In reply to Mario Crowfoot (msg # 548):

"Not to appear dull, but I can shed no light on that situation...sorry."

In reply to Clarence Montague (msg # 549):

The door swings out into the corridor, and is wooden with thin bronze facing. It is rattling slightly as if being leaned against, not like being charged. The odor is foul. Everyone make a HT roll.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 550):

Clarence maintains his dignity...

[Private to GM: Made HT by 1]

Mario's nose wrinkles.  "Whoa!  Stinky!  Jocelyn, if you can open that door without burning yourself, we can start actually doing something to the worm."

[Private to GM: 18:45, Today: Mario Crowfoot rolled 6 using 3d6.  HT roll (worm stench) (correct dice).]

smell like snaga cave

Whew, worse than cheap perfume

"Gah, that is a horrid stench." Nodwin's stomach turns at the smell.

"Blehhhhhhhhhhh...."





OOC: 03:04, Today: Jareth Mooncalled rolled 14 using 3d6.  HT 10.

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 556):

The stink of otherworldly rot is too much for Nodwin and Jareth. Charlene can keep it together, but the ferret is sympathetically affected by the bond to jarret and is noisily ill.

It will take a considerable amount of damage to eliminate the door (DR 5, hp 40)

Or combined ST rolled vs a significantly lhigh number to push it out of the way.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 557):

"Can't we just leave it for more, err, competent folk to deal with? I mean, we cant really open the door..."

"I'd ask where else we might intersect that tunnel, if Jareth weren't as likely to destroy the map as read it.  However.

"The Bone Gate is, um, that way."  Mario points from memory.  "There are a limited number of ways that connect on this level.  The worm almost has to be going either up or down before it gets far."

Mario looks around at the group.  "Say, Alaric, how are you doing?  Are you functional enough to fight?  Or at least stay out of harm's way?"

In reply to Mario Crowfoot (msg # 559):

The greatly weakened and still visibly  wounded man can barely stand, and is currently unarmed

*Cough**choke*"...just let it go..."*choke**cough*

"I agree, that's probably the best choice at this point.  We might as well work on getting Alaric and that demon corpse up to street level, then.

Maybe we can be more effective in the open air, where this stench will blow on the breeze -- or maybe someone up there has something that will get rid of the thing."

In reply to Mario Crowfoot (msg # 562):

"I doubt the Hadereum will stand for the competition..."

In reply to Clarence Montague (msg # 563):

The door rattles for some time, and then is still. A faint rasping sound can be heard as whatever was rattling it passes by. Gradually the stink fades.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 564):

"Can we go and report this now?"

"If goin t'e direction I ken it's going, is headed out t'e sea..."

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 566):

"Why would it do that?"

"I wouldn't assume it knows its way around Northport or the Undercity.  That may just be the way it went, and now it can't turn without considerable effort, tearing down walls and such."

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 566):

"I did a couple of delves with that Broderick character, the guy with the mechanical dwarf? There is a lot going on that way... I mean dockside is over there but there are a lot of twists and turns.,"

"Yeah, t'ere are... but t'e main line widens as it approaches t'e harbour, so t'e worm might just find itself followin t'e easy path to t'e smell it ain't smell before..."
Jareth trails off for a second.

"Huh.  Or maybe it's followin t'e scent o' dead fish.  Eit'er way, ain't nothin we can do about it.  But if ain't caused no trouble by later today, we report it cuase that mean it went deep into t'e undercity an not run into no one up top."

"That makes good sense to me."  Mario pauses.

"Say, if, ah, you called that a bhole?  If it's drawn to the scent of dead fish, mightn't it be attracted to a place where the Saturnines are storing dead cuttlefish to dye their robes?"

"Either way, we should probably head up to street level as quickly as we can."

In reply to Mario Crowfoot (msg # 571):

"Agreed." He thought for a moment, then said "Actually, if it is that large that it cannot turn around, can we run up behind it and cut it to pieces with relative impunity?"

I thought it had a stinger on the back end...