…later, at the vets office, they agree that the plan was flawed
There’s a really interesting story on how my plan to post the next “Dungeon Delving” episode went from “under an hour” to more than 24 hours. Unfortunately, you are not cleared to hear it.
Delving In The Dungeon: Part 14“…there’s something you don’t see every day”
Mentally picture the following unfolding in a very cinematic style…jump cuts of frantic combat interspersed between bits of conversation between Knute, Erasmus and Andrea the tapestry.
1: Duncan attempts to skewer the one eared orc, but his target barely twists out of the way. The orc slashes out with a dagger, cutting Duncan across the chin.
2: Knute looks goggle eyed at the tapestry. “Andrea? Is that you?” Erasmus, even more goggle eyed, looks back and forth between Knute and the talking tapestry.
3: Stepping over his first foe, Fergus clashes swords with a screaming orc. They press against each other until they are face to face, at which point, the orc headbutts the big human.
4: “Yes, Knute, it’s me. As you can imagine, there is quite the interesting story behind all this.” Her voice is melodic and smooth as mintflower honey. Her big blue eyes are bright with amusement.
5: Amalia drops her bow, steps over it and, whirling her two hand axes in a complex pattern, begins a pitched battle with the smallest of the orcs, who is armed with a small shield and a shortsword.
6: “Wait just a minute here!”, Erasmus shouts. “This is the Andrea…the Elven bard…that you couldn’t stop talking about the entire year that we were locked up in that forever damned Jedorran prison?”
7: Diving under the shaman’s magical attack, Periwinkle tucks herself into a ball and rolls towards him. At the last moment, she untucks into a squat and punches him right in the crotch.
8: Much mingled speech here… Knute to Erasmus: “Oh, aye, the very same one.” Andrea to Knute: “You did that? You remembered me?” Knute to Andrea: “Oh, lass, I couldn’t forget ye if I wanted to” Erasmus to Knute: “But she’s a tapestry!”
9: Howling with rage, Duncan and the orc exchange a half dozen fast attacks and parries before the human manages to put two feet of steel through the orc’s chest.
10: Knute to Erasmus: “Well, she was nae a tapestry when I knew her, ye big dummy!” Andrea to Knute: “Oh, Knute, I never forgot you, either. Those nights of passion…” Erasmus to Andrea: “Nights of passion? Knute?”
11: Unfortunately for the orc, Fergus has a remarkably hard head. In return, he does his best to bite the orc’s piggy snout off. The orc screams as the blood gushes.
12: Knute to Erasmus: “What? Ye dinna think me capable of romance?” Erasmus to Knute: “No, and frankly, the thought leaves me rather queasy.”
13: Beating her way past the small orc’s shield, Amalia proceeds to slice him up like a cooked ham.
14: Andrea to Erasmus: “I’ll have you know that Knute can be among the sweetest and most romantic of men. Why, when he reads Ispedalian poetry, it…” Erasmus to Andrea: “Reads Ispedalian poetry??? KNUTE???
15: When the shaman doubles over in pain, Periwinkle cracks him over the head with a handy crate. She then begins relieving him of all his possessions.
16: Knute to Andrea: “Aww, lass, ye praise me too much.” Andrea to Erasmus: “You, sir, obviously have only seen a very small portion of Knutes personality.”
17: Duncan kicks the dying orc off of his sword…Fergus casually spits out the tip of his opponents nose before slitting the orc’s throat…Amalia screams like a banshee at the remaining orcs, who run off down the hallway at top speed…Periwinkle, the only one not drenched in blood, says “My, don’t you all look the gory spectacle.”
18: Erasmus to Andrea: “Well, it’s not like his job description includes seducing elven women and reading poetry.” Knute to Andrea: “He’s got a point there, love.”
19: Panting from the fight, everyone sits down to rest. After a few seconds, the wall that Knute and Erasmus disappeared into fades away, revealing the convoluted three way discussion cum argument on the other side. After about a minute of listening Amalia says “Well, you can’t say this job isn’t full of surprises.”
Ok, players, what next?
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Those orcs might bring friends back. Better keep an eye on the hallway.
Addendum to 14.
“Knute reads????”
oops .. meant to get back hear sooner than i did…
Shaking his head in bewilderment at Knute’s choice of reading matter, Erasamus leaves Knute and Andrea to catch up and turns to the party now made visible and asks them what happened to them, and whether any of them are hurt (for the purposes of Cure Light Wounds). He reorientates himself and wonders whether the door to the meeting room half of the room is in the same wall as the door to the storage closet half of the room, before turning back to the discussion of Andrea’s apparently recently acquired lack of full dimensionality. And if they haven’t finished their inane twittering by this time, he asks them “Well, that’s all very well and good, but how in the name of the Magrithrex did you get trapped in a tapestry in a deserted dungeon?”
Ask Andrea if she’d prefer to hang around someplace else, and figure out a way to get her down off the wall. Oh, and incidentally ask her if she knows anything about the rest of the dungeon.
Amalia will delicately flick the blood and grue off her axes – in Periwinkle’s direction – wipe them down, sheathe them, and retrieve her bow.