As if in a kind of stupor, Olyx followed the others around, sword in one hand, lantern in the other, his gaze empty. Even when looking at the dead, shriveled bodies, all he did was mutter some sailor's curse.

But when the unmistakeable sound of powder catching fire was heard, he snapped out of it immediately. "By the Kraken's longest tentacle!", he growled as he made his way clear, though not barging through other people trying to get out. He was alarmed, but not panicking. Barely.

"No samples, but..." Quentin was not quite sure about the "but". He was more about getting out real fast. Nevertheless, he comes up with a couple. "If we will not observe any effect right away, the analysis might come in too late or otherwise be moot." He seems somewhat embarrassed. "We'll see if Hunter will leave us some."
This message was lightly edited by the player at 16:07, Mon 20 May.

Hunter is able to make the bomb carefully using the limited resources that he has available to him. As he packs the bomb together he knows it's ready to go. The last part is to light and throw the object at the tank itself before it will go off.

OOC: Roll athletics (throwing). Good luck! ;)

Hunter stared. That fuse appeared to be burning faster than he had expected.

Turning, he ran for the door where Jenkins was waiting, little head poking round the corner waiting for the blast with avid delight.

08:15, Today: Hunter Gallagher rolled 3,5 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,(4+1)5.  Benny for reroll. – 3,5

08:14, Today: Hunter Gallagher rolled 3,3 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3.  Hunter athletics. – 3,3

tink....tink...tink....BOOMMMMMM. The Catacombs rock from the sound of the explosion. Dust crumbles under the weight of the massive energy that rings out echoing the halls of the catacombs. There is a ringing of the ears for people still close to the area. Once the dust settles from the explosion a few minutes pass and your vision clears.

The once huge container now has a giant hole out of the side of it. The greenish liquid has drained and while some of it still lingers on the floor itself. Most ended up slipping into the hole that was created from the explosion. Still enough was there to cover the walls and most of the bodies before sinking into the dirt. The greenish coat seems to cover everything in the room.

The bodies still lay in their state no signs of life in their eyes.

"Try to get some samples in one of your flasks if you can" Lirian said to Quentin. "I keep thinking you ro Lord Roland should analyze it..."
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 16:57, Wed 22 May.

Quentin prepares an empty vial, holds his breath, and tries to collect a sample without touching anything much. Then he intends to quickly be out.

Piper's ears twitched at the sound of the distant explosion.

She stayed where she was far down the hall and around the corner and waited for either some sort of hue and cry, or for the others to come down the hall on their way.

Jenkins was dancing and hollering at the doorway. "Went BOOM! Went BANG! Big bang and gone! Wee hee hee hee an''sploded and gone!" She cried with glee, eyes sparkling with excitement.

Hunter stopped running when he realized he wasn't being chased by a wave of liquid. He turned back amd surveyed the damage. "All clear!" He called out.

"We could probably climb down the hole to go after it, if it's safe to get covered in that stuff. Otherwise, we should push on."

"I humbly suggest we delay any climb into any hole as long as we possibly can."  Aeress suggested, not sounding humble about the idea at all.  Not even a little bit.

"Aye, I be thinkin' touching this muck is not exactly a genius move", Olyx chimed in, his ears still a bit ringing. "Let's sail ahead", he said, eager to resume their crawl.

OOC: If everyone is set on moving what is the next room you want to move to? Piper had stated she wants to move back in the direction of 5. There is an existing hall that way that you didn't explore and there is also the other-side of the catacombs to the right that you didn't go.

ooc: I still vote seeing where that hallway above room 5 goes.  Assuming that doesn't eventually lead us to wherever we need to be or cross over somewhere, it should let us cross off the "left" side of this place before heading back to the beginning to check out the "right" side.

Quentin packs the sample of the liquid and, when people are discussing which way we should go, expresses his ambivalence. As long as we go somewhere we have not been, he's fine with the plan.

OOC: Lirian supports Piper's suggestion. She is concerned about the chant she has heard (or so she thinks), and being the closer palrt she thinks it can come from there. OTOH, though, the door to reach it should have mitigated it...

As you walk back through the dusty and creaky hallways tiny bits of rumble falls on your head from the dust being moved from the explosion. As you make your way back through the catacombs you reach the area where you could go right and follow the hallway which makes another turn to the left. As you near a long hallway that leads to another door, you hear the chanting again. This time more pronounced almost as if very close to your position.

The hallway continues further north and has a minor turn to the right which leads to another long hallway.

OOC: What do you want to do?

Lirian moves alert, looking both at the walls (just in case she finds another possible secret door) and up, keeping in mind Jenkins tale about the goblins hiding in a high part of the cave.

She also has her ears trying to hear any chanting there might be…

Aeress raised a fist, and motioned as if clamping her own mouth shut.  It seems they had an opportunity to prepare here.

Hunter took up a position by the door and checked the load and priming on his pistol again. He looked around at the others, raising an eye.

Waving Jenkins forward, he gestured for her to check the door.

Once reassured that theere were no pit traps, Jenkins came up and carefully inspected the door.

12:11, Today: Hunter Gallagher rolled 30 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,(6+6+6+2)20.  Jenkins notice .

Wow!
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With Jenkins checking out the door, Piper and Mosii hung back waiting for indication whether the odd singing was coming from behind the door or somewhere else nearby.

IC: Jenkins senses buzz to life. She first notices a spider on the floor. Then some crumbling rocks at the top of the ceiling. Her senses pick up that behind the door there is something moving. She also notices a chanting coming from the north most hallway leading up. Jenkins normally not so sensitive to sound is able to pick up at least two beings in the room.

OOC: Map updated.

Jenkins slowly moved back from the door to a safe distance, and then scuttled back to the group, beckoning Hunter to follow.

"Fink it's a room. I can hear two people movin' bout. An I can hear chanting, bit don't Fink it comes from there, Fink it comes from there" She said, pointing to the hallway that continues northwards.

Piper hopped down off of Mosii and moved over towards the door in question.

She then dropped down to see if she could peer through the gap between the bottom of the door and the floor to identify the two people Jenkins mentioned.

“This chanting must be the ceremony they intended to do” Lirian said.

“We must interrupt it, or they will summon whatever they try to, and I bet is nothing good. Whoever is behind this door may wait”

Her resolve to go for the chanting was clear to anyone.

"I agree, but I am curious to see what Piper's up to" Hunter said.