Holly will hear a fair amount of minds thinking about the need to grab some
fresh human flesh, suck the marrow out of the bones and then go back to the
glories of the abyss. Things like that. Some more general, hmmm, blood,
from the more reptilian brains among the groups.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 2:50 PM Fritz Schmidt <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Holly will * Listen* when all are in place to polter.
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 11:45:40 AM CST, Tim Farley <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our day of rest complete, and two and a half tons of coin to safeguard, we
should probably have a war council, and plan for the morrow.
Before doing so, Sean will check on Nesgrous and his archers. He'll
mention to Nesgrous that there will probably be a war council before
heading off to sleep, and he should attend. Unless Speaker Greenmantle
prefer to attend for him. Sean will then check on Joseph, Commodore of the
Riverine Flotilla. He'll suggest that Sicarius work with him, as he is
also a force of one at this point. Ahearn will give Joseph his march
orders following the war council, no doubt. Sean will suggest to Sicarius
that he fight side by side with Joseph in the coming days. "We'll know
more what we want from you after the war council. Since you will be
fighting alongside Joseph, Ahearn will explain what we need."
Assuming there is a war council, Sean will suggest that Holly scan the top
of the caverns like she did last time, listening for unguarded thoughts.
To that end, it might be useful for some of the party to demonstrate or
otherwise make a lot of noise outside the cavern, to perhaps make anyone
inside the tavern wonder about what is going on outside the tavern. Sean
suspects active thoughts are easier to read than someone simply resting and
waiting for trouble to come.
"Assuming we cannot pinpoint any large grouping of intelligent foes within
the cavern complex through Holly's excellent use of her telepathic
abilities, then we again roll it up from one end to the other. Though I
suspect the core of resistance will end up being closer to the back porch,
we'd probably be best served entering at the main entrance, and working
back. That way there would only be enemies to the front of us, whereas
entering from the back porch could drop us into a hornet's nest, or, in
this case, a whirling vortex of shadow and pain. I propose we leave the
mercenaries outside the caverns, securing them, but if they wish to send
somebody in with us to ensure we don't shortchange them on coin, I would
understand that. I suspect Rarmuck and Joseph are going to want to go in
with their masters. Nobody without magical weaponry should enter. In that
regard, unless somebody has an extra magical sword to loan to Sicarius, he
should probably stay outside, Something I hadn't thought of when speaking
to him earlier." Sean pauses. "The problem we are going to have in there,
or, should a say, one problem we are going to have in there, is that it is
not simply a single corridor moving east to west. The caverns split and
compartmentalize, so that we will not have our 'flanks' secured for very
long once we pass a side chamber. We should probably discuss how to
approach it before we go in, we have detailed maps of what the caverns were
before they were retaken. I suspect little has changed with regard to
shape and general direction. It is after all, stone."
Did anyone make any effort to ascertain what the nature of the sword or
ring that detected magic were?
