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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binks" data-source="post: 6630831" data-attributes="member: 6775039">This is where we will head.  Hopefully we can convince them to aid us.  The things that concern me most are the snow leopards and the loose snowpacks that could turn into deadly avalanche.  The snow leopards can easily stalk us in the darkness from above.  They could pick off one of the children and retreat before we could barely react.  I explain to Otthor their stalking habits and their ambush tactics so he knows where best to look for them and how to repel their efforts if we are indeed hunted by them.While he is looking for them though, he is going to have to be traversing the slopes on our flanks.  This is where any hungry snow leopard would stalk us.  Here the danger is loose snowpacks, the disturbance of which could trigger a deadly avalanche that claims all our lives.  I make sure Otthor is aware of precisely what a dense and light snowpack looks like and where the vulnreable points are that he needs to avoid.  I learned much of my alpine mountaineering in this very world amidst these mountains.  The only place with topography like this back home in the Feywild is in the domain of the Winter Court.  I have never ventured there...though that now appears likely to change in the near future.[sblock]Marked 1 xp for Otthor's use of Decades of Experience for Scouting.[/sblock][sblock]Quartermaster + 13, 3 + 1 = 7Use the expected amount of rations.[/sblock]By the way, I'll definitely be making sure to obscure our tracks in the few areas where we might make them.  If you need me to roll something for that, let me know.We cannot bring this man with us.  It is far, far too dangerous.  I speak the following in goblin very, very slowly so Exel and Xanob can follow:"I understand your heart on this Otthor.  He is a young man.  It is a terrible thing to have such a wasted life and future.  Perhaps this death philosophy was inflicted upon him by a ruthless, unforgiving father.  Perhaps mercy would be best...among different circumstances.  But these unforgiving circumstances, that we must deal with right now, do not afford us the luxury of discretion or mercy.  He has condemned himself by his own actions.  Exel and Xanob have the right of it.  We canot take him with us.However, we cannot leave him here for them to find as he will surely give away where we have gone.  We will take him to the hot springs where I met these women.  It is not too terribly far from here, slightly less than an hour if we make good time.  We can stow him there while we trek to the interior.  If the Winter Fey somehow find our trail and locate him, we will be several hours ahead of them at that point.  That should put us beyond their reach."[sblock]Interfere (Bond)6, 5 + 2 = 13- 2 to Otthor's Hireling check.  That would put it at a 6-.  Mark xp Otthor![/sblock]</blockquote>

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