In the morning you all gather and start out towards the excavation site. The trip starts back down the dirt road you took to the midwive's windmill, and you pass close by that place as you head on southward. You soon leave any such thing as a road behind, traveling across forested hills and the foothills of the mountains. You stop around mid day for a quick rest and to eat, then press on, since you know it will be nearly dusk when you arive. As the day is darkening, you reach the below...
The canyon’s rocky walls rise to a height of eighty feet. At the end of the canyon, a twenty-foot-high wall of black stone has a broken gate carved into it, with one stone door hanging precariously by a hinge and the other door missing. Beyond this open gate, in the shadow of a great mountain to the east, lies a ruined settlement. All is quiet.
"Think the dragon already made a meal of them?" Leann asks with a glance to her companions.
"Could be the dragon but as seen with Manticore, the Dragon's arrival stirred up a lot of things in the area proably. Best to check but carefully," FYste stated as he sneaks through the gate while looking around.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
"Guess the sneaky sort is leading the way..." Leann says with an amused look after Fyste. "I am not sneaky, so I best let him have some time before I follow..."
"He iz being sneaky very well," agrees Last Tree Standing. "I iz sneaky, too, but I think I waits here, and not risk tripping over own feets and giving him away."
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"I will keep in touch with him, give him an opportunity to warn us quietly if he sees anything."
And Seruk will cast Message once every minute or so, checking on Fyste and giving him an opportunity to pass back information as he sees it rather than have to come back and tell us all.
Reginald will stealthily follow Fyste but stop about half-way down the canyon in case he needs help immediately and will look around for any clues as to what happened here.
given Perception check, Fyste probably doesn't find anything of note, which he passes on through the message.
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Reginald will stealthily follow Fyste but stop about half-way down the canyon in case he needs help immediately and will look around for any clues as to what happened here.
Stealth: 20
Perception: 10
You were already through the canyon, Fyste entered the broken gates. If you follow him through those still you can know what I posted for Fyste.
Fyste moves through the gates into what appears to have been a settlement in ages long past.
The rubble that once buried the settlement has been hauled away, leaving the outlines of stone buildings visible as collapsed walls. A stone well on the far side of the ruins is filled with rubble.
The settlement appears to have been thoroughly ransacked.
Fyste finds nothing more of interest in this area.
When the message comes in, "Looks like someone hostile has been through this place but not here now. It's all clear right now,"
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"I'm not whatever you call those people who look at old things. I can only say what I see. What I see is no enemies and an empty place with old buildings. If you want answer, come and look yourself," Fyste replies. He has his daggers out just in case btw.
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A partially collapsed, ten-foot-high wall separates a courtyard from this settlement west of it. Three heaps of rubble are piled high inside the courtyard area. Hewn from the canyon’s back wall, a thirty-foot-high temple facade features steps rising to a stone platform. Cut into this facade is a ten-foot-high open doorway flanked by crumbling, life-sized granite statues of cloaked dwarves. Evil grins can be seen on their weatherworn faces.
You can see the above all from inside the settlement, through gaps in the courtyard wall.
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Seruk sees much the same as the others had.
Leann will move up as well, looking around as they make their way into the settlement..
Perception: 23
"Looks like someone was clearing out the rubble..." Leann notes as she walks through with the others. "Look at the campfires..." She nods to where some old campfires have been set in various spots. "Seems someone cleaned out the rocks and stuff, then went through the buildings to see if anything was left. Looks like a systematic excavation site, not an attack or anything." She keeps her voice down though.
Last Tree Standing joins the others. "So, this iz what Dwarvez waz working on?" She looks for any tracks and examines the campfires, trying to get an idea how long the excavators have been away.
Survival check: 18
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The entire group is now in the settlement... You all see the following now.
The rubble that once buried the settlement has been hauled away, leaving the outlines of stone buildings visible as collapsed walls. A stone well on the far side of the ruins is filled with rubble.
The settlement has been thoroughly ransacked.
The group find a few crushed dwarf bones and signs of recent campfires, but nothing of value.
A partially collapsed, ten-foot-high wall separates this settlement from the courtyard east of it. Three heaps of rubble are piled high in the courtyard. Also in the courtyard, but visible from the settlement is the following: Hewn from the canyon’s back wall, a thirty-foot-high temple facade features steps rising to a stone platform. Cut into this facade is a ten-foot-high open doorway flanked by crumbling, life-sized granite statues of cloaked dwarves. Evil grins can be seen on their weatherworn faces.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
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Are the crushed dwarf bones ancient or fresh?
"Argh, statuez iz alwayz meaning trouble," says last Tree Standing. She will attempt to scout ahead. Stealth: 26
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Reginald will grab a couple of loose stones on the floor and chuck them at each of the heaps of rubble and then if nothing moves, will move over to the well and investigate it.
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[OOC: was not sure how to use the dice roller for the three "attack" rolls with a stone, so with those rolls above, the total would be (18+4=22), (12+4=16), & (10+4=14) ]
In the morning you all gather and start out towards the excavation site. The trip starts back down the dirt road you took to the midwive's windmill, and you pass close by that place as you head on southward. You soon leave any such thing as a road behind, traveling across forested hills and the foothills of the mountains. You stop around mid day for a quick rest and to eat, then press on, since you know it will be nearly dusk when you arive. As the day is darkening, you reach the below...
