Chapter One: The Iron Sphere of Sthombo

Felor stares grimly at the surface of the water. "Hrm. Pretty deep, but doesn't seem like there's a current. I've crossed plenty of rivers in my time, some deeper than this, many faster flowing, but none as... fragrant." With that, Felor hands his spear and the torch to Leth, and lowers himself into the stinking water.

Felor will swim across and haul himself onto the ledge. When he's on the ledge Leth can throw the spear and torch over.

If the torch goes in the drink (presumably unlikely with that roll!) Felor has one he can light up instead.

Vad looks down and racks his brains trying to come up with some way to get across that doesn't involve actually getting in the water. Drawing a blank he sighs as he resigns himself to the chore ahead. He draws one of his daggers and touches it with his hand until it illuminates with a bright white light. He looks across at the others holding their torches and with a slight smile whispers, "Sorcerer. Remember?"

Dagger in one hand and as his pack in the other he works his way across to the others.

"Okay... so which way now?" Leth asks. He looks back the way they came and tries to see if their pursuers are still following them into the sewers.

"We should head south, which is... this way," says Felor pointing down the left-hand tunnel. "I'll take the lead"
Felor sets off along the tunnel, holding the torch ahead of him. He tries to imagine he's in a mountain cave rather than a stinking sewer, with little success.

Tramping along the sewer, Felor fancies that the smoke from the torch is starting to cover the fetid smell slightly. As they reach the junction he pauses briefly.

A noise - the guards? Would they follow us down here? Or...
Felor turns to the others and whispers, "I heard something behind us. It might just be rats, or the town guards... or whatever it was of which the acolytes talked."

"These guys just don't give up, do they?" Leth says, shaking his head. "Look," he continues quietly, afraid the echo of the tunnels might allow their pursuers to hear them, "we need to get them off our tail. Vad, if you can, I think it would be ideal to create a light source far down whichever direction we don't take, to make it look as though that's the direction we went. Even better if you have a way to conceal our own light from others as we keep going down the tunnels... Is any of that possible?"

Felor nods. "I can make the illusion of a sound down the other tunnel, and dim our torches. That may be enough to throw them off."

"That sounds good to me. If we can get light to go with your sound, that would be ideal. The question now, though... Which way leads back towards the gate?"

Can I check to make an educated guess as to which direction would lead them out of the city?

"Straight on should lead us to the south edge of the city. Earlier I saw a... sign? An omen, maybe... that we should head south."

Can Vad cast light on an arrow of Leth's and have Leth fire it down the west tunnel maybe? I can make a splashing noise down the tunnel and dim our torch for 1 minute, so we won't have long to make our escape.

"I can light up whatever we need. Do you want a shining rock to throw or something along those lines?"