<LOTR> The Fate of The North

[arador359]

Lanwi looks unsettled for a moment. "I gave him warning. I asked for his surrender. He had to know he had the disadvantage. Could he fear the one he serves so much that he would fight on in the face of overwhelming odds?"

Lanwi kneels beside the man. He checks to see if the man carries anything, and shows anything he finds to the others.

He wears black scale mail armor over a tunic, black leather leggings and black boots of a design you have never seen. In addition to his bow, he has a curved sword, a dagger, and the whip for weapons. In a pouch on his belt, you find two pieces of paper - one significantly larger than the other which resembles the map you saw earlier in the night, and several pieces of copper and silver. You also find a wrapped up piece of what looks like dried fish in the pouch as well.

 

[arador359]

Strabo watches from above. Seeing Ethendil on guard, the hobbit looks around from his vantage point for any other signs of danger.

You see no obvious signs of danger as far as you can see, but you do notice that it is starting to snow and getting heavy fairly quickly.

 

[Darth Ecks]

Lorin exits the wagon holding bottle of ale. "Looks like we shall not come out empty handed." He then tells the others what he found in the wagon.

 

[arador359]

While others do their stated actions, Arador examines both bodies and the wagon. He then inspects the ground surrounding the wagon and the road in both directions for about 50 yards. While he is doing this it begins to snow heavily.

When he returns, he says, "They were traveling alone. This one," indicating the goblinish man, "apparently caught our scent." Turning to Belegon, he says - indicating the bowman, "look at the armor and sword of that one. Does it tell his homeland?"

 

[Inez Hull]

Eidar nudges the corpse of the goblin-man with his foot and muses aloud, "What manner of man is this?"

Eidar then turns to Lanwi. "At first I thought this was one of your folk, but on inspection that is obviously not so. My apologies."

He shakes his head scornfully but his voice is tinged with mirth, "A question though hillman, what exactly were you trying to do?"

 

[Mirth]

Lanwi looks unsettled for a moment. "I gave him warning. I asked for his surrender. He had to know he had the disadvantage. Could he fear the one he serves so much that he would fight on in the face of overwhelming odds?"

"Only misplaced bravery or true fear could make one act so foolishly," Sirandir says as he stares down at the dead body. "We both tried to give him quarter, but he took none. Of course, something," he looks this time at the questioning Eidar, "made your ruse to gather information fall quite short."

OOC: Does Sirandir recognize any of the markings on the man or what type of creature the other one is?

 

[Inez Hull]

"Aye, 'tis true. Once again my apologies to you Lanwi. The riders of Rohan were bred for open battle not skulking in the dark like Dunlen..."

Eidar has the good grace to blush.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Lanwi shrugs, embarassed. "I thought to discover their intent. Since many assume my people side with the Dark Mountain, I thought - perhaps hoped is a better word - that such assumptions would apply to these two also. If they saw me as a potential ally, perhaps they would have been free with their words. Being despised could well have an up side!" he laughs, ruefully.

 

[rangerjohn]

Valangil replies "indeed friend, it is best to know your enemy, I gone so far as to learn the tounge of mine own."

 

[Daiymo]

Strabo scampers down the hillside and joins the others. He stops by Eidar and gazes at the bodies. "What are those?" he asks, curious. "Orcs? Men?"

The hobbit spies Lorin with the bottle. He quickly pads over to the dwarf and looks at the bottle. "What do you have Master Dwarf? May I see? Perhaps identifying their supplies can tell us where these men were from....or if the food is, um, edible."

Strabo will examine the wine bottle and the things found in the wagon to see if he recognizes their source (wine vintage,origin, etc..)