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Delving In The Dungeon: Part 12 “…slowly, the door opens”
While the others watch at the door/barricade the door, Knute attempts to disbelieve the wall, assuming it to be an illusion.
No way, Jose, that wall is real. Figuring this out, Knute reaches out and pokes the wall with a finger. Instantly, he disappears from the room his fellow party members are in.
Periwinkle sees Knute vanish and almost yells “Holy Shit!”, but manages to remember that she needs to be quiet.
Amalia, peering through the tiny slit of the door, sees the opposite door slowly open up. Out of the other room step 7 Orcs. And not just any Orcs, no sir, these are Pig Faced Orcs! Larger and uglier than normal Orcs, their large tusks gleam in the dim light. Six of the seven are armed to the teeth with swords, axes and spiked clubs, but the seventh is armed only with an ornately carved staff.
Amalia whispers to her friends “Pig Faced Orcs…6 fighters, 1 shaman”
Duncan and Fergus each whisper many rude words. Periwinkle looks from the door to the enchanted wall. Decisions, decisions.
The Pig Faced Orcs chat for a minute about what to do next, then begin advancing towards the door. Amalia moves away from the door and whispers “They’re coming in here”.
Meanwhile, Knute finds himself inside a large, well lit room. It would appear to have once been some sort of meeting room, as there are many chairs set up around a large square table. A few feet away stands Erasmus, studying an old dusty tapestry.
“There ya are!”, says Knute, “Ya scared the hell outta me, disappearin’ like that!”
“Well”, Erasmus replies, “I certainly never meant to do it. You know, I think this tapestry depicts the coranation of King Bartholemew the Second, or “Bloody Bart” as he was known to his enermies. He was…hmmm, this is odd…”
Knute sighs and prepares to endure another of the wizards boring history lessons. He is just about to take a seat in one of the chairs when, near the rooms only door, he sees…
Ok…Party members in the soon to be Pig Faced Orc filled room, what do you do?
What does Knute see?
What does Erasmus notice as odd about the tapestry?
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Ok…Party members in the soon to be Pig Faced Orc filled room, what do you do?
Stay back behind the door as they come in, then emerge and lay smackdown on the shaman.
What does Knute see?
A pressure plate built into the floor.
What does Erasmus notice as odd about the tapestry?
It’s made of string cheese – string cheese that is oddly fresh, moist, and delicious despite being very old.
>>What does Erasmus notice as odd about the tapestry?
It’s made of string cheese – string cheese that is oddly fresh, moist, and delicious despite being very old.<<
LOL…very original:)
“…making it of obvious dwarven manufacture. After all, not only are they the only race to have developed the technology to create imperishable cheese, but also the only race willing to do anything with it except attempt to use it as a foodstuff. And probably quite wisely at that. Cheese always seems to give me gas.
“Anyway, I find this rather curious because, if I remember correctly, I believe that Bloody Bart never got along with the dwarves. In fact, I believe Heripedes wrote in his Piktorial Historie auf Mariweatfher that the dwarves blocked the sewer exits in the town of Merriweather upon hearing that King Bartholemew was to visit. Of course, that text was in Old Common, and even then old Heri was notoriously lax in his grammar and spelling. And since this is one of the few surviving texts from this period of history, this goes a long way to the current debate amongst scholars as to whether the Old Kings underwent a Rite of Coranation or a Rite of Coronation. All his grammatical faults aside, I do have to admit he was a dab hand at the illustration,” said with a gentle laugh. “You can just see the concern on the Burgomeister’s face as the sewerage level slowly rose to street level as the dignitaries assembled to meet the king.” Erasmus shaked his head sadly, as he turned to Knute.
“I was wondering if perhaps anything of this matter was preserved in the oral histories of your clan. It would have been about the time of your King Hardaxe the, let’s see, the Twenty-Third. Yes. That would have been about the right time. You are of the Iron Peaks Clan, aren’t you…
“Oh I say, Knute. What are you doing?”
What does Knute see?
What appears to be a pogo stick with bicycle handlebars, sparkly tassels coming from the grips and a small, round thumb-bell. Only it’s really an adolescent mimic.
What does Erasmus notice as odd about the tapestry?
That the embroidery is in the style of the Twelfth Dynasty, a few centuries before Bloody Bart’s time. Or there was a heretofore unknown Classical movement in the Weavers Guild sometime after.
Duncan will prepare to hold position on the door, reducing the amount of baddies engaged at one time as well as attempting to prevent entry to the room. If this position become quickly untenable, he’ll beg for “Uh, a little help, here?”