[IC] Chapter 4: The Wergyn Estate

[jp1885]

The three of you easily manage to pry off the lid of the tomb, thankfully without further damage to your personages. The prone statue that lies serenely on top crashes to the floor with a heavy thud, the sword it is holding flying a little further before coming to rest with a metallic clatter against a chunk of masonry.

The open tomb reveals, as you have no doubt surmised, a yawning hole from which a rickety wooden ladder descends into the darkness below.

Please make another listen test, this time with a bonus die.

Success,You hear the sound of scraping gravel from the direction you entered the ruin, as if someone is shuffling towards you slowly.

Miss Knight,The talisman around your neck suddenly feels rather hot, as if it were throbbing with some kind of power.

[Mr. Handy]

"Someone's shuffling this way from outside," whispers Cynthia. "I'm afraid it's our late friend. We need to get below before he catches us up. One of you gentlemen should take the sword; we may have need of it. My talisman just got hot too. I think our foe is close."

OOC,Listen roll (55% skill) above the opening: [dice]0[/dice] Bonus die: [dice]1[/dice] That's a critical success with the bonus die!

[jp1885]

Miss Knight,As a reward for your extreme success, I will tell you that by your reckoning you have a good few minutes before whatever is making the noise reaches you.

[Mr. Handy]

"He's moving slowly," Cynthia adds. "It'll take him a few minutes to reach us. Still, let's not waste them."

[LTD1969]

Listen 20% [dice]0[/dice]



bonus dice [dice]1[/dice]


"I can't hear a thing Miss Knight, but I'm happy to take your word for it. Perhaps you'd be better taking the sword Mr Tereschenko? Rough stuff isn't really my speciality."

[Whitehorse]

Grigori taes a moment to listen, for clues... or trouble...

Listen = 20%,[dice]0[/dice]

[Whitehorse]

"Something is indeed scraping its way towards us...."

"I hope you won't have to use it Professor... but do take the sword nevertheless... If it comes to fighting, I intend to use this..."

And Grigori reveals the mechanism of his shotgun-stick..

"This will blast a hole in anything, living or dead...!"

[LTD1969]

"Let's hope so. I'm not sure I'm going to be much help with this." Waves sword around in an uncertain manner.

[jp1885]

So, gallant adventurers, what next? Confront the source of the shuffling sound? Climb down the rickety ladder? Flee for your lives?

[Mr. Handy]

"You'd certainly be more help than I would with it," says Vanessa. "Let's get down that ladder."

[Whitehorse]

"Has anyone got anything to make a light...?"

Grigori peers into the darkness below...

"Perhaps we could at least light a rag and drop it down to show us a little of what lies before us..."

[jp1885]

A little light would be useful in this situation. Did anyone bring a lantern with them? I’ll allow a group luck test (roll for whoever has the lowest score) to see if you remembered to bring one, or picked one up from O’Kent’s cottage.

[Mr. Handy]

"Maybe there's something here in the church we can use," says Cynthia, looking around. "There must at least be candles."

OOC,Group Luck roll (30% stat) to see if we have a lantern: [dice]0[/dice]

[LTD1969]

A little light would be useful in this situation. Did anyone bring a lantern with them? I’ll allow a group luck test (roll for whoever has the lowest score) to see if you remembered to bring one, or picked one up from O’Kent’s cottage.

OOC: Apologies if I'm being dim - do we need to roll against the lowest luck stat in the group, or we all roll and the lowest number counts, success or failure?

[jp1885]

OOC:   Lowest stat, which Mr. Handy has rolled against and, alas, failed.

[jp1885]

While Mr. Tereshchenko's search for something flammable was somewhat frantic, perhaps a more lebel-headed search will yield some candles or somesuch.

A spot hidden roll everyone, if you please (I'll allow you each a bonus die as you've already searched for a metal bar and so can discount certain sections of the ruin). If you succeed, then you find something from which to fashion a light source.

Oh, and by the way, if you failed to hear whatever it is that's shuffling towards you, you hear it now...

Miss Knight,Your pendant is growing hotter.

[Mr. Handy]

"The pendant's getting hotter as that thing gets closer," remarks Cynthia, unable to find even a candle stub.

OOC,Spot Hidden roll (55% skill) to find a light source: [dice]0[/dice] Bonus die: [dice]1[/dice]

[jp1885]

Professor Garrett,Please make an EDU or history roll.

[Whitehorse]

Grigori takes a deep breath, steadies himself, ad looks one more time...

Spot Hid =55,[dice]0[/dice]

[Whitehorse]

OOC:   Grigori finds something, though I think I'll leave exactly what to our Keeper