Balder's Gate 3 PSLs/Overflow

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Onward to adventure, whether you like it or not!

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[stoplickingthedamnthing]

Getting into the tower proves to be harder than anticipated once they get closer and discover the arcane turrets. Karlach tries to run in, swinging her ax to destroy them faster than they can destroy her. It doesn't work, and she's forced to duck behind cover and chug potions before she passes out. Gale is the one who comes up with a solution, unpleasant to him as it may be. They use sussur blossoms to disable the turrets, a tricky solution, but it gets them through without any further damage.

"I coulda done it the other way," Karlach insists, kicking a rock along as they approach the front doors. 

"Perhaps, but if you fell, I'm not sure even all three of us together could carry you back to camp," Gale points out, raising an eyebrow at her, and she just laughs and shrugs. 

"Awful strong defenses for it to be abandoned," Gale says, moving quickly away from the turrets and the sussur blossoms beside them. 

[smartass_captain]

Which one? Surely not the brute with the axe, looking to destroy everything she touches. The berobed man cringing in fear of mere flowers? The elf barely listening to his cohorts while he peers inside a barrel for anything that glimmers? Scavenger. Carrion bird of a man. No. No, surely not. But then--

"Given how much trouble there is above ground, it's not terribly surprising if things down in the Underdark are likewise unstable." Jim hops over a broken column before extending a hand out to Gale to grab hold of as he climbs over to join him. He turns to peer up at the tower with curious contemplation. "We'll be quick. All we need is the mushroom samples the couple from the Society mentioned."

"Of course, Darling. Nothing else You need whatsoever." As if they were going to go through all the trouble of getting into this death trap of a place and not looting it silly. If Jim doesn't want a share of the loot, all the more for Astarion, really.

"I don't even see a lock for a traditional door here." Jim plants his hands on his hips and peers up at the imposing visage of the tower's entrance. "How exactly are we going to get in?"

[stoplickingthedamnthing]

Gale shoots Astarion a look, both commiseration and competition in one. Gale certainly intends to thoroughly loot the place if it has in fact been abandoned.

"Want me to take a crack at it?" Karlach offers, getting her ax with a grin. At least she does ask before she starts swinging.

"Let me at least try Knock first," Gale says, holding up a hand. He doesn't have any luck (no surprise, given this is a wizard's tower). Astarion gives it a go as well, but there's no clear place for him to apply his lock picking skills. "Perhaps there's some puzzle in place that we're not seeing?" Gale suggests, sounding almost excited for the prospect. Karlach groans.

[smartass_captain]

Does Jim think alchemy ingredients just pay for themselves even IF he has the skills to make them for the party rather than purchasing them outright?? Or fresh food on the occasions they're not surviving off of the stale bits they find abandoned by those who've fled or been far less lucky than they. He's so lax when it comes to their funds, honestly.

Either way, loot seems to be far from the ranger's mind as he peers up and around, trying to get a better look along the tower walls.

"I'm going to try and find a side entrance real quick. Karlach, if you think you can get in without bringing down anything load-bearing give me a holler if you make a dent. It's a wizard's tower, so I half expect everything to be shielded in some capacity." He glances to Gale and Astarion. "If you two think you can spot and figure out the trick to the main entrance, likewise feel free. It Looks like that set of pipes over there is steady enough to hold me. I want to see if I can get around and to one of the upper balconies. It'd be easy to tie a rope off for you lot to climb up after."

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"If this were my tower, that ax wouldn't so much as chip the paint on the door," Gale says, "And it's just as likely to rebound and hurt you."

Karlach groans, shoulders slumping and head lolling backwards. "What'm I supposed to do, then? Just stand around and kick rocks?" No one is particularly sympathetic to the plight that is her boredom, so she announces, "I'm going with Jim. You two work on puzzle shit or whatever. Maybe if there's a chasm you can't make it across, I can toss ya!" She's probably, maybe kidding about tossing Jim, but Gale's forehead scrunches in concern anyway. He can't do much about it, though, as Karlach follows Jim like a huge puppy and he and Astarion stay at the front door, squabbling about how to get in.

Karlach the big red doggy....

[smartass_captain]

"You know..." Jim offers conversationally while they shimmy down a little jut of rocks along one side of the tower. "There's no way of telling how long we've been down here. Sure. We've camped two 'nights' but given how hostile the Underdark has been, we could just as easily have only been down here a day and a half, or possibly three days."

He squints up at what appears to be movement at an upper balcony but it just looks like a ragged drape. Not really looking all that likely that someone lives here if they've left their things to the mercy of the elements even down here where 'weather' isn't really a problem.

"I really thought it'd take me longer to lose all sense of time." It's an idle thought that seems out of place until Jim points up to that same ragged drape for Karlach to see. "What I mean is, how long do you suppose it's actually been since that odd couple Society members have actually seen this wizard friend of theirs?? All initial impressions I'm getting are that this place is abandoned."