Revision as of 06:55, 12 October 2014

Participants

• Camille
• Cirra
• Fayrmune
• Kalt
• Lilly
• Millicent
• Thelergramor

Date

12/10/477

Log

Just inside of the door, sits a rough looking bear, covered in thick armor while weilding an impressivly large hammer as he navigates through the various 'guests' in this area currently.

Millicent wanders along, dressed up in her 'light' plate, arm propped up on the pommel of her sword as she glances around. "Ehh? Is this the place?" She asks the bear, looking at the doors for a moment, then back at the ursine.

Cirra is dressed in her typical Aranian robes, her creator wetsuit underneath to protect her. She waves to Millicent, hoping she's in the right place, not too certain about the cold. She's brought along her sabre and quite a bit of magic, enough that it probably makes more noise that the shark herself can make.

Fayrmune marches up to the gate and gives the bear-guard a deep bow. "Fayrmune of the Hands of Dawn, reporting.", she proudly announces once standing straight again.

Camille walks up with the walk of a professional soldier, and weapon-master, her gaze taking in the look and feel of the place as she approaches. Sword slung for easy draw and bow stowed safely back, unstrung, Camille approaches the guardsman and nods slowly while passing close, smiling to the secretary there "I have been told there was a request filed for work, I have the details here," pulling out a small scroll and handing it over, she stands in balance, and waits.

Lilly swaggers along behind Millicent, in her darkened coat of steel scales and with her weapons at her side. The big shark looks around over the top of the crowd, then gives the bear a nod before tossing Cirra a small salute as well. Then she crosses her arms and waits for things to get started.

Thelergramor yawns as he makes his way along with the group, lugging a bigass cannon as if it were... a bigass cannon. The masked wolf is shirtless, wearing a red scarf and pants lined with chainmail. "Right. What'd'ya have for me? Violence? Trap disarming? Psychotic bandits running around underground?" If they don't have one of those yet, they will soon.

The Bear turns to regard Fayrmune and Millicent with a smile as he bows, before waving to Camille. "Over here girlie, we ain't got no secretary, that's my neice." Shrugging it off though, the bear turns his attention back to the group. "Yes this is the place though. My name is Brandon Sherton, and I'm one of the founders of this here new adventure's hub, the Iron Reach. As you can guess from folks coming and going with all them fancy tools, we're still carving our way deeper into the pass for more rooms. Unfortunatly, we hit a small nest of rock spiders... Normally, me and one of the other founders go down there and bash them up good and all, but they mentioned having to stay in the city for a little while. So until they get back, think of this as an outreach program!" The bear spreading his arms and giving a deep laugh. "In all seriousness though, we've the money to pay, and just have a slight infestation to be all smashed up by you lot. Nothing remotly big and fame awarding I'm afraid."

Millicent tilts her head, scratching the underside of her chin with a thumb. "Yeah? Well. I'm Millicent! Nice to meet you! I'll gladly hit stuff for you, though," she says with a nod and a little shake of her sword. "Just point me at 'em!"

Cirra is about to break out her chalkboard when Lilly's entrance makes her sigh in relief. She quickly signs to the other shark. <Can you introduce me to the bear as Cirra Stormborn? I kinda feel a bit embarrassed trying to figure out if someone knows sign language or not...>

"Certainly sounds like something I can manage!", Fay says, patting the hilt of her exotic sword. "I do not wish to speak for others present, but I do not believe this task as you have described it shall pose too much trouble."

Camille nods and takes the scroll back from the Ursine girl, flashing a quick smile of apology and turning to the bear, striding forward, "Well thanks for putting out the word. I had planned to go out for a walk and this gives me an excuse to do something useful with my time." she smiles sweetly, an open lovely expression on her features, cheek-guards holding her hair in place while Camille goes into the at rest position, facing the group and watching everything going on in front of her, from the finger-wagging to the work the Bear is doing on his kit, noting the nicks and replaced grips of a seasoned veteran

Lilly chuckles, crossing her arms. "Oh. That's all? Yea, we can certainly take care of it." She glances around at the others. "I'm Lilly." She gestures at Cirra, "Cirra Stormborn. Anyone have anything important to declare before we get to work?"

