The Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter VI

[Majin]

OoC: Alright guys, finals are over and I'm back, so from now on posts should start getting back to their regular frequency. Sorry for the wait.

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Moving further west in the direction pointed out to them by the farmer, the party slogged through the increasingly muddy roads to finally come to Merl's farm. Darkness is beginning to finally set in, made darker still by the seemingly unending storm clouds passing by overhead. The barn is closed and dark within and the fields appear empty, though there is a lamp burning in the window of the main farmhouse.

 

[Manzanita]

Drogo

Drogo will report this info back to the party. He will maintain his eagle form for now, reporting telepathicly. In the darkness, his vision is not good, but he will go back out and circle the immediate area low and slowly, hoping to be able to give some warning to the party if the are approached.

 

[Velmont]

"I don't like this, too quiet." He looks at Broddy and Sarlis and adds "Long time it has been. Let me check."

Sielwoodan starts to approach quietly the farmhouse and looks inside to see if things are normal. He will also try to see if he cannot find any marks and tracks that would have been left by some raiders on the way to the farmhouse.

OOC: +10 to Hide, Move Silently, Spot, Search, Listen and Survival.

 

[Dhes]

“Never minde the quiet, I don’t like the look of those clouds. If we hang around here any longer we will be swimming back to town.”

Taking Sielwoodans lead, Dunstand will sneak to the farmhouse and scout-out the opposite side.

(+13 Move Silently)

 

[DarkMaster]

Sarlis stays back letting the other two sneak-in.

He turns towards the other and whispers "Let's wait around here, ready to intervene, while Sielwoodan and Dunstand investigate the area."

He then tries to hide himself as much as he can and starts observing the farm carefully.

[sblock]spot, listen +10[/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

Teleri nods, flicking out her bow and gets ready to shoot anything she doesn't like. "My question is. Why haven't they started burning the homesteads down? Or at least trying. That's a standard tactic of bandits. Terrorize the people, keep them down, so they won't fight back when you take their stuff." she whispered to the others. "This hit and run gambit doesn't make any sense." she took her cue from the others and sought a hiding place as well.

 

[Mimic]

This was all very exicting, almost to the point where Broddy didn't notice the rain, unlike his familiar who complained about it non-stop. One would figure that if one was a weasle they would be used to getting wet from time to time but I guess that was just not true. He would simply have to invest in a rain proof pouch... or even petter make some sort of extra-spacial holding for him, yes that would do quite nicely.

Coming to a stop he pondered as to why he never joined up with a company like this before, actually that wasn't true, he had joined several of them over the last few years but they kept disbanding for reasons he never really understood. Ok, except for that one time when he nearly killed the group leader off, but that really wasn't his fault, he was pretty certain at the time that it was a wand of enlarge...

"My question is. Why haven't they started burning the homesteads down? Or at least trying. That's a standard tactic of bandits. Terrorize the people, keep them down, so they won't fight back when you take their stuff." she whispered to the others. "This hit and run gambit doesn't make any sense."

"Maybe they want to draw out someone out or the raids could have been to draw someone's attention to this area and away from another." Broddy states with a shrug, until we find them its really anyones guess.

[sblock] +6 to hide[/sblock]

 

[Verbatim]

Ayden thought on Teleri's question for a few moments, listening to the stillness of the evening as he did so. Finally, he turned to face the priestess and gave the only answer he could think of.

"If you destroy the land then it ceases to be of value and those who live upon it cease to be any use to you. At the moment, the people in Twilight Hollow have accepted the yoke of fear, at least the great majority of them have. However, as long as the attacks are short, and with the exception of Lady Chasity and her squire, seemingly non deadly, the people are more frightened than truly angry. It is this fact that has given them the edge thus far. However that edge is now over and they will soon learn what it is like to be the hunted instead of the hunters."

Ayden's face remained grim as he spoke and his normally cheerful eyes were hard.

~Just as you have taught me the songs of healing Uncle, you have also taught me the chants of war. Soon will be the time that your songs will lead us into battle. Be by my side Uncle...~

 

[kirinke]

Teleri smiled, but her eyes were sad more than hard. "You knew her longer than me. I am sorry. From what I knew of her, she..." her voice trailed off and she shrugged, that simple movement saying what words could not.

 

[Verbatim]

"While I truthfully only knew her only a few more days than you Priestess, I will admit that I was impressed right away by her devotion to her faith and beliefs. It will do my heart good to banish the unholy creature that took her life back to the hell it was spawned from."