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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1232667" data-attributes="member: 7240">That's all the encouragement I needed. By the way, I was sorry to miss your game at Drexoll last weekend. Unfortunately, this campaign runs 6-10 on Sunday nights. Here goes...A Note on Character NamesThe first syllable of a character's name comes from his or her totem (syllables ending in 'a' are female, in 'o' are male).Wolf: Ka/Ko Bear: Ga/GoOwl: Sha/ShoMammoth: Na/NoPtarmigan: Fa/FoLynx: Za/ZoFox: Ma/MoEarwig: Ar/OrEpisode #1The tribe has been called together for the initiation of the apprentice shaman, Shokirin; they have assembled together in a large igloo to observe the ritual and trade stories. The tribe's huntsman and a few of the characters hear a noise outside the structure and discover that a dozen warriors of the Earwig tribe are attacking, armed with strange curved metal knives (scimitars) and clad in peculiar coats (studded leather armour) with bright metal shields. Armed with their bone knives (and the Barbarians with their valuable battle axes), they battle the Earwigs, killing eight and driving four off. Because the characters were amongst the first of the tribe to spring into action, they each receive a curved knife for their valour; some are also awarded the peculiar coats and shields.That night, Shokirin has a dream in which the Wolf comes to speak to him. In it, he sees a newborn baby wolf falling from the sky; he also sees himself and the other party members descending into a dark chasm by a skin rope and then walking between standing stones. Also in the dream are images of them walking down an ivory corridor towards a huge fire. At the end of the dream, the Wolf's voice announces, "So ends the age of blood."Episode #2The episode begins with the characters being brought to a secret council with the Chieftan and the Shaman at which the Shokirin tells of his dream. The elders of the tribe are troubled by the strange weapons and newfound bellicosity of the Earwigs who usually attack stealthily. Upon hearing of the dream, the tribe's elders become convinced that it is ordained that the characters undertake some sort of quest to take them beyond the boundaries of the land of Winter, especially because the dream seems to show them descending into the Fissure (the eastern boundary of Winter), passing the Standing Stones (the western boundary of Winter) and ultimately finding themselves in the Ivory House of the East Wind. For this reason, the characters are chosen to track the Earwig Tribe and discover how they obtained these strange weapons. That day, the characters set out on the trail of the Earwigs; that night, a small hunting party of Gatain, Norfinn and Fatima go out to hunt and are set upon by dire foxes whom they defeat, though Fatima comes to within a hair's breadth of losing her life. The next morning, the characters butcher and dine on the foxes. But that night, they find no game and must eat some of their limited provisions.As the scouts had feared the second night, the party has entered an area with no game. For the next six days, they continue journeying, gradually eating all of the provisions they have packed, unable to find any game. Such luck is common in Winter, but the characters become very nervous when they have to switch to their rations of frozen blood. By the tenth day, the blood runs out, even as the party approaches the slopes of the Slate Mountains (the southern boundary of Winter). On the tenth day of their journey, the party makes a camp at the foot of the Slate Mountains and sends Norfinn to follow the tracks up the steep and unstable slopes. Approximately 300 feet up, a small plateau appears where an Earwig Tribe encampment can be found. Upon inspection, it appears that the Earwigs (perhaps 30 in all) were all killed by some unknown force about a day and a half before.More episodes later...</blockquote>

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