome until your sight returns. Assuming it does of course. I mean, I guess we don't know for sure how long that sort of thing lasts." "Hmmm, on the topic of eyesight, are we staying put here until it returns or pushing on? If we stay here, how long do we give their eyesight to return before we head back to town?"
Ember pats Keldor on the leg. "How ya doing big guy? Too bad your armor can't shield your eyes too."
I've always allowed people to roll either high or low as long as they've stated which they are choosing and being consistent with that throughout the game.
"Well, this isn't good." Ember throws a small bolt of fire at the creature.
I agree with Basil on flavorwise reasons. If Rase stays in the back and Sil takes point, he would likely be too far away from her for his own peace of mind.
His character likely doesn't know that yet. I can totally understand why someone encased in a full body suit would think that they would be the best choice to take point until they get a full measure of everyone's true abilities.
"Let's get going then. No sense wasting time here." Ember holds up her light and is ready to move along.
Ember looks a bit miffed. "We were having a discussion, not an argument and I look NOTHING like a fishwife." "And does anyone recognize the dead guy? I'm really not sure who all were in the previous parties that came this way. And can anyone tell what killed him?"
"Yes, I do still find a fault in it. Any trip will still take time with the time increasing the further we get from the entrance. We have no way to recast the water breathing spell we used to get here, thus any extra time spent moving around bodies is an inefficient use of the duration of the spell. Speaking of which, do you actually need air like we do? Also, since there is undeniably something dangerous and deadly in these caverns, I do not like the idea of you going off on your own, carrying a dead body that might attract something hungry."
"Basil, hold up for a moment. Looking for potential clues is useful and something that we should definitely do, but taking his body outside is not. Just think for a moment, are you going to do that for every body we find as we go further and further in? The distance that you would be traveling alone to do that would keep increasing, raising risk to both yourself for being alone and for us for not having you and your weapon with us. Plus it wastes time we could better spend searching for possible survivors."
"Eh, those we just a bunch of bugs, vermin of the area. I'm more concerned with the possibilities of rogue mechanical constructs and unknown humanoid creatures." Ember continues along with the group resuming her place behind Keldor, still considering him to be a most excellent shield wall and not minding the view.
Ember is careful to keep Keldor between her and the firebeetle as she lobs a small bolt of fire at the big bug.
"Oh, I don't think I asked before, but is anyone good with finding and following any tracks? Just because I'm low to the ground, doesn't mean I know what the hell I'm looking at."
"Yup. Here you go Keldor." Ember passes a sunrod over to the eidolon covered Keldor. Then Ember takes off her boots and strips down to her underthings in preparation for the swim. She shoves all her stuff into her bag and then pulls out a sunrod of her own to use. She'll do her best to paddle alongside the others in the water, but still ends up being the last one out. Once back out on dry(ish) land, she will get her clothing back out her bag and toss it on hastily. "Welp, let's get exploring." Ember will follow along with the group, staying behind Keldor.
Ember bounces up and down all excitedly. "Oooohhh, that is so neat! Where do you get one of those? I'd like to get one too! Maybe it could even make me as big as you guys!" She bounces forward and knocks on the armor/eidolon, most likely at thigh height, testing the hardness of it.
Never being able to withstand the look of a hurt puppy, Ember tries to console Keldor with a friendly pat on the back. However, due to their size difference, her aim is much lower than she intended...
"A free casting of Water Breathing from Joram would indeed be very welcome. I was wondering how long I'd be able to hold my breath while swimming since I'm guessing my lungs are a bit smaller than my companions. The vermin and scavengers sound typical and what I'm sure we all expected to find in such a place. The strange humanoids are a bit more worrying, but not entirely unexpected since there has to be something weird going on to have kept Khonnir from returning." "Most interesting is this wall of solid metal that you mentioned. No one would build just one random wall of solid metal under the mountain just for s@&+s and giggles. Maybe there is an entire complex hidden under there just waiting for us to explore it?" Ember seems very excited to get out there and begin exploring (and finding Khonnir of course.)
"He may a bit enthusiastic, but yeah, that's our plan Councilor Freddert. We had a talk with a Val about his destination and at least have a starting point in mind. I'm also pretty sure that we are all competent."
"I guess I should grab my backpack and toss some tools in it, just in case we find anything fun to tinker with. Can't pass up those sorts of chances. I should grab a sunrod or two from the shop too since torches won't well when wet." Still grinning, though containing any remaining laughter, Ember heads off to her mom's shop at a quick pace, not wanting to keep up the group for long.
Ember manages to reign in her mirth. "Uh huh." I bet the Lady has thoughts to the contrary of that. They always do...
Ember tries to stop laughing, but Keldor really isn't helping with that. "No, no. Not an Automaton. At least none that I know of. I suppose someone really bored and desperate may have made one like that though." Ember manages to take a few deep breathes. "I guess we should get back to the discussion of heading out after Val's dad?"
Very nice :)
In a way of not really answering his question, Ember just manages to squeak out "Toyboy" in between bouts of laughter.
And now the giggles have turned into outright laughter.
Ember gets the giggles at the "toyboy" remark.
"Yeah. They seem to be good folks, just not too aware of how life works around here. They should be capable enough to help us track down your wayward father. I hope you plan to send him to bed without his supper when we drag him back here. I'm still betting he is just entranced with some huge piece of tech he is unwilling to leave until he can figure out how to get it back here on his own."
"Val, do you know if your father left behind any maps or notes of the area he last headed for? And we might need to pick up a few things before heading out, especially if we may be underwater for a bit. Enough rope to tie us together, perhaps so some sunrods since torches would go out, waterproof sacks for our rations...." Ember trails off as she tries to think of anything else that might be needed.
"Well, I would usually use the word dissect for biologicals and disassemble for mechanicals. But yeah, sure. Unless of course Val objects to us taking it anywhere since it is in her fathers house."
Ember nods at Basil. "Disassembling is always the surest way ti end attacks. It would be both interesting and fun to get to take apart this thing and figure out how it was originally put together. Maybe we could even figure out what its original purpose was. Though of course we shouldn't do that here in the house. You never know what could explode. We should haul it out to a workshop, much safer that way for everyone." "Speaking of safety. HEY VAL! Are you ok?"
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