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[K71] 28 Oltaran, fighting in the ruins
May. 1st, 2006 10:45 pmJack went down four floors on the rope, while Cor, May, and Thymelixsen kept an eye on the giant bug-blessing on the other side of the huge blue column that wasn't metal. On the ground floor, he found an archway on one side, then at the bottom, it was open all around, with pillars below the corners of the towers. Corridors went in four directions, and the ramp continued all the way down to the floor. Jack went to check out one of the corridors, while the watchers saw the bug rotating.
Up on top, Kaneturn talked to Ragashor, who pulled up his hood and went to the edge of the building to keep watch on the Sunk going to the other building (and any other Sunk). He saw three Sunk, and motioned to let us know, but we didn't want to alert anyone.
Jack saw sparkeles on either side of the corridor, not in the middle. They didn't seem to be reflections of the light from the column, and seem to be a couple of inches off the floor, sometimes on the wall. Sometimes they're greenish, as if glowing through something else. Jack lit the lantern, to get an idea of what these were. They were crystals in wavelike settings, with lots of space between them. The fllor was colored with lines and circles in a pattern, with Orem writings in the middle between two black lines. He continued down the corridor, and found a metal ladder coming almost to the floor. There were old tracks in the dust around the foot of the ladder, and they go on in the corridor, but they weren't recent. Jack went back to the rope.
The two fighters holding the rope at the top felt Jack's movement on the rope, and started to pull him up slowly.
The spider rotated again and walked up the column, stopping just below the level spot where the watchers were; they had to crouch carefully to stay out of sight.
Kaneturn called Ragashor over, motioned him to go in. He pulled Jack up over the edge, but the bug had heard the slithering of the rope as it was pulled up. We debated how to get the three inside out; maybe vanish the bug? But that would alert the blessed whose bug it is that something's going on. The bug moved more, and we went to either side of the door so it wouldn't see us. Stalemate, though, with the three trapped inside as it watched the door, so Cor shot it. It fell off the column, dissipating as it went. The arrow Cor used, however, hit bottom. Jack dashed down the rope to retrieve it, and we started moving off the building; Sunk were sure to come now.
First on the shields: me, Jack, and May. Next Ragashor and Thymelixsen. Cor was putting on the armor he'd taken off to be quieter in the tower. Two warriors of the Mother were next, leaving Cor and Kaneturn on the tower when the Sunk arrived.
Kaneturn heard footfalls coming up the ramp. They flanked the door, and Kaneturn kills two, letting Cor go in. There was one facing him, with four more beyond. Cor tumbled past the first and started battling the larger group. He'd killed two when he noticed two more archers on a lower platform; they started shooting at him. He killed a third of the four, then went to fight the two lower archers. Kaneturn killed the two above, and Cor finished off the lower archers. It didn't seem that any Sunk that had come to fight had escaped to give a report, which is good.
By this time, the shields had returned, and Cor and Kaneturn joined the rest of us.
It seemed that the Sunk came from the ground level, and could've been the regular back-up, who might've been tuned in to the bug-blessing. Kolnfane pointed out that more wouldn've come if there'd been more around who knew. Barashor also pointed out that one Sunk likely didn't come to the battle at all, but went to report the bug-blessing dying.
We're still not sure where the Blessed are. Perhaps they're here, perhaps at the mysterious arch. If here, we should disrupt them; we debated vanishing parts of one or the other buildings to cause most havoc. Thymelixsen convinced us that we should focus on the Blessed, probably by going to the arch. He also looked in his book, and found that the blue tower stuff is a kind of Pauchy magic, a metallic liquid that disintegrates whatever touches it (the bug-blessings must have some way of walking above the surface, or some protection not mentioned in Thymelixsen's book).
Up on top, Kaneturn talked to Ragashor, who pulled up his hood and went to the edge of the building to keep watch on the Sunk going to the other building (and any other Sunk). He saw three Sunk, and motioned to let us know, but we didn't want to alert anyone.
Jack saw sparkeles on either side of the corridor, not in the middle. They didn't seem to be reflections of the light from the column, and seem to be a couple of inches off the floor, sometimes on the wall. Sometimes they're greenish, as if glowing through something else. Jack lit the lantern, to get an idea of what these were. They were crystals in wavelike settings, with lots of space between them. The fllor was colored with lines and circles in a pattern, with Orem writings in the middle between two black lines. He continued down the corridor, and found a metal ladder coming almost to the floor. There were old tracks in the dust around the foot of the ladder, and they go on in the corridor, but they weren't recent. Jack went back to the rope.
The two fighters holding the rope at the top felt Jack's movement on the rope, and started to pull him up slowly.
The spider rotated again and walked up the column, stopping just below the level spot where the watchers were; they had to crouch carefully to stay out of sight.
Kaneturn called Ragashor over, motioned him to go in. He pulled Jack up over the edge, but the bug had heard the slithering of the rope as it was pulled up. We debated how to get the three inside out; maybe vanish the bug? But that would alert the blessed whose bug it is that something's going on. The bug moved more, and we went to either side of the door so it wouldn't see us. Stalemate, though, with the three trapped inside as it watched the door, so Cor shot it. It fell off the column, dissipating as it went. The arrow Cor used, however, hit bottom. Jack dashed down the rope to retrieve it, and we started moving off the building; Sunk were sure to come now.
First on the shields: me, Jack, and May. Next Ragashor and Thymelixsen. Cor was putting on the armor he'd taken off to be quieter in the tower. Two warriors of the Mother were next, leaving Cor and Kaneturn on the tower when the Sunk arrived.
Kaneturn heard footfalls coming up the ramp. They flanked the door, and Kaneturn kills two, letting Cor go in. There was one facing him, with four more beyond. Cor tumbled past the first and started battling the larger group. He'd killed two when he noticed two more archers on a lower platform; they started shooting at him. He killed a third of the four, then went to fight the two lower archers. Kaneturn killed the two above, and Cor finished off the lower archers. It didn't seem that any Sunk that had come to fight had escaped to give a report, which is good.
By this time, the shields had returned, and Cor and Kaneturn joined the rest of us.
It seemed that the Sunk came from the ground level, and could've been the regular back-up, who might've been tuned in to the bug-blessing. Kolnfane pointed out that more wouldn've come if there'd been more around who knew. Barashor also pointed out that one Sunk likely didn't come to the battle at all, but went to report the bug-blessing dying.
We're still not sure where the Blessed are. Perhaps they're here, perhaps at the mysterious arch. If here, we should disrupt them; we debated vanishing parts of one or the other buildings to cause most havoc. Thymelixsen convinced us that we should focus on the Blessed, probably by going to the arch. He also looked in his book, and found that the blue tower stuff is a kind of Pauchy magic, a metallic liquid that disintegrates whatever touches it (the bug-blessings must have some way of walking above the surface, or some protection not mentioned in Thymelixsen's book).
