Away from the others

[Tra'atan]

(After some puzzlement, the brown skinned, black haired man sets down new marks on a blank piece of parchment. They seem to be as follows

Top left corner:
Two arrows crossing each other at diagonals, pointing upwards. In the gap above the cross are two Vs.

Top right corner:
One arrow pointing up next to a backward S with the top becoming a spiral.

Center:
One wide but short mark beneath four dots in a curving line around the mark. Above each dot is a line pointing outwards.

Below:
A similar mark without the dots and a line zigzagging through.

Bottom:
An arc like the bottom of a circle with little flicks at each end going out towards the sides.

(Satisfied with the quick marks, he posts the message away from where the orignial group were and leaves.)

 

[Khro'aarian]

message adapted

A dark man with his hair tied back at the neck adds marks to the message then leaves.

Cupped in the arc of the bottom marks he draws 2 Vs with three wider sideways angels (>) in a fan next to them.

Beside the altered group he draws two long lines something between squiggles and zigzags with a cresent moon directly above the middle.

 

[Khraou'aria]

*This time the dark woman's note is simple, the paper divided into two halves with a line.
In the top half, the zigzag-squiggle lines and cresent moon are copied.
On the lower half is a drawing of a pawprint tilted to north-east. Next to is is the leaf-tipped almost-S with two lines on one side.*

 

[Chria'Inz]

A careful message

*The woman returns in well woven clothing, leaving a note covered in clear markings. There appear to be three or four groups of lines...*

The first is like a triangle with the bottom/horrizonal line extended past the corners. Next to it is a now-familiar squiggle, tilted nor-west/sou-east but balances with an inward curve on the lower end. A line goes from side of the triangle to the squiggle. Beneath these, two lines seem to funnel down to a doorway (without the bottom line) with a corner drawn above it like half a T. Next to it are three short vertical lines above a short horizintal, above a nor-east/sou-west diagonal.

The second had a large C curve with three smaller ones within it. This is beside a leaf/seedling curve which has a bowl-like curve beneath the leaf, another just within the first and a much smaller one also within the others.

The third grouping has four curves which almost make a face - two ears, a nose/eyebrow line and a mouth. Under the mouth a line goes down at an angle then off to the right, with a short diagonal going up to the right near the outer end. Next to it is something which can most easily be explained as an abstract horse - jawline, two mane lines, back curve... but six legs.

Beneath the last grouping, close enough for some to consider part of it, are three tilted S curves, the first like the one in the first group.

 

[Tra'atan]

(The man returns briefly. The scent of sweat follows. He posts a hasty note and leaves again.)

The long horizontal squiggles redrawn with the cresent moon, but a line crossing through them.

Crossed arrows between two other standing arrows and the double s-like marks on each side, mirrored to both face the center. Above it is a group of marks that looks a lot like a human footprint.

Beneath is something like a cat's head made from three lines (jaw and two ears) with a line swooping out from each side above two vertical lines capped by a horizonal.

 

[Chria'Inz]

*The woman adds a single group of lines to the bottom of Tra'Atan's message.*

An arrow tilted slightly north-west, three short lines crossing it near the head.

 

[rom]

A strange looking dwarf, wearing a bucket with holes for eyes, and branches tied to the sides, and wearing mismatched plate armor ambles in. he seems to be armed with a large well used iron skillet of some sort. He looks at the notes, and giggles. He reaches deep into a small pouch on his belt, rummages around and produces a stylus.

"Ah-ha!" he giggles as he reaches up and begins to connect the lines on the notes, randomly, from line to line, making a few smiley faces and all around ruining whatever secret messages were there previously. he steps back to admire his work, nods, and ambles back out, giggling.

 

[Khro'aarian]

The dark man returns for a brief few moments to check for news. Dark eyes scan the boards, clearly he awaits something...

He stops. A look of confusion flickers across his brooding features.

"What in the Tiyath's Loins?!"

Trying to surpress a growl he makes another paw-like mark with a piece of ash snarched up from the fire pit, then storms away. The residual heat of the cooling ash turns the paper brown...

 

[Khraou'aria]

*the woman returns with a parchment marked clearly. She has a chuckle at the dot-the-dot-ed messages from before, but does not change her own message to answer Kho'aarian's mark.

In the middle of the top is the seedling-like S mark with the two lines.
Beneath it is a circle with a stylised cat's eye in green.
Beneath that is what looks like a broken arrow, the arrow bent to a right angle.

*

 

[Tra'atan]

(The man's new message is simple. He posts it, he leaves.)

Five fingerprints in some sort of red ink, each struck through with a line blurring the substance.