James Heard
Explorer
Janis growls menacingly and waits for people with thumbs to catch up.
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stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. I [IC]
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[sblock=GM]As the images and memories fleetingly flash through her mind, Ashlyn holds onto one in her mind, the image of the mad crone wielding darkness and a gleaming silver sign of a raven. She holds onto the memory trying to imprint the image of the crone and the symbol in her mind.
Ashlyn is trying to memorise the image of the crone, especially her face if she can.[/sblock]
Ashlyn carefully helps to carry the dead down to the horses and she too speaks a few quiet words over them before lifting Daellin and walking alongside Jarrith on the way down. As they walk down the side of the hill, she speaks aloud "Memories of the past it seems, ... if they truly are, then there is at least one witch and she holds the symbol we seek in one hand and wields darkness in the other..."
It seems that she is about to say something more, but it is just at that moment that Janis shifts into the form of a bear and rushes into the bushes with her companion. Ashlyn lays Daellin down gently on the ground and moves over to the hapless peasant. Crouching down beside him, seemingly ignoring the two bears, she asks him "Might I inquire as to your name and purpose here?"
Ashlyn is trying to memorise the image of the crone, especially her face if she can.[/sblock]
Ashlyn carefully helps to carry the dead down to the horses and she too speaks a few quiet words over them before lifting Daellin and walking alongside Jarrith on the way down. As they walk down the side of the hill, she speaks aloud "Memories of the past it seems, ... if they truly are, then there is at least one witch and she holds the symbol we seek in one hand and wields darkness in the other..."
It seems that she is about to say something more, but it is just at that moment that Janis shifts into the form of a bear and rushes into the bushes with her companion. Ashlyn lays Daellin down gently on the ground and moves over to the hapless peasant. Crouching down beside him, seemingly ignoring the two bears, she asks him "Might I inquire as to your name and purpose here?"
James Heard
Explorer
Janis lets her animal companion hold the man down while she rears up onto two legs and bellows, before she sets them down with a thump to either side of his head and brings her slavering bear breath down inches from his face.
pathfinderq1
First Post
As Ashlyn and Jarrith moved forward to assist Janis with her interrogation, Tessa hung back. The horses were already nervous, and the scent of two bears did not improve their attitude- it would do no good for the poor beasts to run off with their companions' bodies. And, of course, she wanted to keep an eye out, in case this "hunter" was not alone.
stonegod
Spawn of Khyber/LEB Judge
It was an old standby in those hack stories printed in the Chronicle---Good Watchman, Bad Watchman. Of course, in this case it was Good Crusader for the Host and Bad Bear-Lady, but the effect was the same. His will dissolved.
"No hurt!" He looked at Ashlyn pleadingly, the only friendly face in the bunch. "I just sent to watch. Make sure you not meddle. Make sure all is still ready!"
"For what?" Ashlyn's voice was a bit steely.
Warm bear breath elicited a response. His fear is mixed with anger and mad devotion. "Czernovog! The Verdant Lord! He will break the Curse and we shall be rewarded! The dark moon shall see him ascendant!"
[Knolwedge Checks]
[sblock=Janis]The name Czernovog is not one known to her, but the title Verdant Lord is not one known to through her arcane or druidic studies, and thus is not of the fey or similar sort as far as she knows. Considering the pillar below, it might have a tie to the Dragon Below or the other things kept below in Khyber, but that could be a stretch.[/sblock][sblock=Ashlyn]Her religious studies with the Lightbringers was intense, and the name and title is not one familiar to her. That gives her little comfort.[/sblock][sblock=Tessa]The title is not familiar from her religious training, but something deep in her reacts at the name, and causes an involuntary shudder. She knows she has seen the name before somewhere, in some of her more forbidden planar studies, but cannot place any details. Mateusz, the wretch that he his, might know more.[/sblock]
"No hurt!" He looked at Ashlyn pleadingly, the only friendly face in the bunch. "I just sent to watch. Make sure you not meddle. Make sure all is still ready!"
"For what?" Ashlyn's voice was a bit steely.
Warm bear breath elicited a response. His fear is mixed with anger and mad devotion. "Czernovog! The Verdant Lord! He will break the Curse and we shall be rewarded! The dark moon shall see him ascendant!"
[Knolwedge Checks]
[sblock=Janis]The name Czernovog is not one known to her, but the title Verdant Lord is not one known to through her arcane or druidic studies, and thus is not of the fey or similar sort as far as she knows. Considering the pillar below, it might have a tie to the Dragon Below or the other things kept below in Khyber, but that could be a stretch.[/sblock][sblock=Ashlyn]Her religious studies with the Lightbringers was intense, and the name and title is not one familiar to her. That gives her little comfort.[/sblock][sblock=Tessa]The title is not familiar from her religious training, but something deep in her reacts at the name, and causes an involuntary shudder. She knows she has seen the name before somewhere, in some of her more forbidden planar studies, but cannot place any details. Mateusz, the wretch that he his, might know more.[/sblock]
Several of the words the captured man chose strikes a chord with Jarrith, along with everything they've seen in Barovia thus far. He steps closer to the man pinned underneath the bear.
"Verdant means nature... breaking a curse... and the dark moon. And we've seen quite a number of wolves around these parts thus far. You wouldn't happen to have a lycanthropic problem now, would you?"
"Verdant means nature... breaking a curse... and the dark moon. And we've seen quite a number of wolves around these parts thus far. You wouldn't happen to have a lycanthropic problem now, would you?"
James Heard
Explorer
Janis growls and starts sniffin' for dog breath.
stonegod
Spawn of Khyber/LEB Judge
Looking fearfully between the bear-Janis and Jarrith, the man blurts out in terrified defiance, "We are no wolf! The wolf is bane, and a tool of the Curse! Tails be told about the beast men of the forest, those touched by the wolf like that warrior of a false faith that follows you! But see them not, and we not be them!"
Janis smells nothing unhuman about the squirming thing, nothing like the oily smell of the wererats of Karrnath. But not having smelled werewolves before....
Janis smells nothing unhuman about the squirming thing, nothing like the oily smell of the wererats of Karrnath. But not having smelled werewolves before....
