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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1167605" data-attributes="member: 11574">"Well, so much for getting any sleep" Rebrey states. "might as well get going." Rebrey checks on the halfling infant, and then on the kobold egg, making sure they're both safe and secure. Alriand mumbles to herself and decides to head off first, stomping through the mud and rain soaked pine needles covering the ground around the few pine trees in the area. Tharhack gathers up the tethered kobold, and puts out the campfire he just started an hour ago. He helps Rebrey to his feet and offers to carry the halfling infant."no, I'm fine. I'll make it." Rebrey replies."I don't want you tripping and crushing the child." Tharhack answers him."I promised to bring the child back, and I have every intention of doing just that. I'll be OK." Rebrey starts out after Alriand, leaving Tharhack to finish covering the fire. "Hey. How do we even know we're heading in the right direction? The Hamlet could be on the other side of this cliff for all we know." Tharhack asks Rebrey."Well, I figure if anyone is going to lead us back to civilization, it's going to be the person who could sniff out a copper piece In a pile of guano at the bottom of a mile deep well." Rebrey answers pointing towards to direction Alriand went. "good point" Tharhack concedes, as he heads off trailing Rebrey toward the Southeast. After an hour of sloshing through the woods, a heavy fog has set in, obscuring the suns rays and making a cold morning only colder. The think fog obscures the trees, making them appear as pillars of smoke with the fog drifting in front of them. Tharhack hopes Alriand can lead them back to some town even if it's the Hamlet, because he can't see a thing through the mists. Tharhack starts to ask Rebrey a question when the kobold lets out a yelp, and runs into Tharhack. Tharhack turns around to see what it's problem is, and the kobold scrambles up Tharhack's back and clings to the back of his head. Alriand starts laughing at Tharhack, then feels a pull near the back of her thigh, spinning around she rips the back of her pants off in the mouth of a small dog that is almost invisible in the fog. Crying out to Tharhack and Rebrey she manages to dislodge her pants from the mouth of the dog before it rips off her right pant leg. Tharhack takes a hard look behind him and just makes out the outline of a small dog, he takes a swipe at it with his right hand and misses as the dog seems to disappear in the fog. "There's one over here too." Tharhack responds to Alriand's shouts. Rebrey holds the child closer, hoping to stave off any attacks with his feet, as his heavy flail requires two hands to swing with any effectiveness. Rebrey hears the calls of the dogs all around them, but can't see any of them. His hearts quickens it's pace as the howls of the dogs or wolves fill hear ears and echo through his bones. The child feeling the fear, begins screaming and squirming in Rebrey's arms. Rebrey tries unsuccessfully to calm the child, as the cries from their attackers gets louder. Alriand stabs at the small dog, but misses as the dog seems to shift in the fog. The dog appears next to Alriand's arm and clamps down hard on her forearm. Feeling it's teeth sink in and the blood beginning to trickle out of the wound, Alriand thrusts her dagger in the head of the dog and causes a deep gash on the side of it's face. That blow prompts the dog to let go of her arm. It tries to take a bite at her leg but Alriand manages to pull back before it's teeth can sink home. Alriand jabs at the side of the dog and cuts into it's flesh causing another bleeding wound on the animal. Tharhack unsheathes his greatsword, and waits for the wolf to reappear. Seeing a dark movement to his right, Tharhack instinctively swings at it. The blow from Tharhack sword splits the small animal in two. Tharhack takes a closer look at it and finds a dog like creature with a reddish-brown coat. "A fox? They're foxes." Tharhack shouts out to Rebrey and Alriand. "this ain't no fox." Alriand shouts back. "It's white or silver.""Maybe they lead the pack." Rebrey answers "take out the white ones and you'll end the threat."Tharhack scans the forrest in front of him, and sees the outline of the fox about twenty feet away, just staring at Tharhack. It takes a big breath and blows a blast of freezing air at Tharhack. Tharhack covers his face and feels the droplets of fog freeze on his exposed skin of his arm and legs, causing a burning sensation all over his limbs. Tharhack screams in pain as he takes his arms away from his head. Alriand sees the fox take in a deep breath and blow out at Alriand, who rolls to the left and misses most of the freezing breath. She then finishes her roll next to the fox. Slashing out with her dagger again she cuts deep into it's right rear flank. The fox let's out a yelp and collapses twitching. After hearing the fall of it's mate the other fox retreats into the fog, and is soon followed by the rest of the foxes*.*these were Hoar Foxes from The Tome of Horrors (Necromancer Games)</blockquote>

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