>>5483934>Rolled 2, 3 = 5 (2d6)Elf roll: Instinct +1 (leap over the chasm, and affix the rope)
2+3+1 = 6 < 7 (oh no!)
Saorlai steadies herself with a deep intake of breath as she prepares to vault over the chasm to the other side. Don't look down... Imagine that this is just like a circus act... Skallagrim stands besides her, holding the rope.
The Elf steps back from the edge of the precipice, and her lithe acrobatic body suddenly uncoils in an explosive burst of speed. Saorlai sails through the air in a graceful parabolic arc, as if swinging elegantly from some invisible trapeze...
As she hurls herself over the edge and scrabbles desperately to cling onto the other side, you see rocks and clods of earth come loose as the Elf desperately claws with her fingertips and scrabbles upwards, struggling to clamp onto a firm handhold. The knotted rope around her waist loosening, the strands fraying... But there, she has made it! By the torn skin on her hands and knees Saorlai has somehow clung on and scampered up to the other side. Skallagrim the Barbarian claps in delight! Only an Elf could have accomplished this astonishing acrobatic feat!
Saorlai stares aghast at the idiotically clapping Barbarian Skallagrim. He was supposed to be holding onto the other end of the rope...
(QM: the result of this failure is - Saorlai makes the leap onto the other side. But the rope has unknotted and frayed, falling into the chasm below. Saorlai is on her own here. She can attempt to leap back, but there is a -1 modifier, so a flat 2d6 roll. Other characters can still attempt the perilous leap with the same 2d6 -1 + Instinct modifier, if they want to join her).
On this side of the cliff there is a culverin, the short squat cannon you saw indistinctly earlier. There are ample cannonballs and gunsulphur here to prime and fire it.
(QM: arming the cannon is a Will check for the mental knowledge of how to charge and load it; afterwards it can be fired at will. At this range, you cannot really miss if you orient and swivel the cannonmouth to aim it at anything)
