Playtesting: IG's 'The Making of Heroes'

[Legildur]

The dwarf watches Aramil move off. Dowkan looks to the father and daughter. "Be careful. We be doin' our best to make it safe, but we can't be everywhere." The then sets off in the direction Aramil went.

 

[Arkhandus]

Irathias sighs. "Fine, whatever. Your choice, after all," he says, following Aramil.

 

[industrygothica]

Aramil merely nods at the seemingly strange humans and disappears into the brush, heading back in their original direction.

Would that be back to the South Road, towards Peyton, or to the new tracks by the broken wagon?

 

[OnlytheStrong]

ooc: I think Aramil would head in the direction of the other tracks since he would be interested in for sure knowing what happened to it's occupants....... so let's have him head that way.

 

[Legildur]

Dowkan sets out with Thogrim to follow the elves following the new tracks.

 

[WarShrike]

"Onward!" says Thogrim, clomping along beside Dowkan. "The sooner we get to wherever we're going, the sooner we can start cracking some skulls."

 

[Legildur]

"Aye, onward!!" Dowkan heartily agrees, thrusting his axe in the air. "Might have keen eyes them elves, but a bloody secretive lot they be," he addss, gesturing towards the fast moving forms ahead of them.

 

[industrygothica]

Aramil follows what appears to the others as an invisible trail. Perhaps three-quarters of the day has passed when Dowkan notices something odd about the mountain on their path.

It appeared first as an interesting outcropping of some sort, but as his dwarven eyes settle in on the stone, Dowkan realizes his first impression was wrong.

"A tower," he says curiously.

 

[Legildur]

The dwarf immediately stops moving and gestures for the others to join him. Keeping low, which is easy for him, Dowkan points out the feature to the others. "A cleverly concealed defensive structure if ever I've seen one," he says quietly. "And if I were a cunning orc, and make no mistake, they be cunning blighters, then I might be usin' such a place to hole up. Would be no surprise to me should the tracks lead right to it - but to the front door where they'd be waiting for us with bows and such."

"I reckon it needs investigatin'," he suggests with a malevolent glint in his eyes.

 

[OnlytheStrong]

"I have traveled in the wilderness many a times, and have yet to lay my eyes upon that structure. Well done master dwarf." Aramil alters his path to head toward the tower, moving with extreme caution.