The audience with the ogre-mage Queen Moldavite ends with a simple wave of dismissal from the Queen. Her ogre guards quickly shepherd the group of visitors out of her great hall / temple and march them off on their appointed missions. One ogre leads Grakk the minotaur away towards the east to take up watch duty at the rocky outcrop south of the Oytwood. Die-Arda takes control of Rog with a rope tied around the dog's neck as a make-shift collar and lead. He walks with the rest of the group as they are lead back south through the marketplace. Two of the other ogre guards head off in the opposite direction with instructions to organise guards at all the sewer exits.

The whole 'city' is a fairly tightly packed settlement inside a defensive wall only about 1200-1500 feet in diameter. The spot that the group is lead to is at a crossroads about three-quarters of the way to the southern end of the city, which means the northern end of the sewer system exiting the city would be about 1200 feet to the north. The marketplace is about 300 feet to the north, the palace a further 300 feet north of the marketplace and the temple perhaps 300 feet east and a bit north from the current location.

The ogres point to a sturdy metal grill, 3 feet wide, set in the ground in the middle of the intersection. It is heavily crusted with dried filth. With deceptive ease one ogre lifts the grill and points down into the pit below it.

Below the grill is a 6ft diameter vertical shaft 12 feet deep, which ends at a horizontal shaft (6ft diameter) that heads off towards the northwest. There are a series of metal rungs forming a ladder down the southern side of the shaft. There is enough light in the shaft for those with lowlight vision but it looks like it will be pitch black in the sewer tunnels.
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Bulldust peers into the pit and sniffs.  "Smells like dis is da right place."  He hesitates for a moment, stroking back is spiked hair uncertainly.  The queen had not seen fit to gift him a hat.  He takes out the 3 foot long red pennant, the one with the gold flaming sword emblazoned on it that had come with his new longspear, drapes it over his head and ties it off under his chin.  He smooths back his hair spikes under the makeshift hood.  He grins "Now I's da queens royal shit-hole cleaner."

The bugbear drops his longspear point first into the pit, then lowers himself into the pit from the rim, dropping the last few feet.  He will arrange his longspear into the horizontal tunnel and sniff for enemies and traps, first peering ahead into the darkness then checking the condition of the iron rungs.
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Riza curses as she sees the utter pitch black of the sewer tunnels. After a string of curse words in draconic she turns to the others thats too dark for me to see, anyone got a light? She doesn't wait too long before rummaging around the nearby ruins of the buildings to find anything she can use for a couple of makeshift torches.

Once she has a light source she will make her way down into the sewers with the others, visibly annoyed.

Minmorc will grin at Rizas rummaging and will head down after Bulldust. He'll keep Vera out in case he can put her to good use but just in case things get too tight he'll draw a pitiful nameless dagger as well. "Oi Bully, looks like deys gonna see and hear us comin, time ter flush out der toilet, hur, hur, hur."

"Sorry Lizzy Rizzy I's got no lights cos I can sees in de dark, and dem killers can sees us comin if wes got lights. Youse can closes yer eyeses, den it dont matters if its dark. He He." she snickers. Sometimes its good to be a little green gobbo in a poo hole. She nips down the ladder, unless Bully says its not safe.

"Better'n gettin' our heads bitten off," Dregz stares down the ladder, trying to convince himself of the truth of his words.  "Wese are tough mudders - wese can do dis !"

Ensuring the Holy Book is as well wrapped as he can manage, the little goblin takes to the ladder.  Like Moffa he has no need of a light down there in the darkness, but won't object if others of his tribe do, particularly those who'll be waving around the heavy metal.

"Is not so ..." <cough, cough, retch> "... bad."

Riza's quick search of a ruined house nearby quickly turns up an old hooded lantern that looks like it was simply abandoned in a corner when its oil ran out.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 7):

To those sensitive to such things, Arlein casts a cantrip for no noticeable effect.

The party will hear Minmorc ransack his haversack. When the cursing stops Minmorc will call up "don't have no oil but I gots these!" Two torches and a tinder twig will be thrust up out of the man hole. "Does man poo burn like Ork poo does?"

"Only when der poo is dry." the brown-skinned Goblin responds casually to Minmorc's question. "Aldough sometimes youse can make de poo-pits explode." he warns as he climbs down the ladder and looks both ways along the sewers.

While the group gets itself ready Minmorc will ponder the ramifications of being knee deep in exploding poo pit. "So... Should wes ave two torches ter fight fire wid fire?"

Riza fiddles around with the lantern, fills up the lantern with oil from her pouch, and gets it lit. we'll save the torches for when the lantern runs out minmorc, good we have them as backup though She hands the lantern to raven, here can you carry this, all my weapons need two hands to be of any use unfortunately, plus i can skulk around if someone else is holding it Riza will then head down into the poo tunnels with the rest of the group

Ooppses reaches out for the lantern, as he thinks raven shoulds have her wing free too. Plus it saves him from having to atttack things.

Riza shrugs and hands the lantern to oopses, either way as long as someone holds the lantern she's happy

OOC: What is your marching order going to be?

In this 6ft diameter sewer two small-size characters can walk side by side but medium-size characters (Bulldust, Minmorc and Raven) will need to go single file. Bulldust and Minmorc are over 6ft tall and will have to stoop to walk about down here. They will suffer a -2 circumstance penalty on a lot of skill checks and attack rolls. Medium size characters will also suffer a -2 circumstance penalty (non-cumulative) on attack rolls with one-handed or two-handed blunt or slashing weapons (not light weapons).

OOC: It looks like we have Riza out scouting, Bulldust and Minmorc up front, Oopses (with the lantern), Moffdust and Dregz in the middle and Jurz and Raven guarding the rear. Is everyone happy with this arrangement or would anyone like to be somewhere different?

Jurz is happy to drift towards the rear of the group so that he can keep a watch to the rear.  Which, conveniently, leaves most of the fighting to the big'uns.

However, he draws his scimitar, so that he is ready should they be attacked from behind.  "Ready when you are." he mutters happy to leave battle tactic to those who make that their business.

Tactics... We're winning, keep stabbing, we're losing, run and/or hide right?  ; )

Tactics are for paladins.

Dregz is more than happy to trail after Bully and Minmoc - let's face it, anything that might get past that pair is going to struggle to get around their cooling corpses.  Though the little goblin priest will suggest to Oopses that he keeps a precautionary distance between himself and Vera.

"An' dey descended into der noisome darkness," Dregz intones.  "Noisome means dat der will be lots of noise," he preemptively explains to Bully.

When everyone is down the ladder they head off along the first of the sewer tunnels. The bottom of the tunnel is wet and slippery with a foul-smelling mess that soon coats their boots. The sewer tunnel heads northwest for about 170 feet before opening up into the base of a 15ft diameter chamber about 10 feet high.

There is a short, 6ft diameter, vertical shaft leading upward from the top of this chamber to another metal grill like the one they came down into the sewers before.

Two other horizontal 6ft sewer tunnels lead out from this chamber to the north and west. About 5 feet down the western sewer lies the body of a dead goblin and 20 feet down the northern sewer are the bodies of another pair of goblins. Even from this distance it is obvious that there is an awful lot of dried blood splashed around all three bodies.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will plant his boot on Bully's behind and give him a good push into the middle of the chamber, Vera at the ready. He'll wait a few seconds to jab anything that drops on Bully, if nothing falls he will move to the western tunnel and from ten feet jab the goblin body there. Either way he intend to give something a good jabbing.