One dark night..... the newest RPG

[magicmuffin]

Garrumph brushes past the others to tell Frizelious of the noises up ahead.
"...something's alive in there."she finishes in a whisper.

[superbattler]

"or maybe at one point in time there was." superbattler replies, pointing at the wall.

[frizzer]

If there was something alive Frizelius wanted to get to it, to find out what was happening maybe"Garrumph, show me which direction,,I'm heading that way, we came to test ourselves and cowering in the shadows and avoiding every broken stick sound is not what I'm here for,,so whos with me"

[superbattler]

"depends, will we live if we cower?"

[Cynder]

You reach the mouth of the cavern. The light is eerie. It seems to be coming from high above, but has trouble making it through the many stalagtites, which create large pools of shadows. The pale blue light flickers and wavers and occasionally moving shadows are cast across the landscape.

A narrow path stretches out before you, winding through the forest of stalagmites and disappearing around a particlarly large column. The path appears to lead directly across the cavern.

In the tunnel all you could here were your noises you and your companions made. Here, there are sounds you know none of you made. Rustles, whishes, swishes, water drips, clicks, knocks, chitters, voices?, music?

It is hard to tell what they all are and they echo about & mingle until there is no way to tell where they came from. None loud, they form a subtle background of sound that you have to be still and silent to even be aware of.

<Frizelious -- you catch sight of fast moving flying shapes darting between the stalagtites. Most are small, a few medium-sized.>

<Garrumph -- The voices might be from across the cavern... but you are not sure. The rustle seems to be from above & moving in a counter-clockwise direction. If you were standing at the 6 o'clock position it is moving from 11 to 10.>

<BlackSky --- good bat cave!>

<Coal --- winged things are making the air move. If there weren't so many stalagtites, you might have gotten some omens from the air currents.>

<SuperBattler -- you think there might see where the tunnel continues on the other side of the cavern. It is slightly left of directly across. Oh... wait... is that another exit even further left?>

[frizzer]

Bats,,its only bats,,,lets go ahead,,which way?

[blacksky90]

<hmm maybe good for fertilizer. note to self: see if poo fertile>

[magicmuffin]

Garrumph listens to the rustling. It seems to be moving towards them.
"I don't know but it sounds like something up there is moving towards us and I just think we should get out of here quickly."

[superbattler]

good idea. lets go to that cave at the end of the tunnel, unless you have a better idea.

[blacksky90]

we are going forward and that is final. we have already turned back once and i will not do it again. we have a bet do we not? all the paths are dangerous so lets just go

[Cynder]

<Garrumph --- the soft rustling is now between 9 & 8 o'clock. It is definitely coming from above and still on its counter-clockwise path around the cavern. It sounds a bit bigger than a normal bat. The sound is so soft you are not surprised your companions do not hear it above the other noises. Only your increased sense of hearing left over from the meditation allows you to hear it.>

[magicmuffin]

Garrumph looks up and rubs her chin in thought, hoping to see some clue further clue as to the nature of the rustling.
"It's coming closer. Which tunnel are we taking? I think we should take the tunnel that veers off a little...just a hunch I have..."
Garrumph is thinking that this may be some sort of mechanism rather than a living thing and that the mechanism may close off the tunnels leaving them trapped.

[frizzer]

Ok garrumph,,,lets take that one. Frizelious heads towards said tunnel

[Cynder]

You enter the cavern. The path continues in front of you, winding between stalagmites and generally seeming to head across the cavern to the exit on the far side. You start down the path, descending onto the main cavern floor.

The various faint noises fill the cavern. As you enter, you begin to be able to separate them, and the directions they come from. A flittering, fluttering, flapping from above, water dripping on the left, distant knocking/clicking/bangs from the right and... is that voices from ahead? There is another noise... a sort of rustling, that is from above on your left.

<Garrumph --- the rustling is begining to sound more like flapping, has changed direction and seems to be headed your way.>

[superbattler]

well lets get going. im hearing odd noises too.

[blacksky90]

what noises? i dont here anything u big baby now hurry up

[magicmuffin]

"Perhaps we should draw our weapons because the fluttering sound is coming our way. Many other nasty things have wings other than bats."
She describes the other sounds to the group, hoping that someone else might have an insight into the situation.

[superbattler]

"well, we could either wait and see what it is, or take our chances with a tunnel." superbattler advises.

[frizzer]

Frizeliuos draws weapon

[Cynder]

Warned by Garrumph, you are looking in aproximately the right direction to see a huge dark shadow moving rapidly across the cavern floor toward you. Looking above it, you can barely make out a long thick line, the ends of which lift and fall in time with the soft flapping you now hear. It must be very large to cast such a shadow, but very flat and you view just the edge.

Your weapon drawn, you have just enough time for 1 action before the 'Thing' is upon you.