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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Dec 8, 2022 19:41:44 GMT -5
"Hard to tell what caused this...Cave-ins aren't uncommon in mines after all. Dig around enough and even the earth will give way." He gave a little smile to them both, catching the look Sarris gave him and noting to move topics.
Gerhart was impressed by Kamille's molding of the earth, but he was also easily impressed. Looking through the now cleared space it looked like just more tunnel ahead. He took a few steps forward before starting to clear some of the stones himself just to finish the process. Gerhart seemed to hum a little tune to himself just to keep busy for the moment.
Dirt and dust came from his hands as he clapped them together, "There, that should be enough to get us through." He offers a hand to help them both over the mound of rocks, but retracts it when he realizes how dirty it is. There's a nervous laugh as he scratches his cheek, smudging dirt on his face now. "Sorry, just trying to be polite and help and well....you know..." He just shakes his head, very disappointed in the self-imposed embarrassment.
"The tunnel continues ahead, but past this point I imagine the stones are still pretty loose so keep a look out."
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Post by Sarris on Dec 16, 2022 16:58:57 GMT -5
Sarris breathed a little when the monster conversation died down. Fireclaw could do damage like this if he wanted to be under the rubble.
Sarris was no stranger to dirt. She was a tomboy at heart, a free spirit and that tended to get her dirty. Sarris kept and hand on the back of her skirts attempting to keep herself covered as she climbed up and over the dirt and stoned into a nice sized cavern. She needed to buy some longer dresses, but there was always something more pressing. Like food and clothes for her orphans. Even pants would work at times like this. She was thinking that Mistress Kamille might chastise her display, but then this was Mistress Kamille she was thinking about. It was more likely that she would probably encourage it. Sarris shook her head at those thoughts. She figured Gerhart would save her dignity.
Quartz sparkled as she brought the torch light up. The air was calm but moved here and she sniffed to see if she smelled anything like alchemy agents and reagents. What she smelled dirt and dust. Sneezing loudly she heard the echoes roll down the tunnels. She wiped a lock of her red hair out of her face leaving a dirt smudge on her cheek to match her knees and hands.
Tapping her foot she sent out her magic to search the area1. With a stick she drew in the dirt what she was sensing.
[1] seismic mapping.
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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Dec 18, 2022 17:51:01 GMT -5
Just as Sarris would think, Kamille wouldn't bat an eye at her, not for that. With far less grace than both of them, Kamille climbed through the opening she managed to make and a few rocks slided beneath her feet, having her almost lose balance.
Even with the torches, they couldn't see much ahead, but Sarris mapping could clearly indicate that there was a whole on the ground ahead of them, and as they approached, they heard the voices.
"Helloooooooooooooo! Someone there?!?!?! Please help ussss! We're down here!!!"
Apparently, it wasn't just a matter of a tunnel that collapsed and blocked their way. The ground also seemed to collapse ahead of them, but instead of just falling into another mining tunnel, they seemed to have fallen into some kind of.... structure. Someone's been there, much, much before the miners, and seemed to build some kind of cave into the stone, deep into the ground. The miners had the misfortune of hitting the ceiling of this cave and falling into it. Once their presence was noted, they could hear the miners shifting and talking with each other, some feeling of relief passing along them.
"Hellooooo! We're here to help! Is someone hurt?"
"Yea, Torf and Timmy are hurt badly... And there's Garga and... We can't see what's down below... If they're alright..."
Kamille turned to Sarris and Gerhart.
"I can make a stone stair for them to get up, but I think we should investigate what this place is..."
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Dec 19, 2022 20:03:09 GMT -5
"We should be careful with any more magic. Any movement of earth could make this worse.....but you are right, we should make sure that this is a safe place to get them too."
Gerhart was relieved that the miners were alive, this was going to be a much easier trip home once they could get everyone out. One thing that he didn't like about adventuring was having to come back with bad news. He knew he could only do so much, but it was hard not to feel like a failure those days.
"Don't worry fellas, we'll get you out of here, just give us a minute to check and make sure everything is safe all right?"
He breathed a sigh of relief looking back to Kamille and Sarris, "If you have ways to check on the ground that would be greatly appreciated. When it's safe, I can rope down and pull them up and bandage the wounded. Just not much use unless there's a monster to fight." Gerhart gives a wide and boyish smile.
Gerhart steps out of the way to let them both check out the room and cast any spells they have, ready to hop in should he be needed.
