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Tarak Tales Shake-down: Terror Down Below!

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"Oi, I'll meet you there as well," Chay calls before heading out to the mines, wondering if he should make purchase to a torch or two, but then again he has his goggles so he shouldn't have too much trouble.
 
"Sooo. Chay. Ladies. Taken interest in any one woman yet?" Kohdeki asked as he gently prodded his friend with his elbow, trying to make conversation.

Kohdeki prefered not to talk about women with Cersei around. It was one part respect, and nine parts not wanting to explode.
 
"Eh, alot of the women who've been asking for a dinner are either wanting to have it with a uniform or they're not smart enough to notice that my horns are real," he says and rubs the side of his neck, not much of a talker when it comes to being social. "What about you? The dashing and handsome theif of the night probably steals a few hearts along the way as well."
 
"Geez. When you say it like that, it sounds kinda' corny, despite it's truth." Kohdeki said with a smirk, "Though, I don't have a thing for those 'sweet and innocent' types, they make a good lay every once in a while. What I really prefer is a woman who can swing a sword!"

Kohdeki made a motion as though he were lobbing an invisible enemy's head off.

"Preferably, one who isn't associated with the guard or guilds who can keep up with me." Kohdeki said with a smile.
 
"You mean basically if I had a little sister who hung around you too long," Chay says with a smile, looking to Koh before patting his shoulder. "Too bad that you'll probably need to hire a merc to manage something like that... or a bouncer wench from a tavern." Whytephire looks torwards the mines, the smile still resting on his lips. "Then there could be a random spell that could put that to order."
 
Cersei caught up just in time to hear Koh's comment about a woman who could swing a sword, but only put in her own quip after Chay finished. "What was that, Koh? Almost sounded like you were talking about me." She had a devious smile on her face before she flashed the shiny hilt of her new sword.
 
((I see what the fuck you did there, Dready))

"Now you're just making fun of me." Kohdeki said before shaking his head, "Let's get to the mine before you depress me any further."
 
(... what? )

Chay nodded to Cersei. "Nice... didn't know they allowed weapons like that in the guild," he says before heading over with Kohdeki to the mines, wondering if he should be taking the lead, then deciding to stay with the group since such small numbers would require them to stick together or be lost in the mines.
 
"They don't." She said with a giggle and a smile. "If Sokai found out I had this, he'd tear me a new one for sure. Not just because it's a bastard sword, but also because I had it made so 'needlessly pretty.'" She looked at the mines ahead then sighed, but made no comment about that. "So, what were you two talking about that involved women and swords exactly?" She asked, leering at Koh.
 
"Social life. Anything interesting in your social life Cersei?" Chay says, knowing that if Koh answered with anymore detail there might be a fight or tension between the trio before they even entered into the mines. "Haven't talked much since yah entered into the guild and I joined the gaurd."
 
"At least you had a choice. I was basically forced to join lest I get out of control." Cersei looked down at the ground, looking a little angry at her situation in her life. "Otherwise no. The guild doesn't really let me interact with others in any personally meaningful way." She forced a smile to try and stay optimistic in the face of her guild-related social dilemmas. "But that's why I stay with you two most of the time when i'm on 'active duty.'"
 
It was probably for the best that Chay had cut Kohdeki off, since the next comment he had lined up wasn't a pleasant one.

"Alrighty. This issue isn't going to solve itself, so lets get this show on the road." Kohdeki said, crossing his arms with the slight dissatisfaction of being unable to get his cheap-shot off on Cersei.
 
"Just in case..." Chay says and pulls slightly on his armor, light as it may be, and begins to remove the show material except for the helmet and the actual armor of a chain shirt underneath from his body as they stand outside of the mines, tossing everything but the gaurd insignia into a mine cart before covering it with a piece of fabric, then reattaching the insignia to his shirt. "Twas a pleasure adventuring with you guys again." With that, he enters the mine shaft with goggles on his eyes and all of his items at hand as best he can.
 
"'Twas? How about 'tis?" Cersei shook her head at Chay's constant grammatical failures and continues in behind him, holding her robes close so they didn't tear on anything as she moved forward, for now using the light from the entrance as a guide. If necessary she could spawn and light a torch later.
 
Kohdeki gave a stifled laugh before entering the mine behind Cersei. He drew his short sword, put on his goggles, and put up the hood of his magical cloak.

If possible, he didn't want to be seen by anything, which would give him an edge, should a battle begin.

((stealth attempt to remain as hidden as possible))
 
Chay pulls out the map, sighing as he looks down the cartage and then back at the map's bottom, seeing the red X's down at the base of the drawing. "Seems that we'll be underground for an hour or two..." he says and then walks along the pathway, hoping that the interior hasn't deteriorated due to a lack of maintanence since the incidents.
 
Cersei decided to spawn a small light source, she planned in her mind a small ball about the size of a marble that produced a red light of medium brightness. (spontaneous generation [fast-ritual]: 2,6,2,3+2 = 15)
 
((Geez, people, want to jump the gun a whole lot or what? I was expecting a bit more conversation, and maybe waiting for the Mine Foreman or whatever, but it's OK, I'll cope. And for future reference, I'll do the rolling, Misha, but in this case, it's immaterial, since there's no threat or time limit and the effect is a very simple one, so you can basically just keep trying until you get it. So you've got your light, when it matters. Now let me catch you up to the point where you walked yourselves...))