Thelergramor grins, hefting his cannon. Glances over the others, recognizing a few. "Easy job. Gives me a chance to test out the cannon on something living. But, other than that, nothing important to add." Glances over at Cirra, signs to her: <You know I know sign, right? We've done it before.> A quick reminder, before he shrugs once more.

The bear gives a slow nod as he begins to turn and walk back a ways, before pulling the cloth on a large half carved hallway to reveal the groups path. "Well good then. Just head on through here, mind your step for the ladder, and climb on down. Give a hollar if they start swarmin you lot too bad, otherwise just head on up to us when you're done, and we'll pay you for your trouble... Just be careful waving fire around, may be some unused blasting powder down there."

Millicent glances over at her allies for a moment and offers a nod of her head. "Anyone care to go first? If not... Well! I can, I suppose," she says, checking to make sure her equipment is secure before starting towards the ladder, beginning her descent/.

Cirra shakes her head, not wanting to go first. She does, however, follow immediately after Millicent, coating herself in her calcified flesh to protect her from the worst of the damages she anticipates she will face.

"Some of you have a lantern?", she asks to the gathering group. "If so, they should lead, but I can take point too if someone doesn't mind lending a light source." She keeps her blade sheathed, but her hand never strays far from the hilt, even though they havent even entered the darkness yet.

Camille says, "/me looks about at the assembled and smiles at her new battle-sisters, taking off her bow and placing it to the stored position for easy use, and shifting her short-sword forward, shield still in place "Hmmm, I don't think I have a lantern, but if we used one down there, it might be asking for trouble. Escuse me sir, do you have a miners lantern? Something that we could use safely around fumes or powder?" Camille questions the gentleman, eyeing the supplies nearby "You must have some, but do you have one here now for use?" grabbing a rope end from where she'd wrapped it about her quiver, Camille stars making a noose out of it, efficiently putting everything in place without looking and then storing that for use. "

Thelergramor coughs a couple of times behind his mask, then moves on with the others. "I'm -really- not equipped to be up front." Decides to keep a lantern with him for all future assignments... "So, a ladder... Alright. And, lanterns." Glances around, still planning his descent, and how to do so with his big weapons...

Lilly thinks a moment as she eyes the group, then rolls her shoulder in a shrug. "I've got fire. Carefully controlled fire, but if you prefer someone else do the light I understand." She shark puts on a rogueish grin, draws her large bone waraxe, and then heads for the ladder. "I don't mind being first at all if you want."

"No need for lanterns, we've got our own lighting down there for you all. I'm just warning to be careful about throwing fire magic around. Aside from that, have fun kiddos." The Bear chuckling as he helps hustle the group on through the ladder.

The room the ladder leads to, is rather large, and from the way it's carved to seem to have multiple rooms, it appears they intend it to be some sort of inn like area for travelers and adventurers perhaps? Either way, the small lighting from various workers lanterns help to cast a glow around the area, highlighting the details of the first few rock spiders the group sees. The four creatures not paying them any mind as they scuttle back and forth almost mindlessly.

Millicent hums softly to herself and rolls her shoulders as she departs from the ladder. "Looks big enough," she says curiously, reaching back to draw her larger sword after deciding she's got enough room to use it. "So... We just get rid of the spiders, then? I guess that's not too bad."

The nurse shark gets to the room and moves away from the ladder, drawing her sabre as she prepares to fight the spiders. She's a little worried her employer isn't telling the whole truth, as she has no reason to take her employers at their full word anymore. Not after the Longtail incident, the Windrunner incident and the Gop incident.

