Synatria glares at the elves.
Haedric shoves forward Garroth and begins to speak in Elven.
Garroth, on the other hand, fully tries to appear beaten down. As Haedric shoves him forward, he'll trip and fall, then slowly pick himself back up, keeping his eyes focused on the ground.
Aid Another (bluff)
The half elf looks at the group of prisoners and nods "Eilyrase kyr,mai myl. Si shasos os Valenar cali shael bondrolai ailaer" He says with a wave as two of the men point their crossbows at the three prisoners "Get to walking you three! " one yells With a motion toward the mine
The half elf bows again"Vaen aily shasos Balalar sar si modael shor shi vaedia ol sosti. Bai baer thys thasaes paestylarol. Shi shym sai si shor so Valenar' He says with a hand thumb to his chest
Elvish
"Another group, so soon. The warriors of Valenar have been vigilante indeed."
"Please inform warchief Balalar that the shipment will be ready on time. No need for farther demonstrations. We bow to the will of Valenar"
Lethe begins to trudge into the mine "Shooting glares at the guards but also clearly not wanting to try her luck at charging at loaded crossbows.
Garroth keeps his eyes focused on the ground, not deigning to look the five men in the eyes. He does take note of their number and weapons, however.
“Saes shaer sael,sae o shol tes cycys sai si caesyr os or” The half elf call as the two crossbowmen force the prisoners toward the mine
Elvish
"Fair well then,may you bring much honor to the heroes of old"
Prisoners
Your lead by the two humans with the repeaters toward the mine, a grasping maw of rock sinking down into the depths of Eberron. "Try anything stupid and you'll starve in the mine fo anyone finds you. Do you get me?" One of the men says, a heavyset fellow with a Cyrian accent. As you pass into the descending mine you notice very little activity, carts and a rough rail system for the carts, your lead from behind, down a few twists and tunnels before you come to a shaft with a wooden platform and pulleys running deep into the depths of the mine
One of the men steps near a table with a white stone mounted on it and speaks a word softly before saying "Prisoners coming down three of em, The other man motions for you to enter the platform before closing a iron Portcullis over the entrance and pulling a lever sending you slowly down the shaft into the darkness
DC 15 Perception check
[spoiler] The word is Alsnnic
Perception
Lethe's Ears twitch as the guards mention the password besides that she remains as is
Synatria keeps her eyes firmly locked ahead. she murmurs calming words in in a strange language to Annin, who is trotting at her side and watching the elves who mysteriously appeared out of nowhere (the transformed party members)with suspicion.
perception
Garroth inwardly curses as once again, he realizes they really didn't put much of a plan in place. He glances at the others first, to see if anyone makes a move.
Synatria looks up and glares harshly at her captors. She says something in a strange and yapping tongue.
She looks long and hard at Haedric and raises an eyebrow.
Haedric passively watches the prisoners being led off.
Haedric passively watches the prisoners being led off.
I came up with one, but I can't really explain it any more than I already have.
Inside the Mine
As the platform descends into the shaft, you sit in darkness and silence. Minutes pass as you sink ever deeper into the earth. At last light peeks into the darkness as the platform comes to rest in a dimly lit tunnel. You can make out five forms outside the gate.
"Try anything funny an ye dead. Simple as that" A gruff dwarf says, standing in the middle of four well armed dwarfs with crossbows and battle axes and two sweaty dirt covered humans . "My name is Kendar d'Kundarak, overseeing of this mine. I do not care what ya did, I do not care what ya didn't do. I am here to see that this mine runs smooth and stay profitable. When his gate opens Garon and solt here He nods toward the two humans "Will be chain your legs with manacles, make a move we shoot you down. Do your work and you may leave here alive. Cause me trouble and into the lime pit ye go." With that the two humans{looking haggard and dressed in ragged clothing) step forward to shackle your feet
^&*^& Lethe thinks to herself as she realises her plan may not have been such a good one after all. Looking between the dwarfs and herself she tries to judge how much distance there is between them.
"Wait!" Synatria says desperately, looking a bit panicky. "We came here looking for her sister." She points to Lethe. "Have you had another shifter like her here recently?"
He is taking deep breaths, and her eyes dart from side to side.
Lethe's mouth just drops open as Synatria gives the entire game away. "Why you little......." Is all she is able to choke out.
Kendar d'Kundarak seems to take the koblods outburst in stride "It matters not to me how or why you are here. Prisoners I was told you are so prisoners you shall be. Shackle them. We have work to do' He says with a unmoving expression upon his face.
Synatria closes her eyes and starts muttering a prayer.
