Session Start: Sat Oct 04 17:34:12 2008
Session Ident: #castlevania
* Logging for #castlevania started
<Holmes> [The intrepid party finds itself in the aftermath of a
battle under Lifebreak.]
<Biff> We gotta get across that pit, I think.
<Biff> who's got the portable bridge?
<Charlotte> Not me.
<Nyyx> Maybe we can just go around.
<Biff> that's just boring.
<Biff> You're an adventurer, toots, where's your sense of flair?
* Nyyx smiles a little and runs for the other end of the room. "Sense
of flair is probably one of my weaknesses."
* Olivia smiles slightly, even as she does walk around. "Too bad, the
tomcat's got a point. Flair can help make things interesting."
* Nyyx grins. "All right, I'll work on it."
<Holmes> [A quick survey of the room reveals that the pit contains
dozen of descicated bodies and that there is little else in the
chamber apart from several undead destroyed by the party.  Passages
lead off in all directions.]
<Nyyx> Which way's west?
<Biff> I got NO idea
<Charlotte> Ooh, ooh, I know.
* Charlotte points. "That way."
<Biff> You better not be yankin my tail.
<Biff> Let's go.
* Nyyx nods. "Thanks." She heads in the direction Charlotte
indicated.
* Charlotte steps along.
<Holmes> [The party leaves the pit behind them and re-enters the
tunnels.  After checking the passages to the west, the party finds
that they are well-traveled and continues west.]
* Nyyx keeps going.
<Holmes> [After about a dozen minutes in the tunnels, Charlotte is
convinced that she has lost the trail of the undead in the twisting
tunnels.]
<Holmes> [After looking around the tunnel for a few seconds, she
realizes that she's on the right track and keeps going.]
* Nyyx follows Charlotte closely.
<Holmes> [After several minutes, the passage opens up again into
another large excavation.  Several bridges wind over the chasm to
rough stone tunnels on the other side.]
<Charlotte> Good, good...
<Nyyx> Lead the way, Charlotte. I'm right behind you.
* Skip takes a safe look into the chasm.
<Holmes> [On the near side of the chasm, a rough ledge angles down
toward an opening into the sheer rock wall.]
* Nyyx points to the opening in the rock wall. "Is that in the right
direction?"
<Holmes> [The tracks lead down the ledge and out of sight into the
wall.]
* Skip examines the rough ledge. "Maybe I should check it out before
we all try to make it down."
<Biff> take a rope.  this'd be a dandy time to put grease on the
walls or something.
* Nyyx nods and hands Skip a rope from her bag.
<Nyyx> Here.
* Skip takes the rope. "Thanks. Here you keep this end. See if you
can find something to tie it to."
* Skip ties one end around his waste and makes his way down, all
spider-like.
* Nyyx holds on to the other end of the rope and looks for something
sturdy to tie it to.
<Holmes> [Skip scuttles down the ledge and reaches the opening with
ease.]
<Holmes> [The opening is about five feet wide and rapidly disappears
around a corner.]
* Skip finds a safe footing, then looks for something to tie his end
of the rope to.
<Holmes> [Skip locates an outcropping of large stone just inside the
cave.]
* Skip ties the rope securely around the outcropping. He then climbs
back up and lets everyone know it is safe.
* Nyyx nods. "Let's go, then."
* Olivia nods and shimmies down the rope. Piece of cake pie.
* Nyyx holds on to the first end of the rope and waits for everyone
else to go first.
<Biff> Yeaaaah, not so much with the opposable thumbs thing.
* Charlotte heads on
<Holmes> [The party works its way down the rope one at a time.]
* Biff pops out his claws and practically runs down the side of the
chasm to Skip and Charlotte.
<Nyyx> Theo, will you be all right sliding down the rope?
* Theodore casts spiderclimb on himself and deftly climbs down the
rope
<Holmes> [After several minutes, the party is sucessfully collected
at the cave opening.]
* Nyyx waits for Theodore to reach the ledge, then cautiously climbs
down the wall herself. She reclaims her rope and stuffs it away.
* Nyyx heads into the cave.
<Holmes> [The cave ceiling is barely high enough for Nyyx to not have
to stoop.  After fifteen feet, the tunnel abruptly turns to the
left.]
* Nyyx heads left.
<Holmes> [The tunnel descends at a steep incline.  Nyyx can keep her
footing, but she will have to be careful.]
* Nyyx watches her step. "Careful here. It's a bit steep."
* Olivia is heading after, because it's fun. "Pretty difficult
terrain for shambling types."
<Nyyx> I guess that goes in our favor.
* Charlotte follows, working to keep her balance.
<Nyyx> I'm not sure about those half mechanical dogs, though. They
were nimble enough.
<Biff> Stupid, though.
<Holmes> [Perhaps realizing that things had been a little too
straightforward so far, Nyyx, Olivia and Charlotte all notice a
mechanism in the wall as it triggers.  The trio scrambles back up the
tunnel as part of the ramp gives way in a deadfall.]
