What do you do if a Raven follows you?

[devilish]

You shot at it? AH! You should have offered a sacrifice to Odin. That and checked to make sure you didn't have something dead on your back.

Two ravens followed our group of intrepid adventurers --- luckily, the cleric
of the Norse Mythos stopped the archer in time to find out what they wanted.

 

[atom crash]

yup. they kill things and take their stuff. and leave the bodies behind. only comrades get burial rites.

In one game I play in, S.O.P. after combat is to loot the bodies, pile them all together and start a fire. In the game I run, the PCs tend to leave the evidence -- I mean bodies -- behind.

 

[ARandomGod]

yup. they kill things and take their stuff. and leave the bodies behind. only comrades get burial rites.

Hey, while it's true we might take the time to bury a comerade, definitely not before we take his stuff.

 

[Abraxas]

Plots - What do you do if a Raven follows you?

This

 

[Crothian]

I was waiting for someone to link to that

 

[Abraxas]

Glad to Oblige

Its why we scout with an Owl

 

[spyscribe]

Oh man, at fourth level our party was tracking a druid Ogre--a side-trek on our main mission to find the four most powerful wizards of the known world--when our party druid noticed we were being followed by a raven.

Naturally, we all assumed it was an animal companion or other spy. We were mostly right.

Reyu, Eva, Thatch, Anvil, Kiara and Lord Agasha all turn and fire their bows at once. At the same moment, Lira and Annika each loose a pair of magic missiles.

Naturally, the magic missiles hit, and when the bird hits the ground it has been skewered no fewer than four times with various arrows, plus a bolt from Anvil’s cross-bow.

“Well,” Eva comments, “that bird is really, really dead.”

Lira casts detect magic to see if the creature is under any kind of enchantment. What she sees makes her heart skip a beat, regardless of the circumstances.

Lira swallows. “I think we just killed someone’s familiar.”

There is a moment of silence.

“Umm…” says Thatch. “I hope that bird didn’t belong to the archmage we’re supposed to find.”

Happily it wasn't, just the familiar of a goblin shaman in league with the ogre. We're not normally a horribly paranoid party, but that was a shining moment of coordinated preemption.

 

[whydirt]

Glad to Oblige

Its why we scout with an Owl

Who?

 

[Jdvn1]

A raven following? Well there's a few basic possibilities:

1) You're being watched by a servant of a sort of war god. Pray for a quick death.

2) You're being watched by a trickster deity. Pray for a quick, and unembarrassing, death.

3) You're being followed by an omen of death. No real need to pray, is there?

A few orcs? No problem.
A band of kobolds? Piece of cake.
A bunch of golblins? What a bore.
A solitary raven flying overhead? Now we're screwed.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

A few orcs? No problem.
A band of kobolds? Piece of cake.
A bunch of golblins? What a bore.
A solitary raven flying overhead? Now we're screwed.

And to add to this:

"A couple of Red Dragons, be back in a minute..." - K'Raal the bat'leth wielding Klingon