(041) The Fireplace Subterrane

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:38 am

ehiker133 wrote:
Desmond shrugs and says, "I have none. But if anyone has any, just up in their room instead of with them, I'd be happy to run get it."

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:59 am

coffee wrote:
"I have rope in my room," Dieter says. "It has a grappling hook attached, bring that as well."

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:18 am

waysoftheearth wrote:

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?

Dorgan spends a good while examining the pedestal (without touching it). If there is any association between the content of the crates and the pedestal, it is a very obscure one. The pedestal is of stone. It was clean, efficient stone masonry when it was built, probably fewer than a score years ago. But now it is grimy with misuse. But it is still solid as any rock. The metal plate that stands a chest height looks to be mostly iron. It is basic; functional but and artless, and beginning to show tinges of rust around the edges -- Completely unlike the metal in the creates.

The two big rivets a fist-sized, round face elevated off the metal plate by some half-inch. The temptation is to push one, or other, or both of them.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:21 am

waysoftheearth wrote:

ehiker133 wrote:He also looks to see if there are any remains of a block and tackle system laying about.

Desmond and Mondes scan the place for any pulley or tackle system -- the dual headed Hobbit searching doubly efficiently!

Desmond doesn't see anything resembling a mechanical system laying about the cellar, but Mondes happens to looks up when the light is just so, and says "Oi! What's that there?".

The others look up too, and it is clear now that the ceiling above the pit is different. It is not solid stone; but perhaps a great wooden trapdoor the same size as the pit cut into a purpose built, circular opening in the stone.

ehiker133 wrote: OOC Question for WOTE: How big IS the opening, say, relative to the crates?

The pit is much larger than the crates, which are roughly 3ft to 4ft squares. The pit might be 10 or 12 ft radius.

You would need to do some serious carpentry to make a "cover" from all the crates, but it might be "plausible", given ample time and the proper tools.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:33 am

waysoftheearth wrote:
Highbough casts the light of his lantern into the pit, and -- with almost everyone now standing around the edge of the pit -- it becomes clear that the pit is some 30ft or so deep.

The circular "well" of the pit descend some 20ft, before opening out into another cavern below, which might itself have a ceiling height of some 10ft.

In the chamber below, a circular dais can dimly be seen, directly beneath the pit. Another pile of the wooden crates can be seen (from above) atop it.

The untrustworthy ladder runs all the way down the wall, to the floor below.

All is still and quiet.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:34 am

waysoftheearth wrote:
Is Desmond going to run up to Dieter's room for the rope and grappling?

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:33 pm

mushgnome wrote:
The obvious question (perhaps a question for the dwarf if it's not apparent to Highbough?) is whether the trap door in the ceiling is below our house, or some other property.

Highbough taps his foot and waits for someone impulsive to push the button...

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:43 pm

ehiker133 wrote:

waysoftheearth wrote:Is Desmond going to run up to Dieter's room for the rope and grappling?

Yes!

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:51 am

sulldawga wrote:

mushgnome wrote:The obvious question (perhaps a question for the dwarf if it's not apparent to Highbough?) is whether the trap door in the ceiling is below our house, or some other property.

Dorgan is not so impulsive as to push any buttons but he will venture his professional opinion, as a card-carrying Dwarf, as to the location of the chamber relative to their manse.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:41 am

waysoftheearth wrote:

sulldawga wrote:Dorgan is not so impulsive as to push any buttons but he will venture his professional opinion, as a card-carrying Dwarf, as to the location of the chamber relative to their manse.

It's so obvious to Dorgan that he hadn't thought to point it out to any of the others; the cellar begins under the manse, and extends out to the yard behind it. The trap door in the cellar ceiling likely opens some 20ft away from the manse itself. In the back garden.