"Hey - maybe it'd be a good time to pass out those potions now... Make sure we all got one, and we're all able to use one, in a pinch. Also - try not to use all of them - we may need 'em to help our mates - when we find them."
"I got my Moderate potions, and some Light Cure Potions of my own, but I'll take another and make sure to fix up anyone what goes under if yea gimme another potion." Dhaavan offers
Assuming sho tells us about his limits in character, "Well, if yea only got one time yea got magic enough ta do it once and can't cast nothin while yer a shark, how's about you take care o healing till you spent some o' yer healing at least. Then yea take point as a beast and we'll keep yea in good health."
"Jiro, since yea fight better when yer gangin' up on folks, yea can focus on keepin yer back to the wall, and I'll take care o' yer flanking buddies, summoning beasties behind whatever yea point out ta me?"
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If I am to help lead from here on out, someone take this bow. It might serve them ll. I only have eighteen arrows left just as a warning. Whoever can make use of it here. Also, in case we are out of the water, I still have the alchemist fires in my back. Well Sko, should we go on?
Variel will cast light on someone's weapon in the second rank. Also if Sko gives Variel a guidance he will he that as they get closer to see what is in the cavern.
Perception
At a show. I'll be on tonight. Don't go dying or picking too many fights without me
Okay - I got my Cure Moderate Potion, Masterwork Dagger, bow, sword, gun - and whole lot of "come get some"...
I'm ready; just say when.
Meantime, who's got that con? Which way are we going? First intersection we can go North East, South East or South West.
That said, is Variel back with me, or forward?
Anybody need being NPC'd? And if so - who's doing it?
Yeah - so they had a Walking Dead marathon on for the past couple of days - I've been channeling my favorite character from that show in Flynn since the day we met the first undead.
As you already know who my favorite character from the show is - how do you think that's working? :)
The cave is damp, and a chill air is around me, rising from the water and the force of wind that echoes in the cave mouth.
Our friends may already be dead; they may even now be tortured or abused – only the gods know.
Although Sko is the group’s advance scout – I do not see or hear any reaction from him; but it seems clear in our movement that the tunnel we have made our way through spreads into a wide area. It seems that the tunnel veers sharply to the left, and also to the right… but on the left side it looks like it branches out in two different directions.
With three ways to advance, and the possibility that our friends may even now be suffering, I am eager to press on.
However, it seems we have halted.
As Sko seems undecided, I presume that whoever is behind Sko would take a moment to check for any danger; and – if there was nothing to help or hinder our advances and nothing to aid or nothing to direct us to a particular course of action – someone could at least order some action.
Bloody hell!
As I have had received no specific directions in which way to proceed, I will at least take this moment to look around, and listen to hear if there are any threats.
With whatever information I have received – I will then simply wait for someone to let me know what to do.
Even from her position behind the main group, and while waiting to hear from Sko or Variel, Rain attempts to determine the best/most feasible route to take in the cove, seeking any evidence, markings etc made by the Grindylow. She would not see her party take a wrong turn and be further endangered. Gozreh and Besmara, hear me and aid me in this task.
Once again, confused by Flynn's apparent impatiencs, Dhaavan suggests, "Since we in a cave system, lets do it orderly? This old spelunker I caravan-ed with, I mean dwarf, what talked bout keepin a wall to yer left, or something like that. So why don't we start on the left path, head up that way to start? Then we make our way round the place all methodical like, yeah?"
-2=9(without Jack)
-2=18(if he's up front) Jack sticks with DHaavan keeping his eyes up front and behind for ambush. but depending on penalties he'd be up front, if Rain wants. otherwise he's with Dhaavan in the third row.
Dhaavan suggests that we go into the cave as opposed to out to sea, and then head up the north to the first cavern. but don't want things to progress too far without the others having a chance to see what's up. How bout a checkin on the discussion board at least?
"Quiet lad," I mutter to Dhaavan "Don't want to be giving away our position... noise may echo in a cave," I add.
I knew the trick about keeping a wall under your hand, only my day it was the wall to our right - but I also knew about keeping a piece of chalk to mark it with - in case you slipped away from the wall...
In any case, I still wait - curious to hear some sort of order to at least advance or move. Wondering when that would happen.
GM, that side pass around the perimeter of the cave, are we able to go along that, or is it too small to fit the party? not that we know where it leads, but it could be a direction that we'd think to travel, depending.
quietly, and somewhat sheepishly, DHaavan asks Variel, "Oye mate, Yea mind if maybe hold on to some Alchemist's fire? See I figure I best keep a few of my spells on reserve, and while i can use a dagger, I can't fdo much. So while yer cuttin stuff up, i can toss the fire at a body what we aren't closed with so as i can help out when I'm not casting anythin, right?"
Jsut trying to give DHaavan a couple options for damage so he doesn't burn through his summoning, and is able to contribute to damage while the rest of the party attacks, since they can attack, and Dhaavan can't very well.
