Arcane Might Part 1: The Search for Home (Still running)

[Zhure]

Lugash

Lugash awakens and meditates briefly to restore himself to full power.

"Ahh, lovely morning. Let's get this train moving."

As everyone else finishes their meals and preparations, Lugash takes his morning constitutional around the encampment, looking for anything out of the ordinary before getting aboard the wagon...

 

[Uriel]

Myrkskog checks the his blades and then says 'Well, gentlemen, I believe that this is where my years spent in misguided youth pay off. I will scout this out, though perhaps some of your Familiars would like to go as well,Owls won't look particularly out of place in the woods, after all...'

OoC: Hide and move Silently as I creep forward.

 

[Zhure]

Lugash

Lugash won't go too close to the sounds of chopping wood. His years in the underdark didn't teach him any stealth skills. But he will go somewhat in that direction before coming back to settle on a wagon.

 

[Xael]

Gourry twitches as Kavernus adresses him, and looks like he's been more daydreaming than paying attention to his surroundings. He hastily looks around. "Huh, wh... ambush? What? Where?" He then apparently hears the chopping sound too. "Oh... I don't really know if anybody lives here. Other than some druid in the forest I hear, as we were told specifially not to touch the forest. I hear he doesn't like people cutting down his forest without a good reason. You know, druid thing or something."

Myrkskog sneaks forward, entering the forest edge for cover, and makes his way through the not-yet-so-thick underbrush. He travels for some few hundred feet, keeping near the path. He spots three orcs near the road cutting down as many trees, some hundred feet ahead from him. Three more orcs are cutting the branches off the trunks, and five more are building a crude wall from the trunks. There is already some 15 feet of the wall structure ready, starting from the cliffs at the left side of the road, and ending some 5 feet from the main pathway. There's also a single trunk sticking up from the ground on the other side of the road, and there seems to be some kind of a small watchtower-like structure behind the already completed section of the wall. Two orcs are sitting there and are lazily checking the path now and then. The wall is about 10 feet high. A pile of short sections of tree trunks is positioned in front of the completed wall section. There strangely also seems to be a dwarf clad in work clothing supervising the work.

Myrkskog's thoughs shift to more immediate matter, when a longbow is being aimed at his head from the distance of three feet. A youngish human man clad in leather armor and rather greenish clothing is holding the bow. Another man is kneeling farther away, with a bow in his hand too. The closer of the men speaks, rather quietly: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"



OOC: Happy rather late new year. My explosives sucked.

 

[Uriel]

Myrkskog's thoughs shift to more immediate matter, when a longbow is being aimed at his head from the distance of three feet. A youngish human man clad in leather armor and rather greenish clothing is holding the bow. Another man is kneeling farther away, with a bow in his hand too. The closer of the men speaks, rather quietly: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Hoping that a few of the other Wizard's had sent their Familiars along to recon as well, Myrkskog says to the men in green 'I am merely a wanderer, friends. Hearing this noise, I came to investigate, as I have run afoul of bandits afore this and wished to not again.'

 

[Xael]

The man nods slightly. "Ah, I can believe that, but that doesn't explain why you're traveling with a bandit."

 

[Uriel]

The man nods slightly. "Ah, I can believe that, but that doesn't explain why you're traveling with a bandit."

Looking nonplussed at the fact that these men had watched his band (most of whom were about as subtle as a Fireball), Mrykskog said 'That,friend, is the concern of one of my travelling companions, and not to my liking. He gave the ruffian clemency in exchange for a Vow of Atonement on his Soul or some such. Now, if I may ask, what are you fellows doing here, and more to the immediate issue, what are those orcas doing down there, for the felling of trees by Orcs is something that I care for not at all...'

 

[Xael]

The man thinks for a second, aims his bow to the ground, and ansvers: "Well, that's good enough ansver for me. I'm Derrick, me and my brother Nat over there are taking care of the woods and the surrounding area. And yes, the orcs. They're rather bothersome, as we have no intention to let them build that whatever watchtower it is. We tried to scare them away with a note on an arrow, but they decided to ignore it, and they're too numerous for us two to drive off. There are about a dozen of them, plus an Ogre. And the dwarf of course. Which happens to be rather puzzling for us. You see, I remember the dwarf passing here about two years ago with a horde of craftsmen, to build some mansion for this noble. What was his name... ...Malark I think. He built the mansion and left, but he was apparently called back just a week ago. We thought that Malark just wanted to expand his mansion, or finish his yard, which was left half-worked. But now..." Derrick points to the direction of the wall structure and the dwarf. "...we've got no idea what's going on. The dwarf and the orcs came here probably a day or two ago. And started building that."

 

[Uriel]

Looking from one man to the other, Myrkskog nods at the plight and then says 'Well, friends, why don't we adjourn to my travelling companions, for while it is true that one among them is a former bandit, the others are all acomplished Wizards.I am sure that we can find a way to deal with these Orcs easily enough.'

 

[Zhure]

Lugash

"If they're in trouble I wish they'd scream or something so I could rush to the rescue. I'm not going in without reason though...." Lugash says from the back of the wagon.