Zan absconds to the lever room (the grey one) and pulls the left one. Then he checks on the floodgates.
You pull the lever and try to go back to the floodgates, but the water now streaming into the grates makes it difficult to go further. And maybe dangerous, too.
You are sure the floodgates are open now.
>_
"Gah!! Not another one! No, you're not getting my brains, either!"
Rovod tosses his flask at the 'zombie' coming up the ladder, then runs panicking back towards stage right, away from his pursuer.
hit: d12-1=9, evade: d12=11The abnormally agile zombie ducks away from your flask!
Askot Bokbondeler, "Zombie", is a Novice Dodger now!running check: d12=9, d12-3=2You fastly run to the ledge, shaking off the zombies. Nobody seems to follow you.
You can see two dwarves walking at the other end of the ledge.
>_
Action: > Follow her. Safety in numbers and all that.
The dwarven woman wipes her mouth, cleaning it of the blood.
"It all started when we built a new farm under the sea but almost all crops withered. Then a forgotten beast swam through an entrance to the sea into the fortress.
We were able to slay it and make lots of food from its meat, but many dwarves got ill and raised up as zombies after they died..."
>_
climb back down the ladder and wait for the zombie to chase the other dwarf. then enter the room to the left
You climb up the ladder once you can no longer hear "Braanes!".
After a short walk through the tunnel you enter a room with a craftsdwarf's workshop. Another workshop is next to it, but somebody destroyed it.
>_
HP: 7/10
Equipment:
worn old pig tail dress
HP: 1/10Skills:Skilled Record keeper (+4)
Novice Dodger (+1)
Inventory:worn old pig tail coat (worn)
2 chestnut splints (worn)
dwarven skull
HP: 5/10Skills:Competent Potash maker (+3)
Novice Drummer (+1)
Novice Tracker (+1)
Inventory:bone: hit-1, 1d5 dmg
pig tail coat (worn)
2 potash bars
mermaid bone fragment
raw longnose gar
HP: 10/10Skills:Competent Milker (+3)
Novice Wrestler (+1)
Inventory:pig tail coat (worn)
empty tower cap flask
moongoose feather
HP: 10/10Skills:Competent Presser (+3)
Inventory:pig tail coat (worn)
rock nut oil covering (beard)
empty black-cap flask