Midway Mining Expedition (PbP)

Kwargrow · Dec 17, 2019

Coldtree congratulates his friends. "Well fought. I knew we would conquer those three." He will help search the Graggorid. He will also search the area of battle.

Tellerian Hawke · Dec 17, 2019

Taka frowns, in a joking, mocking manner: "These men were more stubborn than mules. And more resilient, as well. But what they made up for in constitution, they lacked in intelligence."

Taka does not hesitate to laugh at his own joke, before searching the deceased Graggs and the surrounding area for anything valuable or useful.

MacConnell · Dec 17, 2019

Concealment + various collegiate + d100
Concealment: MInd + Commercial + Knowledge + Motility
Coldtree:
Taka:
Tehn:

Effectiveness: readiness + speed + clarity + d100
Readiness: Body + Combat + Motility
Speed: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge
Clarity: Essence + Collegiate + Cohesion
Coldtree:
Taka:
Tehn:

Coldtree:
Taka:
Tehn:

Effectiveness: aggression + accuracy + fury + d100
Aggression: Body + Combat + Strength
Accuracy: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge
Fury: Essence + Collegiate + Confluence
Coldtree:
Taka:
Tehn:

Effectiveness: defend + avoidance + analysis + d100
Defend: Body + Combat + Motility
Avoidance: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge
Analysis: Essence + Collegiate + Adhesion
Coldtree:
Taka:
Tehn:

Effectiveness: Avoidance + Analysis + d100
Avoidance: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge
Analysis: Essence + Collegiate + Adhesion

Effectiveness: bending + task + d100
Bending: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge + Will
Taka:
Coldtree:
Tehn:

Coldtree: full health
Taka: full health
Boots: 20 - 7 = 14
Tehn: full health

Kwargrow said:
Coldtree... will help search the Graggorid. He will also search the area of battle.

Tellerian Hawke said:
Taka frowns, in a joking, mocking manner: "These men..."
... searching the deceased Graggs and the surrounding area...

Tehn sneers at the corpse at his feet before pushing his sword through her throat. "This one is a woman... or at least she has breasts. I'm not lifting that loincloth to make sure!"

Looking around his immediate area, Coldtree examines the signs of the battle, attempting to map the movements in his head from the scuffs and scrapes upon the ground. It does not appear that anything might have fallen loose during the fight. In addition to his undesirable garments, the man is carrying a rudimentary bag that is full of collected nuts. The nuts are edible. There is a talisman of harvester feathers tied to his left arm and a a gray stone with dark red flecks tucked into a small pouch.

Taka, likewise, is amazed at the marks left by such a short scuffle but finds no lost items. His unconscious female opponent has a similar bag to the one by Coldtree, containing a different kind of edible nut. She also has another shotty satchel of dried meat. The meat seems edible. Lastly, she is wearing a pair of peccary tusks strung about her neck.

The woman at Tehn's feet is carried some dried meat, which seems edible, and is wearing a talisman of songbird feathers on her left arm and has a semi-translucent, dark burgundy stone in a pouch.

Coins:

Shillings: 377

Animal Parts:

Ant Pinchers: 2, (Cohesion +1)
Ant Stingers: 7, {Toxin x2}
Beetle Elytra: 5 pair (deflect 4, soak 2)

Stone:

Flint: 1, {Shock x2}
Slate: 1, {Sound x2}

OOC:

Each character receives 2 DP.

Tellerian Hawke · Dec 17, 2019

Taka reaches down and rips the cord from the Gragg's neck, taking the tusks for himself. He will then attempt to determine the tusks' individual proclivities in relation to Way.

Taka says, "They live like animals. Look at how ratty their clothes and equipment are. It's as if they care about nothing outside their own, selfish gratification. It's sickening."

Kwargrow · Dec 18, 2019

Coldtree does not take or eat any of the food from the fallen. He does collect all the items, feathers and stones, that are left. He replies, "Why let it sicken you? It is merely the way of things. In every race there are those that fall behind and are eventually disqualified." He gives a wide grin at his analogy. He does not bother to kill any of the opponents that are still alive, considering them no longer a concern.
Later Coldtree will sit with the feathers and stones to determine Way proclivity.

MacConnell · Dec 19, 2019

Coldtree: full health
Taka: full health
Boots: 20 - 7 = 14
Tehn: full health

Tellerian Hawke said:
Taka reaches down and rips the cord from the Gragg's neck, taking the tusks for himself. He will then attempt to determine the tusks' (possible) proclivities. "They live like animals. Look at how ratty their clothes and equipment are. It's as if they care about nothing outside their own, selfish gratification. It's sickening."

Kwargrow said:
Coldtree does not take or eat any of the food from the fallen. He does collect all the items, feathers and stones, that are left. He replies, "Why let it sicken you? It is merely the way of things. In every race there are those that fall behind and are eventually disqualified." He gives a wide grin at his analogy. He does not bother to kill any of the opponents that are still alive, considering them no longer a concern.
Later Coldtree will sit with the feathers and stones to determine (possible) proclivity.

Tehn shrugs and holds up both hands in a quizzical gesture. "It's instinctual. Perhaps they lack the faculty to progress further."

He smells the dried meat that was being carried by his Graggorid and keeps it for himself. Having no qualms about eating their food, he will also collect a satchel of nuts from one of the others. The nuts appear to be the rather large acorns that are found on the stunted, evergreen, gnarlwood trees that grow in these mountains. "If you do not want these, do not be asking me for any later when you smell them roasting in the fire."

