The Gray King

[FreeXenon]

Arrgha'n (Half-Daelkyr Kin-Hunter) HP:28/28

Arrgha'n walks to Maavnod, pats him on the shoulder approvingly, and says "Your hands are mighty useful Maavnod.".

"I will go look for tracks or anything else of use. These arrows had to come from somewhere. We may also want to see if the Filcher struck here."

He then pads off towards the forest where the arrows came from in search of tracks (+9/+11) or anything else of interest.

 

[Erekose13]

"Is it gone?" Maavnod says looking around for the mist creature. It seems to have vanished following the weird plunge into the skull and the scream/explosion. "Did you find anything, Valerian?"

 

[Zurai]

"Indeed. I do not believe that these," and he holds up the still-squirming leechlike creature, "are supposed to be attached inside creatures. Where'd Arrgha'n go? I think this is more his specialty than mine. If I had to guess, this ... thing ... had something to do with the strange behavior of the Marauder. The Filcher, too."

Valerian examines the parasite closely, but is careful not to let it latch onto him. He doesn't do anything to either aid or prevent its death; however, he does mutter a quick spell and inspect the parasite, the marauder, and the rest of the general area for lingering magical auras. Once his investigation is complete, he pulls out a scrap of paper and a stick of charcoal and makes a few quick sketches of the battle and the creatures for his notes.
[sblock=OOC]Detect magic, natch. Valerian will also sketch the vapor-thingy, the marauder, the marauder's patch job, and the parasite/symbiont.[/sblock]

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Yatrax examines the arrow wounds in her foot with compressed lips.

"Not exactly how I care to wake up," she says to Oliver, seeming to appreciate his concern, but still being in pain. She waves away the last of the noxious smoke and digs into her backpack again, coming up with a bluish vial with a House Jorasco seal. Drinking it down, her wounds close, and she looks much better. "Aaah, that helps too."

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Arrgha'n stalks off to the woods, his senses ready and determination firm to find what he can. Under the gloom of the trees, he finds several things. [sblock]There are odd footprints, one from a tall and heavy humanoid wearing moccasins, and another with the distinctive three-toed splay of an ethereal filcher. The filcher's footprint's appear and disappear with the typicalness of the breed, but the humanoid's footprints head further west, and then end at a tree. Looking around carefully, it seems as if this individual has taken the tree road. Listening, you can't hear him now, and peering into the gloom, you see nothing at present. The indigo dust on your flesh itches slightly as you examine the tree and tracks.[/sblock]

Valerian: [sblock]The creature continues to writhe, though weakly. Invoking magic to illuminate your eyes to magical auras, you detect only the slightest hint of magic, remnents of the maurader's plane-shifting, along with various magical auras from things your companions carry. The indigo dust, slug-creature, maurader remains, and the rest of it all have no magical aura. The dust itches a bit from where it touches your flesh.[/sblock]

 

[FreeXenon]

Arrgha'n (Half-Daelkyr Kin-Hunter) HP:28/28

Arrgha'n makes a quick note of the location and runs back to the first person in the group he sees and says "We need to leave now while the trail is fresh. The Filcher and, I think, our moccasined friend, Roth, is behind this and is West along the tree road with the Filcher." and then he runs off to the Tree Road to the West.

As he gets to the Tree Road and closer to their assailant Arrgha'n stalks carefully forward to see who and what he can see. He will concentrate on stealth more than gaining distance. He looks carefully around fully expecting the Filcher to ambush him at any moment.

[OOC: Tree Road? I am not exactly sure what this means.]

 

[Erekose13]

EDIT: ooc missed Valerian's reply. Not to be rude, Maavnod replied before taking off.

"Chaos mutation I think. Though I have never seen that before. We must continue the hunt." the giant replies.

Maavnod then follows Arrgha'n glad to join the hunt. He switches focus to hone in on his shadow mantle.

ooc: shift 1 essentia over to Shadow Mantle. so thats Listen +11. Move the other point of essentia to the wormtail belt for AC 20 just in case.

 

[Zurai]

"Arrgha'n, wait. What do you make of this?" Valerian asks as he holds up the still-squirming parasite. "I found it surgically inserted under the Marauder's skin."[sblock=OOC]Pretty sure the 'tree road' means that he climbed the tree and jumped from branch to branch or brachiated wherever he went.[/sblock]

 

[FreeXenon]

Arrgha'n (Half-Daelkyr Kin-Hunter) HP:28/28

I am going to make a guess here until the DM pops in.

*Pulling back his shirt and showing his squirmy Breeder Symbiont*

"It is one of these. A Breeder Symbiont. In increases your health and makes you a perfect host to start a new generation of Daelkyr.

Lets go." *Holding out his hand* "I can take care of that for you."




[OOC: "Pretty sure the 'tree road' means that he climbed the tree and jumped from branch to branch or brachiated wherever he went."

That would not make me happy. If that is the case I would not come back. I would follow him right then and there. Brachiating would be really hard to follow via tracking and I would want to stay with him. Grrrr....]

 

[EvolutionKB]

Oliver, Human Binder

Oliver continues speaking to Yatrax, "You showed great courage in the battle," he says and he pats her on her behind. "Let's go see what the others found."

Oliver walks to where Valerian is holding the parasite. "Interesting. Do you think somebody put it there, or do you think it was encountered by happenstance and this thing attached it to the marauder?"

 

[Zurai]

"It was implanted forcibly. See the sutures here? Crude work; almost mechanical. The Marauder obviously didn't do this itself; nor did the parasite."