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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zurai" data-source="post: 3942736" data-attributes="member: 52324">"Agreed. Let's move, then."Artemisia and Enko gather their gear from the Council chamber, and the party sets off. The landscape is shrouded in deep layers of ashfall, although for the moment the skies are clear. Within the village proper, trails and paths have been blazed through the ashes covering the main streets, but once the group starts down the hill they have to break their own trail. The view from the top of the hill looking towards the forest is at once beautiful and terrible to behold. It's as if the color has been leached from the world, leaving the normally vibrant countryside a lifeless charnel gray - and yet, the ash throws the world into stark contrast. Every shrub, sapling, and tree appears as a statue of intricately worked granite.Off in the distance, the Noonshadow forest is the only visible color. While the canopy of the forest is mostly the same ash-gray as the rest of the landscape, the wind has sifted enough of the ash out of the treetops that some green shows through, almost like a beacon of hope.It takes a couple hours for the seven of you to make your way to the edge of the forest, but there are still several hours of daylight left when, at last, you begin making your way between the towering tree trunks. As expected, there are still clumps of ash on the forest floor, but it isn't nearly so thick as outside the forest, and the party makes steady progress.As you walk further and further into the shadowy woods, Artemisia raises a few issues to the party. "Right. Now that we're in the forest, there's some things we need to think about. Firstly, what order are we going to be marching in, and are we going to go single file, two abreast, something else? It's probably a good idea to have one of us hunters ranging ahead, one leading the group, and one at the rear.Secondly, how long do we intend to travel each day? I'm sure we'll be making stops every few hours to rest and eat, so eight hours of actual travel is probably going to take most of what daylight we'll get.Thirdly, do we want to start supplementing our food with hunting already, or do we want to wait a few days? Hunting will slow us down.Lastly, once we do make camp, we will need to set watches. Not all animals hunt by daylight - and who knows what else is out there now? I'd prefer two at a time for three hours each, but as long as we have the whole night covered, I won't complain."[sblock=OOC]OK, at this point I need some administrative stuff: Marching order, formation, how long you intend to march each day on average, who the primary survivalist(s) is/are, watches, etc. Basically, any "standard procedures" you can think of, speak up![/sblock]</blockquote>

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