Chapter 1: Ambush - Run for your life !

[Mr. Handy]

"Sure, and the name's Liz," Liz whispers back as she passes the lantern forward.

[royya]

You follow one after another into a large cave that served as a mess hall and the entrance into the main mine. The main tunnel into the depth is collapsed with another cave-in, more massive than the one you just barely cleared. A large rotten wooden table surrounded by the remains of rusted metal chairs lies on one side of the place. There are rotten wooden crates, barrels, rusted metal rail line, cupboards, broken dishes, broken pipelines and other metal scraps and debris. The air is dumb and it is hard to breathe in here.

[Mr. Handy]

"Let's search this place for useful stuff quickly," says Liz. "Let's start with the the cupboards, crates, and barrels. There's not enough oxygen to stay here, but the room behind the door is a good place to hole up for the night. The door lock was broken, but if we can't fix it we can always wedge it shut from the inside."

[royya]

You begin to search among the mess and debris of this place.

ooc - spot hidden rolls please.

[Papa Gateau]

OOC:   Spot hidden[50]: 27 success http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4650244/

[Mr. Handy]

Liz does an extremely thorough and efficient job of searching the room.

OOC,Wow! :D I got 1/5 of my skill.

[royya]

** Mark your skills **

You search the room while you breath heavily and sweat. You find the following before feeling the need to leave the place.

In the rotting remains of a crate, beneath a layer of moss you find a carton box with 3 sealed turkey meat rations. !!FOOD!!
Underneath a pile of rusted pipelines you find a toolbox containing 3 oil cans and a hammer. The nails are to rusted to use.
Among a rotting and moth eaten cloth you find a laminated laborer outfit, not a prisoners glowing one like the one you are wearing.

We must leave and find water.
Natasha says

ALL - you begin to feel thirsty, your mouth is very dry.

[Mr. Handy]

Liz nods. "Yeah, we're sure not going to find any in here," she says. "Let's grab the goodies and go."

OOC,What size is the laborer outfit? Which of us could it fit?

[Dave Syrinx]

Roland takes the hammer and starts to look for a way to push on. "So, Liz - how do we get past this?" He tries his luck with a random blow with the hammer at one of the top stones. After the whack, he tries to find another exit that they have missed.

He feels lucky as he continues to check crevasses and boulders...

[royya]

No way out, seems like a dead end. The tunnel that leads into the depth of the mine is collapsed.

The laborer outfit should fit well on people with size ranging from 12-14

[Mr. Handy]

"We don't," says Liz. "We go back the way we came. We've found all there is to find in the mine, and we'll need to go back outside to get some water. But we can't stay out long. It'll be dark soon, and our outfits will glow in the dark. Except that new one, but I'm much too small to fit in it." She claims the toolbox once Roland has removed the hammer.

[Papa Gateau]

Frog

Right, I've got an idea. That mining drill will 'ave an engine full of old, black, sticky oil 'an it it will 'ave a drainin' plug fer oil changes. If we drain the oil an' mix it up with dirt an' dust on the floor, we'll 'ave a black sticky mess that we can paint onto our prison suits. It won't be perfect but it should stop us shinin' like a torch in the night.

Whaddya reckon?

[Mr. Handy]

"Good idea," says Liz, "but that'll take time. Let's use the daylight while we can, plus we really need water fast. If we don't find anything by sunset, we can go back into the mine and treat our clothes."

[royya]

What about the left trail we passed earlier ? We took the right one and arrived here.
Jeffrey says.

I'm quite worried about animals, we should leave now.
Natasha says as she begin to climb back the collapsed rocks and crawls to the main entrance.

[Mr. Handy]

"Yes, let's check that way," says Liz. She offers the laborer outfit to Jeffrey. "Here, this might fit you. The rest of us are too little, I think." If nobody else takes the food, she stuffs the rations into her toolbox. Then she climbs back over the rocks and heads for the entrance.

[royya]

You leave the mine, back to the crossroad and take the left trail. It's twilight and you can barely see the trail in the falling darkness as the heavy blanket of stratus clouds still cover the sky. An hour later the darkness falls. Tired, exhausted and thirsty you realise that the trail is gone and you probably followed an animal path, god knows when you lost it.

But hope is not lost as the path you are walking is blocked by a low stone wall with a rusted metal fence on top of it.
Wild growth block the sight in addition to the darkness. You can risk walking past the dense thorny bushes (5 dodge rolls) or you can risk and climb the 1.5 meter stone wall and above the 50 cm metal fence to the other site. (climb skill roll).

[Mr. Handy]

"I'll never make it through those thorn bushes without getting scratched to death," says Liz. "I'm not a good climber either, though, and I'm already badly hurt from getting bonked on the head, so I don't want to take a chance going first up that wall. Maybe someone who's better at climbing can go first and help the rest of us get down safely. It's too bad we don't have a rope."

[Papa Gateau]

Frog looks at the wall and the easy handholds the metal fence atop it offers. He quickly, scampers up and takes a look at what's on the other side

OOC:   Climb[75]: 19 success http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4659743/

[royya]

As Frog climbs up the stone wall and the metal fence the bricks begin to give way and fall apart. luckily, he managed to grab a part that still holds and he jumps to the side without hurting himself. The collapsed stone wall and fence fall forward on the dense wild growth, bringing it down under their weight, burying it. There is a clear path now into the compound.

You are on the edge of a local small water park. you stand next to a tennis court, now overgrowth. further ahead, you spot a swimming pool and a two story building. Next to the swimming pool there is a small shed

Rusted metal chairs, benches, broken and rusted parasols and small plastic tables are scattered on what was in the past a green lawn and now a dead ground. The remains of a decorative waterfall, now filled with ooze, lies between the tennis field and the swimming pool.

Some 100 meter away you spot the outline of a damaged water slide, part of it collapsed a long time ago.

You fail to see the entrance to the compound. It's to dark to see.

[Mr. Handy]

"Sweet!" says Liz, taking out her lantern and lighting it as she follows the others inside. "Just look at all that water! It's prolly contaminated, but I'm so thirsty I don't even care at this point." She shines the light around.