"Dibs on the blond mohican's sword," says Toothy Herman to the others.

Staying carefully hidden, Toothy Herman edges back to the mouth of the barrow. "Oi!" he calls, hoping to draw the cudgelmen out to the party on the moor.

Toothy Herman takes the torch from the lad's limp hand. "I've been down before, so I can go first," he says. His mace in one hand, torch in the other, Herman moves at a crouch, moving as stealthily as he knows how to the mouth of the barrow. Girt follows, and before Herman disappears into ...

Herman stands in the village square and calls to all and sundry to join him and the other Mazers in the dead halls under the fen. Avery, with Girt's staff and hammer, Girt with mace and shield, Giant with the remains of a ham bone, walk steadily to Toothy Herman. "Who else will sally forth to a...

Avery and Girt take the portion of their hard won money that remains unspent and (if there is no temple to Ulesh, God of Peace), bury it at a site on the edge of town as an offering, and promise to construct a shrine in the future. Avery purchases/crafts a holy symbol of Ulesh for himself and Girt, ...

(Is this an out of character thread? Or are we RPing in here too? All three of my characters are from town, do I assume they have homes, or masters in the case of the blacksmith's boy, Avery?)

Help the others up, pull the rope up behind us and vamoose!

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(I feel you, bro!)

Toothy Herman hits the rope with a vengeance. "This. Is. Taking. Too. Long."

(All opinions are those of the characters and do not reflect the opinions of the player. Loving this!)

(We have 10 electrum apiece. That's 100 gold, minimum.)

Girt will be the last up the rope, after carefully tying the end around Giant. When he gets to the top, he will hoist the dog back to the surface, and leave the rope up so nothing can follow.

(Yep. To the surface!)

Toothy Herman looks through the door to the east at the end of the corridor, just to make sure it isn't filled to the brim with gold coins. Then he and the others will make their way back to the surface as best they can.

(With all this money, might as well retire! To the surface!)

Toothy Herman comes from the crypt room. We can return when we've interred the dead, the old and the new." A sweep on his hand indicates the unfinished work in the room he's just left, and the recently slain. "All will rest easier than these if we do," and he gives a pile of former sk...

Toothy Herman instructs the survivors to gently, and respectfully, loot the dead.

Emboldened by his charge, and his crushing blow to the first skeleton, Avery swings his hammer again, the name of the god of Peace on his lips, to curse the undead and return it to the hell it so richly deserves (AC Nat 20-2, 2 HP).

Girt attempts to hold him back, but Avery will not be restrained. Avery rushes from the crypt-room to deal a shattering blow to the closest skeleton in the hallway. "Ulesh!" his cry. (If he can get there: AC 10, 1 HP). Kicking one of the loose bones, now piled at his feet, Herman says, &qu...

We ought to keep track, after all, of all the loot we're getting from the dearly departed.

From Maurice Moncassel (RIP): 44 cp, 13 el, a hex doll, a torch, a sling, and a bloody bone club.

(Six dead, one round. Long Live DCC!) Avery calls out to Ulesh, God of Peace, "Hear me, Lord! Cast down these vile ones!" He swings his smith's hammer with all the force of his too young arm! (AC 10, 1 hp) Girt chokes up on his staff and tries to crush the ancient skull of the skeleton bef...

Maurice gives a cry and strikes again (AC 10, 4hp). Giant, barking, lunges for the door of the crypt room. Avery and Girt are ashen faced. Avery, quietly, and then with increasing force begins saying, "No. No. No! NO!" He grows quite animated over the bony opponents. Both boys move towards...