<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/W0yAQ5J.png)<br/><div align="center"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>HP</strong>: 16/20</td><td><strong>Xp</strong>: 1/8</td><td><strong>Load</strong>: 7/10</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Coin</strong>: 9</td><td><strong>Armor</strong>: 1</td><td><strong>Prep</strong>: 2/3</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Damage</strong>: D8</td><td><strong>Quarrels</strong>: 2</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Str</strong>: 9 (+0)</td><td><strong>Dex</strong>: 16 (+2)</td><td><strong>Con</strong>: 12 (+0)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Int</strong>: 15 (+1)</td><td><strong>Wis</strong>: 13 (+1)</td><td><strong>Cha</strong>: 8 (-1)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Inventory</div><div class="spoiler_body"><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc">Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight)</li><li type="disc">Leather armor (Worn, 1 armor, 1 weight)</li><li type="disc">Personal arsenal (2 weight)</li><li type="disc">Crossbow (Near, piercing 1, reload, 2 weight) and Quarrels (3 ammo)</li><li type="disc">Rapier (Close, precise, 1 weight)</li><li type="disc">Strange reagent ingredients</li><li type="disc">Leather skin with strange drawings</li><li type="disc">Cloudy-eyed ring</li><li type="disc">Coin pouch, looted from an orc</li></ul></div></div></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;">Aeryn Verkai (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=316350.msg15272947#msg15272947)</span><br/><strong>Action:</strong><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Even just glancing through the doorway had Aeryn's heart racing. If just one of the nasty fuckers turned around, whatever plan they could piece together would be in shambles. However, as luck would have it, none did. She made mental notes of what she spotted, and quickly got back to the safety of shadows, leaning her back to the wall separating them from the ritual. She gestured for the others to come closer so she could speak to them more easily. She noticed the ring too seemed to be reacting to what was going on, and figured that too would be of use.<br/><br/><strong>"It's not just orcs being orcs it would seem. From the best I can tell, it's a part of a ritual."</strong><br/><br/>To make it clearer, she fished out the ring she'd found earlier, on the now dead orc, and showed it to her party members. While not immediately obvious, the mild pulsing from the insignia seemed to make it vibrate.<strong>"It's far too complex of a design for an orc to have made it, I looted it off the one I killed earlier."</strong><br/><br/>She took a shallow breath as she stuffed the ring back where it'd been, and had another peek around the corner, just to make sure she hadn't missed anything crucial. Didn't seem like it though.<br/><br/><strong>"I'm pretty sure I recognize the ring, I ran into some third-rate wizard a few years ago as a part of a job. Was a complete pushover back then but who knows. Anyways... There seems to be a catwalk system over the whole hall, with stuff hanging from it, tapestries and whatnot. If we can get someone up there without being spotted... We could probably cut it down, distract some at least for a while, thin their numbers a little."</strong>