The Eye of Anubis: Book Ten

[yalenusveler]

"It's alright Mandisa." Andre said with a soft smile. "It was a long shot, but I figured I would try." He then turned to Tomas "Feel free to ask your questions, I'm sure something else will come to mind, but for right now..nothing."

[Kaitou Kage]

"Hey, um," Kuzan said, "Can't a bunch of you make people invisible? Why don't we use that to get out if we're worried about not being allowed to go anywhere. And Lia has flying spells, so there's that. Plus whatever spell Charles just put on the room here. I think that would be our best option, don't you? If Vedarrak is not going to let us walk free, we'll have to walk under cover. It's risky but if we don't take the risk, we're never going to get anywhere. And I don't see much other choice."

The priest looked at the serving girl. "How can we get out of here easily?" he asked.

[NeoTiamat]

Falkovnian Compound, Muhar, Har'Akir
August 27th, 761, 2:02 PM; Day 163 of the Menetnashte Expedition
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The priest looked at the serving girl. "How can we get out of here easily?" he asked.

"You can fly?" Mandisa said, eyes going wide in her dusky face. "And turn invisible?"

"You could teach me how to make things invisible, then I can smuggle tools in and you could make a hole in the wall, then sneak out invisibly." The Akiri girl said, mind turning at rapid pace. "Or you could make some rocks invisible, and then make them fly at the guards, and knock them out, then sneak out."

"Or... or... you could turn invisible, and I could carry you out in the laundry..." This was becoming a familiar state of mind to Tomas. Mandisa looked this way when she was making coffee for him. Or saurkraut. It was a bad sign. "Or...you can use one of Lady Snefru's secret passages... or... or... you can make a rope invisible, and I could string it to the Temple of Horus, and you could climb over the wall while invisible..."

[yalenusveler]

Andre's eyes widened a bit at the sudden flight of fancy, actually getting a broad smile out of him. "It seems you've quite the imagination Mandisa..though honestly, some of those would be grand ideas if the spells involved worked that way. But..do tell us more about the unfortunately far more mundane secret passages?"

[NeoTiamat]

Falkovnian Compound, Muhar, Har'Akir
August 27th, 761, 2:08 PM; Day 163 of the Menetnashte Expedition
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"Oh... they don't work that way." This was disappointing news. Still, one rolled with what Fate dished out. "Lady Snefru has secret passages all over the manor, and to the Temple of Osiris and Horus."

"I... um... found it by accident." Mandisa's voice quieted down somewhat as she mumbled the last part. "...When I fell down the well."

"But there's a lot of them all under the manor, in the rock." Mandisa said. "And I think one of them leads up here. I know one comes out behind the Temple of Horus."

[DocBeard]

"Otto, let me borrow your glasses, quickly!" Tomas says, as though his life depends on it.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

"Gentlemen," Lia says in a small voice. "If Snefru was aware of those tunnels in life, then ... she is almost certainly aware of them in undeath. Unless this place is warded at every doorway, it is not a fortress, it's a Lamordian cheese. And there is worse than rats waiting to come scurrying through the holes."

[lostboy]

Sascha sighs, unclasping his hands. "but with respect milady" he offers a polite nod towards Lia. "The dead priestess Snefru is not our immediate concern, Kommandant Vederrak and his troops are. Let us deal with current concerns about leaving this fortress unobserved first. We have sore need to find the tomb poste haste, for our sakes and the very souls that inhabit Muhar, the obvious danger should not inhibit our actions."

"Although if the foul wench raises her head above the parapet, I intend to be there to render its seperation" he adds with an almost-wry smile.

[The Whistler]

Otto arched an eyebrow at Tomas, but removed his glasses all the same and handed them over. The whole "spontaneously fey-touched" thing had actually made his vision sharper than he'd cared to admit over the past few months, but dammit, he *liked* the things.

[Kaitou Kage]

"No," Kuzan replied to Sascha, "Cavendish is our immediate problem right now. Vedarrak and his men are just thorns in our sides right now."

The priest dusted his hands off and sat up.

"All right," he said, "We have secret tunnels to get out unnoticed. We have invisibility and flying powers at our disposal. We have a goal. May I suggest we get a move on and get to these tunnels and out to the old man instead of spending the whole day arguing about what to do? We could sit here and debate good and bad points of this until we're all dead of old age. Remember, we don't have that much time."

No offense intended here, guys, but we should really get a move on. I personally think we've debated enough about what to do. We know what we're doing and we have the way to do it, so can we start moving toward that? As a group we tend to over-complicate when we have to decide by committee and these discussion sessions go way longer than necessary. I'm anxious to get a move on.

[lostboy]

Sascha raises an eyebrow at Kuzan's words and regards the Rajian priest with an odd expression "an analogy I find difficult to swallow, perhaps sometime soon we can discuss how deep a wound these thorns are capable of inflicting. "

Breaking eye contact he gazes at the others. "Still I agree , time is passing and our goal is as you say clear, we have remained here long enough. The only question is do we all go or do a small group remain behind to run a distraction?"

[OOC: yup Im with Kage, lets get going!]

[Rock of the Fraternity]

"Before we go anywhere, Kuzan," Lia says, "might I perhaps bother you to cast a restorative spell on me? I still feel a little ... weak ... from the fight."

[Nathan of the FoS]

"Indeed...we are not in peak form for another round with Snefru, or whomever else we might encounter," Charles says, wincing slightly. "Given that this place is apparently honeycombed with passages...well, we have an opportunity to leave and make inquiries. But, as M'selle says, if Snefru cares to use it...a way out is a way in."

Charles does not look as upset about the possibility of the Falkovnians suddenly being beset by hordes of the undead as he probably should. And anyway, they're Falkovnians, this sort of thing happens to them all the time! Or at least every time they invade Darkon.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

"Another thought occurs," Lia notes. "Depending on how long Cavendish has been here and what the nature of his interaction with Snefru was, other than making her into yet another enemy ready to drink his blood ... he might know the network of tunnels as well."

[Kaitou Kage]

"That's a risk we're just going to have to take, Lia," the priest said, "Unless someone else has a brilliant plan for getting out. And since we haven't come up with one, we might as well take the option we've got."