Lethe's shoulders drop as the guards approach any thoughts of putting up a fight now gone since they now know why she is there. Turning to Synatria Lethe hisses "You better hope they keep us apart traitor or I will rip your scrawny head off."
Lethe's shoulders drop as the guards approach any thoughts of putting up a fight now gone since they now know why she is there. Turning to Synatria Lethe hisses "You better hope they keep us apart traitor or I will rip your scrawny head off."
Synatria is still whispering her prayer and doesn't seem to have heard Lethe.
Synatria is still whispering her prayer and doesn't seem to have heard Lethe.
Lethe growls deeply at Synatria even ignoring the guards as they shackle her
"Synatria said that in four nights they'll be out, and that she'll get out even if she needs to leave her kin behind. I assume she was telling us to come back then. The question is, how do we get back in. Disguise ourselves again and demand to see the prisoners we brought in? Sneak in?"
Well more then a bit, A nature or architect roll would tell you for sure, Dungennering would work as well[/ooc]
After a few moments, Synatria seems to calm down. She opens her eyes, her breathing slows down, and she looks about disinterestedly, trying to remember what she had learned of underground terrain.
Synatria
Synatria raises an eyebrow. "Interesting. This mine is very advanced. How long did it take to get so low underground?" she wonders aloud.
Lethe just looks at Synatria as if she had spontaneously grown a second head "Have you're wits completely left you?" She asks
Lethe just looks at Synatria as if she had spontaneously grown a second head "Have you're wits completely left you?" She asks
She shrugs. "Tricky question there. But we're eight hundred feet below the surface. Do you realize how far that is without magic? This mine must be very old, much older than I'd expected. I thought this was just a temporary arrangement. Teach me to fall asleep in history class."
"......" Lethe continues to stare at Synatria
"......" Lethe continues to stare at Synatria
The gray kobold shrugs again. "I think the answer to your question is 'yes'."
"Synatria said that in four nights they'll be out, and that she'll get out even if she needs to leave her kin behind. I assume she was telling us to come back then. The question is, how do we get back in. Disguise ourselves again and demand to see the prisoners we brought in? Sneak in?"
"Sneaking is good, but we need some sort of distraction to divert the guard's attention so we can get them out," she wrote in the dust with the tip of her rapier.
"A distraction? I can handle that. How many blast disks do we have?"
Garroth remains silent as Lethe and Synatria bicker. Why did I get stuck with these two? he asks himself. He simply continues to make note of guards, positions, and weaponry.
perception
Garroth
The head man seems to be very well dressed with a chain shirt and a well made ax, the other four seem to have military grade repeater, with clips chain shirts and axes
Garroth
** spoiler omitted **
In the mines
After you are shackled two of the dwarves puts down their crossbows and searches you. Piling anything not clothing onto the floor. As the group is stripped of any items Kendar d'Kundarak speaks "Keen eye wall rat. The mines are deep indeed, much deeper then 800 feet. House Kundarak has managed this mine for four hundred years and the tunnels stretch many miles in all directions. You will get to know them well." he says after the search is done he says something in the harsh tongue of the dwarf and two of the crossbow men nod down the tunnel and lead the group from 10 feet behind down a set of tunnels. Each well made you cross dozens of tunnels and cart paths, and what must have been near a hundred dwarves before being taken lower still. Soon you find yourself in another set of tunnels : This one a riot with activity, rocks being hauled away by groups of shackled workers of all races, work groups of five and ten removes rock and haul carts and the shortist,uglyist orc you have ever laid eyes on says something to the dwarfs as you enter before dropping into common and speaking to you
"Ah fresh meat for the mines ah, well simple, so ,so simple. You do as your told, you get feed. You do not do as you told , then you do not get feed and som' ol the boys beat on ye for a while. Too much trouble it's the deep pits or the lime pits for ya. We understand each other?" He says with a grin.
Around the room you make out maybe 20 men, armed with cruel looking barbed whips and swords. Some beating on people, one seems to be whipping an unmoving forms as it bleeds onto the dimly lit mine's floor
In the mines** spoiler omitted **
Lethe trys to get a look at who is being whipped
Perception
"Brutal war..." Synatria murmurs. "Yes, I think I understand," she says, louder.
Garroth simply nods at the orc. This is going to be ... difficult. I hope we can find some folks down here tired of mining, he thinks.
lethe
The orc yells to one of the whip armed men "Skaros, Take these three and put em with haul crew, till we see if they are useful" With that you are lead toward a group of mixed races slaves hauling stone and earth into beaten carts of rusted iron. Skaros tells another slave to unbind your hands and points to the carts "Work or take a beating" He says flexing the whip