The Drow War Book One - Chillhame

[Endur]

Laurel follows the more recent of the two trails. If she can't tell which trail is more recent, she follows the easier trail.

 

[Festy_Dog]

Saxon watches Laurel follow the tracks, and signals for Mzarem to come over. He crouches down beside a few tracks and indicates them to the wolf, murmuring things to the beast while it snuffles about them.

Finally, he points to Laurel's general area, "Track."

Mzarem trots over to Laurel and continues his sniffing about, trying to find scents which would perhaps help ease the ranger's job.

Getting Mzarem to help Laurel with an aid another on the survival check. He has a total of +5 when using scent.

 

[Evil Ujio]

Laurel follows the more recent of the two trails. If she can't tell which trail is more recent, she follows the easier trail.

Mzarem rolls a 20 total giving Laurel an additional +2 to her skill rolls with Track. The “easiest” trail to follow is the one heading deeper into the woods. She does not see any of the children’s steps which suggests they were carried from the point near the gravestone.

Mzarem sniffs the ground and helps Laurel with finding a trail to follow, the easiest being the one that leads back into the woods, tell-tale droplets of black-red dried blood give her something to follow.

Meanwhile Kyalia does her best to clean off a word on the gravestone:

“Stranger, trouble not the bones”

Revealing the text of the first line of the script.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Dolan still kneeling stepped aside for Kyalia and was paying attention to Saxon/Laurel/Mzarem. Upon hearing Kyalia mumble he is shook out of is mental wandering and he begins to carefully scrape an area that Kyalia is not working on.

 

[Evil Ujio]

Dolan still kneeling stepped aside for Kyalia and was paying attention to Saxon/Laurel/Mzarem. Upon hearing Kyalia mumble he is shook out of is mental wandering and he begins to carefully scrape an area that Kyalia is not working on.

To make my life easier just mention which line you are trying to clean, and with both of them cleaning the party has now spent seven precious minutes here at the gravestone…

Dolan wipes out the last line, the easiest to do without getting in Kyalia’s way:

“The foe that bears a dead king’s face”

 

[Voadam]

"What? It mentions starkweather? Unfortunately I don't think we have the time to uncover all the words right now and will have to return later. We'll have to inspect it thoroughly once we are done with the children business though. I can make a few guesses at it but we should uncover all of it when we have time."

Starkweather JOHN

Stranger, trouble not the bones
RESTING DOWN beneath these stones
HERE LIES one of mortal part
WHO held A STAR within his HEART

WHEN NOW come that came before
THE Stars shall fall to EARTH ONCE MORE
TO FIGHT against Her might XXXX
XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXXXX XXXXXXX

THE DARK conspirators assail
XXX XXXXXX then these XXX XXX XXXXX
TO cast from his XXXXXXX GRACE
The foe that bears a dead king’s face

 

[Evil Ujio]

A trail has been found and Laurel is sure that she can follow it easily especially with the help of Mzarem to assist her. The sun is dipping in the west and perhaps an hour more it will set. The clouds overhead are growing darker and a chill wind blows while the party prepares to take their next course of action.

A noise coming from the trail grabs their attention for a moment as a cart pulled by a mule moves slowly along in the distance, an old traveler perhaps a merchant trying to do his best to get to Bronce before the fall of nightfall. At the pace he is going, he will probably just make it.

He does not seem to notice the party amidst the sparse trees and seems quiet focused on staying the course. The sky has a slightly pink hue to it, and the leaves rustle in the wind as if whispering a soft ballad.

For the first time you can see the beauty that is the island of Chillhame…

 

[Thanee]

Kyalia

After she did what she could under the pressure of time, Kyalia stands up and together with who else remained heads after the others, who are already a good distance away, but since they go slower while Laurel is reading the tracks, they catch up eventually.


OOC: Guess that should work. Kyalia doesn't want to delay the search.

 

[Endur]

Laurel was tracking (at half-speed) the trail, she was not waiting for the others who were working on the stone. When she encounters the cart, she is very careful and diplomatic, but she wants to find out what is in the cart (i.e. make sure its not bad guys or little kids).

 

[Evil Ujio]

Laurel was tracking (at half-speed) the trail, she was not waiting for the others who were working on the stone. When she encounters the cart, she is very careful and diplomatic, but she wants to find out what is in the cart (i.e. make sure its not bad guys or little kids).

Laurel approaches the wagon, the driver starts to slow and hails her, “Evening,” he says with a tip of his straw hat. He is an older man with a thin frame and clothes that he isn’t so much wearing as it just droops off him, looking two sizes too large. He continues speaking, “didn’t expect to see travelers on this road,” he comments.

On the back of the wagon look to be crates of foodstuffs and barrels of perhaps more food or drink. A young girl sits on the back her feet dangling over the edge. As you approach you realize the little girl is not so much a little girl but a Halfling woman; she has spectacles and looks terribly bored staring out the back of the wagon.

The Halfling woman turns and looks to the front brushing her auburn hair from her face. She speaks in a high strained whine of a voice, “Hey you idiot! Why are we slowing down, we will never get to Bronce at this pace!”

She pauses seeing the party approach. The wee woman stands stamping her feet, “No time for chit-chat or handouts you vagabonds be off with you, or so help me, I will turn the lot of you into newts!”