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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pathfinderq1" data-source="post: 4813634" data-attributes="member: 48394">[sblock=Context,x2]Thanks for the warning, but it wouldn't be the first arrow aimed at her...still, she does dodge them much better when she knows their coming. He whistles to the falcon and it glides over to him. He whispers in it's ear before it flies off. As for being a guardian, I am the self-appointed guardian of this part of the forest...there are no posts nearby. He rolls a walnut around between his forefinger and thumb for a moment before tossing it in his mouth. He turns his head toward the shifters quizzically, Why are you looking for a guard post?  You seek aid, you say, and you ask of guards or patrols.  And you look over your shoulder as if expecting orcs at any moment.  As Vi'kandrix makes each point, he taps the butt of his spear on the ground as if for emphasis.  Do the orcs invade in force?  The nearest Eladrin community is a few hours north.  Vi'kandrix points his spear northward as he says this, then sweeps it back to an upright position in front of him.  Need they be warned?[/sblock]Snarl continued to eat, gnawing on the rapidly-shrinking rabbit- perhaps he had not even heard the questions over his own enthusiastic devouring of the meal.  Iceclaw looked from the elf to the shifter and back again- he wished for once that he had Piper's gift for words, to distill the situation into as clear a summary as possible...  He sighed, just the softest hint of a growl in his throat.  "We came through the mountains on the wing of some ritual, something the eladrin had provided to the elven refugees that we were guarding.  I don't think we were supposed to be carried along- but the leader of the orc warband that pursued us was a shaman of some kind, and he felt the ritual being cast, then was able to twist it somehow.  The elves went through, we went with them, and the orcs came as well.  Then we were on this side of the mountains and all hells broke loose.  The elves took off running, vanished into forest.  The orcs came after us instead- we drove them back bloody, but they were too many for us to fight straight up.  Maybe thirty to start with, led by a shaman- a lot less than that now.  We moved out, playing seek-and-kill down the mountainside and into the forest.  They wouldn't give up- nowhere else to go, I guess, and Piper killed one too many of the shaman's pets.  We kept moving, hoping to run into a patrol or some guard posts- too many orcs for the four of us, but even a handful of elven bowmen would have fixed those odds.  But when you want a guardpost you can never find one, and none of us knows this valley, or this forest, well enough...  A few hours back, Piper got one of her 'ideas', and sent me and Snarl up ahead to find _somebody_- we thought she wanted guards, but maybe it was you two she was thinking of."OOC: [sblock] This scene and the fight scene with Piper and Stonebear are happening simultaneously, and about 2-3 hours foot travel time apart in physical terms.  The two scenes are meant to stay separate, at least for now. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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