[Adventure]: Shards of Eldanarth (DM: MadAzolin, Judge: ??)

[MadAzolin]

Tucked in the safety of abandoned monster lair, companions listen and wait. As minutes pass, roaring of trolls seems to approach and careful listening reveals sniffing sounds somewhere nearby. Lilli pulls out her harp and prepares it and everyone can feel silence and momentary urge to sleep as item's residual magic seeps in the surroundings.

Suddenly, hunting horns boom in the distance, followed by baying of hounds and roar of troll and trolls in the vicinity roar their response. Sounds of crashing vegetation and splashing of water quickly become less and less audible as trolls seem to have found something else to occupy them.
Danger seems to have passed, at least for now...

OOC: Lilli's harp was not necessary this time (but it might come in handy in the future. With no potential encounter around the corner and everyone hidden safely, party is free to take rest if you want to.

 

[MetaVoid]

"Let's go! We have a chance to slip behind the trolls while they fight the hunters!"

OOC: I'm for going on. I have only one daily left, but having two or three of them will not help if we get into more difficult encounters. And people, remember, next fight you get new AP, so spend yours early and shoot out the dailies, there is no use of powerful dailies if you go between rests without using them.

 

[Neil1889]

"Yes, let's go on," Lilli whispers.

 

[dimsdale]

The cleric stands and prepares to move on

 

[Neurotic]

"I'm too for moving on. Let's move as fast as we can, Cyr can you borrow your gauntlets to Kane so he can try to obscure our trail?"

After receiving the answer, Martelai looks out of the cave.
"Ready?"

 

[Voda Vosa]

"I would have stayed until the trolls were all dead, having killed as many hunters as possible. But whatever." Vermitrax says as he stands ready to move

 

[jbear]

Kane nods at Vermitrax looking slightly confused. To the others who all seem ready to forge on through the swamp he stutters a protest. "N-now you w-want to b-brave the s-swamp? T-that was n-not the p-plan. Other h-hunters w-will be w-waiting on the other s-side. Wh-what about o-our r-ruse?"

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Well I was thinking I was the onlyone with some brains left. In case you decide to stay I will stand by your side Kane. I didn't want to stay here alone, wouldn't be much of a different scenario for me either way." Vermitrax says with a raised eyebrow.

 

[MetaVoid]

"What do you mean? If we can get on the other side of the swamp or at least get a head start while they are fighting, why wouldn't we use it? They will kill each other anyway. With us waiting or not. Only possible advantage I can see is that we wait for peaceful moon and then go, but better idea is to move under hunters moon and then exit the swamp under silver one.

Besides, right behind the trolls the path is clear, anything with any sense would evacuate and we can move uncontested."

 

[Voda Vosa]

"You are assuming the hunters nor the trolls won't attack us as we travel. My thinking is that the Hunters will leave the trolls the moment they spot us, and will hunt us down. Siding ourselves with the trolls? Don't think so, berserker beasts are not the type to take in allies. The more time we remain away from the Hunters, the more chance to surviving the moon we have." Vermitrax explains.