CheesecakeYou tear some cloth from Vlad's shirt and use it to wrap your hands. The bleeding quickly staunches, and your hands should be fine as long as you don't remove the bandages.
You wait for Tali and Clair to move the first bar aside, then pull the second one aside with minimal effort.
Ross VernalYou heft the sap in both of your hands as the others work to remove the bars. Your heart pounds in anticipation of a fight, and you struggle to keep yourself calm. You're used to working from behind the scenes, something that always appealed to your nature, and this whole experience is quite jarring to you, having to band together with a bunch of strangers in order to survive. You're mostly annoyed at being prevented from your preferences, but you find that helping others isn't quite so bad either. You might even learn to enjoy it. You clear your throat and idly scratch your nose with one finger.
Unlikely.scapheapYou notice Tali struggling with the first bar and you move to help her with it. You place you hands on one side of the handle protruding from the middle of the bar, and press against it with all your strength while Tali pulls against it from the opposite side. The bar jerks once, then slides smoothly out of place. You lean against a nearby wall and take a break while Kaltukk yanks the second bar aside by himself.
DwarminYou seize one of the bars, the one nearest the ground, and heave. Clair moves to assist you, and the bar jerks as your strength overcomes its weight, then slides off to one side with a low grinding noise. Kaltukk pushes the other aside on his own, and Vlad stands by with his sap, prepared to face whatever might come through the door.
ZakoYou check the six cells closest to the door, pulling each slat open in turn and find them all eerily empty, the chains lying opened on the floor. You could keep going, but the group appears to be preparing to open the door and you decide to head back and rejoin them.
PartyKaltukk gives the door a mighty shove, and it eases open with a roaring groan. The room is pitch dark, entirely unlit, and you can hear a subdued shuffling noise as something dry is dragged across the stone floor. You all gaze into the gloom, and from is emerges a half a dozen rotting corpses. They shamble forward, swinging dull and shattered weapons clumsily in their sagging limbs.
Name: Kaltukk
Gender: Male
Race: Orc
Appearance: Average orc build. 6"6, blackish-grey skin, mohawk. He bears scars from battles past, one on his eye, another large on on his chest.
Profession: He was a mercenary for quite a while, then joined a professional horde as a basic grunt. He's been to only one battle, but he did good.
Health: Weary
Skills: Battle Tactics
Proficient, Survival
Proficient, Swords
ProficientInventory: Tribal Totem
Known Magicks: Reinforce I - boost your strength using magical energy; fatigue varies
Name: Vlad Lamora
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Short and slightly built with short, dark brown hair, a mustache, and light grey eyes. He is neither handsome nor memorable.
Profession: Assassin
Health: Fine
Skills: Swords
Proficient, Throwing
Proficient, Cooking
Proficient, Lockpicking
DabblingInventory: Crude Sap (shirt with rocks in it)
Known Magicks: Catch II - you can slowly absorb energy, such as light; restores fatigue and reduces hunger
Name: Clair Redfield
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: A red-headed, green-eyed woman. Her hair is in a short tomboy cut and she has a tattoo of a dull red star on her cheek.
Profession: Shepard
Health: Fine
Skills: Staves
Proficient, Butchering
Proficient, Cloth Mending
ProficientInventory: Empty
Known Magicks: Repel II - manipulate air into a general or focused blast, pushing the target(s) away; some fatigue
Name: Tali Bluestone
Gender: Female
Race: Dwarf
Appearance: A somewhat shorter than usual, but well muscled Dwarven woman stands before you, with dark black hair done up fashionably and tucked into a single long ponytail cut raggedly short. Piercing copper eyes radiate cunning and a cold intellect, and are framed by long, emotive eyebrows that give her a slightly unsettling demeanor, even after being imprisoned.
Profession: Explorer
Health: Fine
Skills: Navigation
Proficient, Pole Arms
Proficient, Herbology
Proficient, Architecture
DabblingInventory: Lucky Coin, Cobblestone
Name: Edwin Malfonse
Gender: Male
Race: Elf
Appearance: Edwin has short cropped dark brown hair, green eyes and lightly tanned skin. He stands at typical elf height, 5' 4'', has a thin and wiry build that's thin even for an elf and seems almost eternally smudged with a small covering of dirt. He seems almost at home here, strangely enough.
Profession: Professional Thief
Health: Fine
Skills: Stealth
Proficient, Thievery
Proficient, Daggers
Proficient, Lockpicking
DabblingInventory: Sturdy Lockpick, Chain and Cuff