by NamagomiMk0 » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:33 pm
Well, well, well. It's amazing that Gillet was not totally ineffectual this time after all. Maybe we won't have to get Vanthus on our side after all., the elf thought as he looked about nonchalantly. The large group of zombies was gone--at least for now, but it appeared as if there were more of those insipid corpses walking around out there, as judging from the echoes.
This was going to be, for lack of a better word, irritating; their quarry had decided to trap them in an underground shaft with no real hope of getting out; it goes to say that for all his prodigous talents, Driscoll had nothing that could blow open such a door on such short notice. There was, however, the junction in the corridor; the room where the first zombies had come from, and the door on the end where the "reinforcements" had barged in on their perfectly good fight.
Looking forth between the two possible routes, Driscoll quickly decided, and stated his orders...
"Orson, Kenner. Both of you watch the door the newer zombies came through, and give us a signal if anything attacks. Gillet, you're coming with me to have a look at the first room, and see if there's anything there besides animated corpses. Safiyeh, Tristan, I'll leave you two to do what you feel is necessary--you know each other's capabilities more than I do, so I believe I can trust you on this."
Before heading off for the first room, however, the warmage went over to pick up his thrown knife, and clean the cave slime off of it as much as possible before sheathing it. After all, it IS rather unbecoming to have a weapon covered in some unidentifiable substance that gathered on the floor of an abandoned smuggler tunnel...that brings to mind something else of importance...
...Was it possible that the drow had left these zombies behind after their takeover of Parrot Island?
(Knowledge(History) check at Driscoll's typical (I think it's +6 total, after INT) bonus. Oh, and of course, picking the knife back up.)