Of Sound Mind

[Jarval]

Re: Adren the crappy Ranger to the rescue!

If no one mentions they have any affinity for animals (ie: Animal Empathy or Handle Animal), Adren will try to catch the animals--even though he has no ranks in either pertinent skill, and therefore cannot make a check. Ug, I'm a crappy ranger.

Well, buried in the "Special" section of the description of the Handle Animal skill, it say that "an untrained character can use a Charisma check to handle and push animals". So you just can't try to train animals if you don't have the skill.

 

[Jarval]

The man passes Adren a lead rope as he go past. "Good luck to you lad, I haven't managed to get close to 'em yet."

Adren creeps up to the closest horse, making vague soothing sounds to it. He gets up along side its head (Untrained Handle Animal check, rolled 17) without disturbing the horse, but as he trys to get the rope over it's head he manages to poke the horse's nose. The horse starts suddenly, and bolts away, catching Adren's knee with it hoof as it goes. (Owch! Rolled a 1 on that check. 1 point of damage to Adren.)

The horse gallops over to the other and then they both begin to graze again.

The farmer looks annoyed. "You see? They've been doin' that all morning. Though you got closer than I've managed."

He turns to look at Seraphina as she starts to talk. He answers her questions, pausing between each one. "Aye, they left six days ago. Just came out to the field to check on 'em and they weren't there... Nowt odd about these two brakin' out, but they've never been gone so long before... I've not been able to get close enough to check 'em proper, but they seem well enough... Well, they've never been this hard to catch before. And they seem right irritable as well."

 

[Other Guy]

Jason

Jason pauses for a moment to think. Well, here's a chance to practice what I love best, I guess. Though it seems like a waste of a spell.

"Wish me luck," he tells the others. He raises his hands and begins to move them, guided by the forces he is calling upon. From his lips escape a short series of arcane jargon.

(OOC)
Jason is casting his 1 prepared sleep spell against the horses. The DC is 14 and a will save negates. I'm assuming the horses are close to each other (within 15 feet).
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[Zhure]

Gholog

Gholog squats on his haunches using the haft of his glaive as balance across his lap, leaving the experts to their tasks.

 

[Jarval]

Jason chants slowly for a few moments then throws a pinch of sand towards the horses. It turns into glittering motes of light as he finishes the spell, and deep steady breathing can be heard from the closest horse. The other one looks towards you, seemingly unaffected.

"Hey! What have you done?" the farmer calls to Jason, looking a little alarmed by the magic.

 

[Zhure]

Gholog

"Looks like he caught one. Don't wake it up until you've got it harnessed.

Want me to knock out the other one? heh heh."

 

[GnomeWorks]

Seraphina Tealeaf

"Thank you, kind sir," Seraphina says to the old man. "Your information has proved most helpful. We'll try to find out what happened to your horses while they were away."

She then turns to Gholog. "That's not necessary, my large friend. I will try to talk to the horses."

Seraphina dismounts from Rufus, and walks over to the one still-awake horse, speaking and walking softly and in a non-threatening manner.

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OOC:

OOC: Let's try an untrained Handle Animal check. I've got a +2 Charisma mod.

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[Other Guy]

Jason

"Don't worry," Jason assures the farmer, "he's only asleep. I would never harm an animal for no reason -- I'm not sick. However," he continues, "Gholog is right; you should hurry to harness him, or you should trust Seraphina with them both. Either way, that one will only be asleep for a little under a minute by now."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Aiden watches as the others try and catch the horses-squinting in the sunlight yet smilings lightly at the sight. After a bit he turns to the old farmer, "Are the horses always this way? Perhaps they are hurt or similar which is why they're aggrevated. I can take a look at them if you'd like, I'm no specialist but I think I can help them if there's something wrong."

 

[Jarval]

Seraphina gently walks up to the horse, making soothing sounds as she goes (Rolled a 16 for Handle Animal). She rubs the horse's side gently as she loops the rope over it's head (And a 19 this roll!).

Seeing this the farmer quickly moves over to the sleeping Blaze and ropes him as well.

"Thanks fer your help miss." he says to Seraphina as he takes the lead rope from her. He looks over to Aiden as he calls out to him. "That would be grand, they've never been this hard to catch."

He leads both the horses over to Aiden, then waits expectantly.

Adren, as you glance at the horses you notice that they both have a small scab in the middle of their forehead, as it they had been pricked with some sort of thorn.