03. "Of Meetings and Goodbyes" (RP)

Tarbh(as he is so lovingly refered to by Sigil) had fallen to the ground and was a bit dazed. He slowly gets up with is hand holding his head shaking it remove some of the sting. but he looks as though his hands were burnt a bit badly making it a bit hard to grasp things. "I'm... I think I will be alright.." He picks up his blade from off the ground and puts it back into its sheath. "I honestly don't know what happened, but wish that it doesn't again.

(OOC Verbatim
You will take a -2 penalty to
all Arcana checks (including passive)
Attacks with the Arcane keyword.
Also, if your SHLD defense is running off of your MAG ability score, the -2 penalty will apply to that as well.
This will last for the next 24 hours in game )

The member 'Kai' has done the following action : Rolls

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OOC: I'd like to spend my action point and use my Heroic Exploit to turn that botch into a normal failure, please.

"Nay, lass. Just a bit o' tumble in our manipulation o' the arcane. Tarbh tried to help me and somethin' went wrong."

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Not sure if it's too late or not but I'd like to attempt to negate the -1 I received. If I can do a roll then I'll do that but if I have to use an exploit that's fine too.

They gryphon shifts under the elf's weight, which was not much. His crest raises in alarm at the backlash the arcane users experience, flattening it again when he realizes there was no danger to himself or anyone not involved. Finally, he addresses Ithilwen's request. "Yes, darling, we can fly closer to your friends sometime. I don't believe this is the time for a leisurely flight, however."

He turns back to the arcane men. "Well, what did we discern? Which direction are we to head?"

"We should head southwest. If we take the roundabout way through the pass, it will take us five, maybe six days."

"Well, if no one has an objection, I say that we go southwest then."

"Well if there's no objections, let's head out. I'd rather go through the pass, if it's all the same to ye. No point in makin' this harder then it has to be." He hesitates a moment. "Where is that fort ye said ye knew about, Kai? I would like to investigate that as well." His eyes light up with curiosity as he begins the trek toward the pass.

DM:

Okay:

Kai, check your PMs for your check results.

Sigil, I will allow you to use your exploit to rid yourself of the penalties, since they are not the result of your own botch.

Ololamin, if you would like to use your exploit to reduce your penalties to -1, I will allow that as well, but since it was a botch (and you did not use your exploit to turn it into a normal failure) you will still have to carry the -1.

If no one has anything left to say, I will move this thread along in a little while. We should be finished with it soon and on to the next.

OOC: Jacob, please PM me with the dates that you had mentioned you won't be able to be online. If I can plan around that ahead of time, it would be much easier. Thanks!

AMdG

Clutching tightly to her staff with one hand, and to Dahkore with the other, Ithilwen stretches and lays down on the gryphon's back. She closes her eyes and, just before drifting off to sleep, mumbles something in elven.

OOC: Using my exploit in that case.

EDIT: BTW... we don't have a way of tracking Action Points.

OOC: I keep track of mine in the *Special* box at the bottom of my character sheet.

"The fort lies above the pass; you must cross through one to reach the other," Kai replies, settling her pack more firmly across her back and giving her weapons a quick check. "I am ready to leave as well."

Rubicon nodded, making certain his spellbook was ready, his quarterstaff in hand. "I'm ready when the rest of you are."

DM:

With the storm of the previous night having ended, the mountain is cool and shrouded in a wispy fog that hugs the ground and lends an ethereal look to everything around you. The path from here on is fairly easy to navigate, or at least it seems so compared to the previous portion of the "trail" that you climbed last night.

The terrain around you continues to rise steadily, and to become more heavily forested as you go on. After several hours of travel, you all come upon a deep, dark, ancient pine forest, silent and looking ominous in the wispy fog.

Everyone, please check your PMs.

AMdG

"Pretty quiet round here. Anyone see anythin'?" His hands gripped the crossbow, already prepared with an augmentation at the beginning of the day. He had also readied a couple of infusions at the same time. He felt prepared for anything, and though he knew little about forests or nature in general, the silence felt ominous.

Rubicon held his staff in one hand, his tome in the other as he surveyed the path they walked on. "That's strange... I didn't think there would even be a path out here. The villagers mentioned their patrols didn't go out very far due to fear of being ambushed by goblins. Also...." He squinted his eyes a moment as he examined the trail ahead of him. "Also, this trail has been used quite often, perhaps regularly..."

Dahkore, still carrying the elf, slows slightly before resuming his gait and continuing to follow the trail.

"You're right, Rubicon. I don't think this trail was made by the villagers or any human patrol. I think we best take a hint from the forest and stay quiet and guarded."

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DM:

Kai, check your PMs for your check results.

AMdG

Ithilwen still sleeps peacefully upon Dahkore's back, unaware of what transpires around her...

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