* A Scholarly Schism *

Bilick grumbles the whole time, not willing to admit that he actually enjoyed the bed. Hearing Dain's explanation of the device, his mood will sour even further and he will make sure he's a good 15- 20 feet  behind Kendrick when the barbarian throws the javelin, also behind at least partial cover.

Tella is upset by her hair and goes to brush it for about thirty minutes, then hurriesto get dressed and goes out the door to meet with Osso, it is noticable her clothes are a little bit wrinkled.

"Wait!" Dain shouts as Kendrick is preparing to throw his javelin.  Dain grabs the tail of the javelin just before Kendrick launches it. "I can't let you destroy that beautiful weapon that I was working on all last night."

(Are you waiting for Tella before attempting to detonate the device??  Does anyone else have another idea they want to try instead of the javelin?  Dain could either sharpen purbag's arrows, or bolts, or Dain will sell you another weapon at the going price in the basic rules, and then sharpen and bless it.)

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"Wait!" Dain shouts as Kendrick is preparing to throw his javelin.  Dain grabs the tail of the javelin just before Kendrick launches it. "I can't let you destroy that beautiful weapon that I was working on all last night."

(Are you waiting for Tella before attempting to detonate the device??  Does anyone else have another idea they want to try instead of the javelin?  Dain could either sharpen purbag's arrows, or bolts, or Dain will sell you another weapon at the going price in the basic rules, and then sharpen and bless it.)

Kendrick:

Kendrick looks at Dain in confusion, as his sharpened longspear is still on his back, and one of his 5 regular javelins in his hand prepared to throw.

"You were aiming too low.  Try it again, this time you'll get it." Dain says, refusing to admit his mistake.  (OOC that was my mistake.  sorry)

(Are you guys waiting for Tella?)

(Osso is waiting for her, standing between her and the explosive - if that's at all possible and safe to do so)

Kendrick:

”Oh, okay,” says Kendrick to the dwarf, not willing to offend the priest who so recently blessed their weapons.  Looking around before he throws, he asks, “Hey, where did Tella go?”

OOC:  Kendrick will wait a few minutes for her or ask someone where she went.  I don’t know that we want to sit out here exposed for 30 minutes with the bomb, so we may need someone to go fetch her...

Just then, Tellla joins up with the group running, her dark purple hair is neat as usual but her clothes are wrinkled bad. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late, I... overslept"

"Oh, Tella, glad you could make it," Dain teases. "It looks like you slept well." Dain has a childish smirk on his face. "From my testing of the walls structure, I have found that it regenerates at a rate of 50 cm per second.  Taking the proximity of the bomb, the temperature and humidity into account, we will have 6 seconds, and no more to step, climb, and dive through that hole.  Everyone, be ready."

Kendrick throws his javalin at the bomb, and with a earth shattering ka-boom, a large hole is blown in the side.

(Everyone please give me an athletics roll and describe what you are going to do.)

Osso

In a dramatic and choreographed manner, Osso takes a skip & a hop then dives, head first, through the hole.

Heroic Dive 25

(Dice lords don't fail me now. I can't help but see Wiley Coyote squished against a wall )

Kendrick:

Kendrick hustles towards the hole, his adrenaline pumping after the tremendous blast, and helps the others through, finally leaping through himself at the last instant!

Athletics:  11

The little dwarf huffs and puffs and backs up a bit. Then, he puts his head down, charges and tries  and gets as much of a head of steam as he is able to before dashing through the hole.

Athletics Check: 16

Purbag follows behind Kendrick and lunges his massive body towards the hole as fast as he can. 

Athletics: 19

Tella ducks behind a nearby crate
Athletics: 10

Dain, no waiting for anyone, rushes ahead through the hole into the darkness within. athletics 21

Osso dives though (Nice Loony toons reference follow up)

Bilick dashes through

Purbag Lunges through

Tella ducks behind a nearby crate! (OOC: WTF,  I'm laughing here.  Tella and her antics)

Kendrick, you are helping everyone through, do you wait for Tella, rush over to her, or dive through without her?  (If you wait it's going to be an Athletics 20 to make it. If you go without her, it will be an Athletics 5 to make it.)

Kendrick:

"D**n it Tella, get through the hole if yer goin!" yells Kendrick, raging and grabbing at her, trying to throw them both through the hole before it collapses on them!

OOC: Kendrick isn't waiting, but he isn't headed straight for the hole either.  If Tella dodges him, he leaves her behind.  If she accepts his help, he uses the Athletics advantage from Rage to try and get them both through before it closes.

Athletics with Advantage:  20

Nice job!  Everyone made it in just as the hole in the wall collapsed.

Beyond the light is darkness. There is no trace of the city you stepped out of. There is barely any trace of the Academy, in any recognizable form. Pools of light push back the darkness here and there, and you make out jagged chunks of stonework; walls and windows and doors in no discernible pattern. A tower top here, a sitting room there… as if the whole place was frozen in the moment of an explosion. In the distance a single tower stands tall and whole.
Threads of crimson light weave paths between the isolated chunks of reality but they flicker and twist, unstable and shifting. Gradually, in the silence around you, you begin to hear faint sounds of movement, whispering cloth and the suggestion of voices. You are not alone.

Simply walking in the darkness achieves nothing: it is not ‘real’ space and characters can’t just walk until they reach a room. The crimson paths seem to connect a pair of rooms for a minute, and then the flicker and twist and connect different rooms.  The paths seem to be drawn to the rooms, but not to you.

Osso

Not being the sharpest dwarf out there, Osso stares in wonderment at the crimson lights. His jaw drops a little but he manages a few words in Dwarven. 

 He turns to see if all his colleagues made it through, making his way to stand near Kendrick or Bilick if he is able.

Basically jinxing Osso, only in draconic "What...is this place" then slowly walks towards the tower in a trance-like state.

Bilick stands up and dusts himself off, murmuring something you only briefly catch as "...harebrained dwarfs with their stupid unnatural schemes."His complaints are cut short as he stands up and sees where the party currently is. He swears loudly and begins a new round of complaints. "That blasted orc wizard could have warned us about stuff like this. Are ye all okay?"

Peering into the darkness, he will also call "Dain, ye dolorous excuse for a dwarf, do ye know where we are?"