Part 3: Sojourn into the Barrowmaze

[MrHemlocks]

Marcus follows the others into the empty room. "Careful men this place is full of traps and creatures that are more than willing to take our lives." Looking for traps and listening for echoes of creatures that might lay beyond torch light he stays to the left or right of the party to better use his bow in case the need arises.

[imperialus]

Gawain will get ahead of Marcus to prevent the bow weilder from becoming caught up in melee in case they are ambushed.

[Ludanto]

Mortiganto will follow closely behind Phyrric, also being alert for mutant-birds or the like.

[Tomcat42]

Mortiganto will follow closely behind Phyrric, also being alert for mutant-birds or the like.

hehehe

[ybn1197]

Marcus follows the others into the empty room. "Careful men this place is full of traps and creatures that are more than willing to take our lives." Looking for traps and listening for echoes of creatures that might lay beyond torch light he stays to the left or right of the party to better use his bow in case the need arises.

Searching about, Marcus does not find any traps and the only sounds he hears are the echoes of he and his compatriots as they move about the room. Somewhere off in the distance is the sound of water (or condensation) dripping.

[ybn1197]

Is anyone taking an action or are you waiting for something from me?

[Ludanto]

Mortiganto steps to the front of the group and turns left(?) to peer down the hallway. If nothing tries to kill him, he listens at the first door to his left in the hallway.

"One of these rooms must be the latrine," he whispers to nobody in particular.

[imperialus]

If Mortiganto signals an 'all clear' Gawain will try the handle of the doorway and nudge it open with his sword peering into the darkness beyond.

[RiotInferno]

Pyrrhic will stay attentive, guarding the hallway from all manner of beasts. (winged or not)

[MrHemlocks]

Outside the hallway waits Marcus, with Pyrrhic. After the others enter the room and seeing the hall is clear, Marcus also enter the room.

ooc...who has a light source? Marcus is using a two handed weapon so no torch for him.

[DMStue]

Dren realising that his party members are in danger, heads directly down the new corridor from the new 30' x 30' room as far as possible, checking for traps along the floor and pausing to check any previously unchecked doors along the way.

[ybn1197]

Dren heads down the hallway, checking for traps with each step. The going is slow and no traps are found as he proceeds. As none of the doors have been checked, Dren stops at the first one on his left side. Listening carefully, he hears the sounds of creature scurrying. The sounds are too loud for normal sized vermin to make.

[DMStue]

Signalling the others quietly, Dren passes on what he has heard, waiting for them to make ready, before opening the door as quietly as possible.

[Tomcat42]

Outside the hallway waits Marcus, with Pyrrhic. After the others enter the room and seeing the hall is clear, Marcus also enter the room.

ooc...who has a light source? Marcus is using a two handed weapon so no torch for him.

Hedric is carrying a torch and is normally positioned near the rear of party.

[MrHemlocks]

Seeing Dren give the warning signs, Marcus waits near the door and looks down the hall for whatever approaches.

[Ludanto]

Mortiganto quietly moves up beside Dren, not directly in front of the door, but to the side, ready to attack anything that should come through it.

[ybn1197]

Dren quietly pushes the door in while the others stand guard for anything to burst out at the halfling. Nothing does and Dren is able to peer into the room. Scattered throughout the room is a large number (more than 10) of giant rats, scurrying about in search of food. Across the room there is also a small sack lying on the floor. The rats appear to be disinterested in the sack however they are moving back forth around it so it would be impossible to make your way to the sack without coming into contact with the rats.

[MrHemlocks]

"Watch those rats!" Bellows out Marcus. "They are known to carry all sorts of evil within their bites. I suggest we kill all of them before getting anywhere near that pack on the floor."

"Um, maybe we can smoke them so they run away. We could like a flask, with rags around it, and toss it into the room and shutting the door behind. Those rats will flee to where they entered giving us enough time to gather the pack and get the heck out."

[RiotInferno]

Pyrrhic chortles. "I've had more than my fair share of forge smoke in my chest. I didn't like that one bit, so here's hoping the rats like the smoke even less. Do you know what's the best kind of sack? A free sack. I like this plan."

[Tomcat42]

Hedric the strange

"I've a goodly amount of oil we can use for this purpose but no rags to serve for wet tinder." Hedric pipes in.