[Pathfinder] The Fog of War

[Andor]

"Anya, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Sam Elmwise." Sam smiles warmly and brushes his hair back from his ears knowing most people find half-elves unthreatening. While the rest of the party makes their introductions he mutters a short word and touches his holy symbol which starts to glow softly so as to light their way in the cave.

 

[kinem]

Jon listens in confusion to the strangers' talk, saying nothing. So they're not cultists, but the Nazis are just as bad. But who opened the portals to our world?

 

[ghostcat]

Piedra follows the others, moving as quietly as he can. He still can't get over how easy it is to walk in this strange world. After a few minutes walking it occurs to him that the tracks of a dozen or so people will not be that be hard to follow, so he reluctantly breaks his silence and speaks to Joseph. "Joseph. You do realise that your leaving a trail that leads directly back to your camp?" When Joseph queries this, he points out their tracks, bits of which Joseph can actually see. "Would you like me to break the trail for you.

[sblock="Joseph Accepts"]"OK. Lead you men to the other side of that ridge and wait for me there." Piedra points to a spot about quarter of a mile away. He then looks around to make sure he can find the end of the tracks again before slowly following the men hiding the tracks as he goes.[/sblock]

[sblock="Joseph Declines"]"OK its your decision. You know your own territory better than we do."[/sblock]

Once they arrive at the camp, Piedra will keep quite. He will nod when introduced to Anya and follow the others into the cave.

[sblock="OOC"]Attempts to use his tracking skill to hide the tracks. I'll leave it to you to decide if this is possible and if he succeeds[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

By the time the group has reached the camp, Mellisande has discovered the joys of jumping, and is hopping happily along. The exercise helps keep her warm, though she discovers that when they stop, the extra sweat makes things a lot worse. As such, the gnomelet with the wild violet hair beams at Anya and patters after her quickly as she jams her hands under her armpits, hugging herself to keep warm.

 

[Mark Chance]

Flashback:

Piedra speaks to Joseph. "Joseph. You do realise that your leaving a trail that leads directly back to your camp?" When Joseph queries this, he points out their tracks, bits of which Joseph can actually see. "Would you like me to break the trail for you?

Joseph considers the suggestion. "That is a sensible precaution. Please, if you could."

"OK. Lead you men to the other side of that ridge and wait for me there." Piedra points to a spot about quarter of a mile away. He then looks around to make sure he can find the end of the tracks again before slowly following the men hiding the tracks as he goes.

Throughout Piedra's work, Joseph stays just in sight near the ridge, watching Piedra carefully. When Piedra returns, he says, "I thank you, although I must confess that I see little difference. I suppose to one who knows what to look for, those little differences mean a great deal."

The Present:

Sam mutters a short word and touches his holy symbol which starts to glow softly so as to light their way in the cave. Anya starts at this, her eyes widening, but she doesn't comment.

Instead, Anya leads the four adventurers into the cave. It isn't very deep or large, but it does cut some of the chill. She instructs everyone to sit around a crude table. About that time, another woman, this one younger and thinner, enters, carrying an iron pot by its handles.

"This is my daughter, Miriam," Anya says.

Miriam looks nearly terrified when she sees the adventurers, especially Piedra and Mellisande, but then she see Chitters.

"Is that your monkey?" she says timidly.

"Miriam, never you mind that," Anya says. "Serve our guests some stew and go tell Mrs. Zygmuntowicz to have her boys fetch us the clothes."

OOC: Pausing for role-playing stuff.

 

[Andor]

Sam smiles at Miriam. "Yes. This is Mr. Chitters. He is a holy creature of Erastil." He takes the monkey from his shoulder and holds him out on his hands where the monkey does a flip and then bows to Miriam.

 

[Shayuri]

Mellisande beams happily at Anya and her daughter, but notices the little human girl is a bit nervous. She supposes it must be because of the weapons and everything...they must seem like pretty rough customers to a little child! Fortunately, she knew the cure for that.

"Hey Miriam," Mellisande called with a chummy grin. "There's nothing to worry about, we're the good guys! Want to see a neat trick?"

The magic was second nature by now. Using it took just a little concentration...just to focus her will on the outcome. Then she held out her hands...each one was not much bigger than Miriam's.

Pink and cyan and pale green orbs of light zoomed out of her palms and followed a twisting course around her head and shoulders, like huge colorful fireflies. She let them swirl around a second, then 'juggled' them, pretending to get more and more unsteady as she did it. It ended with a pratfall that never failed to get laughs (and coin) when she did it on the streets, with little balls of colored light flying everywhere and bouncing off of nearby tables, chairs and people before winking out.

The spry little gnomette then bounced to her feet and took a bow, eagerly anticipating laughter and applause.

(OOC - Prestidigitation. )

 

[ghostcat]

Flashback

Having re-joined Joseph, Piedra looks critically at his work. "Yes Joseph. If you know what to look for, a trail like your's looks like a road. Hopefully, that is now broken."

Present

Following the others into the cave, Piedra takes a seat when instructed. On being introduced to Miriam he smiles until he realises that it looks more like a scowl and is frightening the girl even more. Instead he nods his thanks for the soup and concentrates on eating.

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - Bump. Anyone there?)

 

[kinem]

Jon claps at Mellisande's antics, and looks to see the reaction of the hosts.

We may be here a while, best to try to learn the strange ways of these people.