Chapter 1: King's Festival - And so it begins...

[Dram]

Xlore Lets everyone know that there is noise coming from the 2nd doorway quietly. He continues to listen in case the waling seems to be getting closer.

[tarlyn]

Delsenora waits with Xlore keeping as alert as possible. She tries to listen as wll.

[Dram]

Xlore motions for someone to hide the dead if possible.

[Captain Kinkajou]

Elanriel

Elanriel notices Xlore gesturing and cocks her head to one side as she tries to figure out what he wants. She doesn't want to seem dense but she can't make head nor tail of it.

She frowns, looking perplexed. Something to do with the corridor behind them? No, that's not it. Go back and hide in the room with the Orcs in it maybe? Was that it?

Looking for confirmation, she points back down the corridor at the door and makes a walking motion with her fingers. Go back that way?

[tarlyn]

Delsenora

Walking over to Elanriel, she explains what Xlore meant in a whisper.

"We can go hide the bodies in the mean time."

[Captain Kinkajou]

Elanriel

Elanriel's brows furrow. Hide them? She looks at Delsenora and then glances over toward Xlore. She wonders how that is going to work exactly.

Silently she tests a couple of options in her mind's-eye, a hard-to-miss Orc body under a rug mound, or a tableau of dead and bloody Orcs all posed so as not to alert a casual observer. No, she was pretty sure she couldn't see that working. The she-elf shrugs.

"Maybe jutht clothe the door," she suggests to Delsenora in a whisper.

[tarlyn]

Delsenora

Delsenora frowns herself. Indeed how would they hide the bodies? Maybe sit them at the table around make them appear alive or drunken? Perhaps closing the door is the best idea, she muses

Turning to Elanriel, she offers her perspective on the idea "I think best would be to close the door. I have no experience in these matters. I thought on a lark we
could sit the dead orcs around the table, leaning on the table to appear drunken instead of dead but perhaps that is too far fetched."

[Captain Kinkajou]

Elanriel

Elanriel offers Delsenora a slight, almost conspiratorial smile. "I had also thought of posing them," she admits in her awkward lisping tone, "It would be amusing but it's a silly idea. I mean, there's no chance it would ever actually fool anyone."

Having agreed with Delsenora that shutting the door is the best course of action, Elanriel will quickly and carefully move back down the corridor to do just that. She continues to listen and keep an eye out as she does.

[Rex]

Egon

Egon goes through the door.

[Dram]

Xlore- Gives the 2 women a confused look then whispers. Just take them into the storage room? So that they are not seen if possible.

[Captain Kinkajou]

Elanriel

Elanriel screws up her face. Yeah right, drag the seven Orcs all the way from one room with a door to another room with a door so they are less likely to be found. That makes sense! What about all the blood?

"Okay" she replies sweetly.

Then, as soon as Xlore turns his attention back to other things, she just closes the door to the room with the dead Orcs in it.

"All done," she says to Delsenora and gives her a wink.

[Dram]

XLore- Will check the carefully to see if it is locked. If not he will open it slowly to what or who is on the other side.



Unless this is the door that Egon opened? Not sure he did not state what door he was opening.

[GreyWolfVT]

As a new door opens yet another closes

Elanriel goes back and closes the door to the dead drunk orc room and comes back to the group as Egon opens the door to the north. Despite the talk of moving and concealing the dead orcs Elanriel has her own method that is faster and works for the moment. Xlore finding is oddly quick to have moved so many dead orcs so quickly doesn't question it for the moment. Egon sees a large orc standing in this room, which has a bunk and other furniture, watching a huge furry spider the size of a dog stalking a halfling who is chained to the floor. The halfling has only a bent knife to keep the monster at bay. The orc gloats and laughs as he waits for his pet to kill and eat the prisoner!

The orc doesn't notice the door being opened but the halfling prisoner does and he calls to Egon for aid "HELP! Help get me out of here!" the halfling shouts. The orc turns and notices who the prisoner is yelling for help to and points at Egon in the open doorway and the giant spider heads towards Egon and the others!

Actions?


Map: Egon opened door #1 on this map. Xlore is standing down by door #2 on this map.

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Updated Map: without door numbers

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[Dram]

Xlore- Hearing the screams of the halfling Xlore does not open the door. He waits to see if the noise other the side gets closer. If it does he wait behind the door to attempt a backstab on the being on the other side.

[Rex]

Egon

Egon rushes the spider and attacks it with his ax. He tries to get clear of the door way to allow Xlore and the others to follow through. "Die Foul Beast!"

Battle Axe [1d20+1] = 9+1 = 10 to hit [1d8+3] = 6+3 = 9 damage

[tarlyn]

Delsenora moves as silently as she possibly can towards Xlore's position near door #1. Once there, she nods at Xlore.

Whispering What is happening?

[GreyWolfVT]

Here is a "fixed" map
Current Map:

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[tarlyn]

Delsenora

Spying the room, and what is inside, Del grins. Concentrating, the dark elf calls upon one of the powers of

her heritage. She outlines the Orc in Faerie Fire, hoping to distract the thing.

[LtTibbles]

Talrand jumps at the sound of the halflings scream whipping around he tries to catch a glimpse of what's happening at the other end of the hall before making his way next to Egon with one of his darts out.

"They can train spiders!?" He tries his best to keep his voice from shouting...and breaking before regaining his composure and trying to find shot.

[shaidar]

Weston, seeing that he cannot do much as he is at the other end of the corridor from the open door, keeps an eye on the door behind him.