Gil would follow behind with his staff in his hand and the glowing orb drifting above his shoulder.

Moving into the next set of rooms you find yourself in water about a foot deep.  The ceiling of this flooded room is supported by numerous wooden beams. The air here smells like rotten eggs, a putrid stench that carries beyond the room.  Against one of the far walls a large half-orc is chained to the wall.

Whistler steps forward to inspect the room and a large blade comes out of a wall and cuts him nearly in half as the trap catches him unaware.  He falls to the ground as blood, gore and black feathers are sprayed everywhere.  You rush to his side hoping to heal him but it is evident the Kenku suffered so much damage he is already dead!

(( FYI - Zipnok has requested a character change, this is the new PC introduction )) 

"OH CRAP!" Gil would shout as his companion is cut in half. "I... I guess I should collect his belongings.." he would say with a frown. "He didn't talk much.. but he was nice."

"Did he... did he have any family?" Darvin says, visibly shaken. "I... well I never took the time to sit down and try to get to know him. And now I guess I never will. About all I know is that he could really punch with those talons, and he was a heck of an impressionist, even if he didn't have much of his own to say."

He pulls out two gold coins and places one over each of the kenku's eyes. "You'll be missed, buddy."

"Uh... not to be indelicate, but given where we are, do you suppose we ought to... burn the body or something? I don't know if I could handle having to kill a zombie version of him."

Then, looking up at the half-orc on the wall, he says, "I know you only knew him for half a second at most, but... anything you want to add?"

A weakened half orc raises his head. "wh..who goes there? Wh.. what happened?" He says in a croaky voice as he groggily looks around. 

His eyes rest on the kenku on the ground and he sighs, "I am sorry for you friend. If I was more awake I would have warned him of the traps." He quietly berates himself, "I should have been more focused than this."

He then looks back up, "Was he a close friend of yours? The people, if you can call them that," he then spits on the ground but due to his dehydration its more of a dry dribble, "are evil. Pure evil. I know you are probably in mourning but if you could be so kind as to let me down I will happily pay them back tenfold."

After removing anything of value from the Kenku, Gil would listen to his companions words before looking around for a torch. If he can find one he would light the body. "I suppose we can try to get you down... You don't happen to know where the keys are do you?" He would ask before moving towards the half-orcs restraints. If there is no key, he would spend a few minutes turning the metal restraints to wood so that they could be broken.

"I'll bet Tibi could pick the lock," Darvin offers.

"What 'people' are those?" he says, making air quotes, responding to the half-orc. "The 'people' that put you here? Let me guess, creepy robed types with skull tattoos or some such?"

“Let me have a look at the lock” Tibi says (16

He looks at Whistlers body parts “he wasn’t one of my ilk but we can’t leave him behind. I’ll take half if somebody else takes the other half.”

Between the efforts of Gilbert and Tibi the half-orc is quickly freed from the manacles that chained him to the fall.  He is without armor or gear but does not appear injured. 

"I suppose you can try to squeeze into the armor of our friend.." Gil would say as he gestures to the pile of items next to the smouldering corpse. 

Darvin digs around in his bag... "I'm afraid I don't have much with me in the way of spare equipment... I do have a set of clothes, if you can fit into them," Darvin offers. "And a spare rapier, which I'm guessing isn't your ideal choice of weapon, but it's better than nothing. I'd be very surprised if we didn't have to kill some more things down here."

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"I suppose you can try to squeeze into the armor of our friend.." Gil would say as he gestures to the pile of items next to the smouldering corpse. 

 OoC: Whistler was a monk, so no armor unfortunately...

Drubash holds the rapier between two meaty fingers and with a chuckle say, "Can't say I have actually used one of these toothpicks before. I have seen someone with skill poke a hundred holes in a blink of an eye though." He then looks around the room. "I had all my gear on me when I was captured. If I am lucky they may have stashed it nearby."

"Well let's go find your stuff then" Gil would say with a slightly forced smile as his companion still smolders. The tiny Verdan would then make his way forward, keeping his eyes peeled looking for threats or Drubash's equipment.

Drubash follows holding the rapier awkwardly in one hand.

Continuing on you find a long hallway with a number of broken doors on each side.  Looking in the first room to the south much of this room has fallen in, with the debris field mostly burying a stone sarcophagus that was looted years ago. Nothing of interest remains.

In the second an open sarcophagus stands at the back of this dusty crypt, its heavy stone lid lying on its side between the sarcophagus and the south wall. The north-facing side of the sarcophagus bears faded frescoes of spear-wielding warriors charging across golden plains on horseback.  Gilbert is, of course, unable to resist taking a peek inside the open sarcophagus.  He quickly reports that there is a pack with chain mail and a number of axes dumped into the open tomb.

"Hey guys! Look at this! I think I found your stuff!" Gil would report back to the half orc with a smile.

After giving Drubash a chance to collect his things, Darvin takes back his spare rapier and leads the way into the third room. If nothing interesting is there, he then listens at the doorway at the end of the hallway.

Perception: 15

As the others leave the room Tibi calls out "what happened to we don't leave anybody behind!" as he tries to put bits (the good and least messy ones) of Whistler into his backpack. "Is anybody going to help?"