The canyon’s rocky walls rise to a height of eighty feet. At the end of the canyon, a twenty-foot-high wall of black stone has a broken gate carved into it, with one stone door hanging precariously by a hinge and the other door missing. Beyond this open gate, in the shadow of a great mountain to the east, lies a ruined settlement. All is quiet.
"Think the dragon already made a meal of them?" Leann asks with a glance to her companions.
"Could be the dragon but as seen with Manticore, the Dragon's arrival stirred up a lot of things in the area proably. Best to check but carefully," FYste stated as he sneaks through the gate while looking around.
Stealth: 26
Perception: 5
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDone"Guess the sneaky sort is leading the way..." Leann says with an amused look after Fyste. "I am not sneaky, so I best let him have some time before I follow..."
"He iz being sneaky very well," agrees Last Tree Standing. "I iz sneaky, too, but I think I waits here, and not risk tripping over own feets and giving him away."
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
"I will keep in touch with him, give him an opportunity to warn us quietly if he sees anything."
And Seruk will cast Message once every minute or so, checking on Fyste and giving him an opportunity to pass back information as he sees it rather than have to come back and tell us all.
[OOC: How long is the canyon?]
Reginald will stealthily follow Fyste but stop about half-way down the canyon in case he needs help immediately and will look around for any clues as to what happened here.
Stealth: 20
Perception: 10
given Perception check, Fyste probably doesn't find anything of note, which he passes on through the message.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDoneYou were already through the canyon, Fyste entered the broken gates. If you follow him through those still you can know what I posted for Fyste.
To Fyste:
Fyste moves through the gates into what appears to have been a settlement in ages long past.
The rubble that once buried the settlement has been hauled away, leaving the outlines of stone buildings visible as collapsed walls. A stone well on the far side of the ruins is filled with rubble.
The settlement appears to have been thoroughly ransacked.
Fyste finds nothing more of interest in this area.
Do you continue onward?
When the message comes in, "Looks like someone hostile has been through this place but not here now. It's all clear right now,"
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDoneWith the next Message, "Can you tell how long? This was an archaeological site, right? Could that be what you're seeing or is it more recent?"
"I'm not whatever you call those people who look at old things. I can only say what I see. What I see is no enemies and an empty place with old buildings. If you want answer, come and look yourself," Fyste replies. He has his daggers out just in case btw.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDoneSeruk will pass on the message, then accept his invitation and move up just past the gates and look around to see if it looks like recent damage.
Investigation: 8
Also to Fist and Reginald...
A partially collapsed, ten-foot-high wall separates a courtyard from this settlement west of it. Three heaps of rubble are piled high inside the courtyard area. Hewn from the canyon’s back wall, a thirty-foot-high temple facade features steps rising to a stone platform. Cut into this facade is a ten-foot-high open doorway flanked by crumbling, life-sized granite statues of cloaked dwarves. Evil grins can be seen on their weatherworn faces.
You can see the above all from inside the settlement, through gaps in the courtyard wall.
Seruk sees much the same as the others had.
Leann will move up as well, looking around as they make their way into the settlement..
Perception: 23
"Looks like someone was clearing out the rubble..." Leann notes as she walks through with the others. "Look at the campfires..." She nods to where some old campfires have been set in various spots. "Seems someone cleaned out the rocks and stuff, then went through the buildings to see if anything was left. Looks like a systematic excavation site, not an attack or anything." She keeps her voice down though.
Last Tree Standing joins the others. "So, this iz what Dwarvez waz working on?" She looks for any tracks and examines the campfires, trying to get an idea how long the excavators have been away.
Survival check: 18
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
The entire group is now in the settlement... You all see the following now.
The rubble that once buried the settlement has been hauled away, leaving the outlines of stone buildings visible as collapsed walls. A stone well on the far side of the ruins is filled with rubble.
The settlement has been thoroughly ransacked.
The group find a few crushed dwarf bones and signs of recent campfires, but nothing of value.
A partially collapsed, ten-foot-high wall separates this settlement from the courtyard east of it. Three heaps of rubble are piled high in the courtyard. Also in the courtyard, but visible from the settlement is the following: Hewn from the canyon’s back wall, a thirty-foot-high temple facade features steps rising to a stone platform. Cut into this facade is a ten-foot-high open doorway flanked by crumbling, life-sized granite statues of cloaked dwarves. Evil grins can be seen on their weatherworn faces.
How do you move on into the courtyard?
Fyste would like to investigate one of the heaps of rubble in the courtyard.
Investigation: 9
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDoneAre the crushed dwarf bones ancient or fresh?
"Argh, statuez iz alwayz meaning trouble," says last Tree Standing. She will attempt to scout ahead. Stealth: 26
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
Reginald will grab a couple of loose stones on the floor and chuck them at each of the heaps of rubble and then if nothing moves, will move over to the well and investigate it.
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[OOC: was not sure how to use the dice roller for the three "attack" rolls with a stone, so with those rolls above, the total would be (18+4=22), (12+4=16), & (10+4=14) ]
Investigate: 3