Gameplay Date 02-03-07
Players present: Mordek, Taneus
Minor updates... Corny is actually 14 years old, not 12 as previously stated. His friend Meggit looks to be about 12 or 13 years old.
After having lost our "shadows," we make our way over to Gilliam's Stable, which is close to Meg's place and the eastern gate of the city. Upon speaking with Gilliam, we found out that he has lost 6 horses so far, usually after sunset. He's got two in the paddock at the moment being tended by a stable boy, but they're kinda sickly looking. Gilliam's blaming it on the Uegan as he says they eat them, but he's willing to pay us 50gp per horse if we can get them back before he goes completely out of business. We agree to help him and tell him we'll be back before dark. In the mean time, the elf & I decided to head back down in Corny's lair and see if we can discover some clue as to what Cedric & Tundle were looking for, or perhaps something we had missed the last time down there. Before going down, we picked up some more supplies, including some salves & ointments of medicinal purpose, a small wooden shield, some nails and some spears. Using the hammer from my "toolkit," I pounded several nails through the backside of the shield so they made rudimentary spikes on the front. As soon as we got back to the room where we had encountered the centipedes, we were attacked by 2 very big rats. They managed to bite me a couple of times before we killed them. However, we found that there was a 3rd rat corpse in the room that hadn't been there before, at upon closer inspection, it was killed by a weapon. This may have been what injured Cedric & Tundle. The centipede burrow is now considerably bigger as the rats had burrowed out from it too. Putting some salve onto my new injuries, we lit a torch to peer up the rat hole. It was going to be kinda tight for us. We'd have to crawl on hands & knees to make our way.
So I took the lead with shield on one arm and spear in the other hand. The elf followed close behind with a torch so he could see in the dark. After about 30' of crawling in a generally northeast direction, our tunnel joined with another one heading east/west. To the west, it just seemed to go on for quite a long ways, and to the east, after about 30', it appeared to dead end but also had what looked like a hole in the floor just before ending. We went over to check it out. The hole was the continuation of the tunnel... just from here it slanted down at a pretty steep angle. We estimated that it went down about 80' or so, and we could hear lots more squeaking emanating from down below. Probably the rats nest, so we turned around and started heading west down the long tunnel. Taneus took the lead this time and we passed the tunnel that branched back to Corny's lair. It was a good thing too, because once we were a little ways past it, a couple of more rats came up from out of the hole and charged at us. I managed to get the shield up and braced it for their charge, killing one of the two rats upon the shield spikes as it impaled itself. Not sure if I got in the killing blow on the other one, or if the elf did, as it was all claws, nose, teeth and whiskers trying to get around the edges of my shield, and we just kept stabbing at it with our spears. Once that one was dead, we resumed crawling westward until finally we came to a fork. The tunnel continued straight west in front of us, but now there was another tunnel that branched off in a northwest direction. Looking down at the ground, we spotted some tracks. Going in they looked clean, but coming back out they were bloody. We opted to check them out and followed the NW tunnel. After a little ways, another tunnel branches off heading northeast, but the tracks follow the tunnel we're currently in. And about 20' more in front of us, it looks like it opens up into a bigger space, which is good because we can hear more squeaking and pattering echoing from the tunnel behind us. Crawling as quick as we can to cover that last bit of distance, we find ourselves in a rough 20' x 30' space with high enough ceiling to stand up, unfortunately it's a dead end... literally. There are 3 coffins in here, 2 are fairly intact while the third has busted open and partially spilled it's occupant out... yet all 3 look as if they were dropped in here. Looking up, we weren't too far off. With all of their burrowing, the creatures had actually dug the ground out from under the coffins, as we can see a corner of a fourth coffin in the ceiling above us, and gravity took over, dropping them down here. Pouring out some oil just inside the tunnel entrance, we lit the oil with a torch once we saw them coming up the tunnel at us, creating a fire to block them off and giving us a little time.
To be continued...
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