Chapter 2: Fell Tunnels

The strike was good, but these bones are hard to hit cleanly. the strike lands, but slides off for less impact.

Makasi pivots around to thrust her halberd down through the second skeletal archer's skull.

Hrafe combined arms with Makasi, these guardians were too dangerous to spread their efforts and needed to be crushed through expediently. He lunged and drew Glaezentorg down with expert fury.

Edgar spins around and tries to stab the last remaining skeleton.

The skeleton survives the blow but is is heavily staggered as the blow hit as clearly as possible without being a critical blow.

Makasi steps back from the collapsing skeleton and swirls around toward the last one remaining. She strikes at it with the butt of her halberd, trying to sever its skull from its spine.

The blow bounces off, but not after the skeleton falls apart beyond any ability to fight. With the last skeleton unmoving, you finally have the time to take a look around. The room smells of rotting meat, but you expected that having fought skeletons. the light in the room is very dim beyond the torch on the ground. There seem to be sickly green flames scattered around the room that seem to provide no heat and minimal light.

To the north and east are a set of double doors flanked by pillars. The door to the east seems to have some damage in the floor, and no amount of jumping or shimmying can avoid it. The northern door seems to be free of obstacles. If you look up, you see the pair of holes you used to get down here. The ceiling is probably 30 feet above you before the shafts start. You aren't sure how you'll get back up. For now, though, you don't seem to need to.

What do you do?

As you head north, you make your way through some stone double doors. There isn't as much light here, but with the very dim light from the earlier room and a torch one of you holds, you see a hallway that is long and branches off 4 times, 2 left and 2 right, plus the end of the hallway you don't see yet.

Where do you wish to go? L1/2, R1/2, or straight? (1 = closest)

"As a young dwarven boy," the tall lanky elf starts saying softly. "We where told to always keep our shield arm towards a wall, and you'd never get lost. I never much cared for shields, but the sentiment stands."

With nothing more to say on the subject he starts sneaking down the closest leftmost tunnel.

You go down a semi-long hallway, seeing a similar hallway behind you if you had gone right that your torch does not illuminate the end of. You eventually get to a T intersection. Both left and right lead to a door, with the left being right next to you and the right being about 20 feet away.

"I served the high-born for many years," Makasi says, pressing an ear to the closer door. "A lot of what I did was listening for signs they needed a new bowl, or a refill on their wine, you get what I'm saying..."

You listen through the door closest to you and realize these doors are surprisingly thick. Nothing really gets through. Either the room is empty or it is too hard to hear through.

"Can't hear a damn thing," Makasi shrugs. "Guess we try the latch?"