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<blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4213619" data-attributes="member: 55833"><p>[SBLOCK=Redclaw/Aerec]<span style="color: Orange">(Interpretation of the roll is actually more based on luck than intelligence as Aerec has no knowledge of Black Speech or runes. Good roll though!)</span> <span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Aerec recalls seeing something like this rune before, some weeks past. Late was the hour and even the fringes of Mirkwood were darkening to shadow with an unnatural haste that day. So do the working days of the camp grow shorter as the woods grow ever more perilous, and thus had Aerec been returning with one of the pack ponies from a felling site, taking one of the vague twisting paths, thick with roots and lined with vegetation. The lumberjack that day had dallied with his use of the horse and Aerec was in a sore mood, having been forced to wait longer than he should. With such preoccupation did his mind wander, and so too his feet, until he found himself away from the path and briefly lost in a part of the forest he did not recognise. It was during this time that Aerec stumbled upon a dell of widely spaced trees and scattered stones. Upon some trees were carved marks, much like the rune upon the forehead of the female thief. An air of ill content lay about that place and Aerec had not lingered there for long, hurrying instead onward and eventually toward the sound of the falls. This way did he stumble and trip his way back to the camp.</span>[/SBLOCK]</p><p>[SBLOCK=renau1g/Ulfang]<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Ulfang does not recognise the strange character scribed on the forehead of the thief, but he recognises its implication and feels uncomfortable even standing in its presence.</span>[/SBLOCK]</p><p>[SBLOCK=Shayuri/Aranel]<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Aranel cannot interpret the exact meaning, but she senses the connotation and has no doubt that the rune portends some far greater evil than mere burglary.</span>[/SBLOCK]</p><p>[SBLOCK=Binder_Fred/Baran]<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Baran has had no dealings with such a thing. He knows of dwarven runes, of course, like the ones upon his parchment, or the delving script of Angerthas Daeron, but he can only write and read standard Khuzdul runic, and has come to write more often in common Westron when keeping ledger or journal.</span>[/SBLOCK]</p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Gellion returns from the back room. He clears his throat, "I have closed the window foredwarf Baran."</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Silver">Appreciate the effort Fred <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dlsharrock, post: 4213619, member: 55833"] [SBLOCK=Redclaw/Aerec][COLOR=Orange](Interpretation of the roll is actually more based on luck than intelligence as Aerec has no knowledge of Black Speech or runes. Good roll though!)[/COLOR] [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Aerec recalls seeing something like this rune before, some weeks past. Late was the hour and even the fringes of Mirkwood were darkening to shadow with an unnatural haste that day. So do the working days of the camp grow shorter as the woods grow ever more perilous, and thus had Aerec been returning with one of the pack ponies from a felling site, taking one of the vague twisting paths, thick with roots and lined with vegetation. The lumberjack that day had dallied with his use of the horse and Aerec was in a sore mood, having been forced to wait longer than he should. With such preoccupation did his mind wander, and so too his feet, until he found himself away from the path and briefly lost in a part of the forest he did not recognise. It was during this time that Aerec stumbled upon a dell of widely spaced trees and scattered stones. Upon some trees were carved marks, much like the rune upon the forehead of the female thief. An air of ill content lay about that place and Aerec had not lingered there for long, hurrying instead onward and eventually toward the sound of the falls. This way did he stumble and trip his way back to the camp.[/COLOR][/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=renau1g/Ulfang][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Ulfang does not recognise the strange character scribed on the forehead of the thief, but he recognises its implication and feels uncomfortable even standing in its presence.[/COLOR][/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=Shayuri/Aranel][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Aranel cannot interpret the exact meaning, but she senses the connotation and has no doubt that the rune portends some far greater evil than mere burglary.[/COLOR][/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=Binder_Fred/Baran][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Baran has had no dealings with such a thing. He knows of dwarven runes, of course, like the ones upon his parchment, or the delving script of Angerthas Daeron, but he can only write and read standard Khuzdul runic, and has come to write more often in common Westron when keeping ledger or journal.[/COLOR][/SBLOCK] [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Gellion returns from the back room. He clears his throat, "I have closed the window foredwarf Baran."[/COLOR] [COLOR=Silver]Appreciate the effort Fred ;)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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