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Sure thing Dhaavan and I think there was some found with the ghouls as well. Those might be in Jiro's pack. I think there should be enough for Everyone to have at least one from those and you can grab a couple of mine as well. I am surprised at you though, I figured you would have a spell or two for such circumstances ready for repeat castings. Anyways, if we get into a real bind, here is my scroll case. Feel free to pop the top and use either scroll in there. I was hopping to add them to my book later if I ever had the time or materials, but use them if you need to. There is a scroll of magic missile and scorching ray.
"It's less that I'm worried about not having summat what I can cast, but more that I only got so much magic. I don't want to go burning all my power and have nothin left when I really need it. SO bein able to toss some fire'll gimme somethin' what can help without leavin me out o' summons too soon." Dhaavan whispers as he accepts the viles, and pulls some out of Jiro's Pack.
"It's less that I'm worried about not having summat what I can cast, but more that I only got so much magic. I don't want to go burning all my power and have nothin left when I really need it. SO bein able to toss some fire'll gimme somethin' what can help without leavin me out o' summons too soon." Dhaavan whispers as he accepts the viles, and pulls some out of Jiro's Pack.
"Fair enough, lad - fair enough..." I say with a nod.
"Maybe then the best thing is to hold off on the casting - until we have some room... play it conservative, eh? We see a few of these scum in here, give us a few seconds before you call up the big guns, as it were - if we can handle it with ease - well; you don't want to waste it if you don't need to," I add.
Valeros follows amidst the group. The pulsing waves of water beating against his legs were almost in time with the beat of his heart. He could feel the strength of the waves pulsing through him. He watched as some of the others struggled in the water and helped Dhavaan keep his feat more than a couple of times.
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Vriel will get two of the alchemist firs from his pack to hand to Dhaavan. That combined with the one from the group that was found earlier should be sufficient for this first cave. Preparing to head further into the cave system with Sko, Variel makes sure that his gear is all set and ready. Spells ready and blade sharp nothing more is needed but contact with the Grindylows and to rescue his fellow shipmates.
Do you mean the social rp thread?
Do you mean the social rp thread?
As you make your way north out of the section you are in the cave branches again. To the left the tunnel continues but straight ahead it widens into a larger chamber. The waters look deeper and you suspect you might have to swim were you to enter. As you walk through the tunnels you begin to snag and pull on the seaweed and looking closer you see that hundred of tiny bone hooks have been laced through the seaweed and catch and snag on any clothing that passes near them. The cavern itself is different than the unworked tunnels. It looks as if it has been carved to resemble the interior of some great sea creature. You can see the stone has been carved into giant rib bones that arc over and around the chamber. You see occasional flashes of movement in the water and a flash of tentacle that disappears into the tunnel exiting opposite.
Snakes... why did it have to be snakes?
Oh wait! That's actually a tentacle, not a snake! Wow - what a relief...
Seijiro walks along trudging through seawater, fighting the seaweed but pauses to gaze in wonder about the carved chamber. When he spots tentacles disappearing under the water, he drops his head below the surface for a moment, opening his eyes to try to see what is below the surface.
Unable to catch sight of anything, he pops back up above the surface and shakes the water out of his hair.
Whispering, "Well, it's either left into the bottleneck, or right into the deeper water. Anyone see anything down those directions? Jack?" Dhaavan will move closer to the fork in the cave, and he and Jack look down the twisting tunnel and into the cave, Jack more accustomed the lighting while jack squints into the darkness, they try to see any signs of movement in the deep after that tentacle passes from view.
Something went that-a-way" Dhaavan hisses. "Do we follow it, go around?"
You don't see anything else as far as movement. Jack spots what looks like a hammerhead skull with a small thin piece of driftwood through it along the wall of the cavern.
"That's worrysome. Putting a stick through a shark's head like that... Hope it was dead when they did it, cause otherwise Grindy ain't sommat to take light,"
If its close, Dhaavan wants so examine it, "Jiro, Rain, that's notable lookin, some kind of trap or just decoration? ya think they killed a hammerhead like that?"
In Infernal Dhaavan directs jack to get a better look at the shark head. either it's a trap or a cool artistic item, both of which are of interest to Dhaavan.
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Left or straight matters naught to me. As long as we all know where each is going I am fine with Sko going forward a bit while I look into the bottleneck. Not that we need to go any further than that but just to took at what is presented before us. Then once the look is done, head to the option that looks more promising.
Variel will refresh the light on the pike just to make sure it is up for longer. Once that is done, he will examine he bottleneck but stay within very close proximity to the others.
Perception
Stealth
Swim if needed total of twenty
As I wait for the advance scouts to determine our next course, and hearing Jack's determination, I absently cast "Detect Magic" in a broad wave in front of us; curious to know if the item is magical.
Seijiro wades over and tries to ensure that the skull and the other items near it do not constitute some kind of trap.
"Jiro, if it ain't a trap, why dontcha toss that inta the bag as we move."
which way, left or right? bottleneck or deep water?
1 for bottelneck, we can always retreat into the deep or fork.