Tarinhil shakes his head, "No, thankfully. At least 50 leagues to the north, I'm thinking. I just worry that this was found here and who else might have been reading it."
Somebody...sinister I bet.
...
Well OK, it could have been someone just reading it who was followed by someone sinister or someone entirely unrelated to any sinister people but that isn't very dramatic.
...
What are you talking about?! All you do is try to insert drama. When I wanted to start that tea room in Falcon's Hollow you threatened to cover me with warts!
...
I bet Sarenrae's clerics don't have to put up with this.
OK picking a random door
B-21
The door opens to find
A long table with benches to either side sits in
this room opposite a bookshelf filled with dozens
of books, most of which have been torn from the
shelves, mangled, and then messily stuffed back
in place.
And nothing else
"Whoa! Deja vu. Let's go back across the hall." Unalaq opens the door to B-23.
Checking for anything important in the room like spellbooks, tomes, etc. before we leave the room.
nothin other than the journal you guys already found
Our heroes move into B-26
This kitchen is in total shambles, as if a cyclone had
moved through the room, smashed every bit of
furniture, bent every bit of silverware, and partially
collapsed the stone fireplace.
"Not much here, let's check that door at the back. Any traps left for us?" If no traps, Unalaq will go ahead and open the door.
It's like there's a pattern here.
All that remains in this room is a half-smashed
crate and an untouched barrel.
Of note there is a barrel of pickled fish
Tarinhikl wrinkles his nose, "Not my favourite. But seems to still be well preserved."
"All right. Let's check the other side of the hall. I wonder where all the ogres have gotten off to. Still out fighting your fires Tarin?" Unalaq crosses the hall and once the doors have been checked, he opens up the northernmost B20. Will keep checking doors and working our way down to the other two B20s after that.
All three of them are reasonably intact rooms, though they have nothing of interest...guest ross perhaps?
"All right. Let's check these double doors down here." Once Vinny or Tarin have checked the doors for any traps left by the ogres, Unalaq opens the doors to B24.
These barracks were once comfortable and wellappointed,
but they are now filled with nothing
but splintered bunks, torn bedding, and
,
smashed
tables and chairs.
And you happen to catch 4 ogres arguing about going outside or not.
Take a surprise
GO
"Ah, here they are! Quick! Join me!" Unalaq attacks the one right next to him (#2).
Unalaq smashes one and teeth fly and ti crumples to the ground.
Elorin casts see invisibility and looks around to make sure we are not being observed.
Perception
Tarinhil growls at the sight of the Ogres, his hands quickly mixing up a bomb to hurl as he turns and winks at Unalaq, "Not all of them, it seems.", then he hurls an explosive bomb at the second rank of Ogres after Unalaq fells the leader.
Darin moves up and goes into full defense.
The smell of burning grease and flesh adds to the good times.
Moving up, Vinny stands behind Unalaq prepared to stab anything that comes up to the Paladin.
Fernus?
Fernus moves up beside Darin and readies a Magic Missile spell to blast the first ogre that attacks Tarin.
Vinny drops the burning one, while the other one that was burned winds up on its butt with bruises on its face
It stands and moves up to the door ready to smash, just after the other ogre charges across the room
Smash little fire bug!
but he only manages to take a chink out of the doorjamb
go
Unalaq attacks the one next to him (#4), switching his second attack to the other one (#3) if he drops the first.
With a flick of his wrist, he tries to draw one of the ogre's attentions away.
He feints high and the ogre moves to lock it and then Vinny comes up into the ogres through dropping it like a stone.
Then Unalaq bashes the other ones head in.
Combat over...that was exciting.
Darin rounds the corner and gags.
Why the hells do ogre brains smell so bad?
Pinching his nose he'll look at Unalaq and Vinny.
Anyone hurt?
"The ogres were." Unalaq grins at Darin. "Let's see what they were up to in here. I'm sure its no good."
Tarinhil nods, "That's likely a safe bet."
Unalaq takes a look around the room, expecting the worst.
Just a lot of gross
Tarinhil joins Unalaq in his search, "Some evidence of what they're up to would be useful.."
Tarin finds gross that only tiny people can find
"Well, that was all kinds of gross. Let's try the end of the hall."
Tarinhil says, "Think how much worse it is when the filth is larger that you are.", then takes wing, keeping next to Unalaq.
Stupid creatures...the Ogres and their allies will be skulking around here somewhere.
Tarinhil nods, "Let's find them while they're distracted."
Vinny follows Unalaq's lead, but checks all doors for traps, using his skill at the most casual of levels to ensure they are alright.
The lathes, sawhorses, and other tools i n this
workroom lie in scattered, shattered ruin on the
floor. The walls are smeared with gore, in some
places forming messy graffiti.
There is no one in the room
Charming.
Tarinhil suggests, "Maybe they're all too busy fighting the fire?"
Well they could be disgusted by the decor too - maybe the rangers did this.
"We could ask them when we go back outside, but I think they'd be disgusted with the question. Let's go over here to the door in the corner before we check back the other way."
Unalaq finds a ladder leading up into a tower, it is obvious that everything about these towers is too small for the ogres.