>>5482547Ok, so the formation order is
1 Tharfish the Dwarf (Pickaxe/Mattock)
2 Saorlai the Elf (Rope/Hangman's Knot, Wheel-lock: Loaded)
3 Skallagrim the Barbarian (Maul, Platypus Skull / Rhynchus Amulet) leading
... Gulshara (wearing Chains Of Castigation)
4 Yazdegerd the Wizard (Lantern)
>Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d6)Barbarian Roll, Strength +3 (chaining up Gulshara The Angry Princess in the Penitent's Armour)
3+4+3 = 10, a strong hit! Gulshara howls in protestation and gnashes her jaws, grinding her fanged teeth and she scratches and slaps you very hard, the feral bone charms she is wearing jangling furiously. She had imagined being freed from the horrible asphyxiating imprisonment of being bundled and carried by two Orcs in a sack, only to endure the even worse fate of being adorned in cursed armour, the Chains Of Castigation! Well it is probably better than being offered as a gift to the Troll King.
...
As you sidle past the leering skeleton dangling from the gibbet, a chilling breeze rushes past as you see the open cliff here is vertiginously high, almost as if you are treading upon the edge of a sliver of stone piercing the sky. You can hear the crunch of old bones underfoot, but amongst the knucklebones and ribcages you do not see any skulls. This unnerves you a little.
A spiralling staircase of stone ahead leads to a watchtower, that appears to be the southeastern entrance to the battlements of a ruined castle. The entire area seems deserted and unguarded, and you hear only the groan of lurching trees clawing their gnarled talons against the shriek of mountain winds. The dead trees appear hideous to you, their gnarled branches possessing a resemblance akin to demented insectile appendages.
To your right you see a large winch or capstan wheel, with some elaborate rope mechanism leading to the steps of the spiral stone stairs.
Then you see there is the form of a knight encased in a complete suit of armour, who appears to be kneeling before a wooden archway or shrine of some form, the entrance threshold at the bottom of the stone stairs. This kneeling Penitent Knight is turned away from you in supplication before the Wooden Archway Shrine. You cannot see his face, only his shoulders, as he appears slumped in devotion or prayer.
Through the mountain clifftop mist you can perceive the shape of a squat culverin or small mortar to your far left. It is separated from you by a chasm - perhaps you could reach it by leaping across with a rope? (QM: assign a character and roll 2d6 to leap over the chasm if you want to investigate)
>Write in what you would like to do(QM: you can investigate / inspect any area or map feature just by saying that you walk over and look at it etc.)
