CB's Pathfinder Beta -- Burnt Offerings
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Tac Abor, human rogue
"If someone let the goblins in, then who needed that ladder?" Tac wonders aloud. He shakes his head. "We should probably knock that out of the way before we do anything else. The gate's closed now, but if there's more gobbers and they find that, even if they didn't set it, we'll have a hell of a bad night. Anyone want to give me a hand up there?"
"If someone let the goblins in, then who needed that ladder?" Tac wonders aloud. He shakes his head. "We should probably knock that out of the way before we do anything else. The gate's closed now, but if there's more gobbers and they find that, even if they didn't set it, we'll have a hell of a bad night. Anyone want to give me a hand up there?"
"Wait a minute," Warns Elyra, placing a hand on her cousin's shoulder to stop him from approaching the ladder.
"Everyone, hold still a minute. Let me see what I can figure out." She examines the earth at the base of the wall below the ladder, then backtracks toward the grave, trying to see if she can learn anything from the tracks.
OOC: Survival +7 to see other people, +9 to see Goblins. She is trying to find out who, if anyone, came over the wall. Also, were there any goblins near the gravesite? If she sees an easy way to do it, she will try to get a look at somewhere she saw Sandstone step, just to see what his prints look like.
Walking Dad
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Sivan
Sivan looks around. He neither knows the 'owner' of this grave, nor can he track. But If the others find out more, his combat abilities will be surely needed.
Sivan looks around. He neither knows the 'owner' of this grave, nor can he track. But If the others find out more, his combat abilities will be surely needed.
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
While Elyra hunts for prints, everyone stands in place per her request. Despite the shrouding fog and the deep of night, heavy dragging marks from graveside to the base of the wall are seen by everyone as evidence that someone has dug up and removed a body from Father Tobyn's grave.
[sblock=Elyra]Survival 21 for tracks other than goblins. Survival 24 for goblin tracks. The lack of light, combined with the fog, makes it much more difficult to track, however. If better lighting were available, more information could be revealed by the tracks.Elyra treks gingerly but quickly around the base of the wall where the ladder lies propped against the outer edge and quickly finds the tracks of five separate goblins, along with scrapes on the stone wall where metal implements heavily rubbed against the inside of the rock wall where the creatures must have climbed down.[/sblock]
[sblock=Elyra]Survival 21 for tracks other than goblins. Survival 24 for goblin tracks. The lack of light, combined with the fog, makes it much more difficult to track, however. If better lighting were available, more information could be revealed by the tracks.Elyra treks gingerly but quickly around the base of the wall where the ladder lies propped against the outer edge and quickly finds the tracks of five separate goblins, along with scrapes on the stone wall where metal implements heavily rubbed against the inside of the rock wall where the creatures must have climbed down.[/sblock]
When Talashia sees how hard Elyra has to work to see the tracks and evidence, she holds her hands close, palms facing each other. Licks of blue-white light arc from her fingers and palms into a little ball between her hands. As she spreads her hands wide the ball of light spins out, breaking up into several smaller balls that whirl around the wall where the ladder is...casting eerie silver-blue light that's about as bright as a torch over the area.
(Dancing Lights!)
(Dancing Lights!)
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
The light shone by Talashia is a help to Elyra, who finds it much easier to determine a fuller story as told by the tracks.
[sblock=Elyra]One deeply impinted set of prints at the base of the rock wall surrounding the boneyard indicates that at least one of the goblins jumped down to the ground from the top of the wall, while the others climbed down. Elyra hunts carefully and determines that a lone pair of lightly shod feet--not in work boots as at the North Gate, but in leather shoes or boots, perhaps--may have been first down off the wall...the depth of the imprint of these tracks indicate that the tracks belong to an individual a great deal heavier than the average goblin (a human or perhaps a half-elf, perhaps). In any case, the lightly shod tracks are overlaid by the five goblins, which is clear enough that they were made first.
Elyra spends a few minutes more following the goblin tracks in a meandering fashion--the tracks start to wander 'round the graveyard but eventually all return to Father Tobyn's gravesite, and there it is clear that digging with shovels was done. The lightly shod feet stand in place at a distance with a vantage of approaches to the boneyard from the west and the north. [/sblock]
[sblock=Elyra]One deeply impinted set of prints at the base of the rock wall surrounding the boneyard indicates that at least one of the goblins jumped down to the ground from the top of the wall, while the others climbed down. Elyra hunts carefully and determines that a lone pair of lightly shod feet--not in work boots as at the North Gate, but in leather shoes or boots, perhaps--may have been first down off the wall...the depth of the imprint of these tracks indicate that the tracks belong to an individual a great deal heavier than the average goblin (a human or perhaps a half-elf, perhaps). In any case, the lightly shod tracks are overlaid by the five goblins, which is clear enough that they were made first.
Elyra spends a few minutes more following the goblin tracks in a meandering fashion--the tracks start to wander 'round the graveyard but eventually all return to Father Tobyn's gravesite, and there it is clear that digging with shovels was done. The lightly shod feet stand in place at a distance with a vantage of approaches to the boneyard from the west and the north. [/sblock]
Ambrus
Explorer
Sandstone quickly stands and begins wagging his long tail enthusiastically as the silver haired woman's eldritch globes of light coalesce and flit along the Boneyard wall. The curious collie is clearly enthralled by the magical display as he follows the lights' gyrations with his wedge-shaped head.
Elyra gives the eldritch lights a wary eye as she goes about her business, knowing they are useful but distrusting them all the same. In the end, she straightens and gestures to her surroundings as she speaks.
"They came in over the wall," she says, indicating the ladder. "I make it five goblins and someone else -- A human, maybe, or a half-elf. Not the same one who left through the gate, they were wearing wearing heavier boots than the one who was here. They wandered all over, but they all came to this grave. They were looking for this one in particular, I think," she adds. "The big one was the leader, it looks like he stood watch while the goblins dug."
She grits her teeth. "The person who led the digging may still be in town, but there's no way to find him. Or her. Or whatever. I don't know if I can track whoever left, either, it's not going to be easy."
Elyra looks at the group. "Can anyone make some sense out of this?"
"They came in over the wall," she says, indicating the ladder. "I make it five goblins and someone else -- A human, maybe, or a half-elf. Not the same one who left through the gate, they were wearing wearing heavier boots than the one who was here. They wandered all over, but they all came to this grave. They were looking for this one in particular, I think," she adds. "The big one was the leader, it looks like he stood watch while the goblins dug."
She grits her teeth. "The person who led the digging may still be in town, but there's no way to find him. Or her. Or whatever. I don't know if I can track whoever left, either, it's not going to be easy."
Elyra looks at the group. "Can anyone make some sense out of this?"
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
There are two sets of canine paw prints criss-crossing the boneyard in haphazard fashion that approach in seeming tandom from the west near the festival square in front of the Temple and--after sniffing Father Tobyn's gravesite--meander north. One of the two of these sets of tracks dances round and round--sniffing something of interest, no doubt--in Sandstone's current position. When Elyra examines what she feels is certain to be a print that surely must have been left by Sandstone, however, the print she finds is three-toed with a fourth dewar claw that leaves a telltale light prick of an imprint in the earth...a distinctly uncanine print.
Sandstone, ever aware of his surroundings, notes the last bent of Elyra's tracking effort to discern the nature of his own print.
In other words, she's on to you and you're on to her.
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