Parths' Adventurer Training

Wormsquirt walks up to Belialuin, his eyes moving from his hands and back to his face repeatedly with a quizzical look. He appears about to ask a question and then stops, shaking his head he whispers to himself no ...

"Think that hole is big enough for me to.squeeze through? "

The hole is big enough for you to fit in Wormsquirt and you can see that everyone else would be able to fit through if the rest of the rocks were moved.

You can not tell much about what's inside at this point. You see it's dark and extends back a ways and seems to open up after maybe 15 feet.

Wormsquirt pauses for a moment letting his eyes adjust to the darkness. Looking around he knows with little effort the others can easily push aside the rocks and enter as well. He calls out to them letting them know the details as he moves forward to look around before anyone produces a light source and hampers his darkvision. 

"What was that?!?  Is someone down....."  his voice cuts off suddenly. "AAAAHHHHHHH.....  help..."

As Wormsquirt passes on the information about the size of the passageway, Zarbof begins hauling rocks away to widen the entrance. 

As he hears Wormsquirt's last call for help, he pauses to say in a loud whisper, "Wormsquirt? Everything ok?", waits a brief moment to hear any reply, then continues hauling at double speed. 

(How many rocks do we need to move to make it wide enough?)

Mysti, realizing something happened to Wormsquirt, jumps in to help Zarbof move the rocks.

The gnoll was close to making it big enough for him to get through, so not that many. Only a couple minutes at most with 2 people hauling rocks out of the way.

I'm going to follow Wormsquirt in warily using my darkvision to see if I can spot him.

Finally getting enough of the rubble and rocks out of the way you make you're way in.

Roger also follows it, apologizing that he was not able to assist in moving the rocks aside.

Zarbof calls back through in a low voice, "Wormsquirt's down.  Mysti, do you have healing magic?  Get through here, quick! Might want to cover your nose though."  Zarbof then looks around to see if he can make out what shot Wormsquirt.

(Not sure if I should use survival to look for Gnoll tracks to see if there's anything recent, or just perception to look for the actual gnoll that fired.  I guess any tracks could be hours or even days old, so perception probably more helpful)

Perception: 7

Mysti: "I'm on my way in...get me to Wormsquirt so I can help him."

Zarbof goes to the entrance and guides Roger and Mysti in, taking her to Wormsquirt in the dark.

You don't perceive anything immediately Zarbof, no danger that you can detect, but and unfortunately an investigation may be more revealing.

I'm going to need a marching order. The first 15 or so feet you can only get through single file.

Mysti see's Wormsquint pulls the arrow and casts Cure Wounds on him

6

Mysti also pulls her warhammer and casts Light on it so they can see

OOC: Marching order: Wormsquirt's already in, then I believe me, Roger, Mysti, then I guess it's upto Belialuin and Thoram to decide their order - presumably whoever posts first goes first.  

I guess if it's only single file, they wouldn't need guiding in.  Does it open up a bit before we get to Wormsquirt, or after?  (Just wondering if I need to climb over/past him to let Mysti get to him?)

Light on the warhammer simplifies things!

Thorum can take up the rear of the line. 

As Mysti approaches Wormsquirt's still body and grasps the arrow to pull it out, she realuzes that the arrow comes out much easier than it should. As a look of puzzlement crosses her face, Wormsquirt's eyes and mouth open wide. You hear a gasp of drawn in air that very quickly turns into the most wicked wheezing, like the gears of a gnomish clockwork grinding to a halt.

"Hah... ha.. hahah... haahahahahahaha,"  Wormsquirt takes a deep breath. "Hahahahahahahah"  Grabbing his belly as he shakes uncontrollably, words finally come out of his mouth. He says, "You should have seen the looks on all your faces!"

Thorum, seeing Wormsquirt's trickery is initially surprised, then turns his face away so the others can't see him smiling "Tricky little Kobold" he whispers to himself.

OOC: lol, I knew it! I very nearly didn't make Zarbof hurry moving the rocks, but Zarbof's INT is 9.  However, as the DM asked for a marching order, I did get a little paranoid about some kind of tripwire that we were all about to walk into one at a time!

Zarbof gives Wormsquirt a gentle kick.  "Very funny.  Next time we'll just leave you to it. Come on, let's keep moving."

Roger just stares down at Wormsquint sadly and disappointedly. His dejected eyes seem to say Why would you do this to me?