[ooc]Sorry, I meant to make it clearer he's eating it raw.[/ooc]

Bjorn will try to sneak in to the east tunnel and scout ahead. just before he sets off he shakes his head, of the dawi trying to eat skaven raw.

Ubba softly follows Bjorn from a safe distance, letting the scout do his work but ready to run up and assist if need be.

Despite popular belief in the south, eating raw meat is only dangerous under certain circumstances. Those being that the meat is tainted, too much is consumed, or the eater has not been conditioned. While the norse dwarf should have known better about eating potentially chaos tainted meat, he did not feel the worse for wear. The slave tasted like any other rat.

As for Bjorn and Ubba, the two dawi stealthily crept deeper into the ancient runelord's temple.

At the center of this large stone chamber is a
deep pit filled with molten slag and sizzling
blood that casts a hellish red gleam on the
walls. Three narrow chutes open in the ceiling
directly above the pit. The air here is oppressively
hot and thick with ash. The blood appears fresh.

There is little in the room itself. And as nobody has the requisite knowledge skills, there is not much that can be gleaned about the purpose of the room. A search of the mosaics on the wall will show that the images of dwarves holding broken tools, several of whom are burning. Ubba does know enough about dungeoneering to know that the fires should have burnt out centuries ago without someone to tend to them. He also knows enough about the skaven to know that they tend not to light large fires such as this without purpose.

Bjorn though notices that to the north a headless human corpse in patchwork leather armor lies strewn in the middle of this section
of corridor. Three giant rats are in the process of eating the corpse, and are unlikely to give it up without a fight. A book remains in corpse's hands.



[ooc]As a note. I skipped what is in my mind a pointless combat in this room. For the sake of time I won't be throwing random monsters at you. I haven't placed you on this map, as these rats won't do anything until you get within 10ft of them (ie: 2 squares). So anyone can do a 20ft move to move up and attack them if wanted, or can shoot at them and see what happens. Or...of course, leave the corpse alone and go a different way. Also, if anyone has any advice, concerns or comments about this RP, feel free to bring it up.[/ooc]

"Well looks like we found Ulrik some more rat dinners." Ubba mutters to the other ranger. He takes a moment to look around and check the fire out more closely.

"I want that book before we go." he adds, pointing his bow at the human. "Plus whatever else he has on him. He might be a marienburger. I say we grab the norsican and drive off those rats."

"Ha you are right, lets go get him, and try to get the book and search him" Bjorn mutters back "if he can release the dead rat". Bjorn adds. He wasnt bothered to confirm that they had to eradicate the rats too, as they are scum who needs to be eradicated.

"Bah, too little fat in 'em," Ulrik mutters as he finishes stowing the meat. The heat doesn't seem to bother the dwarf that much as he walks around to see what the others are looking at.

"Ah, so ye be wantin' th'book that one's got. Aye, we'll get it fer ye. Maybe a bit o' tenderizin' will make th'damn things taste better," he says as his eyes gleam and he readies his dorn dergar.

"Ye'll be there t'catch any that manage get by me, aye?"

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I say let Ulrik rush them. With the dergar he should be able to hit one of the rats as it comes for him after his initial assault, the choke up on it so he can hit 'em while they're close. We follow with the others and he should be fine.
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[OOC] Go for it comrade. We'll shoot the others and loot the body. Classic.

"Aye we pick off the rest, go kill the scum" Bjorn say with murderous intent in the eyes.

"You can tell after we be done here, if they are better roasted" Bjorn says with a silent laugh.

Ulrik flashes his fellow dawi a ferocious grin before charging the closest of the rats and bringing his dorn dergar to bear on it.

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Charging: +2 to the attack roll, -2 to AC until the beginning of Ulrick's next turn.
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