[IC Thread] The Tale Begins: Castle Ward

[ProfGremlin]

Jan 27, 2010 17:35:12 GMT -5 Toad-Killer-Dog said:

"Let see if that tumble down bit of stone has anything worth our time, eh lads?"

Dirk nods agreement and shoulders his pack. He bends to retrieve his shield and the weighted wooden practice sword he purchased so recently from the blacksmith as he left town. As he follows along behind the shorter leprechaun, hobbit and dwarf Dirk begins to wonder if his bludgeon will be enough, Need to keep an eye out for something with a big punch to it... he thinks.

Seeing the trio ahead disappear through the door of the remaining ramshackle building Dirk joins them. Ah, he thinks, Providence provides... as he looks at the jumbled pile of old weapons. He cautiously follows Con's and Bernard's example and pokes through the pile periodically looking up and around them keeping alert for any dangers.

"Anyone wondering why this place seems so deserted? Other than that rat I heard and those coin-leeches Greqo discovered we haven't seen hide nor hair of anything or anyone."

[ProfGremlin]

Jan 28, 2010 7:54:00 GMT -5 zendog said:

... a gold plate rolls out of the wall, hits the floor and rolls to a stop at milsap's feet.

Flitwing jumps as the plate clangs from it's fall and almost releases the Take That You Fiend he had prepared. When the last plate is removed from behind the crumbling plaster the fairy heaves a sigh of relief. Ok, so it wasn't spell-trapped. Thank the Powers. Flitwing takes one more look around the room and then steps off the trim and zips through the door, into the outer room and out the main door into the courtyard.

Looking around he sees Dirk disappear into another low building to the north and Greqo and Adeimar still in the courtyard, the former with what looks to be a rough bandage around his hand. Keeping a sharp eye out for raptors and other nasties that would snatch a fairy on the wing, Flitwing makes an aerial survey of the area checking for anything that may be a danger to himself or his traveling companions.

[Toad-Killer-Dog]

Bernard leans down and examines the tooth-studded battle club, picking it up he turns it over in his hands and turns around to tell his new comrades of his discovery.

When he turns around he notices Dirk armed with only a weighted practice sword and walks over to him.

"Umm it was Dirk wasn't it sir?"

"I found this in the ruins and seeing as you've only a practice weapon perhaps it may be of service to you"

"Orcs may have few virtues, but they make good weapons and this one seems a bit special to me, maybe we can get one of the wizards to see if it carries an enchantment"

Con looks at the sword he has found, more than twice his height and almost as heavy as himself.

"Ak look at this great bloody thing, tis not a sword it's a battering ram with an edge"

"It could be worth a fair bit of coin though, lets drag it into shelter and if we come back this way we can cart it off with our other loot"

[zendog]

Flitwing soars upwards, from his vantage point he can't see anything that would be a threat, but he does have a good veiw of the ruins.

[zendog]

With his new toothy weapon in hand Dirk joins the search, poking about under the collapsed roof, he finds a great axe wedged in the skull of one of the orc skeletons.

[zendog]

Con, Bernard, Shortstuff, and Dirk continue to rummage through the rubble and piles of old weapons and find a polearm, that Dirk thinks he's heard soldiers call a Chauves souris, a short spear that looks as if it could be good for thrusting and throwing, a Dirk, and a and five razor sharp bands of metal that look like they could be thrown.

[jongjungbu]

Despite being warned to stay away, Adiemar remains in the courtyard...but keeping some distance betweence himself and Greqo. <i>Maybe I'll stand watch near the buildings that Dirk fellow went into.<i> The former squire jumps, startled as Flitwing zips by out of the ruined buildings and out into the courtyard, but then begins to laugh at himself.

Need to cleanse the leech bite, thinks Greqo to himself. But after the experience with the pool of water, he declines re-visiting the water there and makes his way to the center of the courtyard. Plopping down cross-legged, he continues to nurse his wound and the pain, chanting something in Elvish more meditative than magical.

[Toad-Killer-Dog]

Bernard grins as he tests the weight and balance of the Chakrams.

"Have you ever seen such a thing, like throwing knives but your always sure to hit edge on!"

He happily rigs up a carrying loop on his belt to hold his new treasures.

Con takes a look around the room.

"Well unless we want to dig into that collapsed pile, thats probably that"

"Should we go tell the elf Greqo what we found, he may want to spear to lean on nows he's so sorely wounded"

[zanshin]

Shortstuff adopts the Dirk, better than the stiletto he had as his back up weapon.

[zendog]

Some of you head to the ruined tower to check it out. The double doors creak open and one of them falls off it's hignes and smashes on the courtyard floor. The tower itself is made from the same granite as the rest of the castle the first floor has one or two skeletons, but the spiraling stairway, built into the wall of the tower itself, is packed with bones of every shape, size, and
description.

[zanshin]

Shortstuff and Berek examine the bones, and see if it would be possible to ascend or descend the staircase

[zendog]

The stairs lead up. There's nothing around the bones, but one or two of the skulls have gold teeth.

[jongjungbu]

Greqo follows SHortstuff and Berek into the Ruined Tower.

OOC: The elf has a spear already, his javelin. But thanks. I'm sure your characters would have seen him walking around with it and you just forgot or didn't realize.

Adiemar steps ahead of Greqo, quickly moving to catch up to Shortstuff and Berek.

[Toad-Killer-Dog]

Bernard and Con nod silently to each other and stealthily begin to pick their way up to the second floor of the tower.

[zanshin]

Berek removes any gold teeth he can see.

Shortstuff slips up the steps with Bernard and Con.