as soon as you tell me who’s digging
EVERYONE!
Hashtag: BackseatGMing
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Yeah, I just can’t think of anything to do. Nowt to dig with, so I was kinda waiting for the dungeon crawling to begin…
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Everyone’s diggng with their hands; Hawk’s worms reduced the soil to loose potting mix.
(however, it ain’t really about the digging; I want all the players paying attention when action happens, and if y’all are totally silent I’ve got no way of distinguishing that from logged off)
Good to know that you’re still on board. 
I was thinking along the same lines as Daneel, and was kind of waiting for the “then everybody digs. You find yourselves covered in dirt in a 10ft by 10ft corridor” post.
I’ll make sure to pop a few posts in the discussion thread next time there’s a lull/I’m stumped for an interesting contribution to the narrative.
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@nimelennar @Daaksyde @Mitchell @William_George @daneel
Who’s heading downstairs? In what manner, in what order? What are y’all using for illumination?
PS, regarding some standard dungeon tropes: Traps is the skill you use when actively searching for secret doors and traps, and it’s also the skill for disarming them. Jibril has Traps-12, Thwip has Traps-13.
Passively spotting a trap or door without an active search would be a perception roll (probably modified by penalties based on difficulty of spotting); Thwip and Hawk are tied for the best in the party at that, with a 14 each.
He does?!
Shit, I need to read that character sheet again.
Hawk will go in second. That’s forward enough to have his perception skills be useful, but not on point, where he might trigger traps himself.
Jibril and Thwip an argue about who is going in ahead of him.
Arron wouldn’t happen to have brought along any lanterns or such?
And can Blue Hawk or his lordship make a magical light source? If not I’m sure we can improvise some torches, although that could get smokey
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Thwip has a lantern and de Courcy (that’s you!) has a torch.
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Ha. Should’ve checked the character sheet, but at least I didn’t mouth off about it in character
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Re: darkness.
Total darkness gives a -10 to all skills requiring vision, partial light gives penalties up to -9 depending on severity. Thwip’s night vision lets him ignore darkness penalties up to -9, but in pitch black he has the same -10 as everyone else.
As for light sources:
Most lights require a hand, which can’t be used for combat. Those marked * below are hands-free. A light usually eliminates darkness penalties to combat and vision, for everyone, in a semicircle in front of the bearer – who’s presumably holding it so that he can see:
Candle, Continual Light spell (level 1) *, Light spell *: 1 yard
Continual Light spell (level 2) *, Glow Vial *, Lantern, Torch: 2 yards
Continual Light spell (level 3) *: 4 yards
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Unless the other players have an even better idea, once the door is secured open and no very hungry orcs come storming out, Thwip would like to investigate the door, the frame it’s in, and the hinges it’s on.
Then, if possible, the plan is to figure out the best way to keep it from swinging shut even if … for example… someone comes buy and removes whatever we’ve wedged it open with.
Wedging the door to stop if from swinging shut is easy enough. Jamming it so that no-one could force it closed would require a fair bit of time and noise; you’d pretty much have to destroy the hinges or the doorframe.
Are these guards animated by magic or clockwork? Do they appear to be metal golems? Would Thwip know what a golem is?
Thwip knows what golems are, yes; they’re usually magic, but he’d love to make a clockwork one.
As to what these are…all you know is what’s in the narrative thread.
BTW:
A clockwork golem would be Unliving, a magic golem Homogenous.
Unless anyone has a better idea, I’m thinking it might be worth a shot to try “I’m [mid-high rank][Really Common Arabic Name]”.
Over in the narrative thread Nic’s going to check if Arron knows a name of someone actually connected to this place, then try this if he doesn’t - So plenty of time to step in if you think it’s a bad idea.
@Wanderfound: Muhammad ibn Salman ibn Ameen al-Farsi is apparently a really common Arabic name in the real world. Since al-Farsi means “the Persian” would al-Wazif be the Yrth equivalent?
And what’s a mid-high rank in the Islamic militaries of Yrth?
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Jibril is a minor Wazifi nobleman…
Any objection if I make a claim that “My father, Efraim Al-Las’ah is Nawab of Quazr-as-Sawh”?
I initially described myself as “A younger son of a minor noble house”, does that work? (any better locations/minor titles that are better suited?)
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