Knightmares of Khorvaire

DarkMaster said:
"Luthal, mind you to help me with my armor"
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"Mmmm. Your right, probably best not to march with that stuff on."

Luthal assists the paladin in removing the plates of metal. When he finishes, he gazes up at the peaks rising in the distance.

"I still dunno about them horses, Kolarred. You come to a desicion yet?"
 

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As Luthal and Kolarred make their decision about taking the horses with them or not, Zook takes of the saddle of his mount and hides it in the tower. “I hope you are around when we come back” “… if, we do” he gently claps the horse and takes him to a spot near the iron door where there’s plenty of grass “gonna use my legs from now on you see” he looks the horse deeply in his eyes “thanks for being such a good horse…”As he turns he glimt the metal door and decides to open it running to the entrance of the tower descending by the rope and opens the metal door from the inside, as he does it ‘maybe this is just a dummy door?’

Open Lock +9 (Vest of Escape +4 competance bonus to Open Locks)
 


Kolarred and Luthal spend the next five minutes loading the paladin into his platemail. Luthal confirms that he can follow the slight trail and should be able to follow the path to get them to the temple. Zook satisfies his curiousity by opening the metal tunnel door from the inside and sees that, yes... the tunnel door and the door in the small cave were one and the same.

After the armor is on and in place, Kolarred and Luthal notice that Zook has already taken off the saddle from his horse, unloaded his saddlebags, and led the horse into the treeline. The question now remains whether or not they want to do the same? Assuming a day to reach the crevasse, three days to the temple, time in the temple, then returning back here... the group is looking at a minimum of a week before they return back here to pick the horses up if they leave them here. But at the same time, the horses will probably be safer here than if they led them into the mountains but then had to leave them at a later point on the trail. Based on what the group has seen, this tower has probably not seen any activity (humanoid or animal) for quite a while (not counting the Claws passing through). The same might not be said further up the trail.

So the group has a dilemma. Leave the horses here or not?
 

Kolarred looks around if there is enough grass and plants around for their horses to survive on the local vegetation alone.

OOC [sblock] Don't worry for Kolarred, I just remembered that he is 5 th level now and has the Pokemount ability.

Handle animal +6, ride +9 whatever is the most usefull here[/sblock]
 

Luthal seems unconcerned about the horses.

"I think they will slow us down too much, to be honest. I'd rather trust my own paws on a trail."
 

Kolarred does a quick scan of the area around the tower and determines that there are plenty of grasses for the horses to subsist on. If they leave the door to the tower open to use as a stable, the horses are well-trained enough that they'd be able to wander around the clearing to eat and walk, then return to the tower in the evenings to sleep if they so chose. Assuming no one or no animals show up in the meantime, the horses should be fine, all things considered.
 


This path is most difficult these feet’s are going to walk. ″Friends! Let us make haste to the path cross″ he turns north looking at the sky ″I hope the weather will accompany us at it’s best″ he walks to Kolarred and puts his hand on the paladins shoulder ″I hope you don’t feel to ´naked´ without your mount Kolarred″ “we should discuss on the way what path we will take to get to the temple ruins” “I would prefer… and I know I don’t surprise you take the most hidden path” “the one that follows southern side of peaks and we could get to the temple from it’s north side”
He takes of his boots changes his socks and puts the boots on again and tying the shoelaces with care. “Luthal I want to scout today” “I think it’s better you take over when it gets darker” he starts walking looking back at the tower when he reaches the treeline thinking on his homeland and his friends, what reminds him of how little he knows about Kolarred and Luthal. “Luthal cant you tell me more about yourself, I have little knowledge about your people the Gnolls”
 

Kolarred takes the lance off the back of his mount and straps it carefully behind his. He then let the other two move ahead staying about 50-100 feet behind.
 

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