Paths of Legend: The Sunless Citadel (IC)

[crazy_monkey1956]

The Ravine

Occupied with the apple and the goblin, Merenia, Ringrill and Athanil do not note the approach of another party.

Athanil does indeed sense magic in the apple, with a strong aura. (OOC: Assuming you spent the three rounds to get full information from the spell, make a Spellcraft check to determine the school of the magical aura on the apple.)

The goblin cowers from Merenita, obviously terrified of her spider like shape. "Durnn, chief, makes us sell apples. Apples is healing apples. Only one in summer. That's all me knows!"

Meanwhile, as the large group approaches the ravine, Rashana and Darik see a small group at the edge of the ravine. The glare of the setting sun obscures features, but there appears to be two medium humanoids holding a small humanoid, a canine of some sort, and...something else, a black spot nearly as big as the medium humanoids standing nearby.

 

[Atanatotatos]

ooc: Spellcraft:Roll Lookup

The apple is a powerful magic item, though I can't clearly determine of what kind. says Athanil after concentrating for a moment. Does this fruit have healing capabilities, goblin? How?? Who is your chief? Where do you take these apples of yours? Speak, goblinoid!

 

[evillyn666]

Rashana

The sorceress stops abruptly as her gaze scans the horizon. She squints hard against the light of the setting sun. “There, up ahead!”, she announces and points to the ravine’s edge, “Looks to be a small group threatening what could be a child.” Spurred to action, Rashana draws her crossbow and picks up the pace to hasten the inevitable confrontation.

 

[ethandrew]

Kael looks up from his book when he hears the hurried voice of Rashana. His eyes make the adjustment and he notes that of which she speaks. Hastily putting his book away and drawing his longbow, he speaks in a quiet but harsh tone, "Slow yourself, caster! We have advantage here, as they have not seen us and are on the edge of a cliff. We want to keep that. We move as group and smart. Prepare yourselves," his eyes never let up from the silhouettes against the cliff edge, Kael's fingers coaxing the fletching of his notched arrow.

 

[Scott DeWar]

So Lenya, you suggest that perhaps a tactic to maybe funnel them to a choke point, may ... "

then to Rashana, " What did you say? threatening a child? do you think they see us?"

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

“It's an option, but one that is not always available. Anyways, let's get closer and see what's going on there.”

Lenya also gets closer, using the terrain to keep herself out of direct sight at least. She doesn't expect that they will manage to get there unnoticed, but why make it too easy for them.

 

[maddmic]

Darik too sees what's happening and also moves to action. He too was concerned that this might be one of the children involved.

Pulling his long sword, he begins running towards the two on the ledge. "Put the little one down!"

 

[Atanatotatos]

Athanil turns around hearing the unbelievable shout. He saw a human running towards them, sword in hand...what...? It was not a common sight to see someone defend a goblin...wait... the light was almost gone! The goblin might be mistaken for a child from afar. As Ril stepped before his master growling, Athanil simply shifted a little bit not to cover the shape of the prisoner with his own body, then kept an eye on the his wannabe savior...

 

[Yttermayn]

Merenita watches in a docile pose as the human comes toward them. "Might as well get it all explained at once." she comments with a very human sounding sigh.

 

[Arkhandus]

Vardok was about to start sneaking forward after the others pointed out the group in the distance, but then some fool ran off and shouted, making the dwarf wince.

He mutters "We're gonna have a talk 'bout the val-yoo o' not runnin' an' shoutin' t' let the whole blasted world know whayre we ahre....." as he starts chasing after the running fool. He hopes the others are following, since he doesn't want to fight a group of foes with just one crazy person who obviously has a deathwish, in the dwarf's mind.