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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7237237" data-attributes="member: 6802951"><p>I'm not talking animal messenger. I'm talking actual trained animal like carrier/homing pigeon (probably a parrot given the setting.) Each patrol has a couple and will either write a note for the fort, or just release them if it looks like they won't survive a fight.</p><p>When a patrol's parrot arrives back at the fort, that is when magic may become involved, probably through <em>Speak with Animal </em>to find out what the parrot saw before it left and to tell it to lead reinforcements back to where it was released. Reinforcements include tracker dogs/dinos and more powerful NPCs. Their intent is probably not to be able to rescue the patrol, but more to investigate what killed them and to recover the bodies - including destroying any undead that they may have risen as.</p><p></p><p>I can imagine that while they aren't going to be resurrecting dead members, that sort of organisation may well have the sort of loyalty and contracts to invest very significant resources into ensuring members slain in the line of duty are not abandoned as undead.</p><p></p><p> If the party is made up of the sort of CE murderhoboes that that implies, simply being the authorities isn't going to impress them. You'll probably need capability to apply fairly major sanctions to divert that merry band of munchkins. - Particularly if they're just playing their characters as XP-and loot- gathering proxies of themselves. </p><p></p><p> Not being able to buy anything or hire any guides is probably going to put a severe crimp on the party's navigation or capability to actually find the useful areas in the trackless jungle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7237237, member: 6802951"] I'm not talking animal messenger. I'm talking actual trained animal like carrier/homing pigeon (probably a parrot given the setting.) Each patrol has a couple and will either write a note for the fort, or just release them if it looks like they won't survive a fight. When a patrol's parrot arrives back at the fort, that is when magic may become involved, probably through [I]Speak with Animal [/I]to find out what the parrot saw before it left and to tell it to lead reinforcements back to where it was released. Reinforcements include tracker dogs/dinos and more powerful NPCs. Their intent is probably not to be able to rescue the patrol, but more to investigate what killed them and to recover the bodies - including destroying any undead that they may have risen as. I can imagine that while they aren't going to be resurrecting dead members, that sort of organisation may well have the sort of loyalty and contracts to invest very significant resources into ensuring members slain in the line of duty are not abandoned as undead. If the party is made up of the sort of CE murderhoboes that that implies, simply being the authorities isn't going to impress them. You'll probably need capability to apply fairly major sanctions to divert that merry band of munchkins. - Particularly if they're just playing their characters as XP-and loot- gathering proxies of themselves. Not being able to buy anything or hire any guides is probably going to put a severe crimp on the party's navigation or capability to actually find the useful areas in the trackless jungle. [/QUOTE]
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