[LPF] Ryall's Estate

[InVinoVeritas]

"Hmm? Did I doze off again? Wait, what is this? More pork?"

Having utterly failed to rise during the last combat, Kazanto stretches, standing on her hands a moment as she whips her tail around. A sheen of water mystically appears and drips down her body.

"Ugh, so dry out here..."

Looking around, she pulls herself up, wondering if it is her watch.

 

[jkason]

The pre-dawn passes without further incident. Having had his internal resources taxed a bit more by the timing of the wolf attack than his fellow wizard, Quioan meditates a while longer than the others, but as there is wolf and/or pork to fry up for breakfast, and the nasty wolf bite Hlaalin took to tend to, the impact is relatively nominal.

As Relic finishes his morning preparation, Quioan takes his place in the quiet spot the older wizard readied. Relic, for his part, finds that the torn-asunder animal bodies, now being smaller individually, have a tendency to thaw rather quickly, and that they smell a bit more each time that happens. He'll have to keep a much closer eye on maintaining their frozen state, it seems, or else be in competition with Daylily for most pungent party member.

GM: Kazanto would have healed her lost hit point overnight, but Hlaalin's still down 6 from the wolf attack. Didn't want to assume resources, so I just thought I'd note it. You can assume that whatever you do to treat it fits in the above prep time, so there's no further delay. Other than that, just let me know what the plan is going forward.

 

[Qik]

Having finished his spell preparation, Quioan followed the pleasant smell of fresh cooked boar back to camp. Stretching, he inquired the others: "Well then, shall we get on the move?"

OOC: Prepared Spells: 0: Ghost Sound, Detect Magic, Message 1: Mage Armor, Gravity Bow

 

[Systole]

Daylily pokes around the weasel tracks a bit, more out of curiosity than anything else. Perhaps the tracks lead back to a nest of some sort, containing more of the weasel creatures? "These weasel-rats, is do they make nest?" he asks. "Is look convenient sizes for hunt and eat, so if is make nest with many weasel, would be good hunt."

However, he's got more than enough meat for the time being, and the party seems to be eager to go, so his investigation will be quick and half-hearted.

"Road is being south of here," he says, poking through the underbrush, looking for a trail. "Cannot find man-tracks, but maybe house-thief is going west on roads?"

OOC: When it comes to traveling, Daylily will be carrying the wolf carcasses and the remainder of the leg of pork, unless one of the others wants to continue to munch on it. Assuming 100 pound wolves, -25% for cleaning and gutting, he's almost certainly going to be up into a heavy load. Man I hope you stop throwing wildlife at us, jk, or else Daylily won't be able to move. There's just no way he's going to leave behind perfectly good food, though.

 

[jkason]

[sblock=Daylily]Though the creature is light, Daylily manages to find its tracks. He can see where it moved around behind the party, first to Quioan's pack, then to Relic's. Its original tracks into the camp come from the south, into the woods and in the direction of the road if he wants to follow them.[/sblock]

 

[jbear]

I am ready to leave when you are, just say the word. The road sounds like a good idea, less chance of ... oh, I don't know ... a bear attack I suppose would be all we are missing at this stage. If you could find the weasles tracks they will more than likely lead us to our rather troublesome ranger. Normal weasles ... weasle-rats ... don't wear golden collars with keys on them.

Relic mumbles a prayer to the Wind under his breath while he waits.

 

[Systole]

Daylily points out the tracks to the rest of the party. "Weasel-rat came for shiny things, then was smell Elder Storyteller's bird, I am think. Is come from nearing the road. Maybe we is find nest during walking to road?"

As he loads the second wolf corpse on to his shoulders, he grunts slightly. "I no hope for bear. Am not think I can carrying a bear."

OOC: Daylily's is sharing information. Everyone is welcome to take a look at the sblock above. If the party does indead head south, Daylily definitely wants to follow the tracks. He's not planning to hunt anything at the moment, but he's always interested in learning about the this continent's game animals, for future reference.

 

[jkason]

As he loads the second wolf corpse on to his shoulders, he grunts slightly. "I no hope for bear. Am not think I can carrying a bear."

GM: Holding off on pushing things forward to make sure no one else wants to do anything at the campsite / suggest an alternate plan. But I did want to verify: if Daylily's carrying the entire wolf carcass, I think that should put him pretty squarely into his medium load. There aren't a whole lot of immediate problems that causes so far as I can tell, but figured it was due diligence on my part to note it.

 

[jbear]

Hmmm, towards the road, you say ...

snif snif snif ...

Oh dear ... we should really move as fast as possible to give these bits back to their master before the smell overpowers my resolve.

Relic spends a few moments freezing the creatures in the sacks before setting off. He keeps this up every ten minutes or so as they make their way to the road and then back towards town.

 

[Systole]

GM: Holding off on pushing things forward to make sure no one else wants to do anything at the campsite / suggest an alternate plan. But I did want to verify: if Daylily's carrying the entire wolf carcass, I think that should put him pretty squarely into his medium load. There aren't a whole lot of immediate problems that causes so far as I can tell, but figured it was due diligence on my part to note it.

OOC: At 60 lbs gear + 20 pounds pork + 150 pounds of wolf ( 2 wolves X 100 lbs alive x 75% gutted) = ~230 lbs. I think Daylily is into heavy load, actually. Unless the wolves were scrawny. I'm assuming he could drop them as a free action, though. If we do end up killing more wildlife, he's going to want to build a travois.