Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: I don't know if you're going to be mad at me for doing this, but I don't want you guys to have to keep getting frustrated, so I'll ask--are you sure Titus doesn't want to look for tracks before it rains? If the Hedge Mage only left sometime yesterday as the people said, you should be able to just track him without too much trouble, since you have a Ranger)

 

[Legildur]

I reckon that's a great idea!

 

[Boddynock]

"Hey, Titus, maybe you can track the Mage. After all, you were able to follow day-old tracks to the docks area, so why not?"

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

[sblock=OOC]Sorry 'bout that. Since we were asking about the mage in the morning and they said he'd been gone a day, I figured he disappeared yesterday morning and his tracks would have been washed out with the same rainstorm that took out the other trail yesterday afternoon. I should probably get in the habit of checking either way, weather or no (this is my first time playing a Ranger)[/sblock]

Titus smiles sheepishly. "I should have thought of that, myself," he admits, moving back toward the wizard's home. "Let's hope I can beat the bloody rainstorm this time..."

[sblock=OOC]Survival +5, +7 if the mage or anyone with him is human[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Ah, but keep in mind that the successful tracking happened one rainstorm because Titus is so awesome It was only the several days plus the second rainstorm that totally ruined it. In general, Titus can track as long as it hasn't rained for too many hours total (and the flash rain was decently short, if heavy enough to have me ad-hoc it counting for double hours) or become stale by too many days )

*Titus finds lots of human tracks going in and out of the building, but not counting their own, one trail is most recent. He follows it, the storm moving in and threatening to break, as the clouds darken in the sky. It leads out of the slums and towards the docks, heading for the warehouses. Just as Titus has a stint of bad luck, cursing as he loses the trail, the rain begins to fall, and he has to look for cover again.*

 

[Shayuri]

"All signs lead back to the warehouses," Sulannus murmurs, gazing at the buildings.

"But which? They all look the same! If only we had cooshee to track them...no offense, Titus, you have done exceptionally well for a human. Still...there must be -something- setting our target apart. Strange sounds, perhaps, or smells. Maybe if we simply check each one out..."

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

A string of expletives rush forth from the ranger as he once again hides from the downpour.

"Well, if we know our mage was last seen aruond here, maybe Kel can find someone who saw him, give us a better idea of which of the warehouses he might be in?" he finally offers with a frustrated shrug.

[sblock=OOC]Thanks for the heads up on tracking.

I'm assuming Kel can make a new Gather Info check if we're in a substantially different part of town. Let me know if I've got that wrong and I'll edit so Titus just suggests we go to the guard for now.[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

*The docks are on the east of the city, and the warehouses with them. In both cases that Titus followed the tracks, they were leading towards the warehouses, but the exact direction was not definite. However, the first tracks were heading northeast (that's how the group cut it down to about fiftyish warehouses in the area), and this location is further north with the tracks heading southeast.*

 

[Boddynock]

OOC: Wait! My fevered brain is labouring to process spatial information. So it looks as if both sets of tracks are heading in the same direction? Ooh!

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Yes. You could probably cross the vectors and get a fairly good idea of the destination (narrowing it down to about 10 warehouses for sure))