“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.
"Lord Hawklin charged us 'to explore these ruins and see what they contain in the way of threats to the kingdom, remove these threats, and report back on them.' If there is someone wounded, and it could be a thread to Cormyr, we must investigate."
With that, Vardrin prepares to follow into the forest.
Glandred shrugs her shoulders and follows the others through the portal. Letting her companions investigate the scene Glandred stands ready to defend them with her mighty axes.
Jack pulls his bow loose,
"On to another strange adventure, maybe I should write a book."
Nira looks at the portal in detail and says,
"Whom ever made these hand prints, did so within a few hours. The blood is still fresh." Looking through the grass she continues to say,
"I believe there was some kind of battle here. The grass is trampled and there are what looks like drag marks leading from the low shrubs back to the portal."
"Lead on then, Mistress Nina, or show the paths to the others so we may get to the bottom of this."
Nira blushs with embarrassment as the focus begins to shift on her. Hiding her eyes, she turns her gaze back the trampled earth
"You give me too much credit." She says,
"Though I try to be one with Mieklikki, I am no tracker. Leonara would be a better guide than I."
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With Leonara in the lead you begin searching the eerily quiet clearing for further signs of battle, following the drag marks toward the small hill Leonara discerns that approx three people fought and died in this clearing all of which were dragged towards the low hill, there boot prints ending abruptly 20' away from the hill.
As the group continues to approach the hill, two vine-like tendrils suddenly erupts from the ground, one tendril strikes out at Glandred, but the canny dwarf manages to nimbly duck out of the way.
Initiative
Thodan 21
Vardrin 18
Nira 13
Leonara 12
Stalker 12
Jack 11
Chik 11
Plant Monster 8 (AoO at Glandred 14, miss [moving thru a threaten square])
Glandred 2
Combat Summaries[sblock]
Spell Summary
Conditional Summary
Chik 18/24
Glandred 44/55
Jack 31/43
Nira 22/27
Leonara 30/33
Stalker 49/49
Thodan 31/42
Vardrin 30/30
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High Forest - Round 1
