(041) The Fireplace Subterrane

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waysoftheearth wrote:
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sulldawga wrote:
OOC: Did Dorgan find anything in the other boxes?

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danhem wrote:
"Check all of the crates then we can haul it out of here and try to make sense of it above."

Ulric moves over to the pit. He tries his best to shine his lantern down the dark hole to see if there is any sign of a floor below.

"Maybe the pedestal was part of a device to haul heavy things up or send them down this pit?"

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waysoftheearth wrote:
None too convinced, Dorgan opens a second and a third crate with similar effort.

The second crate contains similar, but differently shaped plates of steel. The third contains what could only be described as half a huge steel, gauntlet? If one can call a claw-like mitt limited to two thick fingers (each missing a joint) with no thumb and no wrist a "gauntlet". Curious...

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waysoftheearth wrote:

"Check all of the crates then we can haul it out of here and try to make sense of it above."

There are perhaps more than a score of crates -- many of them bigger than the ones Dorgan has opened thus far. Opening them all will take some industry, and some time.

Getting even the smaller ones up the tiny crawl-stairs will be geometrically impossible.

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ehiker133 wrote:
"Maybe we'll find more answers down below? Or... do we want to try and get rid of the vermin we know to be in these holes first?"

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Yeeaaahhss?

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sulldawga wrote:
Dorgan will examine the pedestal, the steel plate and rivets attached to it, and the metal plates found in the boxes.

Can he make any sense of a connection between all of them?

Do any of the plates have any indents or connections where it seems they would attach to the rivets?

OOC: If Dorgan can't make heads nor tails of it, I say we tie a rope to the pedestal, tie the other end around somebody and head down the ladder.

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eris wrote:
Olaf keeps glancing at the others tinkering with the metal plates and the pedestal and then back at the vermin holes.

"We're getting off track here." he says, "We came down here to rid the basement of vermin, secure the place, and then we were going to go do something about the Abbey of the Sisters of Mercy."

"Why don't you put some boards across that pit and pile a couple of those heavy boxes atop it?" Olaf suggests, "That will keep anything down there from coming up here while we're gone. Then let's deal with whatever vermin is inside these holes and get going."

"We can always come back down here in a few days, with a good stout ladder and go down that hole if we want." Olaf takes a quick look around at his friend's faces, "What do you say?"

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sulldawga wrote:
Dorgan looks back at Olaf. "What if the vermin live in the pit, and this hole ain't the only way out?"