Immersive Ink

mushgnome wrote:
Am I hearing things or is that an owl? ponders Invisible Highbough. Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

The others are startled to hear the hoot of an ancient owl, coming from the near shadows!

tonneau wrote:
Gustave, becoming less and less impressed with Highbough's invisibility trick, decides it is time to follow Dorgan down below. That will give the chaste woman time to confer with the senile elf about the whelp...he muses with a chuckle.

sulldawga wrote:
Hopefully Dorgan's arrival will help in identifying locations of treasure.

mushgnome wrote:
"I'm not injured," says the invisible voice of Highbough, "if any of the able-bodied want to come with me, we can find Olaf, Ulric, and the rest, and bring them back to the fold. Last I saw them, they were jumping out a window, toward the tar moat. So by my geometry, in relation to here they are.... over there somewhere." (He points in the correct direction, but invisibly.)

OOC: Is there a window or door nearby he can stick his head out and take a peek of the courtyard?

waysoftheearth wrote:
Desmond/Mondes and Dorgan head off in search of Wen, while up top the library could well be an Owl hatchery for all the hooting that is going on.

Gustave follows after his short fellows while Highbough notes the library is completely enclosed -- there is not a window to be seen...

waysoftheearth wrote:
It is not difficult to locate Wen, for he has left a convenient trial of candles to illuminate the spiral path down to the Grell's nest.

Sifting through the ruinous pile is grim and dirty work. Wen is already smeared with char by the time Dorgan, Desmond/Mondes and Gustave arrive.

The gruesome trawl continues...

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen would smile as Dorgan, Desmond, Mondes and Gustave arrive. "Well met friends, you had me feeling a bit lonely down here. You look better at least, alas these poor creatures did not fair as well against that horror. There is much to search out but it is not pretty. I'm looking forward to a clean grassy field after a swim in a river. What I found so far is in the sack."

Wen would continue about the grim business chatting lightly as he does so.

tonneau wrote:
"Oh lovely", observes Gustave at the elf wizard knee-deep in muck, "and I thought your sort was all about bathing in crystal-clear forest pools and frolicking in the flowerbeds..."

After casting a disdainful eye around the fetid piles of bones, flesh and other assorted goo, he retires back up the stairs, "err..I'll leave you good chaps to it then eh? too many chiefs and all..."

sulldawga wrote:
Dorgan will immediately concentrate on the Marrowstone and activate its treasure-seeking powers.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen would realize Gustave was there and remember he was not with us during the battle. "Gustave how are the others, Ulric, Highbough and the rest. I was wondering what happened after we split up. I'm sure you heard but we had terrible battle with Dark Priests, Wolfmen and pack of rabid wolves. It was touch and go there but Dieter and the others put on an impressive martial display.