The Spiral ramp leads down below the level of the surface outside, and the crazy branching tunnels of the Warrens give way to the square, regular, orderly neighborhoods of the Mines. Close to the surface, things are pretty much like the Warrens, except with a regular street plan, but as the Spiral winds downward, the levels become darker, less well-lit. This is not to say they are less populated, but the greater proportion of the city's dwarves and other individuals blessed with darksight tend to live down here, and they don't need streetlights. The areas just above the active mines are usually what passes for industrial areas, the smithies and ore smelters, and those areas are still operating, but much less busily than usual. It's not for lack of raw materials; there was a backlog of ore and of raw metals sitting there. But with the disappearances and the trouble with the City Guard, many workers didn't like to be that close to the mines.

At the foot of the Spiral was a loading and preparation area. This was the foot of the Elevator, and the main engineering area for the Water Wheel. The wide mine entrance, with the tracks for the mine carts, went off to one side; the maps showed the active mine shafts, and the lengthy ramp passages that went from level to level below this area. There were effectively five more active levels, with further ones burrowing slowly all the time. Normally, this place was busy with noise, hammering, shouting, rocks being shifted, but for the past week, it had been quieter, and the past few days it was veritably silent. Without the motion and bodies of the miners, it was cold and dank, and water dripped off somewhere in the distance. There were powerful gemlights illuminating this area, but only the occasional one deep inside the mines; additional lighting or darkvision was going to be necessary for detailed exploration.

As they walked in, a grey-bearded dwarf bustled out from a chamber just to the side of the Spiral. "Who are... Oh, it's you folks! Oh, a wizard and a Guard... you must be the special team the Council said they were sending. You have the maps? All right, then. Here, take these whistles. If you run into trouble, and you survive it, blow the whistle so we can come down and find you. May take us a while, but we'll know you're still alive." He waves cheerily as you three head into the mines.

((Technically a light source would be an Energetics effect, but since I hadn't made one up before, Misha's right and Spontaneous Generation ought to be able to handle it; you have to know Energetics, but it doesn't come into play in actually making the light? We'll cope with it for now. Misha seems to have it down, but for everyone else's benefit, the roll is 2D Procreatics, +1D amulet, +1D wand, +2 for the fast ritual: we'll take Misha's roll in this case, since it's a non-combat situation, and the result is 15. Since it's just basically torchlight, not even any sort of attack, just illumination, I'm allowing a difficulty of 5. Since it was so much above the difficulty, it's fairly bright, as a good-quality gemlight.))

((For Koh, for future reference, his Sneak of 6D plus the Cloak bonus of +3D = 9D, which roll: 5, 6, 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6 = 37! So bear that in mind for the future.))

((Return to your interplay!))
 
Kohdeki followed his friends silently. He felt a bit useless at the moment, so he kept behind them to stay out of the way.
 
Chay wraps the whistle around his neck, knowing that his goggles will probably stay on his head during the exploration. "Tell me, Cersei," he says as they continue to head downward. "Why is it that you haven't tried peering into my past, unlike that one guildmage. Then again I shouldn't be suprised, if I remember correctly you threatened to light me on fire."
 
((besides, if needed I can alter the amount of light with Energy Alteration. And for future reference, the way I had set up what I was going to do was fine besides the rolling for myself, right?))

Cersei took the whistle and put it in one of her many pockets. She put the light marble into a thin pocket on her breast so that the light could shine through easily and she wouldn't have to carry it. "I'm a sorceress, not a wizard." She said matter-of-factly to the dwarf, trying not to sound too offensive. "My talents come from skill I was born with, not books and research." It was half a lie. She was born with considerable power, but the control came from a lifetime of research and training. Not that it hadn't paid off, but she still resents the guild for not having had a choice in whether she was to join or not. "As for you, Chay...I dunno, I never felt the need. You're squishy enough to my magic that I never really considered you to be a threat."
 
"Oi, I'm not squishy..." he says and knocks his goggles down over his eyes, so his darkvision won't keep him at bay with a lack of color, his eyes now viewing everything as if he was holding a torch. "Also I never thought that it was because they thought I was a threat... still was annoying though." Chay drops down a ledge onto a slab of rock instead of walking around for another minute and then stepping onto the walkway again, only a few feet of a drop but still he wouldn't like to continue walking on the same thing continuously. "Any thoughts on what we're clearing out?"
 
"Would you LIKE me to look into your past if it bothers you so damn much?" Cersei asked with an annoyed look on her face. She followed Chay closely so she wouldn't lose him in the limited amount of light her marble generated. She also wondered where Koh was, but she knew he was close-by.
 
"Eh, just somewhat thinking aloud," Chay calls back before stopping at a ledge, the goggles he is wearing gleaming slight reflections here and there. With a glance to the map he turns to his left and begins to walk along the pathway, a small sound of wind running through the mines for the miners to be able to breathe down this far almost sounding like a river or two. "Geez... even though I like it when it's dark, I dislike how confined this is."
 
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