Daniels gains a distinctly displeased expression upon his face.
"No. Whoever shat and/or died messily in here is going to get a complaint."
Look around for sleeping servants to deliver my murderous complaint to. If found, awaken them by virtue of forcible eviction from their bed.
You check around for sleeping quarters so that you may make your displeasure known in no uncertain terms to any unfortunate listener.
[Extremely Poor Luck: 4]
Fortunately there happen to be some servants' quarters down at the end of the hall, and while they're not quite as full as you'd perhaps expect, there are nevertheless some men and women currently sleeping there. You pick a servant girl in arm's reach up and, when that fails to properly awaken her, give her a good shake.
Huh, she says. What, she asks, eyes still closed. What is it, she asks again after a moment longer. Will you stop shaking her, she then says sleepily.
Okay, uh, maybe I can extend this arm thing and hook it on the peg in the ceiling shaft and pull myself up?
[Improvised Climbing: 3]
You swing the blade at where you roughly remember the peg to be. It clangs once as it makes an impact, then once more. Third time proves to be the charm, luckily, as you manage to catch one of the hinges of the arm on the peg - the arm locks relatively securely onto the peg. Maybe even securely enough to support your weight!
But then again maybe not, you think a minute or so later as your tailbone slowly recovers from the inconvenience of hitting the floor at a somewhat unhealthy place, the arm having landed next to you after the blade harmlessly bonks you on the head edge-on.
Thomas nudged a nearby minder child. "Pssst. How is this place coming along? Do you know when this show is ending?"
Pester pester
[A Fleeting Glimpse: 4]
The small child you elect to pester blinks three times before turning to you slowly. You stare at each other a second before you figure you ought to repeat the question. The child seems unamused. You shouldn't pester him like that. He was having such a nice dream with the others.
Once you are at the bottom, you can only go up. Granted, I'm not on the bottom and there's two ways down, but let's not focus on such details.
Upwards sounds like a fine choice. Perhaps it leads me out!
Is there really nothing else but wood? No separate objects anywhere, such as matches?
[Labyrinths of Anglefork: 5]
If you had to guess, you would say that the upward passage being a way out makes the most sense, and it's high time this structure started obeying the laws of logic and physics in your opinion, so up is where you're gonna go. The shaft spirals and bends, but does not branch, and leads ever upwards in a way that almost begins to fill you with hope.
You are of course terribly pleasantly surprised when you emerge into a much roomier crawlspace after kicking out yet another wooden panel. Vertically roomier, anyway, as evidenced by your ability to stand up in it, if not really move back and forth much. Plenty of room to move sideways though, you find.
"You do that, I'll check out the kitchen. You never know.
Try the kitchen? Maybe there are some aprons hanging up, or something.
[The Kitchen's Treasures: 2]
You find quite a few things in the kitchen - old unwashed pots, a cold hearth, an amazing amount of darkness, wooden knives, forks and spoons for one's exquisite dining pleasure, and even a single plate some careless person seems to have left out. No aprons, however. At least not any in plain view. You try looking inside one of the cupboards for one also, but unfortunately it was even darker than the rest of the room, somewhat diminishing your searching ability.
Leif Erikson, Miner
- A Word: INEVITABLE
- Wounds: 2
- Reappropriated, Clean Skirt
- 1 gp
- Anglefork Castle: A Free Man
- The Box: ?
- Tower of the Mind: a Lack of Patience
- Induced Inebriation: Comfortably Drunk
- Induced Lucidity: the Burning Church
- The Prison Stone
- Elongated Affairs: A Noble Task
- Elongated Affairs: The Numbers of the Stoat
- Compatibility: Minding
- Tricks of the Mind: Cormick's Condescending Riddle
- Tricks of the Mind: Perceptual Rebuke
- Tricks of the Mind: Erikson's Inexplicable Grapefruit
- Party in the Courtyard: Celebration in Earnest
- Never In: Swallowed By The Pit
- Gods of the Underground: Did You Just What
- Labyrinths of Anglefork: Proximal Crawlspaces
- The Voracious Dark: Two Deals Made
- The Voracious Dark: The Promised Sixth
Eileen Minett, Vinyl Collector
- Naked
- Wounds: 2
- An Arm And A Blade (blunted, bloodstained)
- A Word: HUNGER
- A Word: CHAOS
- A Weapon: Explosive Cysts
- Rat Pantheon: Disliked
- Traces of Mischief: Mouthful of Blackness
- Traces of Mischief: Loosened Smile
- Origins: Witness to Dissolution
- Tower of the Mind: There's Something To Remember
- The New Queen: And Something To Forget
- The Queen's Guard: Bringer of Doom
- Touch of Flame: the Secrets of Flammability
- Inscribed Brick ('Water')
- The Voracious Dark: Two Connections Given
- Body Count: 1
- Never In: the Obvious Candidates
- Labyrinths of Anglefork: the Crossroads
- The Impromptu Prophecy: the Sensible Solution
- Sweet Little Children: Happiness
Jack Daniels, Karate Man
- Voluntarily Naked
- Traces of Mischief: A Bisected Left Kidney
- Uncoupled: Strength
- Wooden Door (held)
- The Majordomo: ?
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: the Sword of Destiny
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: Something Priceless?
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: An Unspeakable Garment
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: A Profane Megalith
- Tower of the Mind: Endless Well of Mystery
- Induced Lucidity: A Garden Well-Tended
- Doomstones: ?
- A Place In History: Emergent Abomination
- Anglefork Castle: the Great Serpent
- The Obsolete Class: Reception of Complaints
- 2 rats, crushed
- 1 rat, strangled
- 1 rat, live
- Touch of Flame: the Second Degree
- Travels In The Fourth Dimension: Sunday ± 2 Days
- The Impromptu Prophecy: There's A Mountain Higher Than We Knew
- The Voracious Dark: Three Connections Given
- The Good Doctor: A Recommendation
- Body Count: 2
Thomas Minstep, Insurance Agent
- A Word: ABSENCE
- Anglefork Castle: From Another Time, Another Land
- Gross Incandescence: Partly Illuminated
- Tight Leather Pants (worn, wet)
- Incredibly Tight Blue Dress (worn, mutilated, mildly provocative)
- Travels In The Fourth Dimension: Saturday, July 24th, 409 S.D.
- The Majordomo: A Fresh-Faced Lunatic
- The Good Doctor: House Call
- The Queen's Guard: Okayed by the Queen
- The New Queen: Within the Margin of Sanity
- Tower of the Mind: A Shared Repose
- Body Count: 1
- Army of the New State: 455 Stout Strangers
Oscar Wilde, Chemistry Teacher
- Naked
- Wounds: 1
- Burlap Foot Wrappings (worn)
- Burlap Hand Wrappings (worn)
- Blue Shards of a Probable Bottle
- Blue Glass Shiv
- A Wealth of Burlap Ribbons
- An Obsolete Class: the Silent Wing
- The Voracious Dark: the Threshold