Urlando Urlando's whiskers tremble at the approach of the oversized metal bugs. He contemplates assuming rat form and hiding until they pass by, but he decides to stay with the group and take shelter in the chevron. Ultimately, he reasons that cowardice is looked upon less favorably by other specie...

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"I don't know what this fence is, but if we're gonna put it up, let's do it now. Otherwise I say we break up and all hide. If they find one of us, maybe the rest can surprise counterattack if we are hidden." Urlando has a rat's natural dislike of being caught out in the open.

Sorry for the slow response everyone. I'm okay with moving on as well. We found some weird stuff (the liquid from the pool and the egglike things from the ceiling).. as to whether that is useful, I have no idea. It's interesting puzzling through the tower, but it's slow in this format. It would be ...

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Heeding Silvestri's advice, the rat-man pauses by the door to wait for the others to ascend, before taking further action.

Urlando calls back to the others.
Should we open this door? He pauses and then asks, And why would it open with a wheel rather than a handle?

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Urlando will advance to join Saiph. Making sure the passage is clear, he follows the second passage to the door with the spiked wheel, while the others are climbing the rope. He will test the wheel to see if it turns, without turning it all the way to open the door.

Urlando The rat-man was lost in thought for a moment contemplating the possible use and meaning of the waxy pellet that he retrieved from the ceiling. Suddenly snapping out of it, he hopes to follow Max and Saiph up the rope. He tests the rope first before climbing, making sure it can hold his weig...

Urlando Urlando trails behind Silvestri. He remembers that he saw no paw- or hand-holds in the chamber he explored that was like this one. If all of the walls and floors are as smooth as this, there is nothing for a rope to hold on to up there. There has to be another way up this vertical tunnel. M...

Urlando mutters in frustration after breaking the stalactite and hangs his heads in shame. After pausing to tend his cut from the broken glass, he bends down to inspect the potato-sized pellets that fell out. Probably not a food cache , he thinks to himself. If there is nothing obviously dangerous ...

Urlando Urlando can't hold back his curiosity, and will begin to manipulate the bumps and grooves on the stalactite, assuming they are buttons, levers or some type of control. Unless one of his companions intervenes to stop him (or counsels him against taking unwise action), he will prod, tap and p...

Urlando Urlando joins the others examining the black stalactite. Urlando theorizes that there must be some relationship between the low columns, the moving stalactite and the room with the silvery liquid floor. "Maybe we have to put something on these platforms here to activate the magic. Or--...

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Urlando withdraws his spear from the mysterious pool. Perplexed, he returns to the adjacent room with the cylindrical plinths and blocks to convey his findings.

"Does anyone have a way to take some of this silver liquid? A cup or something?"

Urlando The rat-man prods again at the liquid metallic floor of the side chamber with his spear, without stepping onto the floor. When he withdraws his spear, is it intact? Does any of the liquid stick to the spear? If his spear is undamaged, he will try to sink it as deeply into the floor as he ca...

Urlando Urlando will enter the chamber Podo found. While Podo examines the cylindrical platform, Urlando goes down the short hallway to the room with the shiny metallic floor. He will examine it from the edge of the room, then look up to see how high the room goes. If he observes nothing obviously ...

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The rat-man returns to where Podo wields the torch, to observe what he finds inside the walls, while the others walk around the central tower. He wonders if the opening in the wall might enable him to climb to the upper levels in rat form.

Urlando The two-headed rat man observes Podo's discovery with curiosity. I agree, these shapes are like bees or wasps nests, Podo... but why would they be covered in stone. Strange... His other head scans around the room for anything else like the three-foot diameter panel uncovered by Podo. After ...

Urlando Urlando inspects the vertical shaft he is in for anything that might serve as a handhold, or for that matter, a pawhold. This must be how they got to the upper levels, he mutters aloud, but how? Even a rat cannot climb smooth stone. If he gleans no more information on the purpose of the sha...

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Urlando follows Podo to the room with the pink star at the 10 o'clock position. If there are no obvious dangers in the side corridor, he will examine that first.

Urlando Urlando stows the mask and robes in his pack and follows along besides Denslow in a circumnavigation of the central tower. "So the broken cylinder came from up there?" , he asks Denslow, gesturing up to the central tower. "What are they for?" , he asks with his other hea...

Urlando The rat-man is unethusiastic about the surprise attack plan. I don't know.. there are five of those flies.. maybe if we stay quiet we can avoid a fight.. He creeps toward the flies with Podo and attempts to ascertain how quickly the flies are consuming the corpses, trying to gauge how much ...