Midnight: Peril in Arbordale

[Keia]

Turning to the group, he yells over the howling wind. [Trader's Tongue]"We're lost. This storm has caused us to lose our way. I suggest that we find shelter and wait the storm out as best we can."[Trader's Tongue]

Darius will use his low-light vision to try and find a source of shelter. If a large enough hill of snow could be discovered, Darius offered to use Burning Hands to melt some of the snow and create a shelter. With work (and several castings) perhaps they could hollow out a suitable makeshift shelter. Darius discussed his idea with the others.

 

[Mirth]

Standing strong in the face of the bitter cold, Elidur uses his skills to try and help the group find a way to shelter. OOC: Wilderness Lore & Intuit Direction +6

 

[bkmanis]

Fordin also helps in trying to find shelter.

OCC: Using Darkvision if at all helpful.

 

[Guest 11456]

Seraphina (Sera) Anastriana Wogrenspact : Nomadic Halfling Wildlander 4

Sera spurs Groo-Yek on through the driving snow. She tries to make out any sign of shelter.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Combining efforts to locate some sort of shelter from the raging storm, you soon stumble across a small wooded area. The trees are old and thick, the tops crowding together. Certainly the storm isn't raging as hard inside these woods and there are potentially even some dry areas under the thick canopy of vegetation.

 

[Mirth]

Combining efforts to locate some sort of shelter from the raging storm, you soon stumble across a small wooded area. The trees are old and thick, the tops crowding together. Certainly the storm isn't raging as hard inside these woods and there are potentially even some dry areas under the thick canopy of vegetation.

Well, I suppose this will have to do... Elidur thinks to himself as he scopes out the area. The Dorn motions to the others that they should bundle up next to each other and the animals, then he coaxes his horse to lay down.

 

[Keia]

Darius makes good on his claim, attempting to melt away the snow in between the trees to get everyone lower than the snow line. Perhaps that would help to get them out of the wind.

OOC: Using a burning hands spell to melt off the snow inside the bole of trees.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

As everyone gathers inside the trees, Darius uses his arcane abilities to melt down some of the snow, which is not nearly as deep anyway inside the trees. He succeeds in hollowing out a crater shaped area, nearly fifteen feet in diameter and exposing the ground beneath the snow. Afterwards the ground is wet, but at least not covered with snow and the sides of the snow crater help keep out the wind.

Everyone then hunkers down to wait out the storm. It does eventually subside, but not for another twelve hours. It almost seems as if the weather was conspiring against you. With the storm mostly over, peering outside the wooded area you can see that there is over a foot of snow on the ground, with higher drifts piled across the landscape. The wind has died down to a steady breeze and visibility has improved but the land is seemingly a never-ending sea of white. It is nearly midnight and the snow-covered landscape almost glows a dull-white in the darkness...

 

[Mirth]

Finally we can get out of this foxhole... Elidur stretches as he stands up, tending to his horse first. As the others rise, the Dorn begins looking for signs of their location and a possible path back to where they need to be.

 

[Keia]

During the storm, Darius did his best to make everyone as comfortable as possible. He wrapped himself as warmly as he could and tried to get some sleep, knowing the others would wake him when the storm passed.

OOC: Wanted to rest and recover spell points.