Tasya's Story

This room is a tiny room, probably not originally meant to be more than a storage closet. It functions now as a make shift office/bedroom. A table with a couple chairs is the central feature of the space. A cot also rests up against a side wall. There are no windows in this cellar room and no other doors. There is a large chest and a barrel against the back wall.

Tasya frantically checks through the small room for a way out.

Even though adrenaline kicks in and your mind races, you manage to keep your focus and search the tiny room. You spot that under the barrels and chest there’s a canvas cloth. Quickly, sliding the barrel and the chest off it, you flip the canvas over and see a trap door under it.

Outside the door you can hear the sound of heavy feet climbing down the ladder in the hall and stepping into the hallway.

Tasya scrambles for the trap door. She attempts to open it, even as she's thinking of how easily it will be to cover over the trap door once they get into the space below.

The trap door opens easily. It's opening is wide enough for any human size creature to fit through. There is a rope ladder attached to the stone just bellow the door. The ladder extends down into darkness.

"Great work Tas," whispers Mischa "I remember Master Jiren saying that there are tunnels that lead to the harbour. I hope the others have a way too. We have to hurry!"

Tasya scrambles down the ladder. "Cover the trap door with the rug as best you can." She whispers to Mischa.

As you take to the ladder and tell Mischa to cover the door, Petalwing jumps from you and says, "I trick, trick mad strong, strongs with dance, dance."

Mischa says urgently, "Little one, we must cover the door quickly, there's no time."

"Go, go! I help, help." the sprite adds emphatically to Mischa.

Mischa scoops up the sprite and says, "No! It's not safe."

"Hmph...no fun, fun." replies Petalwing as she defiantly jumps out of Mischa's hand onto the rope ladder and shimmies down it.

Mishca follows and pulls the canvas rug over the open trap door the best she can as she descends the ladder.

When Mischa covers the door your descent becomes pitch black. You climb the ladder deeper into the darkness below and eventually--maybe about 40 feet down you step onto a hard rock floor. You cannot see a thing. You hear Petalwing grumbling something about 'grump, grump' and 'nice charm, charm still no fun, fun.' You hear that the sprite has slide down the rope and is next you. Moments later Mischa steps onto the floor and says, "Tasya?"

Tasya crouches down at the sound of Patalwing's tiny voice and extends her hand to lift the fairy onto her shoulder. "Stay close Petalwing. We need to flee as quickly as we can." She whispers and turns at the sound of Mischa voice near the rope ladder. "Over here." She whispers again. "Let's get out of here..."

You feel Petalwing leap onto your hand in the complete darkness of this underground area.

"Dark, dark for friend, friend?" she asks.

Mischa moves toward the sound of your voice. "But which way? I can't see a thing."

You hear booming voices and commotion above. Sounds like the guards have burst into the small office room.

Tasya whispers close to Petalwing. "Very dark for friend." She begins to move in a direction opposite of the noise, with one hand out in front of her and sliding her feet along the floor.

"Wall has flame, flame. Help, help you. Scare, scare me." Petalwing says. "You warm, warm. Close, close."

Tasya reaches her free hand toward her side until she can touch something solid and feels along for the torch she assumes Petalwing is speaking of.

Tasya following Petalwing's guidance manages to locate a torch in a holder on the wall. Hanging from the holder you feel some flint and steel. You are able to light the torch. When the torch erupts with flame, Petalwing jumps away from it exclaiming, "Eeek! Flamebane sear, sear leafy things!"

The torch light reveals that the wall where you grabbed the torch is a dead end and that to proceed into the tunnel down here you have to turn around to go under the area you climbed down, past the rope ladder. The voices from above are gaining intensity.

Tasya keeps the lit torch away from Petalwing and places the small fairy on her other shoulder. She glances to Mischa and then makes a quick dash to get past the rope ladder and into the tunnels beyond.

Holding the torch outward and with Petalwing on your other shoulder, you dash quickly to make it past the ladder. Mischa understands your glance and follows closely. Just as you dart into the tunnel beyond the ladder you hear a loud voice from above call out, "There's torch light! Someone's down there!"




As you dash beyond the rope ladder you see a tunnel that stretches strait off into the the darkness beyond the torch light.

Tasya moves as quickly as she can down the long dark tunnel, cursing her luck silently that the torchlight has been spotted.

You and Mischa, with Petalwing on your shoulder, rush quickly down the tunnel. Behind you, you hear more shouting followed by lamp light. A glance back reveals three lights bobbing up and down on the move. You can't be sure how many, but at least three guards are following you down the tunnel!

You are moving fast and have a decent lead. The tunnel barely winds and seems to continue on and on.