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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6427885" data-attributes="member: 6696971">As soon as Otthor walks away from the death he wrought, the Winter Wolf savagely tears into one of the Dire Wolf's corpses, gorging on the fresh meat of his former challengers.  The other wolves in the pack understand the feeding custom and they don't approach either slain beast until he has had his fill.  When he finishes, he moves away to clean his bloodied muzzle and paws, to tear the arrow from his shoulder with his mouth, and to make way for his pack to revitalize themselves.  When the carnage ceases, he addresses you."You are dangerous.  You may yet survive your journey inland.  Take me to this place you speak of and I will tell you what I know along the way."The journey is not terribly long, perhaps an hour.  The cold bites at your bones as the howling winds are funneled terribly into your face in this channel in the mountains, carved by the seasonally active river.  Its mid-day and at its warmest.  When it gets close to sundown, you're going to both need to Defy Danger (Con) for the cold unless you seek shelter for the evening.Along the way, the once-mighty leader of this retreating pack tells you the following:1)  The madness he was referring to seems to be centralized to bodies of water.  The great glacial runoff in the deep interior (you don't know this place but he tells you its a few days travel inland) is the watering hole for most of the beasts of this land.  Herds of reindeer would stampede each other and tear each other, and themselves, to pieces.   Mothers consuming younglings.  The natural order has been completely upended.  He has kept his pack away from these places and they've survived because of it.2)  The humans that you asked him about live on the second largest body of water in these lands.  Were the circumstances different, he would have been inclined to brave their huntsmens' traps and arrows to pluck off a stray child or weakling.  However, after the events at the northern watering hole, he kept away from the human's home and the body of water they resided on.  He expects that they've slaughtered each other.3)  If they haven't slaughtered each other, they must have fled their home.  Perhaps they went to the Coldlands; the unforgiving realm on the higher elevations at the farthest northern reaches.  Some time ago, a great and unnatural construct appeared on the stoney reaches just below the mountain peak; an obelisk, black as night with no signs of doors or windows.  Foolishly curious, he led his pack there.  When they arrived, it was as they had seen from the distance except there were strange markings that flowed along it.  The markings came and went as they looked upon them.  Two of their numbers couldn't take their eyes away.  They stood their.  Staring.  Unresponsive.  They waited a short while for them and when they still didn't respond, he led the remnants of his, quite spooked, pack out of their as swiftly as he could.When you arrive at the cave to the lowlands, the Winter Wolf leads his pack in.  He briefly looks back at you when he reaches the cave's mouth, perhaps a sign of respect, and then disappears inside with the rest of his pack.[HR][/HR]Alright.  What are you guys doing?  You've been to the human settlement up here so getting back there would be (a) a half days trek and (b) Undertaking a Perilous Journey.  You have little more than 4 hours left of daylight, the storm casts an ominous bent to the horizon, and its about to get terribly cold.  Let me know what you guys are doing  @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6781356" target="_blank">Tecklenburg</a> and  @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6775039" target="_blank">Binks</a>.</blockquote>

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