Academy of Drell, Part 6

[Jarval]

"Not all that much to tell." Mortimer takes a seat on a convenient boulder. "We found a cave a little way up the beach. It's not the most hospitable of places, and the entrance floods at high tide, but it'll give us good cover from both the weather and any enemy scouts. We won't be able to get the ship in there, and we've not been all the way back into it yet, but it looks OK."

 

[Tokiwong]

Keith pauses to look over his shoulder and makes another mark on the tree, just in case the group gets lost... he glances to his comrades, "I don't think it followed us..."

 

[Zhure]

Keith, Paendaerig and Sildarin move quietly through the woods, but their tracks are quite obvious. The unturned snow is almost impossible to travel through without leaving a clear trail. They're far enough away the bear and giant can no longer be perceived. No smell of smoke and no sounds reach the group.

 

[Velenne]

"A cave?? Oh, excellent! Anything is better than sleeping out here where .... well anything could come along while we sleep. Best that one of you should stay out here and tell our scouts where we've gotten off to. Please, please, lead on."

 

[Zhure]

Glukma and Boromin will both volunteer to stay and wait for the scouting party.

 

[Tokiwong]

We need to cover our tracks... lest we become fodder for the giants...

Keith takes his long jacket, and wraps the arms of the jacket around his waist, allowing the rest to lay on the ground and hopefully drag snow on top of his steps to cover their trails...

"We should travel in single file... I will take the rear... and hopefully this will help to somewhat mask our passing... not great, but it could at least confuse our nemeies if they choose to pursue..."

 

[Calim]

"I have spent some time in the forest, go on cover your tracks, I will try to destroy these that we have already left."
Paendaerig will start back up the trail we have left trying to stay in the tracks left already. About a minutes walk he will start going in a different direction then he was and walk this way for a while then do this for 2 more times in totally random directions, then he will try and find a branch that may have broke under the weight of the snow and he will start trying to obliterate the tracks headed in the original direction. Once this is achieved he will try and get back to camp leaving as little of trace as possible.

Wilderness lore and hide and move silently again I think

 

[Dalamar]

Realizing what Keith is doing, Sildarin decides to help. But instead of taking off his cloak and offering it, he conjures a heavy blanket to existence using sudden minor creation. He then offers the blanket to Keith.
All this he does without uttering a word.

 

[Tokiwong]

Realizing what Keith is doing, Sildarin decides to help. But instead of taking off his cloak and offering it, he conjures a heavy blanket to existence using sudden minor creation. He then offers the blanket to Keith.
All this he does without uttering a word.

Keith takes the blanket and nods...

"Thank you, Sildarin," he takes the rear, and speaks, "I think we should try and head back for now... before we get ourselves lost."

 

[Zhure]

The trio in the woods begin masking their trail with the blanket conjured by Sildarin. After a few minutes, it's obvious no one is following.