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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 5025175" data-attributes="member: 13966">Frustrating puzzlebox, a noise, and northward-boundAt the camp, Metliz spends hours trying to solve the puzzlebox, but despite a few clever twists that aligned a few markings and gemstones on the box, she spent a lot more time making wrong turns that only got the box a little more scrambled-up in patterns than before.  After a few hours of pretty much just making it worse, she gets frustrated and puts the shiny puzzlebox away to try again later.Tianulien continues carving up a bowshaft, while Theris finishes carving some wooden stakes and begins hammering them into the ground just outside the perimeter that Pyre cleared away earlier, with the pointed ends face-up.  Seshani and Hassad search the nearby woods for several hours, gathering some food for the camp and trying to find something useful to Tianulien.However, late in the afternoon, while Theris is working on some more of the stakes and Seshani is still away from camp, Pyre, Metliz, and Tianulien hear some kind of squeal a short distance to the east!  Something's running through the undergrowth over there, towards the camp.....-------------------------------------Meanwhile, at the resting spot the expeditionary group used while Angrboda recovered, the consensus that same afternoon is that the group should continue traveling for another day or so before returning.Jaegar responds "Aye, let us travel onward.  We cannot let one unfortunate encounter ruin our plans or scare us off the path we have chosen.  My wounds are not too grievous..."  He stands up and does a quick check-over of his wounds and their impromptu bandaging, then gathers his possessions and hefts his halberd.Angrboda, Jaegar, Elldar, Kaznak, Forge, and Falryn resume their journey northward after picking up their bedrolls and other supplies, though some with a bit of trepidation or hesitance.  The group travels until shortly after nightfall, setting up another temporary campsite.  Jaegar is the first to set up his tent and bedroll, trying to get some much-needed sleep after staying up the previous night.  Falryn and others take shifts on watch, but nothing bothers their camp that night.  Falryn does hear a few wolves' howling late at night, during his shift, but only in the distance.It is now morning for the expeditionary group.  They've only really traveled half a day since Angrboda recovered, due to all the time spent resting and recuperating first.  Thanks to the interruptions earlier, you estimate yourselves to only be slightly more than one full day's walk northward from the main campsite.[sblock=ooc]Finally!  Took hours to get just a few posts to go through tonight, and hours more just to get to making THIS post.  Stupid browser's been freezing up most of the time that I try to load EN World or any particular thread/page, especially when trying to post.  Stupid googleads.  Hopefully I'll have enough time THIS weekend to download and install Firefox, but last weekend I had an appointment at the eye doctor's and had to get new glasses, then go back to pick them up on Tuesday.Anyway, I need to know if anyone foraged for supplies on the day of rest for the expeditionary group, since Angrboda was unconscious at the time and couldn't for most of the day.  If anyone with the Survival skill does forage, roll a few checks to see what you come up with.  Likewise, roll any Survival checks needed for foraging 'today' in-game for supplies.Metliz got too many terrible rolls from InvisibleCastle to make any progress with the puzzlebox today, undoing each of her bits of progress with several setbacks afterward.  She can make some more attempts later, but right now, I need to know how the main camp group responds to the noise in the brush to the east.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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