Tests and Trials Game Thread

When Mikram first started freaking out Cladmir draw his bow and started scanning the sky, the horizon, anything for a sign of flying threats, walking threats, crawling threat.  It was not until he heard Kroshav's reasonable tone of voice that Clarmir looked up at the blue sky and shrugged before putting his weapon away.

Kroshav will talk calmly to Mikram about how he's not the biggest fan of heights and falling, being a rather large fellow, and having spend some time as a lizard falling out of a tree.

Mikram grunts accepts and gladly accepts getting out of the 'unnatural' sky.

Once below ground he takes some breathes to recover before saying gruffly,

"Aye'm fine. Work enough to be done here for meh. Ye got your own job. Remember ye need to keep putting in pillars regularly."

He waves off any more conversation.

((Can I get two d100s from Spider please.

Anything different for the tomb crew today?))

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Perception: 17

When he gets out of his trance, he tries his best not to move and wake Thir.

Jaq holds still and does his best to listen while being snuggled by a bugbear. At one point he does hear something moving around, but whatever it is doesn't weigh enough to crack though the ice layer on the snow. Probably a rabbit, maybe a fox?

Light has long since lite the outline of the makeshift hatch when Thir wakes up with a snort and a start. After a few moments of seeming disorientation and confusion she gives Jaq's a hair a deep sniff and the elf himself a light squeeze.

"Thir need to pee. Then go."

Jaq notices that eating is not included in the morning activities.

When Thir returns she makes a shushing gesture at Jaq and starts moving very slowly, eyes scanning both the ground and the sky as she creeps along.

((A perception and stealthy check from you Row!))

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Simply put, the digging doesn't go well. After only an hour Kroshav hits another pocket of silver that runs nearly across the entire back wall, meaning he has to dig up or down or much further to the left or right than he was going to get around it. It is going to make the tomb have an odd shape, and he isn't sure if that is going to be okay without Mikram. Working on expanding the tomb in the direct it should go instead Kroshav manages to get another couple hours of clearing done before he hits water. At first it is just a trickle but soon enough there is a narrow, but constant fountain of water spraying up from between a crack in the rocks.

((Can I get intelligence rolls from the tomb gang to handle the water? Unless someone would know what to do?))

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"Awwww.... now what?!"

Best Kroshav can figure, he can't do much about the leak but he can dig a bit of a pool and then a channel leading to the exit. Might even be good to have a water source in the tomb if people are staying here? Putting that plan into action shouldn't be too tricky with his claws.

(Just waiting on the other's rolls)

Kroshav will taste the water carefully to see if it'll serve as a water source for a tribe... he's starting to wonder if they're going to have to make a different tomb for Lurn elsewhere... Though if they decide to burn his remains to keep him from Gethren, at least their work here might not go to waste.

The water tastes... Minerally? It's got a taste sorta like sweat (do dragonborn sweat?) but less salty.

((I don't think they would, but he's probably inadvertently tasted sweat of folks he's trained or fought against before.))

((So like that without the liquid pathogen swapping implications. Probably.))

Perception:  8

Stealth: 26

Intelligence: 3

"Don't think I can help much with the water, my specialty's fire...  But hey, at least a wall of silver makes the tomb more grand if it doesn't flood?"

((Sorry for the slow going, had to put our dog down today.

Try to get a post up tomorrow.))

Jaq and Thir slowly south and west, staying well concealed as they move.

Around midday Jaq hears what sounds like muffled voices, Thir doesn't seem to have noticed.

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Ernos, while thinking about the wall of silver, also realizes having a nice channel of water in front of it would only improve its ambience!

Kroshav is able to quickly carve out a nice, thin channel along the base of the wall. It does look okay now, probably going to something really nice to have once it's worked and cleaned up!

Also, the additional humidity from the stream seems to help with the dust.

All in all, it turned out pretty well. So long as Kroshav didn't drink poison water.

((Just back home at the end of the day? Tomb is getting to be pretty sizable now. Easily room for dozens of people now.))

Jaq and Thir slowly south and west, staying well concealed as they move.

Around midday Jaq hears what sounds like muffled voices, Thir doesn't seem to have noticed.

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Ernos, while thinking about the wall of silver, also realizes having a nice channel of water in front of it would only improve its ambience!

Kroshav is able to quickly carve out a nice, thin channel along the base of the wall. It does look okay now, probably going to something really nice to have once it's worked and cleaned up!

Also, the additional humidity from the stream seems to help with the dust.

All in all, it turned out pretty well. So long as Kroshav didn't drink poison water.

((Just back home at the end of the day? Tomb is getting to be pretty sizable now. Easily room for dozens of people now.))

((Yeah, back 'home' to the library, and we'll see what Joe has taught the Librarian today.))

(( The whole time the team was dealing with the silver Cladmir can't quite stop thinking how different it would be if he were here under different circumstances and with a different party. ))

((@Row, left it open for Jaq to react up there. He can choose to do nothing.))