Turq smiles warmly, A bit. Do ye know a way out o' here? I'm not sure we can climb the slide. We'll have ta see if these tunnels lead out.
Baldrick continues asking question as he turns and examines the surroundings. The iced chutes that you slid down are slick but probably wouldn’t be impossible to climb back out of. Possibly made easier with the right climbing gear.
"Let's head back up then, yes? With Spritzel that is. Who's good at climbing? We can set out ropes to help the others... I mean, I could use a rope..."
Turq, being single-minded of purpose, immediately sets to climb up the sliding tunnel, Anyone got any spikes, or perhaps a climber's kit?
"We're doomed... Are we?" reflects Emmett.
Nah, we have got this, Emmett, Turq says with a grin.
"I'm g- g- glad-d!" replies the Old Man of Caer Dal, his teeth clacking from the cold.
Turq, being single-minded of purpose, immediately sets to climb up the sliding tunnel, Anyone got any spikes, or perhaps a climber's kit?
"Ain't got none o' those lad" - Aggrammar ponders - "But this might be helpin' - he adds, bestowing a minor blessing to aid Turk on his task.
"Now go get us outta here"
While the others try to climb out, Baldrick continues his inspection of the ice cavern, still hoping that it follows the same rules as caves in stone.
"Oh, uh... you sure talk fast. Do you or the other otters know a way out of here?"
Seeing that none of the otters approached him the eladrin gets up, dusts his butt off of any remaining snow and waits for a plan.
Umikh has no trouble using his hand axes to climb up the side of a tunnel. Once he finds secure purchase, he will lower a rope to help the others, and try to warm himself up a bit.
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"He's- He's g- good!"
Umilkh manages to climb the slide back out to the tundra above. Securing a rope from above to assist the climb for the others. The Otters also ride up as passengers with who ever will assist them.
During that time, Baldrick takes one last look around the water pool area below. Finding no other way out, he does locate a small alcove. The frozen body of an explorer who died here months ago rests here. The only thing of note on the body are its boots, which are a pair of embroidered boots with gaudy, but worthless, gems.
The wolf can be sensed in the darkness beyond but it seems to be avoiding anyone coming near, staying out of the light.
Emmett asks to go first. He makes a good show of it, until about halfway. He feels his legs cramp and his arms start to tremble. For a moment, he stands immobile, unable to move up, just panicking. There's no way he can let go of that rope, he thinks, he would look like... Like an old man!
And then his arms give and he lets go of the rope and starts to slide back down!
However, he manages to land kind of correctly and on his feet: "It looks good, as far as I could tell. We can start the climb. I'll go... later." and he tries to find a spot to rest his legs.
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Turq joins in with the dwarf priest's prayer, while putting on his crampons, when Umikh suddenly scrambles up the tunnel!
Moradin's beard! the warrior scrambles up after, not to be out done!
As he pops out of the tunnel after Umikh, Turq laughs, You win, this time, Mikh! Let's get this rope down there!
Turq talks about how he plans to move to Good Mead and learn to brew the tasty beverage... He laughs and jokes, conversing about days of training as beardlings as they pull their compatriots up.
"Hey, what're they doing here...?" glancing over his shoulder, Baldrick realizes that his companions are busy climbing back out. Shrugging, he pulls off the explorer's boots, mumbling to himself: "Someone might be looking for this poor "
Tying the boots together and looping them through a strap on his pack, Baldrick rushes back over to the others: "Hey - wait up!"
At the base of the slide: "Master Emmett - do you need some help? What if we tie the rope to your waist so you don't slide out again?"
"Why, yes. I guess it makes sense..." Emmett replies, gazing at the floor, frozen and defeated.
Before he heads up, the eladrin will tell the remaining wolf, We might be your only way out of this. Come on, don't be stubborn.
Umikh - Mik, he likes it! - enjoys talking about better days with Turq as the pair help pull the others up. He looks forward to trying this mead some day.
He shouts down encouragement to Emmett, tells him to keep moving while he waits so he doesn't freeze solid. And if he hears Rodalas, he will agree that, aye, get the wolf up and out too, and get on his way.
At first, upon hearing Rodalas' invitation for the wolf, Turq has reservations... but looking at his companions, he decides that if the wolf decides to bite the hand that feeds it, they would be safe enough.
Mир grunts and huffs as he uses the rope to climb the slippery slides.
He will wait for the wolf's response
Acrobatics to get up acrobatics
Emmett tries, but fails again: "I'm afraid I'll need more than words to help me up... Perhaps if we tie the rope around my waist, those above could pull me up? I'm so sorry for being such a burden..."
Try ta keep yer feet, we'll pull ye up! Turq calls down.
"I'm heavier than I look, I've been told..."
He will try to pull himself up again
Athletics
After Mир gets to the top he turns around to face the trecherous slides and grabs the rope in his large hands. "Ready Emmett," he bellows is a deep rumbling voice. When given the word, his massive muscles ripple with effort..
The wolf never appears as you climb to the surface. The party, now all back topside, begins to realize just what kind of danger you may be in. As the winds whip across the area the cold damp clothes began freeIng almost immediately.
• Being drenched in cold water then moving through air
this cold is most likely fatal in three hours or less.
• It’s at least a three-hour walk back to Mother Tusk’s
location, and that’s only true if someone isn’t slowed from exhaustion. Even an hour in the cold could easily lead to serious exhaustion.
• Creating a heat source to dry off and warm up is vital to survival at this point. Unfortunately, there isn’t much to burn in a watery cavern.
Turq lights three torches (including the one that he lit in the hole), and passes them around. Using one, he passes it over his wet clothes, drying them slowly, We should find shelter. It'll take at least three hours ta get back ta Mother Tusk. This blasted cold'll freeze yer wet clothes in no time.
Emmett rises from the hole defeated, his self-esteem dinged byb his failed climb, his mortal shell soaked and freezing.
Teeth clattering, he ignores the torch offered.
But the warmth he starts to feel when the torch is brought nearer pulls him out of his torpor and he finaly grabs the torch and starts drying his clothes.
Gradually, the Old Man of Caer-Dal finds hope and enough resolve to walk back.
"This was... hard. But I'm better. Clothes feel dry now... But let's not linger, yes? My teeth are still clattering their concern, hehehe..."
Umikh roots around in his damp pack and produces another torch dry enough to add to the collection. Huddle up while we talk about where we be heading next, the extra warmth'll do us good. He wrings out his sopping wet pants, and water pours out of his boots, then hastily dons it all again.
With a rare flash of inspiration, Baldrick speaks up: "Huh - it wasn't as cold down in the tunnels - probably because there was no wind down there.... Let's ... uh... let's make a nest! Listen, if we dig down in the snow a bit, that'll get us out of the wind. Then we can make a small fire to warm up and dry off. We could even cover some of our nest with blankets to keep in the heat."