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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9304317" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p>Offthread, [USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER] indicated a desire to pursue option 3 above. So that's where we'll begin:</p><p></p><p><em>The next day you rise with the sun, itself rising later each morning as autumn advances towards winter. You wrap your fur-lined cloaks close about you as wind gusts through the forest, swirling the last of brown leaves from the branches in dancing spirals. Meek yellow light filters down through the bare canopy as you travel north for hours in the direction pursued by the now-halted logging road venture. You travel the full day and then most of another.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And then the forest comes to an end. D<em>espite her far-ranging rounds throughout the region, </em>Toriq has never been this far in this direction, but she is relatively sure this place hasn't always been this way, for surely word would have circulated among the Guardians of the Ruby Spire, so close (relatively speaking) to their own domain?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The vast clearing is a blight on the landscape. The occasional dessicated trunk still thrusts from gray earth, but there is no sign of greenery, a living conifer or grasses clinging to their greenth, unusual even in this advancing season. But what's worse is the utter lack of visibility beyond a hundred yards ahead, for a fine, pale dust like ashes swirls, lingers, obscures. This ash rises fifty, a hundred feet above the plain, challenging the low, mustard-beige clouds above. Occasionally, the ash clears just enough to reveal some crumbling stone structure deep within the gloom.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>That's when you notice them. At first, you think it is the crows, returned. But these black-feathered birds have neither feathers nor flesh bedecking their heads, worse than vultures. No, their heads are white skulls, without beak and uncanny ... not quite the skull of a bird or reptile even, though that latter is closer. They are eerily silent as they seem to watch you through eye-less cavities.</em></p><p></p><p>What do you do? Whatever it is will be the first attempt against an obstacle in the upcoming L+2 Skill Challenge (DCs 10/14/21). In addition to your move, please articulate the specific goal(s) of that Skill Challenge, which will enable me to set its Complexity. I assume you are engaging the next <em>Grim Portent</em> in <strong>The Cult of Orcus</strong> (Divine Enemy) Front: </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ashen Fane is consecrated as a site of Orcus worship in the woods</li> </ul><p>Thus, I imagine halting that consecration is your foremost desideratum. That could very well tie in to the second of these Quests of Toriq (depending on how you address it), but I'm curious if you seek to engage the first Quest in some way here, as well (you certainly don't have to! There will be plenty of opportunity for you to pursue that separately and later if you choose):</p><p></p><p>● Minor Quest: uncover Cosmo's connection to the Cult of Orcus</p><p></p><p>● Minor Quest: find and put a stop to Cosmo's excavation in the Forest</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 9304317, member: 1282"] Offthread, [USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER] indicated a desire to pursue option 3 above. So that's where we'll begin: [I]The next day you rise with the sun, itself rising later each morning as autumn advances towards winter. You wrap your fur-lined cloaks close about you as wind gusts through the forest, swirling the last of brown leaves from the branches in dancing spirals. Meek yellow light filters down through the bare canopy as you travel north for hours in the direction pursued by the now-halted logging road venture. You travel the full day and then most of another. And then the forest comes to an end. D[I]espite her far-ranging rounds throughout the region, [/I]Toriq has never been this far in this direction, but she is relatively sure this place hasn't always been this way, for surely word would have circulated among the Guardians of the Ruby Spire, so close (relatively speaking) to their own domain? The vast clearing is a blight on the landscape. The occasional dessicated trunk still thrusts from gray earth, but there is no sign of greenery, a living conifer or grasses clinging to their greenth, unusual even in this advancing season. But what's worse is the utter lack of visibility beyond a hundred yards ahead, for a fine, pale dust like ashes swirls, lingers, obscures. This ash rises fifty, a hundred feet above the plain, challenging the low, mustard-beige clouds above. Occasionally, the ash clears just enough to reveal some crumbling stone structure deep within the gloom. That's when you notice them. At first, you think it is the crows, returned. But these black-feathered birds have neither feathers nor flesh bedecking their heads, worse than vultures. No, their heads are white skulls, without beak and uncanny ... not quite the skull of a bird or reptile even, though that latter is closer. They are eerily silent as they seem to watch you through eye-less cavities.[/I] What do you do? Whatever it is will be the first attempt against an obstacle in the upcoming L+2 Skill Challenge (DCs 10/14/21). In addition to your move, please articulate the specific goal(s) of that Skill Challenge, which will enable me to set its Complexity. I assume you are engaging the next [I]Grim Portent[/I] in [B]The Cult of Orcus[/B] (Divine Enemy) Front: [LIST] [*]The Ashen Fane is consecrated as a site of Orcus worship in the woods [/LIST] Thus, I imagine halting that consecration is your foremost desideratum. That could very well tie in to the second of these Quests of Toriq (depending on how you address it), but I'm curious if you seek to engage the first Quest in some way here, as well (you certainly don't have to! There will be plenty of opportunity for you to pursue that separately and later if you choose): ● Minor Quest: uncover Cosmo's connection to the Cult of Orcus ● Minor Quest: find and put a stop to Cosmo's excavation in the Forest [/QUOTE]
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