Adventures in Cormyr - The Doorway from Everywhere.

[stonegod]

"High forest? The other is the Great Desert, once home to the Netherese. Their reach was long indeed."

 

[Rhun]

Thodan

"The High Forest, eh? If I am not mistaken, that is one of the largest forests in the Realms, and quite a ways from Cormyr? It seems these portals have a long reach, indeed."

 

[Lord_Raven88]

Nira walks over to a pad of yellow looking flowers that has over grown an area of the old ruins. Kneeling down, she takes a careful eye to the exotic flower and says, "I have heard of these flowers before, Yellow Buttercups. They are a rare and unique flower." Rising back to her feet, she brushes the dirt off her clothes and turns to face the rest of the group. Continueing she says, "What makes them so unique is that they require a specific type soil or they will not grow. A soil that can only be found in the High Forest."

As Nira steps thru the portal to examine the buttercups her keen eyes picks out what appears to be smattering of blood on the grass around the portal, looking back at her companions her face noticeably pales as she sees for the first time that the portal is covered in bloody hand prints.

It is at this point that Nira finally notices that the forest is deathly quiet.

 

[Rhun]

Noticing the look upon Nira's face, Thodan quickly moves to her side, wary of any threat to his companion.

 

[Thanee]

Leonara

As she was just about to close the portal, Nira moves past Leonara and steps through it. Humans, and their lack of patience... the elf thinks.

“What now? Do you want to see what's behind the other portals, or rather go exploring here?”

As Nira suddenly grows pale, Leonara's grip around her longbow tightens, as she tries to discern, what might have caused the sudden change.

“A problem?”

 

[D20Dazza]

Glandred moves cautiously over to the portal, pulling her waraxe and hand axe from their homes.

 

[stonegod]

Vardrin cautiously peaks his head through, shaking it at the sight. "Is it recent? Can you tell what made them?"

 

[Bloodweaver1]

Nira Cydatell

As if locked in some horrific hypnotic trance, all Nira can do is stare at the blood covered portal. With a great force of will, she finally pulls herself away from the portal and kneels down towards the ground. “Look… at the… portal…” Is all that she is able to say, her lunch threatening to spew out uncontrollably onto the ground. Slowly after a few deep breaths she is finally able to regain control over her stomach. It is then that the ire silence of the forest finally takes its notice. “We must leave this place. Now.” She says as she slowly she stands back up and looks deeper into the forest. “For I fear we have walked straight into the dragon's den.”

OOC: Bardic Knowledge and Knowledge Nature for the hand prints, plus another search and spot check.

 

[Lord_Raven88]

As if locked in some horrific hypnotic trance, all Nira can do is stare at the blood covered portal. With a great force of will, she finally pulls herself away from the portal and kneels down towards the ground. “Look… at the… portal…” Is all that she is able to say, her lunch threatening to spew out uncontrollably onto the ground. Slowly after a few deep breaths she is finally able to regain control over her stomach. It is then that the ire silence of the forest finally takes its notice. “We must leave this place. Now.” She says as she slowly she stands back up and looks deeper into the forest. “For I fear we have walked straight into the dragon's den.”

OOC: Bardic Knowledge and Knowledge Nature for the hand prints, plus another search and spot check.

OOC: The hand prints appear approx human sized and are no more than a few hours old, scanning the forest Nira notices that there are signs that the ground was recently churned up by foot prints, also there appears to be some faint drag marks leading from the low shrub covered hill to the portal.

 

[Thanee]

Leonara

“Can I help you with that?” the elven ranger asks, Leonara had stepped through the portal as well in the meantime and moved up to Nira's side with Stalker right at her heels, ears pricked.

She then takes a look at the scene and tries to discern as much as she can from the foot prints.