Fayrmune climbs down the ladder and gives herself a quick stretch before drawing her sword with a slow, determined movement. The polished steel glints off the lights of the tunnel as she holds it out in front of her. "That's what he said.", she confirms. "Guess we better get to it." She starts to advance towards the spiders.

Camille nods slowly and makes her way down the ladder after Fayrmune, jumping off that last rung to land in a small pool of water at the base, splashing and adjusting after stepping on a stone. Pulling her sword she looks around, making a small grimace when she notices some of the huge weapons people brought with them into an enclosed space without room to swing, shaking her head a bit and moving on, now shield first.

Once she's on secure footing at the bottom of the ladder, Lilly slips her long, slender knife out of its sheath and into her offhand, the big shark easily able to handle her axe with her other. She watches the Freeswords as they begin advancing, then starts circling around to approach the spiders from the flank.

Thelergramor climbed down the ladder with a bit of difficulty. Heavy cannon, bigass flamberge... At least he has his metal backed gloves for punching things! Strokes his mask as he looks at the spiders. "Just some spiders. They usually die pretty easily. Now this one time, there was this 15 foot tall mother... Hope we run into one of them. It'll be more fun than the little ones." Levels his cannon at them, considers his options. "...It... might be a bad idea to use explosive shot in a cave, yeah?"

The Spiders perk up as the group begins to make more noise, a little high pitched chittering coming from one, before each seems to find a person to recognize as a threat, slowly skittering around them. Two go to circle around Lilly, chittering and hissing, while one goes to repeat the other's motions at Thelergramor, and the last does so at Camille. The spiders aparantly holding back from attacking as they seem to be trying to just intimidate the freeswords, while in the distance the sound of skittering stone on stone can be heard...

Millicent hunkers down a little as she spiders begin to approach, taking a defensive stance near her crew-mate. "Quite a few of them, aren't there? And what do you suppose that is in the distance? Sounds big, whatever it is... Should we wait and see... Or try to dispatch these to keep us from being overwhelmed?"

Cirra nods, noting the Spiders. She signs to Lilly and Thelergramor. <I'm going to stay by the ladder. make sure if you guys need a quick exit we're ready.>

Fayrmune brandishes her sword. "Get ready, here they come." She switgs her sword as a threat to the spiders and takes a practice stab at them. "Shouldn't be tough, but don't underestimate them, okay?"

Lilly tenses as she crouches, mirroring Milli's stance as she eyes the spiders. "I'd rather just deal with them now, really, why wait for more to show up?" she asks, before she quickly lunges at one of the ones trying to circle her, her axe scything towards the spider.

Thelergramor furrows his brow at the single rock spider that approached him. Takes a potato from his pants pocket. "...I'm just going to try something real quick before we butcher them..." Tosses the potato lightly towards the spider, to see if how it reacts to being fed. Might get a pet spider outta this!

Camille unwinds the cord and lets it fall in front of her, sword held up along her forarm, looking to the spiders, she gauges her toss and carefully looks to the heavier steps coming close, concentration in her eyes while she readies herself to snare a spiders head, "They're insects, correct? The connections between plates might be one of the few vulnerable areas, but if you can snare the head, pop it right off! They're squishy inside, the skeleton is on the outside!" Camille waits, ready for a backhand slice to sever a limb if any come near, but hoping she can toss a one-shot kill

Lilly's axe bites into one of the rock spiders, causing it to let out a loud shriek before it collapses. Thelergramor's potato toss is... Less than effective. The potato smacking into one of the spider's face to just fall to the floor, before the Rock Spider jumps up at Thel, trying to tackle the wolf with a chittering hiss, though it misses the wolf by a hair's breadth!

With one of their own dead all ready, and the other attacking, the remaining two go to skitter back, though one gets caught by Camille's snare, and has it's leg hooked! Not the head, but hey, it's trapped! The remaining one scurrying into the darkness as that sound of scampering feet echoes closer to the group.