Galingal nods his thanks, then realizes Thom may not be looking his way, and adds a <Thanks>.

He turns his head from side to side, listening for any sounds from outside the cell. While he does so, he rubs his wrists and moves his hands through a series of well rehearsed gestures.

<Stool. May I have the dagger?> Galingal asks. <If a guard comes now, the loose manacles are going to be a give away and we'll need to get out of the cell quickly. It will help if I can see.>

<Yep! I didn't try to eat it, because you said it wasn't food.>

After a few moments, Galingal can hear slow shuffling steps and a fungal tendril deposits the dagger in his hand.

Some of the others take after Stena and try to assist others in getting out.

The deep gnome twins try to help each other squirm free of the manacles, and pry apart the collars.

Jimjar swaggers over to Shuushar, <Well my fishy friend, what say we get out of these?>

Sarith approaches Thom. <Would you please assist me?>

Buppido saunters over to Lex, <If you'd be so good as to help remove these, my dear?>

Topsy DEX: 20
Topsy STR: 13

Turvy DEX: 18
Turvy STR: 16

Shuushar STR: 14
Shuushar STR: 15

Jimjar DEX: 14
Jimjar STR: 5

The twins struggle to no avail, but Shuushar snaps both manacles and collar before Jimjar can even provide much in the way of any sort of aid. The somewhat surprised deep gnome manages to slip free with the kuo toa's help, but struggles with the collar.

((Shuushar is completely free.))

Thom would help Sarith.

Sarith DEX: 10
Sarith STR: 14

With Thom helping, Sarith manages to wiggle his hands free of the manacle, and they snap the collar!

<Ah, that's a relief... They don't suit me well, but perhaps the chains could be used as a weapon?>

Lia is overloaded when the mind-speech all kicks in.

When she finally realises she can be understood, she thinks/speaks saying: <H- he- help me… Get this thing off me… Get, uh… GET this gag off me!!!…>.

Assuming someone with a blade gets her out, she’s immediately sick on the floor and retching…

When she’s finished, she thinks again <Lex, Thom, anyone, help me.. I think I can get these off…>. She slithers her hands and tries to slip out…

DEX check for manacles (with help): 12 

STR check for collar (with help): 4 

((OOC: well daaaaame! lol))

Galingal, keeping his back to where he thinks the gate to the cell is, works the blade of the knife under the straps that affix the leather mask to his face. Slowly, to avoid slicing his face open, he cuts back and forth on the leather, working to sever the strap and get the mask off.

If successful, he blinks several times as even the flickering torch light of the cell feels incredibly bright at the moment. After a few seconds he smiles and nods to himself. Galingal looks around the cell, nodding at the others.

Quickly he motions Lia to come closer and he sets to work with the dagger on the straps holding the gag in place. 

A split second before she’s sick, Lia looks into Galingal’s eyes for the first time. So strange and shadowy. This mysterious elf. As dark as she is fair. And she…

<bleurgh!……..>

Galingal cuts his mask away and gets Lia out of her gag, attempting to help her escape her restraints, but she can't quite manage it, she's a bit overcome, but recovers.

Io seeing everyone breaking their manacles and collars she decided she had enough and tried to do the same
"Come on hands let's make this, can't wait for everyone else"
Dex check(for manacles): 4
"Daam it what about the collar?
Str check(for collar): 16

((What i was ok with beeing stuck with i got freed from, what i wanted removed got stuck with me... -.-))

Io struggles, but can't get free from either the manacles or the collar.

Stena winces at the somehow loud silent escape.

She thinks out,

<I will sit by the door out to keep an eye for someone passing by. They might grow suspicious if we're all silent so be ready to talk.>

Then to Sarith,

<Where do we go first?>

Lia adds, <…and Sarith, did you say Armory? Where is that? Can we get there easily?>.

<We could jump right off into the webs, but it's fifty feet or so across the webs to the waterfall, and as soon as the first one hits the webs, the spiders will come running. If we can get across the bridge to the outpost, we can grab things there. There is an armory above the room they lead us through, be able to get weapons and some supplies there, then across the other bridge to the waterfall? I think that's a better option than trying for the lift, we won't all fit on the lift at once, and someone would need to run the crank.>

Stool changes the shape of his stalk enough to step out of the belt around his middle and toddles up next to Stena.

<Whatcha looking at? Can I help?>

((Overhead of the outpost complex, oriented to the north, visible chambers clockwise from 12, Quaggoth pens, Slave Pen, Main Hall, Barracks.))

((Side view, from the perspective of the NW passage, but at the level of the outpost. Not to scale.))

Galingal nods as Sarith sketches out his thoughts on escape.

<Securing the guard post will be our first step then unless Jorlan's plan keeps it empty for us.> Galingal thinks to the others. <If there are guards, we need to do it quickly before they can raise an alarm. I can get across the bridge in the blink of an eye and distract them while the rest of you rush across>

He looks over to the gate entrance, where Stena and Stool are keeping watch.

"Any sign of shift change?" Galingal says as quietly as he can. "Can you see the guards in post? What your count?"

While people are planning, Lia pulls her mask back on over her head and holds it in place by biting hold of the inner mouth gag part. So that it still looks ‘in place’ from a casual glance at a distance.

She gags a little again, on it, but steadies herself…

Then she moves over to the bars just natural and casual like. And she looks out to see how far the guard post is from the bars, and also how far the guard post is from the point on the bridge where she did that magic before.

She also looks to see how many guards are there. ((How many guards do they normally see there?))

((Also, does she, right now, recognise any of the guards as the ones that brought her in? And has she ever recognised one of those drow and seen them again anywhere in the complex? Thanks)).

<Should be soon now, that lot was on guard when we got brought back, they've had to smell that meat roasting same as us.>, Jimjar muses.

Lia peers casually out of the bars at the guard post 25 ft away. Though the last 15ft is across a swaying rope bridge that she often finds difficult to walk across evenly. 

She sees three drow in there currently, two of the rank and file grunts, and one of the elites. 

((On a roll of 1-3, there are that many of the drow that captured here among the current guards. She's definitely seen them about before. 8))

((None currently on duty at this guard tower.))