The Colony - Turn 56 - It wasn't a rock...

And now, we're completely caught up (at least until tomorrow).

Start Date: August 21, mid-morning
Start Status: Going doooownnn
Start Location: Silverstream Mine

Adventuring: Rennard, Jinx, Mendel, Smoke, Zenobe
At the Tulip: Adrienne, Brigg, Hagan, Xon, Aaron

The Turn

Faced with a daunting climb down into darkness, the party descends cautiously. Rennard and Zenobe go first, leaving the other three above as a rearguard. The ladder descends about 50 feet, ending in a sizeable mined chamber. Glints of metal in the rough walls catch the faint light of Zenobe's glowing holy symbol, creating sparkling reflections that hint at the reason the miners cut the vertical shaft: silver. Old wooden beams support the low ceiling in this chamber, and there are scuffled footprints crisscrossing the area. There are no signs of digging here, and no tools either.


With no immediate threats in sight, Zenobe calls the others down. As a group, the party moves east with Brigg in the lead, scouting. They pass a wide opening on the left that leads north. As they travel they note the footprints become sparse, and disappear entirely from the east end of the large chamber. Here the dust and rubble are disturbed in an odd way. Sweeping marks and rippled lines that move in seemingly random patterns. There are heaps of rubble and large boulders scattered here, and three passages leading away, north, south and east.

Following their right-handed pattern, the party discovers the south and east tunnels are dead ends, although the former has several branches and more of the odd marks on the floor. The group is turning their collective attention north when Smoke catches movement out of the corner of her eye. "What's that?" she asks as she turns, her pistol at the ready.

One of the boulders is tilting up and several long and fat tentacles are creeping out from beneath it. As you watch a glistening mass of flesh extends down and out, like a giant snail's foot. The creeping thing raises two tentacles tipped with glowing globes high into the air and reaches toward Smoke with several others!

OOC: No one is surprised.

The creature is about 4 feet in diameter and the tentacles are at least 6 feet long. It most resembles an octopus-snail cross with a stone shell. You only see one of the things right now, but there are several other big boulders in the room.

End Date: August 21, mid-morning
End Status: It was a rock lobster!
End Location: Silverstream Mine