Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness
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[/SBLOCK]Rystil Arden
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[SBLOCK=B,S,& S]"Which are hiring guards? Well, I couldn't say. I don't much mind the affairs of the Merchant Houses excepting when there's a robbery or some other need for the town guard and such."[/SBLOCK]
Titus Farrab, human ranger
[sblock=RA and Kel]Titus smiles with some uncharacteristic embarrassment when Kel offers to talk to the others.
"I know there's something here, I just can't quite pick it up exactly yet," he says. "Those clouds are worrying me, though. I don't find the trail soon, I don't think I'll find it at all. If the others are willing to come back this way, that might be best. Provided I do find something, then--healed or not--we'll need to follow up on it as fast as we can or risk losing it, I'm afraid."
OOC: Since Kel's going back to tell / fetch the others, Titus will stay into a second hour, at least. Whether he keeps looking beyond that will largely depend on the response from the rest of the party and/or how fast those clouds move in.[/sblock]
Boddynock said:
[sblock=RA and Kel]Titus smiles with some uncharacteristic embarrassment when Kel offers to talk to the others.
"I know there's something here, I just can't quite pick it up exactly yet," he says. "Those clouds are worrying me, though. I don't find the trail soon, I don't think I'll find it at all. If the others are willing to come back this way, that might be best. Provided I do find something, then--healed or not--we'll need to follow up on it as fast as we can or risk losing it, I'm afraid."
OOC: Since Kel's going back to tell / fetch the others, Titus will stay into a second hour, at least. Whether he keeps looking beyond that will largely depend on the response from the rest of the party and/or how fast those clouds move in.[/sblock]
Rystil Arden
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[SBLOCK=Kel and Titus](OOC: Kel may be able to help if the DC is 20 or lower by making a DC 20 Search check to find the beginning of the trail. However, that would require staying the full hour)[/SBLOCK]
Boddynock
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[SBLOCK=RA & Titus](OOC: Kel may be able to help if the DC is 20 or lower by making a DC 20 Search check to find the beginning of the trail. However, that would require staying the full hour)
Kel will stay for the full hour and assist. Let the others wait!
Search +6[/SBLOCK]
Kel will stay for the full hour and assist. Let the others wait!
Search +6[/SBLOCK]
Rystil Arden
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[SBLOCK=Kel and Titus]*With Kel's help and after an hour of searching, Titus is able to pick up the beginning of a trail, leading out of the alley heading east. There are other tracks too, but this one seems promising based on the positioning in the battle and placing the battle's markings in context.*
(OOC: Onward? Will Kel head back now or continue along?)[/SBLOCK]
(OOC: Onward? Will Kel head back now or continue along?)[/SBLOCK]
"There's more than one?" Sulannus asks. "You people...you always make things so complicated. Very well. They aren't all in one area it seems, so...perhaps direct us to a guild responsible for...caravans? Or shipping?"
She glances at Blunt and Shan, clearly inviting them to toss in.
"Maybe...a guild of very valuable things like jewels, that might require guards as part of their day to day business?"
She glances at Blunt and Shan, clearly inviting them to toss in.
"Maybe...a guild of very valuable things like jewels, that might require guards as part of their day to day business?"
Titus Farrab, human ranger
[sblock=RA and Kel]Titus stands from examining the trail Kel's helped him find, looking first at the position of the sun, then worriedly at the oncoming clouds.
"Unless they've been waylaid, the others should be waiting by now," he says to Kelloran. "I need you to hurry back and get them here, but I'm not going to wait."
Titus moves to the end of the alley following the trail, then stops at the corner on his right.
"Start here," he says, pulling out his kukri. "Then check the far corner of any building on your right." The scruffy man uses his knife to scratch an arrow into the wall.
"If I've turned, I'll leave one of these. If the arrow corners down, I turned left. If it corners up, I turned right. I have to move slower to properly follow the trail anyway, so if you move quick, you should catch up to me soon enough.
"At least, I hope you catch up," he says with a humorless smile. "Otherwise, I'm probably tracking down my own grave marker, and I'm not keen on that."[/sblock]
[sblock=RA and Kel]Titus stands from examining the trail Kel's helped him find, looking first at the position of the sun, then worriedly at the oncoming clouds.
"Unless they've been waylaid, the others should be waiting by now," he says to Kelloran. "I need you to hurry back and get them here, but I'm not going to wait."
Titus moves to the end of the alley following the trail, then stops at the corner on his right.
"Start here," he says, pulling out his kukri. "Then check the far corner of any building on your right." The scruffy man uses his knife to scratch an arrow into the wall.
"If I've turned, I'll leave one of these. If the arrow corners down, I turned left. If it corners up, I turned right. I have to move slower to properly follow the trail anyway, so if you move quick, you should catch up to me soon enough.
"At least, I hope you catch up," he says with a humorless smile. "Otherwise, I'm probably tracking down my own grave marker, and I'm not keen on that."[/sblock]