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Post by Sarris on Dec 31, 2022 14:22:53 GMT -5
Sarris pulled her ghost lantern out and set it alight. A Spector stood by taking the lantern and holding it.
"Thank you," Sarris said. "More light is always better," she added.
She peered out into the abyss in the ground. Looking back at her partners she asked, "If you would think it would help, I could use my broom and float down to the miners with a rope. It would allow me to check for sharp edges on the rocks."
She hated dark places. But someone needed to go down to see if it was safe to get to the miners.
Taking a deep breath she said, "I will take the light and check the way down to the miners. If you hand me the end of the rope, I will make sure it does not get caught up on the way down."
With that she took the end of the rope and held her broom so that she could make a slow decent.
Arriving at the bottom, she found the miner's trapped in a caved in section. Part of the supports had buckled and the ceiling had given way and more was about to fall.
Sarris gave two tugs followed by two more letting them know that she had made it safe.
If she was smarter, she would have used an earth elemental to anchor the rope and help pull people to safety.
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Dec 31, 2022 18:20:36 GMT -5
"Oh just floating down is perfect! Probably saves us a bit of time than waiting on me to climb down." He grins as Sarris seems to have a pretty perfect solution to the problem at hand.
He took hold of the rope to help guide her down. "Do you think you could offer some light or something? Is there a spell for that?" Gerhart looks over to Kamille to see if she has any options that might help more than he can.
After the waiting, he does perk up when he feels the tugging on the rope. "That's amazing work Miss Sarris! Do you see them down there or do you need some help clearing things out?" The young adventurer finds a solid enough rock to anchor the rope to, double and triple checking to make sure that the knot is tight enough that no one is going to fall back down.
Admittedly, Gerhart did feel a little useless, there was not much he could do other than be a pack mule, but at this point in time he thought he had no aptitude for magic.
"I can take care of any injuries unless you have spells for that Miss Kamille." He pulled his pouch around to the front of his hip to show the medical supplies.
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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Jan 4, 2023 16:08:18 GMT -5
Kamille thought about using a gargoyle to tie the rope, but it bothered her how the gargoyle could possibly go back to its original chess-piece size while the miners were still crawling back. Before Sarris would go down, she approached her and handed her the chess piece. Sarris had probably seen it before: when commanded, it would turn into a six-foot tall stone gargoyle.
"Use this if you need it. And if there is someone too hurt to come up the rope, give this to them."
Kamille also handed her a healing potion.
She didn't want to say she had a bad feeling about it, but she did. The lantern shed a bit of light on her descend, but for the better part of it, it was uneventful. The miners were just mildly hurt, except for one that looked like he broke his leg. Hopefully, the healing potion would take care of that.
"Sadly, no, I don't have these kind of spells. The light I cast only comes with the price of an explosion, and all the healing I can provide is through the potions."
Solaria still didn't smile upon her, despite everything. But now she was more at peace with the thought than she had been a few years ago. There was more than one way of helping people. Then, she turned to one of the miners with them.
"Do you know what happened for the ground to collapse like this? Where you mining somewhere you weren't supposed to?"
The miners exchanged a few glances, but for a moment no one spoke up. The youngest among them, even after receiving the stinky eye from all of the others, finally stepped up.
"They say I be crazy, Ma'am, but I know what I heard. I heard som'tin between the walls before they came down. And even when we wait, I thought I still heard som'tin.... Don't know what it is, but it comes from inside the stone..."
Kamille looked over to Gerhart.
"A stone worm, maybe? These things can become huge, you know... We should probably take everyone out as quickly as possible..."
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Jan 4, 2023 21:23:37 GMT -5
"Hey, if there is something down here, that I can take care of." He gave a gentle laugh as he took his medkit out to help bandage up some of the other wounded.
They were fortunate that the wounds were no worse than some scrapes and sprains, save for the broken leg but a healing potion would take care of that. He looked at the group with a little sigh after tucking away his medicine. This was going to be a complicated evacuation.
"The rope is secure enough up top...if you two want to go back up and start helping everyone out, I can stay down here in case something comes back to try and find a meal."
Gerhart gives the miners a sheepish smile as they suddenly seem nervous, "Sorry, sorry, bad joke. Let's uh, let's just get everyone outta here."
He will help the last few people up before flipping out his fighting knives getting ready to catch anything the might come out of the walls at them. Gerhart offered up a plea to Ginma to let them just get out of it, this wasn't going to be an easy place to fight. If the things could at least wait till they were back up on top that would be great.
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