Jurz owl nods once, and then touches the tip of his wing to his beak, before stepping into the tunnel after Dregz.

Minmorc will rejoin the party. While he stows his bow and great spear in his haversack he will carefully study the parties aerial surveillance. Showing his vast tactical acumen Minmorc will point out "pffft, is all gud, all der archers is scared of us and is throwing demselves off der cliff. A dwarf is gunna see der boss at sun up so ise gunna ave sum fun til den. Yer gunna stand ere all night or wot?" Minmorc will draw his great axe and head into the tunnel.

Riza and Raven open the gates at the entrance to the tunnel and manage to do it silently, thanks to Raven's generous oiling of the hinges. Midget Moffa calls softly from down the tunnel and Raven and Riza head down the tunnel to help her with the door she has found down there. Ironically, it is quite dark in the tunnel by the time they travel the 40 feet to where Moffa is, so they can't really see well enough to help anyway, except to lift Moffa up to the keyhole so she can peek through to see what is on the other side.

Meanwhile Jurz-owl has flown back down the cliff screeching in warning. He swoops after Minmorc and quickly turns him round to hustle back to the tunnel entrance. Jurz lands among the crowd at the gates and scratches a rough diagram in the dirt. Finally the message starts to get through and something about the thought of a squad of archers up at the top of the cliff raining arrows down on them sets Team Arda-Nuff scurrying for the tunnel.

OOC: Main game map updated.

 She held Moffdust up to the keyhole, really unable to see more than the very faintest ghost of Moff, from the far far away source of light coming from the gates way back. She didn't know if Moff could see anything at all unless there was light coming through the keyhole. If there was, she couldn't see it for Moffdust's head in the way.

 "Wat you see?"

No light shines through the keyhole, so the room beyond it must be in darkness.

Bulldust grins as Jurz scratches his likeness in the dirt - obviously the tall one with the cool hair.  When the arrows are drawn in and the message is all too clear he flinches and looks up into the darkness expecting arrows to suddenly materialise at the limit of his darkvision.  Who he looks back down Dregz has already left.  He shuffles his taloned feet expecting the owl to say 'made yer look!'  He hurries into the tunnel after the others and silently swings the gate closed.  The owl can find its own way in.

"Jus a rooms wid a big tables an two zombieses standing by another doors at de far sides. I has de keys so lets us go in an say boo!" She pokes a key into the lock and turns it, then squirms for Raven to put her down so she can push open the door.

 "Wot?! Wate! Zom-bees? Awk!"

 Drops Moffdust and backs way up...way way way up. Zom-bees were nasty creatures! She armed herself but considered running away.

 "Don get bit!"

Wa hey, Zombies! Minmorc will make his way to the action as fast as he can.

"Dese zombies will cower before Bargrivyek's power ..." Dregz manages before Minmorc races off.  The little priest shrugs.  Zombies might well bow to the sign of his god, but they'll probably fall over themselves to get away from Minmorc !

With a sigh he heads after the big Orc.

Tiny Moffdust bounces when Raven drops her and suddenly pops back up to her full towering 3' tall. "Nah! Zombies doesn't bites, dey jus pulls yer legses off." She pushes the door open when she hears Min hustling along the tunnel. "Dey can pull off de orcs legses first!" If she has time she will cast a spell on herself from a scroll - Mage Armour.

 "Awk! Ya be sure? Me legz be fragle, breakz eazy! Iz liken me legzes jus fin!"

 She looked through the door, turning first one eye then the other to look inside. She stepped hopped forward with a hesitant pause until she can get a look at what's inside.

Raven and Riza can't see anything in the tunnel or the room, because it is too dark. Moffa can't read from a scroll without light either (that is one of the limitations of darkvision).

 She backs out then kneels to dig in her pack for flint and steel searching by feel. When she finds it she pulls out a torch and tries to get a spark to take to light her torch. Then she remembers her rapier sometimes shined like a light. She dumped the other stuff back into her pack and drew the blade instead after warning Moffdust.

 "Clos yer eyes Moffie."
 She draws it and waves it around so she can see what's around them.
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As soon as the door is unlocked and pushed open, both of the zombies reach out one of their arms and knock loudly on the inner door where they are standing guard.

Bulldust hurries with Minmorc down the tunnel.  As he goes he asks "Wot did yer see in dat castle Min?"

OOC: GM, how high are the ceilings please? Wondering whether its a good time to big it up nor not.
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The entrance tunnel is 10ft wide and 10ft high.
The side tunnel is 5ft wide by 8ft high.
The room off the side tunnel is 10ft high.

"Thanks Birdie Girl."  By the light of Raven's sword Moffdust can complete her scroll spell. "Dey is very polite dese zombieses, perhaps dey is zombie butlers. She must be a grand ladies in dere past dose doors, perhaps another queens."

 She laughs with good humor at Moffy's comments about butlers and grand lady zombies. It was an amusing thought.

 "Herk herk herk! Funy!"

"I knew it, der butler did it, its alwayz der butler. Looks like Orcs is runnin der show, I heard em tellin sum stooopid bloody Dwarf ter come back an see der boss at sun up, which is weird so I wanna know wot der boss is. And... wots a butler?"

Riza unshutters her red cap lantern to let her see. The knocking on the door concerns her enough to wait to see who opens the doorbbefore firing

Still in Owl form Jurz lurks at the back, swivelling his head around as far as it can go one way and then as far as it can go the other way.  While it is new and weird to be able to do that  - it is also quite good fun (at the moment) and a good way of keeping watch all the way around.

"Butler, butler ..." Dregz ponders Minmorc's question.  "Isn't dat what der humies spread on der bread ?  Suppose it mus' taste good."

"My old boss new dis Ogre wot said ter a bunch a humies dat he would squeeze der jelly from dere eyes, dat it woz quite good on toast. Mebbe dey woz all butlers too."

"More orcs?"  Bulldust pails at the mention as he follows the orc down the tunnel.  "I only know one orc Min, an dats you.  An youre a murderin psycopaff wot can kill us all even wiv one leg chewed off by a zombie butler!  Is dey all like you?"  He readies his flail and looks around nervously, trying not to screw his head right off like an owl.