Ecology + Analysis + d100 => 80
Ecology: Mind + Commercial + Knowledge
Analysis: Essence + Collegiate + Adhesion
Coldtree: 15 + 21 + 50 = 86, success
Time: 10 days / 86 = 2 hours, 48 minutes
Taka: 12 + 16 + 50 = 78, failure
Tehn: 23 + 14 + 75 = 112, success
Time: 10 days / 112 = 2 hours, 9 minutes

As he holds each item in question, separately, Coldtree seems to go into a trance. He appears unaware of his surroundings for a considerable amount of time before blinking open his eyes and nodding to himself. This same process occurs with the feathers and the stone, noting that both items augment the same ability.

OOC:

Harvester Feather Talisman: +1 Health
Bloodstone: +1 Health

Despite his overwhelming desire to do so, Taka is unable to sense any particular proclivity by adorning the peccary tusks. Taka is also interrupted by his Graggorid showing signs of regaining consciousness. Before she can do so, he takes his short sword and punches it into her throat.

Like Coldtree, Tehn seems to lose touch with his surroundings as he studies his two items. He chooses to keep both items.

OOC:

Songbird Feather Talisman: +1 Persona
Heartstone: +1 Confluence

After so much time has passed, the three men figure that the last two miners to make the trek to shaft 9 are not likely to be returning.

Coins:

Shillings: 377

Animal Parts:

Ant Pinchers: 2, (Cohesion +1)
Ant Stingers: 7, {Toxin x2}
Beetle Elytra: 5 pair (deflect 4, soak 2)

Stone:

Flint: 1, {Shock x2}
Slate: 1, {Sound x2}

OOC:

Each character receives 2 DP.

Tellerian Hawke · Dec 19, 2019

Tehn said:
"If you do not want these, do not be asking me for any later when you smell them roasting in the fire."

Taka will take some of the nuts as well, and will sniff the meat. If the meat does not smell rancid, he will make some skewers from nearby sticks and branches; when Tehn begins to roast the nuts, Taka will pass the meat through the fire, just to be on the safe side. ~Besides, warm meat tastes better than cold meat any day.~ he muses to himself.

Taka says, "It can't be any worse than Opossum."

Kwargrow · Dec 20, 2019

Coldtree shakes his head with a smile at T&T claiming the Graggorid food and says in Centrin, "After we used poison corn to help kill those ants, I don't want eat any food found on strangers that tried to kill us immediately."

After Coldtree finishes studying the items, he looks around at everything in a strange manner, as though seeing some things for the first time. He motions to a stick not far away and manipulates Way to Heat it without touching it. He says in Hebrian, "I have ascended to a new level of ability, although my journey is still in its beginning phases."

MacConnell · Dec 20, 2019

Coldtree: full health
Harnin arrows: 17
Taka: full health
Boots: 20 - 7 = 14
Tehn: full health

Tellerian Hawke said:
Taka says, "It can't be any worse than Opossum."

Kwargrow said:
Coldtree shakes his head... and says in Centrin, "After we used poison(ed) corn to help kill those ants, I don't want eat any food found on strangers that tried to kill us, immediately."

Tehn laughs. "Yuck! I don't think that even a Graggorid could eat opossum."

Kwargrow said:
After Coldtree finishes studying the items... He motions to a stick not far away and manipulates (thermal) Way(lines) to Heat it, without touching it...

Tehn's eyes widen. "Woah! Now that was something!"

The encounters having occupied enough time to cause a delay, the three decide to make an early camp so as to not arrive at the mine shaft at sunset. The night is peaceable and cool. Nothing disturbs the normal sounds of the environment. Coldtree does not partake of any of the roasted nuts, though the other two have no qualms about consuming them.

They set out at sunrise, wanting to get an early start on bringing this dilemma to a conclusion. It is yet early in the morning as they arrive at the entrance, a manufactured placard marking the number of the mine. Not a sign exists of the other two miners being about and no sound is heard coming from the shaft. Approaching the landing, slowing, and looking about intently, the men hear the peculiar call of an unfamiliar songbird before seeing it. Perched on a scrub brush, jutting out from a steep outcropping, some few strides out of reach of the cliff edge are two beautiful, deep-red songbirds.

Coins:

Shillings: 377

Animal Parts:

Ant Pinchers: 2, (Cohesion +1)
Ant Stingers: 7, {Toxin x2}
Beetle Elytra: 5 pair (deflect 4, soak 2)
Harvester Feather Talisman: 1, (Health +1)
Peccary Tusks: 1 pair, ??

Stone:

Bloodstone: 1, (Health +1)
Flint: 1, {Shock x2}
Slate: 1, {Sound x2}

OOC:

Each character receives 2 DP.

Tellerian Hawke · Dec 23, 2019

Tehn said:
Tehn laughs. "Yuck! I don't think that even a Graggorid could eat opossum."

Taka laughs in return, "You'd be surprised what you can eat when you're hungry enough."

Taka takes notice of the songbirds, and for some reason, gets a feeling that there is something special about them. He closes his eyes, and calms his thoughts, relaxing his entire body. He reaches out with his inner self, trying to sense whether or not these birds are connected to the Way.

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(91+42)
(98+21)
Wow, last two were great rolls.