Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

The slave girl stayed near to Arwel and when the Aukari spoke to her, she looked at him with wide eyes. "This slave should not bother you, Sir. It is sorry." With that, she tried to not show her fear and failed rather miserably. She tried, though.
Tio had a lot of theories. A lot of them and some of them were aimed at the slave in question. She looked up and executed a curtsy, but did not speak since Tio had addressed his question to Kris (aka Tiger). Kris nodded, "There were three women, in the dig. Think carefully, now, girl." It seemed that he was not going to be calling her either 'slave' or 'kitty' any time soon. "After you were chained, before you were. When you saw the others, who was infected?"

The girl took a deep breath, obviously nervous and she thought about it. "This slave is unsure. The moss, it looked... no, this slave did not see any women. Only the male Sirs and Master. This slave is sorry, it did not think of that before." Then, she looked specifically at Tio, for there was one part of his question which she had not answered and so did. "This slave does not know its race, Sir." It appeared, no one had bothered to tell her. She appeared human, but then, that said very little. She looked around, though, at them when they talked about the map and waited until they had finished speaking, then raised a hand.

Assuming that one of them gave her permission to speak, then Kitty did so. "This slave knows that Master has a map of the ruins on the ground, if you wish this slave can draw them again, this slave made many copies."

If they let her, it meant that they could get hold of a copy of the ground floor of the ruins. If not, the layout would become more or less obvious once they got there anyhow. The lightening bolt was sudden and unnerved them all. Tio even got to feeling a little paranoid about it, which probably didn't feel like an over reaction to anyone.

The suggestion that Kali made was that they followed the drag-marks. With that, the map (if they had taken her up on the offer) and their vision, it became very obvious that, whilst the trial - by - trial footprints went all over the ruins, the dragging ones (both those of people being dragged and of dragging, shambling steps) were heading to one place.

The stairs going down.

"Alright," Kris said, with a sigh. "Two options. Go straight and follow the trail. I'm tempted, but the second option is to make sure that we're not leaving anything unpleasant behind in our rush. With Petra gone, we're down a fighter anyhow, so I see plus points to both. My vote would be to follow the trail, but lets go with the majority."

As they made sense of where they were, it became obvious that rooms 3, 4 and 6 were much more ruined than the others. The others were largely intact with holes in walls and ceilings but they would have to enter the ruins in order to ensure that they got to where they wanted to go.

So, what did they do?

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