A Grand Illusion

[Asinjin]

Start with xp:

We'll go with 1000 for everyone with some private bonus xp to follow.

[Asinjin]

On non-rpging notes: Harrick is now Zunder's 2nd most played character in 3rd edition.  Also, the group of five players from tonight had not been the exact group since February 2005.

[whitesword]

On non-rpging notes: Harrick is now Zunder's 2nd most played character in 3rd edition.  Also, the group of five players from tonight had not been the exact group since February 2005.

I have no recollection of playing with Terrorshard when he was an adolescent. I must be getting old.

[Terrorshard]

I have no recollection of playing with Terrorshard when he was an adolescent. I must be getting old.

I was 22 in 2005, not really an adolescent.  I think I started with you guys in 2002.

[Asinjin]

Now that you are old and wise, figure out what you can about the ruins.

[Terrorshard]

Now that you are old and wise, figure out what you can about the ruins.

At a glance, how far down does it seem to go before it gets wider.  (Where the lit arrow swung underneath)

[Asinjin]

At a glance, how far down does it seem to go before it gets wider.  (Where the lit arrow swung underneath)

60 feet

[Terrorshard]

Any chance we could talk the airship into hovering lower and dropping the ladder we use to board down into the well.  Do they have another ladder we can anchor to the airship to use if not their main one?

[Asinjin]

Any chance we could talk the airship into hovering lower and dropping the ladder we use to board down into the well.  Do they have another ladder we can anchor to the airship to use if not their main one?

You can yell up and ask, and they do have a spare that they will lend to you.  You will have to find a way to anchor it.

[Terrorshard]

You can yell up and ask, and they do have a spare that they will lend to you.  You will have to find a way to anchor it.

I do this, if they lowered the hovering distance of the airship enough to give us 100ish feet of ladder lowered down into the well that should suffice.  Actually, Harris should ask for it...

[Asinjin]

They are not willing to lower the airship that low over the well.  They will give you the ladder.

[Hero]

You will have to find a way to anchor it.

This reminds me of that time my last adventuring party and I were trying to track the umber hulks responsible for harassing a bunch of small villages in the outskirts of the Rosetree Forest. We followed their trail into the mountains nearby and discovered a small crevasse, very much like this well, that we thought was the entrance to their lair. Should've known better, in retrospect it was way too small of an opening for the bulk of a hulk. Perfect size though for a family of dire bats, who were not very pleased to be woken up in the middle of the day by a couple people dropping in on them. My wife Sadie tore our ranger a new one after that. Halfling women may seem gentle and kind, but you do not want to get on their bad side.

Anyway...anyone have any pitons?

[whitesword]

I say we lower one of our wizards down on a rope and have them blast a fireball down the cave before we go crawling around.

[Asinjin]

Do you anchor the ladder and lower it down?

[Zunder]

I say we lower one of our wizards down on a rope and have them blast a fireball down the cave before we go crawling around.

harrick Laughs...  " Cause that will do a lot of good... Incinerate some earth worms "