Ashy's Oathbound Campaign, IC [ARCHIVED]

[Ashy]

As Kyron leads his horse along he starts to think tactically about their situation. His divine sun magic can keep the worst of the heat off of those in armor, and he knows the charm for summoning water which will also probably be useful later. Baja can catch those lizards providing some meat for the party as everyone except the lumin himself needed to eat, but the horses will need something, which means Kiera's create food and water blessing of Pelor the next day.

Hmm . . . with two suns this will affect the ritual time of dawn when his divine powers rejuvenate. He will have to attune himself to this world's cycles and determine how to tap the divine energy present. Two suns might even provide some extra power for himself and the sun-god follower who both utilize divine sun power in different ways.

Voadam:

Spoiler

When the thought of eating these lizards crosses your mind, you recall reading a scrap of parchment, stained with some dark liquid and gritty to the touch. Sand fell from the creases of the document when you unfolded it; it seemed to be a page from a journal of sorts. The parchment read: 'Finally my strength has regained enough to write again... The gods of good luck must have smiled upon me in this foul, devilish place and I have discovered that there are a few things that manage to live amid these endless, merciless dunes. A small, rust-colored species of lizard which appears only at night when the two blazing suns have set. They are fit to eat (though their flavor is terribly lacking) and their blood is thin and drinkable. To think that I, who once sipped flowered wine with elven princesses atop emerald palaces in the boughs, amid the heart-stopping songs of the Fey Courts, have stooped to such a thing... Survival makes men do terrible and inexplicable things...'

 

[Voadam]

Ashy

Spoiler

was the sand in the scroll red?

 

[Voadam]

Kyron turns to the albino warrior scout "Baja, were the lizards red and little? If so you might want to catch a few. Some of my research before we came indicated that food and water in the red deserts under the twin suns are scarce but that the blood of red lizards that come out at sunset can sustain a man's life when there is no water. I do not eat or need water but you and the others will. I can summon water to sustain you, but otherwise you all and the horses will have to rely on Keira spending her divine power on summoning food for you. The less she has to provide though the more her powers can be devoted to our mission."

 

[Ashy]

Ashy

Spoiler

was the sand in the scroll red?

Voadam:

Spoiler

Yes. Red as spilled blood.

 

[Ashy]

Hmm . . . with two suns this will affect the ritual time of dawn when his divine powers rejuvenate. He will have to attune himself to this world's cycles and determine how to tap the divine energy present. Two suns might even provide some extra power for himself and the sun-god follower who both utilize divine sun power in different ways.

Voadam:

Spoiler

You'll have to do some experimentation with this to see if it works.

 

[Voadam]

Baja wipes an already sweaty forearm across his even more sweaty forehead, flicking off the moisture and not noticing how it evaporates before even hitting the sands.

Dere's a big field of warriors who's not movin' any more. Blood and guts and stuff everywhere. Jus' over there. He points off to from where he came. An' all da li'le lizards, dems are eatin' tha bodies. Makin' Baja hungry and feel sick all at da same timez.

My senses and emotions seem amplified as well. I almost burst into brilliance when we arrived because of the sheer feeling. Best to pause and try to adjust and adapt to this world of the Enemy and retain control overselves. Baja, were the bodies human? Orc? Demons? A mix?

 

[Ashy]

As you trudge to the top of the tall, red dune - your movements awkward and gangly due to the deep sand - your eyes scan in the direction of what you believe to be east, towards the rising, watery moon. There, you perceive a massive field of nearly indescribable charnel. A battle the likes of which you have never seen took place here, in a large valley (approximately half a mile across) ringed with high sand dunes. As you take in the horrific scene, you notice hundreds of tiny rust-colored lizards descending on the corpses, feeding voraciously. The shadows at your side of the valley are deep, and growing deeper with the setting of the suns behind you. You hear a sound that sounds like someone breaking wood – short, snapping cracks and a bit of scrabbling here and there. You see a trace of movement (other than the small lizards) in two places: what seems to be a large group of winged creatures sitting upon a large pile of bodies farthest from your location and nearer to you, a cluster of smallish, many legged lizard-like creatures.

OOC: If you want to know anymore, I’ll need Spot checks from everyone. Please see the map below - I hope it turned out ok, I've just started using this new mapping program... Anybody know of any really good and easy ones to use??? Oh, and on the map, ignore the word "larger" in the phrase "larger, lizard-like creatures" - thanx

 

[Voadam]

first things first

Kyron inspects the closer many legged lizards as the more immediate seeming threat. Unless the winged creatures are fiends that can teleport they are not as immediate an issue.

Spot +4

 

[Ashy]

Kyron inspects the closer many legged lizards as the more immediate seeming threat. Unless the winged creatures are fiends that can teleport they are not as immediate an issue.

Spot +4

Voadam:

Spoiler

Spot check: 1d20+4: (5) + 4 = 9; You cannot tell much much in the tangled mass of bodies, armor, weapons, and sand, but you are able to make out that there are three of these creatures. Each one has a long, snake-like neck and a face that terminates into a beak-like mouth, a small, stunted tail, and (what your best guess is) eight or ten legs. They are scrabbling over the scraps of the battlefield, as best you can discern. you can tell no more about the winged creatures, as they are simply too far away.

Lastly, (since you asked about it earlier) of the bodies you can see, they are composed of all number of races - dwarves, men, elves, halflings, gnomes, goblinoids and so forth, as well as a large number of races that you have never seen or heard of before...

 

[hafrogman]

Tristan pulls himself up to the crest of the dune, working hard to keep his metal-shod feet from sinking into the sand. He arrives at the top and casts his gaze out over the battle. After the initial shock at the sheer magnitude, he starts looking for any information he can about the battle.

[OOC - spot +6, looking for any clues as to the events involved. How many different armies met, where they came from, etc.]