Opening of the Under Tunnels - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
5/11/475
Log
Rumor spreads fast. Ruins, right under the city? A city worker fell right into them while doing some work down in the dry portion of the sewers. After being fished out, the area was clearly marked to keep civilians away, but there are no rules keeping the more prepared at bay...
Wulf is mightly intrigued by ruins, being a scout at heart. "Ohohoh Can't wait to get down there and explore, I bet it'll be awesome down there. I wonder if we'll find some lost knowledge"
Jera has made his way to said site. The information a ruin can hold...not to mention theftable artifacts. The boundaries don't ward the fox off at all as he checks his light armaments, wrinkling his nose at the smell of the sewer.
Zero lets out a sigh as he arrives at the scene. Looking around, he sees another canine to which he makes a small nod to in greeting. Adjusting his weapons, he glnces down the entrance, shruging.
Rainer claps both hands onto Wulf's shoulders, peeking over one, then leaning to peek over the other, wearing a smile that stretches from ear to ear... somewhere under the heavy winter cloak he's elected to wear. "Better than knowledge: gold! Lots and lots of gold, and gems! I bet the walls are just lined with them!" He releases her to come up alongside, rubbing his furless paws together gleefully. "No doubt guarded by all kinds of ancient tricks and traps!"
The hole that the fellow broke into seems to be a thin portion of the floor, now a rough and jagged hole that occupies much of the room he was in. Down below, in the darkness, the dim forms of the pieces of stone that fell can be faintly seen.
Only then does Jera notice Wulf and cough uncomfortably, offering a wave. "Uhh...yeah. Sorry about your lock and all..." Zero and Rainer get curt nods beforw the fox slides down the edge of the hole and hangs from it, before letting himself drop onto the floor, landing with a breakfall and a soft thud.
Wulf snickers at Rainer and flashes Jera a knowing and rather... odd grin before she looks down the hole. "Yeah well imagine what that gold will feel like on that bare skin of yours bud. "Anyone got some rope, I neglected to grab some before I ran down here. And I'd rather not accidently break a leg."
Wulf says, "or you know.. we could just drop down... though howe are you goin to get back up little fox?""
Zero shrugs and looks to the other wolves. Taking out his dagger, he detatches some rope and tosses it to Wulf saying, "Here." Turning back to the hole, he calls down to Jera, "Look out below!!!" before hopping down the hole, bending his legs as he impacts the ground.
After a smooth landing a floor and a half down, Zero and Jera find themselves in strangely uniform tunnels, like the halls of a house, but made of smooth material. Not stone, more like metal. Odd.
"Sh-j-j-shhh!" Rainer recoils at the mention of bare skin, holding an index finger up to his lips. A breath huffed out, indignantly, he gives the pit another eyeballing and then, with a wink to the husky, backs up a pace and follows Zero and Jera in taking the Quick Way Down. "Banzai, wahaHA!"
Wulf finds a sturdy stump and rolls her eyes. "Idiots are goin to break something and wind up not getting to explore atall." Tying the rope up she tosses it down the hole. She then takes ahold of one end and pulls on the rope making sure the knot and her anchor are secure before placing her back to the hole and dropping in, letting the rope guide her fall to the floor, landing with a bend of her legs. "Geronimo!"
Rainer rolls with his landing! Or rather, that's what he was trying to do, instead it becomes more of a tumble, as if he was completing a fall down a flight of stairs, ending with him face down on the floor, the swords secured at his hips thrust up in the air, wiggling side to side, complete with a little "boing-g-g" sound. "... ... ...ow."
Zero sighs and mutters "This may take a while" before heading over to Rainer to hoist him up.
Wulf snerks at the comical fall as she lets go of the rope and grabs for the lantern she has secured to her belt, as well as the flint and steel to get it lit "Serves ya right Rainer... shoulda waited till I got this rope here secured, yeah?"
Jera sighs. "Silly. Safety plays are the most important part of making sure risks turn into rewards." He thinks it makes sense at least, sparking up a small flame on a tar coated torch by sparking daggers together as he peers curiouslh around the place. "Silly Rainer."
The group proceeds to explore into those quiet tunnels, feeling along the smooth passages, dark as they may be, looking for treasure or artifacts, or something that may qualify as both, but instead, run into a dead end with markings, two arrows pointing at each other at the end of it.
Wulf lifts her lantern up and looks at the symbol on the wall. "All right... let's see... that might mean there is an entrance here, or to dig here." Lifting her free hand up she gives the door a knock with her hand. "Any ideas?"
Rainer brushes himself off, shying away from Zero as the other wolf helps him up, keeping his head turned away and thoroughly concealed behind the hood of his cloak. "Ha ha... Adventuring Rule #7: be the centre of attention." he wheezes, as if that somehow justifies his recklessness. When they arrive at the end of the tunnel, he scoots right up to examine the arrows and, on Wulf's prompting, and places an index finger upon each arrow. "Ta-daaa!" ...of course he's going to look mighty stupid if/when it does nothing, but it won't be the first time today.
Fwoosh, the door opens... partially. Two sides of the arrows try to seperate, and get jammed solidly, leaving only about an inch and a half clearance between as something grinds angrily a moment, then quiets.
"You might be rubbing away runes!" Jera hopes Rainer isn't silly two for two, though the door half opening surprises him. "Uhh...right. That's not air magic anyway...I can't recognize what they would mean."
"Hmm...." is all that escapes the jet black wolf's maw as he studies the wall. Moving towards it, he looks it over a few times before stilling himself. As the door partially opens, he looks to Rainer, an accepting look on his face. "Well, it would seem we now have to pry the door open..... any takers?" he ask, stating the obvious.
Wulf Hrumms before she grabs one side and begins to pull."I suggest two people pull it open, the other two enter and keep it open for the others and then head in."
"I am good." Rainer declares as the doors start to move, though some of that smugness fades when they soon grind to a halt. "Hey, keep going!" He huffs, and when Wulf begins to pull on one door he takes up position and starts heaving on the other. "Graaah... I got this--!"
With much complaint and bitter protest, the two halves of the door are slowly forced apart, more of that awful grinding sound with every inch as it is forced into compliance, leaving a narrow, but navigable, path through.
"ADVENTURE!" Jera yells as he charges headfirst into the opened passage, sneaking through tiny crevaces and trusting his armor to protect him from jagged rocks. "And plunder!"
Zero slips through the narrow passage when he has the chance, turning to hold one of the door halves open incase they decide to force themselves shut.
Wulf grunts as the door opens, the girl 's muscles bulging visibly under her fur. When the smaller two people are in she dashes inside, grabbing Rainer and pulling him in with a tug. "Cmon bud, lets get in there!"
A bright field of force suddenly snaps into place, giving Jera something hard to collide with as a soft voice begins reciting a long mathematical sounding series of numbers and calculations.
