Shan keeps on chugging down the tiny tunnel.
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Shan and Chao squeeze their way down the tunnel as well.
Shan looks on in frustration as the stirge continues to harass the wizard. The small confines keep him from advancing to help.
Shan grabs what he can from the chest , then moves to catch up with his party. Chao keeps pace with him.
Shan walks over and tries to open the chest in the corner.
Shan goes to the activation stone in the lower left corner of the room and activates it . He looks at Chirk and messages "Can you check on the chest in the corner there for traps?"
Shan smiles a slightly cocky smile as the centipede takes the ineffective bite, and then swings his sword into it's side again.
If the beastie is still standing, Chao adds a bite.
Chao, help Ruue! Jump the wall and attack! Shan instructs his cat. The little cat immediately takes off, and jumps over the wall.
Chao easily clears the wall, and moves up to engage the farthest centipede next to Ruue.
Shan then follows along the wall, moving over to stand next to Chao, and swings his sword
Alyssa leaves Grimdal to play with the wall, and approaches the barrier behind her companions. She looks with slight disdain at the wall, and her companion's antics at scaling it. She prepares to use Dimensional Slide to teleport to the top of the wall, as soon as there is room.
Shan runs up to the barricade, sword still held in hand, and jumps just before reaching the barricade.
He springs up to the top of the 5 foot barrier easily, standing next to Chirk, and takes in the foes before them. He thinks to his companion "What you think, Chirk? Nasty suckers. Think we can take them?"
Shan will drink the potion of CLW he had previously retrieved, and then will continue on into the room to the south, Chao sticking by his side.
Shan moves forward, depositing some coins of his own into the mouth of the statue opposite of the one Grimdal pays. Once both his and Grimdal's coins are in place, Shan crosses the bridge, Chao sticking close by his side.
Shan also follows the others into the next room, looking around at the bridge. While doing so, he pulls a potion out of his pack. Chao follows close behind.
"I'll poke my head the other way and see what we have" Shan says, before moving over to the other door and pressing the key into the activation stone.
Shan reaches into his pack, pockets the ring he identified, and withdraws a wand . He uses the wand on himself, then steps away from his door, looking to the next room.
Shan, coughing from all the debris and wincing in pain, reaches into the ruins of his closet, grabs the talisman and puts it on, and then grabs the ring and touches it to the key to find out what it is.
Shan moves over to the door marked Do Not Enter, Chao following close behind. He reaches out to open the door, and if he finds it locked he will put his weight into the door. Help me push again, please, Chao. The cat leans against it as well.
Shan strides over to the door with the triangle on it, drawing out his greatsword as he goes, Chao following along faithfully behind him. When he comes up to the door, he eyes it, concentrating and seeming to grow in size ever so slightly , and Chao grows a little as well . He looks down at Chao and thinks Help me push, old friend. He then lowers his shoulder and tries to force open the door. Chao faithfully tries to apply his own weight to it as well.
Shan's eyes dance across the door, looking for an opening mechanism. Not finding one, his eyes fall down to the activation stone. He reaches down and places his hand on the stone, attempting to use it in the same way they had used the one up above.
Frowning in disappointment, Shan then steps up a little and tries the metal door next to him. As he does, he looks at Chirk and says to just him Don't forget to use that wand I gave you! We need all the speed we can get.
We should be quiet, as the hunt as begun - we don't know who may be listening. Shan thinks to each of his companions in turn. We should go easier, agreed - we are fast, we should use that. He then pauses to see what Grimdal sees behind his door before taking any actions.
Gah! Spiders! Time to go! After hurredly handing off one of the feather fall talismans to Chirk, and making sure Grimdal had taken his as well, Shan quickly picks up Chao and jumps out of the cage. Once they reach the bottom, he drops Chao, who gives Shan an annoyed look. Could have jumped that! the cat thinks to Shan, before looking around quickly and finding a safe place, out from underneath the cage. As the cat makes his way to safety, Shan quickly moves to keep up with him.
"I have talismans, three of them," Shan says, glancing between Grimdal and Chirk, "that should allow us to get to the ground safely, if Alyssa has her own means of getting there."
Shan glances up nervously, but keeps his calm about him. He retrieves a wand from his pack and casts it on himself . He holds out the wand to Chirk, and then asks a question of the overseer. "The link holding the cage to the chain appears to have been damaged in the fall - can you do anything to stop it from breaking?"
Shan shakes his head and chuckles before yelling back "Cat's too fierce for you, I think! I'll keep an eye out for a nice bunny for you though!" Laughing to himself, he enters the cage with the others, Chao sticking close to his side.
He could feel it beginning, deep in his bones - the thrill of the hunt. Not your normal hunt, to be sure, but that just made it all the more exciting. To be seeking after something that the world hadn't seen in ages; not much beat it. Shan looks at Chao, dutifully down by his side, and grins. Are you ready, girl? We must move quickly, when the signal comes. At this, the cat's head shoots up, pale yellow eyes narrowing. She tilts her head to the side. Kill now? These things badwrong. Her gaze snaps over to the Graveknights, and a low growl emerges. Shan smiles, and his hand rests on Chao's flank. Calm, Chao. They are badwrong, but are helping. Hold ready. The man then looks around at his companions, old and new. He had been thrilled to hear from Grimdal, particularly with an invitation to such an event. He was good people. Chirk and Ruue were welcome additions as well, and he was glad they had agreed to come. Chirk had taken to the ways of the hunt easily and quickly, and Ruue had been a joy to hunt with. He was a little more unsure of the girl, as he was with all new people, but recognized the competence in her if not exactly warmth. The situation here was an odd one, to be sure. The cages gave him pause. Was that the way into the temple? That didn't make him feel warm and fuzzy - but not much about this whole scenario did. They would just have to take things one step at a time. Shan looks over at Alyssa, then raises his eyebrows and looks at the various glowy things. "What's your take on all this, Alyssa? Seen anything like it before?"
Here is dwilhelmi's character Shan Zhen, the intrepid hunter from Tian Xia. No backstory in there yet, and I'm planning on making a different alias for Rui at some point too. |