Round 2
By the time he reaches the end of the bridge, Ironheart has shouldered his magic axe and is stroking it lightly with a small vine. He marches right past the other axe embedded in the bank - he seems to have forgotten all about it.
After a short time of following Derien along the path, he lifts his eyes from their abstracted stare at the ground and they light with a glimmer of recognition. "I know this trail," he says. "It leads to a hollow hill. Very dangerous to your kind. We should turn off - there is a grove nearby that burned in the war. Few people go there now, and it is easy to defend."
He turns off, and thrashes through the bush for a half hour, looking for landmarks. Finally he admits, "Perhaps... I was wrong. This is not the trail I thought it was."
Haruka attempts to be as useful as possible with finding a trail. Despite her difficulties with communicating and her lack of experience in this area, she is able to be of some help and with her help Ironheart actually recognizes that it is the area he was aware of. A small, charred plant lies on the ground providing a waypoint on your journey.
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Can I post-emptively aid other with Ironheart's check? If not, then this will go to the next person to use Nature.
Sure. In a tabletop game if Ironheart declared he was going to roll for Nature I'm sure you would jump in and add (I'll aid him).
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Ikni perks up at the mention of a hollow hill. "Would that be underground? A nice cavern system would be lovely. How I tire of this sky, these... trees. So many of them, always moving. Er, present company excepted, of course," she adds hastily, eyeing Ironheart.
But she sighs as Ironheart admits to being mistaken, and turns her eyes back to the swamp, looking for something different to point out to her more knowledgeable comrades. "That crown of tall trees, close together; is that one of your 'groves'?" she asks, pointing.
Rhole snaps his fingers.
“Right on, tree dude, I remember!”
“You’re thinking of the grove that burned during the Battle of Torchnight. They say a catapult misfired with burning payload far from the battle, possibly due to sabotage. Those were some wicked times, crew.”
The gnome keeps his eyes peeled for any markings along their path.
“We should be able to guide our way by traces of the debris, overgrown though it may be.”
The group is making steady progress through the wild.
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Level 2 challenge - Complexity 2
Requires 6 successes before 3 failures
Nature - DC 15
Perception - DC 15
Other Skills as suggested
3 success so far, 0 failures
Next Nature check gets +2 from Ikni
Derien made it, Ironheart just made it with Haruka's help, Rhole made it, Ikni helps next person.
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