The Drow War Book One - Chillhame

[Endur]

Laurel tries to find out sufficient details of where the soldiers came from and where the soldiers and/or children went (Survival +6). Laurel leaves to others the opportunity to decispher the scrpt on the moss covered stone.

 

[Ranger Rick]

OOC: I have not that skill.

Dolan gets down on all fours to look at it, "Looks like old writing. I can not figure out what it says." He than gets up and after a step away, realizes he forgot his sap and goes to retrieve it.

 

[Voadam]

Enthalus watches Laurel in action as she seems to know what she is doing in tracking down the children. Not seeing a body or lots of blood Enthalus would never have known there was a battle here.

 

[Evil Ujio]

OOC: I have not that skill.

Dolan gets down on all fours to look at it, "Looks like old writing. I can not figure out what it says." He than gets up and after a step away, realizes he forgot his sap and goes to retrieve it.

Dolan kneels down to look once more and notices he can make out a few words through the grime and moss. He can read the following…

On the Gravestone

Starkweather XXXX

Stranger, trouble not XXX XXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXX beneath these stones
XXXX XXXX one of mortal part
XXX held X XXXX within his XXXXX

XXXX XXX come that came before
XXX Stars shall fall to XXXXX XXXX XXXX
XX XXXXX against Her might XXXX
XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXXXX XXXXXXX

XXX XXXX conspirators assail
XXX XXXXXX then these XXX XXX XXXXX
XX cast from his XXXXXXX XXXXX
XXX XXX XXXX bears a dead king’X XXXX

X’s are obviously stuff that he can’t read but the rest is visible.

Edit: Fixed for more puzzle goodness

 

[Thanee]

Kyalia

Kyalia also lets Laurel do the tracking, since she seems capable enough to handle that. Instead, she takes the time to look at the ancient writing on the gravestone, trying to make some sense out of it.

[SBLOCK]“Starkweather JOHN

Stranger, trouble not BONES
HENCE beneath these stones
LIES one of mortal part
...”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Evil Ujio]

OOC: Amusing, nice guesses... other then that carry on BTW the XXX's are not exactly indicative of how many letters are in the word or words that are obscured

Actually I will fix it so it does haha

 

[Evil Ujio]

Laurel tries to find out sufficient details of where the soldiers came from and where the soldiers and/or children went (Survival +6). Laurel leaves to others the opportunity to decispher the scrpt on the moss covered stone.

Laurel rolls a 14 Survival check and can follow one of the trails heading further into the woods, while the trail leading west is difficult for her to follow.

Laurel picks through the signs of the conflict finding an errant arrow, chipped metal shavings, and even a loose finger in the grass and gravel. The two paths lay out before her one to the west and the other further south into the woods. The trail to the west is much too difficult to follow, but the other trail is much easier and even leads to a woodland trail moving further south into the woods.

The sun beats down from overhead, but even now it is starting to dip, and within an hour or two it shall set. The clouds seem to be gathering and Laurel can see that they will get some rain this evening… most likely after nightfall.

 

[Thanee]

Kyalia

“Starkweather JOHN

Stranger, trouble not THE BONES
XXXXXXX XXXX beneath these stones
HERE LIES one of mortal part
WHO held A XXXX within his HEART

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

XXX XXXX conspirators assail
XXX XXXXXX then these XXX XXX XXXXX
XX cast from his XXXXXXX XXXXX
XXX XXX XXXX bears a dead king’S XXXX”


OOC: "BTW the XXX's are not exactly indicative of how many letters are in the word or words that are obscured"
I was already suspecting this... doh!

"Actually I will fix it so it does haha"
That's very helpful, thanks!

 

[Evil Ujio]

You could clean off the grime and overgrowth to make it easier read but that would take precious time, at least 30 minutes to really see what it says...

 

[Thanee]

Kyalia

Kyalia wants to uncover the text. She begins to clean the gravestone carefully, in order to reveal the text, since she cannot derive its meaning yet. She starts in a pretty random fashion, one word here, one word there, but if the others urge her to get going, she will do so, the children need them now, the grave will still be here afterwards.


OOC: Just tell me how much time has passed, or how many words could be uncovered, depending on what the others want to do, and I will say which, guess that's the easiest.