[PBP] Tholestia Chapter 1: Minotaur trouble and a failed ambush

[takew]

OOC: Nice to see you two handling this pbp with the two of you. Oooohhhh please say something. I C0|\/|3....

 

[Ilan]

I follow the track as far as I can, when I can't find anything. I take the most logical route further for a mile. And as I can't find anything with my track, I use my search skill to search for clues in the surrounding to find something that can lead to the minotaurs.

 

[Ravellion]

I said you could barely follow the tracks, I didn't say you couldn't. hence you are now 3 miles away from the village to your estimation and you have gone up and down another hill (after you continue again that is). It is slightly before noon.

[OOC: What the hell are you trying to do Ilan?]

 

[Ravellion]

Sorry, you said for another mile - you are now three and a half miles away from the village, not three.

edit: Which means you have been circling the village and tracking for three hours now.

 

[Ilan]

OOC: Just before you remarked that you don't even know sometimes what the characters are up to , I'm trying to define the place where they come from and when I say that I mean their lair of somesort and I don't mean from the other part of tholestia .

I move for another two miles and then I give up the "pursuit" and doubleback to where I lost the knights and search from there again. From there I want to search for the battlescene.

OOC: Assuming that you didn't mean the place with the sheeps and blood on the floor, or did I understand you wrong

 

[Ravellion]

Well, the tracks are perfectly followable at times, hard to do so at others. After you are five and a half mile away from the village, you head back to the place you found tracks of what you are now presuming are Knights, which takes another two hours through this terrain, and try and pick up the track at some point where you think you would go if you were a knight in full plate. You cannot find any though, and you might even be looking at the wrong spot. That takes another half an hour.

Thankfully, the weather stays clear during all this time, and the forested hills have this lovely summer forest fragrance.

 

[Bacter]

While Ilan is away tracking - for as it seems all day - after a while Diactum proposes (if nobody already has done so) that we all head towards the building next to the mill to find out what Selwick has to say about the mysterious events concerning the disappearance of the 4 knights and the possible role of (a) minotaur(s).

Diactum asks to the farmer on the road, while showing the farmer 5 goldpieces with a (dimmed) cantrip-light spell casted on them:

Will you accompany us and introduce us to Selwick, so that he will not think of us as hazardous people? I suspect that you can leave your work be for an hour or so?

 

[Deepwinter 7]

OOC: Just for the record, a standard Invisibility lasts 100 minutes. Since it's a lvl 2 spell I can triple extend it. So the duration would be 400 mins (am I right about this, or do they multiply, making it 800 mins?). Ilan has little under 7 hours to do his stuff (not all day but pretty long nevertheless

When seeing Diactum offer the peasant *5 GP*, Deepwinter 7 walks over to him and says to him in Elven

"That's quite a lot of money you are offering him for such a small task. I don't think he makes that much in a week, I hope this adds to our credibility in stead of damaging it. I'm sure he will now do whatever he can to please us... and maybe he has some fine looking daughters to accompany him with it"

OOC: DM - I need to get me some tattoos and a healthy tan

 

[Ravellion]

"Well dangnabbi'! Pelohs blessing on you me lord! Let me ge' my son to wash after the sheep, an' I'll be righ' wi' ya!"

[OOC - 1) triple extend is X4, hence 400 minutes, as you suspected. 2) What is everyones gold piece total? I think I'll post that in the first post of the thread, so we can keep track of it.]

Rav

 

[Ravellion]

The shepherd gladly shows you around and people seem generally happy to see you arrive, though the shepherd seems somewhat uncomfortable that he gets paid so much for so little work. As you arrive at what apparently is Selwick's house, he asks whether there is anything else he can do you fror you: "Lodgin' foh the nigh' pehaps?"