<Holmes> [The echo of crashing stone is deafening for several
seconds.]
* Nyyx takes a deep breath. "That was close."
<Biff> Well, this is probably the right way, then.
* Nyyx glances over the edge of the pit.
<Biff> How about Skip and I take point?
<Skip> I'll start searching for traps. Not too likely that I'll fall
down a pit. I hope.
* Nyyx nods. "Thanks."
<Charlotte> I'll keep an eye out
* Skip takes it nice and slow.
* Nyyx repositions herself behind Biff and Skip and follows them
closely, stepping carefully over the gap in the floor.
<Holmes> [The party proceeds slowly down the tunnel for about fifty
feet.  At that point, the tunnel turns in the rough stone again and
continues downward.]
<Holmes> [The tunnel continues for another eighty feet or so.  The
sound of moving water can be heard through the stone.]
<Holmes> [The tunnel ends in another narrow opening about twenty feet
away.]
<Biff> I'll scout this one
* Biff walks ahead, keeping a close eye on things.
<Holmes> [Biff wanders forward.  Along the way, he notices a springy
section in the stone.  On further investigation, it is a wooden
toggle set in the cave floor as a rockfall trap trigger.  He just
wasn't heavy enough to set it off.]
* Biff snorts.
<Biff> Another rockfall up here.
* Biff checks to see if there are any other traps. Like maybe a trap
on the trap.
<Biff> Tch.  Anybody got an erase spell?
<Biff> How about a dispel?
<Biff> There's a glyph of warding over the end of the tunnel, there.
<Biff> If we blow it, someone's probably gonna end up dead.
<Charlotte> What do we do if we don't have it?
<Biff> pop it or bypass it, or I can try to disarm it the hard way.
<Biff> Or skip or O, more like.
* Olivia speaks up and says with a little smile, "I can dispel it.
Wanna point me at it, tomcat?"
<Biff> Yeah, don't come up here, there's a deadfall.
* Biff backs up to the nearest safe point.
* Biff aims the Kitty Kannon. "Sight along the staff, toots."
<Holmes> [Once pointed in the right direction, Olivia can see the
outline of the glyph in the stone.]
* Olivia looks along the staff, then nods and says, "I see it." She
bites her lip, and then does a good old fashioned dispel
spellcasting. No shortcuts here!
* Biff sighs as the dispel bounces off.
<Biff> Okay, the hard way it is.
* Biff takes aim and fires an orb of greenish acid from the tip of
the Kitty Kannon into the glyph.
<Biff> Good old acid.  Nothing beats acid.
* Olivia smiles a bit. "Very reliable. It tends to do its job."
<Nyyx> Good work, Biff.
* Nyyx scratches the cat between the ears.
<Charlotte> Nice!
<Biff> yeah so anyway, there's another deadfall here, right in front
of me.
<Nyyx> How far do we have to jump to avoid it?
<Biff> So we gotta go over it, or, like, along the walls or
something.  Whatever floats your boat.
* Nyyx nods, spots the trigger, and steps over it. "Not as bad as I
thought."
<Biff> well, the trigger here is like, an inch.  But I figure if I
was building it, I'd make a trigger that is completely irrelevant so
that people would step over the trigger and fall in.
<Biff> But, y'know, I'm a bastard.
* Nyyx smirks.
* Olivia follows, avoiding the trap. "But it'd have to slip by your
catlike eyes."
* Charlotte steps along
* Nyyx moves on, letting Skip and Biff remain on point.
* Skip slowly moves down the corridor.
* Skip attempts to stay within the shadows as he enters the large
chamber. Also, he keeps an eye out for traps.
<Holmes> [The chamber is open on both sides and above.  Skip finds
himself at the bottom of what must have been a large quarry at some
point in the city's history.  He can hear water flowing between the
rocks somewhere up above.]
<Holmes> [Rotten wooden equipment - pulleys and tackle - litter the
ground off to the right.  There appears to be some kind of
multitiered structure set into the rock wall at the far end of the
quarry to the left.]
* Nyyx follows in Skip's footsteps and casts an alert glance around
the quarry.
* Olivia follows too, pressing her lips together as she glances
around.
* Charlotte points to some ladders. Quietly.
* Nyyx nods. "I see them. Skip, if you would?" She gestures in the
ladders' direction.
* Skip nods. "I guess everyone should stay put for a bit. Keep your
eyes open; I'll be back." Skip scales the wall to the left and begins
climbing up and over.
* Nyyx keeps a sharp eye out as best as she can.
<Holmes> [As Skip reaches the crest of a ledge some twenty feet up,
he hears scraping noises and slight growling from up on the ledge.]
* Charlotte hangs back in wait.
* Skip turns back to the group, signals caution by waving them back
toward the entrance, points to the ledge, puts one index finger to
his lips, and disappears.
* Nyyx stands ready and waits.
<Holmes> [END OF SESSION.]
Session Close: Sat Oct 04 22:05:30 2008