(No, we listened to the torturers for more than an hour, so PWT is expired.)
Boktopus does a little shimmer of relief at the door opening. She peeks through the door, pauses, and listens and looks down the passage. (Darkvision 30 ft)
Perception: 19
Assuming nothing apart from the cheering, she turns to the party, holds up one tentacle in a "one minute" gesture, then turns back to the hallway.
She proceeds down the passage at floor level, the surface of her skin undulating in a camouflaged barely-seen display.
Stealth: 24
She'll pause at the intersection, confirm what Kei's crab says, and then first try going 15 feet down the western passage to see what she finds.
Krill (and Kei by extension) watches as Boktopus moves down the Western hall. The tiny crab, at its masters instruction, mirrors Boko and moves down the Eastern hall. Moving in a very non direct manner it swims deeper through the passageway.
All the while Kei floats motionless back in the torture chamber, watching through his familiars eyes. His own eyes black as squid ink. He recounts anything of interest to the rest of the group.
As Qivys advances as far as the intersection, Bokotopus notices a change in the monotony of the stone wall – a turn or intersection, ahead. All remains dark and quiet, except for the occasional sound of shouting from the south.
Boko reaches the next intersection. Peering around the corner, she sees... more corridor. No traps; nothing catches her eye.
But Qivys sees something more. His eyes adjusting to the darkness, with his longer-range darkvision he sees a large, recessed, open chamber of some sort to the south. And the back and tops of some heads - the crowd of shouting sahaugin, with their backs turned. They do not see him, currently. (But he should move or roll Stealth soon!)
Peri quietly waves a hand in front of Kei's blackened eyes. He asks Gerrard, "Is it just me, or does he seem to have gotten a tad... creepy? He's always been a greedy, odd duck, but fun. But he's been kinda... I dunno, dark? Ever since we turned that thing loose." A sudden grin lights up his face. "He was madder than a cat in a sweater when he thought we beat him to the magic goodies though!"
”Too true, friend. But I expect he is doing some scouting with that crab of his in some creepy magical way. Do you hear that shouting to the south? I am not used to communicating underwater, but it sounds like the Sahuagin are massing that direction,” responds Gerrard.
Boktopus looks up at Qivys, and shakes her cephalopod head, then raises two arms up in a shrug gesture. Then she darts back west, down the way she had been scouting and looks around the far corner to the right.
She turns the next corner to peek down and tells herself she needs to get back and stop scouting, but, then again, scouting is the entire point of her being here so she steels herself and tries to discover something.
(No, we listened to the torturers for more than an hour, so PWT is expired.)
Boktopus does a little shimmer of relief at the door opening. She peeks through the door, pauses, and listens and looks down the passage. (Darkvision 30 ft)
Perception: 19
Assuming nothing apart from the cheering, she turns to the party, holds up one tentacle in a "one minute" gesture, then turns back to the hallway.
She proceeds down the passage at floor level, the surface of her skin undulating in a camouflaged barely-seen display.
Stealth: 24
She'll pause at the intersection, confirm what Kei's crab says, and then first try going 15 feet down the western passage to see what she finds.
Kei
Krill (and Kei by extension) watches as Boktopus moves down the Western hall. The tiny crab, at its masters instruction, mirrors Boko and moves down the Eastern hall. Moving in a very non direct manner it swims deeper through the passageway.
All the while Kei floats motionless back in the torture chamber, watching through his familiars eyes. His own eyes black as squid ink. He recounts anything of interest to the rest of the group.
Krill Stealth check: 13
Long, dark, empty halls continue east and west. The crowd noise seems to emanate from the unexplored southern hallway.
Boktopus proceeds 20 more feet down the passage...
The passage continues unchanged...
All remains quiet.
Qivys will tart moving down the hall to the intersection.
Boko goes another 20 feet.
As Qivys advances as far as the intersection, Bokotopus notices a change in the monotony of the stone wall – a turn or intersection, ahead.
All remains dark and quiet, except for the occasional sound of shouting from the south.
Boko just barely peeks around the corner, and then heads back to the intersection. She's looking around for anything odd, any traps, etc.
Perception: 27
Boko reaches the next intersection. Peering around the corner, she sees... more corridor. No traps; nothing catches her eye.
But Qivys sees something more. His eyes adjusting to the darkness, with his longer-range darkvision he sees a large, recessed, open chamber of some sort to the south. And the back and tops of some heads - the crowd of shouting sahaugin, with their backs turned. They do not see him, currently. (But he should move or roll Stealth soon!)
Kei
Watching through Krills eyes, Kei doesn't see Qivys exit the chamber. Instead he pushes his crustacean a little further down the hallway.
Boko sneaks 15 feet down the southern corridor and then back, and 15 feet down the western extension, and THEN back to the group.
Boko discovers a bend in the western hallway, but little else. She returns to Qivys, the noise of the crowd drifting up from the south.
Kei discovers the junction in the eastern hallway that Borgas described. All is quiet there.
Peri:
Peri quietly waves a hand in front of Kei's blackened eyes. He asks Gerrard, "Is it just me, or does he seem to have gotten a tad... creepy? He's always been a greedy, odd duck, but fun. But he's been kinda... I dunno, dark? Ever since we turned that thing loose." A sudden grin lights up his face. "He was madder than a cat in a sweater when he thought we beat him to the magic goodies though!"
Gerrard:
”Too true, friend. But I expect he is doing some scouting with that crab of his in some creepy magical way. Do you hear that shouting to the south? I am not used to communicating underwater, but it sounds like the Sahuagin are massing that direction,” responds Gerrard.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Boktopus looks up at Qivys, and shakes her cephalopod head, then raises two arms up in a shrug gesture. Then she darts back west, down the way she had been scouting and looks around the far corner to the right.
Boktopus scouts a little further to the west: another turn in the long passage.
She turns the next corner to peek down and tells herself she needs to get back and stop scouting, but, then again, scouting is the entire point of her being here so she steels herself and tries to discover something.
Boktopus continues around a couple of corners and spots an open archway to the east. (Make a perception check.)
Qivys shrugs his shoulders turn to the right and left at the first passage. He will travel 10 ft. down the passage, stop, look and listen.