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<blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 8989400" data-attributes="member: 6999616">We were pretty sure which mountain had been the site of the battle. However, it is quite large (about 30x40 kilometres) so we were rather lucky to find the site on the first morning of searching from the air. There is a small stone plateau, with around 200 menhirs on it, ranging from 1 to 4 metres in height. There's a fast mountain stream flowing across the plateau, which has washed some of the menhirs away. We spotted stones with straight edges in the stream, further down, and followed it back to the plateau. We knew that this had been a large fight, but weren't expecting it to be on this scale. I took a guess, tried Speak with Dead on one of the small menhirs, and made contact! It gave a Fay name and was willing to have its bones moved to a safer place &quot;. . . if you can manage it.&quot; Now, moving several hundred tons of stones down this mountain and several hundred kilometres north, past a war zone, is not impossible, but it's a really big job and impractical to do secretly. The GM is an experienced civil engineer, and knows just how hard it will be. Seven of us, with horses and a flying carpet, can't start it. All we can do is survey the problem and enlist someone who knows how to do it. If the stones are really stones. I'm suspicious that these are illusions. The Fairie of this world can do some really good, long-lasting illusions, and we've got past several that had lasted more than 3,000 years. Next week, we'll try to see if we can get past these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Dallman, post: 8989400, member: 6999616"] We were pretty sure which mountain had been the site of the battle. However, it is quite large (about 30x40 kilometres) so we were rather lucky to find the site on the first morning of searching from the air. There is a small stone plateau, with around 200 menhirs on it, ranging from 1 to 4 metres in height. There's a fast mountain stream flowing across the plateau, which has washed some of the menhirs away. We spotted stones with straight edges in the stream, further down, and followed it back to the plateau. We knew that this had been a large fight, but weren't expecting it to be on this scale. I took a guess, tried [i]Speak with Dead[/i] on one of the small menhirs, and made contact! It gave a Fay name and was willing to have its bones moved to a safer place ". . . if you can manage it." Now, moving several hundred tons of stones down this mountain and several hundred kilometres north, past a war zone, is not [i]impossible[/i], but it's a really big job and impractical to do secretly. The GM is an experienced civil engineer, and knows just how hard it will be. Seven of us, with horses and a flying carpet, can't start it. All we can do is survey the problem and enlist someone who knows how to do it. If the stones are really stones. I'm suspicious that these are illusions. The Fairie of this world can do some really good, long-lasting illusions, and we've got past several that had lasted more than 3,000 years. Next week, we'll try to see if we can get past these. [/QUOTE]

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