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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8378018" data-attributes="member: 16814">Then they immediately know another way.  This is a strange argument though, because it presupposes the GM has laid a barrier specifically to deal with the ranger's ability and then is also making the ruling that the ranger has to walk into it.Also:Characters:Fred, the Paladin, leader of the group.Bob, the Ranger, who is a Ranger.Assorted other party members who have no lines."Okay, so we're agreed.  We're headed to the Desolate Keep of Desolation, which the map says is along this road until we get to Hanging Tree and then we turn left into the Dreaded Forest of Annoying Thistles.  Sound good?  Cool, let's get going... hey, where are you going Bob, the road's this way."Bob grunts as he shoulder his pack on the way into the woods -- away from the road."Bob, BOB!  Stop.  We're not going that way, we need to go down the road."Bob stops and sighs."Are you blind?""What?  No, what's that... what's going on?!  We need to go down the road.""You can't.""What?  Of course we can, it's right here!  Make sense, Bob!""The bridge is out."Fred sputters. "What?!  How on earth do you know that?  It's a day's hike away!""Like I said, are you blind?  Did you not notice the Red Tufted Darter that flew past while we made breakfast?""Red.. tufted... what?"Bob sighs again.  "Okay, look, the Red Tufted Darter only lives in ground burrows in the deciduous forests around the Narrows Bridge.  This is because they only eat the nectar from the Polystem plant that only grows in that small region due to the soil acidity.  Now, if we're seeing a Red Tufted Darter here, this far west, it's because the river's flooded, which makes sense because I saw a hippogriff circling to the north a few days ago, and they only do that this far from the ranges when there's been a big rain and they're following the floodwaters.  Anyway, Red Tufted Darters.  If we're seeing them, that means their burrows are flooded, and they've relocated to the west because they can live on, but don't like, the Unistem plants that grow in that direction.  Ergo, we see one, it's because there's a flood.  And a flood big enough to flush a Darter means the bridge is out.  That's becausee there was that old cedar that fell two years ago, if you recall, and was lodged upstream.  A flood will pick that up, sure as Meilikki hunts, and smash it into that bridge, which has needed fixed for decades due to the soil erosion around the central buttress.  Little tap, no bridge, but, even if it stands, the flood water will make it so you can't get to it.  So, we need to go north, take the Highline Ridge back east.  It'll add 2 days to the trip, but we'll skirt the floods.  Meilikki preserves, you people don't know anything."Bob shoulders his pack again and walks into the woods, northwards."Wow.  Have any of you ever heard Bob say that much in one go... like ever?"Scene.</blockquote>

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