Missing Caravan

[Selina Parcellus]

OoC3: I'll consider Selina's attack on the bastard a coup de grace!     

OoC4:  It was amazing how quickly you all took Unreth out without his defensive spells. You all had knocked him down to about half hit points before Piper got lucky with his Dispel Magic.  Then you ripped him a new one in two rounds!  Not bad for a group of 1st and 2nd level characters.  I think it's because everyone's stats are so huge.  Which I'm happy about because it means I can put you up against more powerful creatures so your level advancements are quicker than in most other PbP games.  Advancement can be so slow --Too Slow-- in PbP.  

Being the Professional Acquisitioner that he is, Jonath will remind the group, between gurgles, to quickly search Unreth's body.  Unreth was cowardly and probably greedy.  He likely carried much of his treasure with him to keep the Kobolds from stumbling upon his stash.  

When Eek and Meek gingerly climbed onto Unreth's body/raft and then heard Jonath's suggestion, they begin to quickly rummage around Unreth's body for anything their little claws could snatch.  The shadow dragon tells them to give whatever they find to the group.  If it weren't for the Company of Stalwart Adventurers, Unreth would still be alive and Eek and Meek could have
been snacks.  The Kobold's nod and then continue their search albeit with a little less enthusiasm.

[OOC3: Exxxcellent.  Now there is no doubt that it is dead.  My plan worked to perfection.]
[OOC4: If Unreth had stayed on the ground where Selina could actually reach him, it would have been over far sooner.  Yeah yeah, I know even he's not that stupid.]

Selina makes no effort to stop Eek and Meek from rummaging through the personal effects of the smashed spider™.  When Powwaw-dragon speaks up, she holds a hand up and says "Peace, friend.  There is plenty to go around as soon as we find our way out of here.  Besides, you and these two acquitted themselves quite admirably."

Everyone rides the current on or attached to Unreth leaking corpse (There is something really wrong with this picture).  You reach the threshold of the glowing walk and hit the strange barrier slowly growing out of the water to block the portal.  Upon closer inspection the water is literally stiffening into a wall.  It wasn't ice.  In fact it wasn't any colder than the surrounding water.  Forge and Tomeal give Unreth's body a push from behind.  The corpse slowly slides over what at this point amounted to a speed bump and then slips through the wall of light...

First there was a blinding light and then a flash of icy cold that numbed your flesh.  Suddenly darkness and the stench of rot, shit and piss all combined into one horrid overwhelming smell.  Your eyes adjust, some quicker than others, to the dim light of your new surroundings.  The drip drip of water leaking close by pierces the silence.  

"Woat use doing err," you hear close by.  Blinking to get the ghosts of blinding light from your eyes you see the frog shaped humanoid.  His green hands are pointing at the portal while he's slowly rolling them back and forth in rhythmic motions.

Selina shivers as she passes through the wall, not entirely sure if she actually did or not.  When she can move once again, her nose immediately puckers and she sighs, cupping her hand to her nose.  Wonderful.  A sewer.  Just what we needed.

Betimi smiles at the creature and attempts to  ease it's mind.

"We mean no harm, we seek safe refuge from the caverns we were in collapsing."

[OoC as much a sa pale skinned, pockmarked and diseased looking woman can, no matter how much of a charismatic presence she is.]

[Diplomacy [1d20+4] = 5+4 = 9]

Selina's eyes snap wide open and she shakes her head, turning to Betimi.  "No offense intended, my friend, but may I be of some assistance in this matter?"

"YOIS!  Staway foom meh.  Uses luke plaged," the frogman says almost angrily while taking a few steps back from Betimi.  While watching you all very carefully, the creature squats down near a puddle and scoops up some of the water into the palm of one of his hands then pours it from his hand onto a dry patch of skin on one of his shoulders.  

"Uses speck difent.  Wares uses com froom?"

[OoC: There's a pic of what he basically looks like in the attachments.]

Selina holds her hands out.  She had stored her shield and morningstar to give herself the best chance of maintaining balance.

"Your pardon, sir.  We came from the other side of that wall.  It was a portal to a system of caves we were just in fighting a horrible creature who enslaved these kobolds' tribe and abducted a number of people from our city.  Perhaps you could tell us where we are?"

Diplomacy-Away!: [1d20+5] = 9+5 = 14