"Intresting how the elven language has changed since the dragon wars. I wish my handlers taught me high elf, but they were fools to begin with haha."
"I can start looking for a good place to hide the canoes while you start working on translating those scripts."
-Father Isaak sings hymn to Marfya, and his eyes glow suddenly. He stares at the carvings on the stones...
--Well, godod luck my fellows, I think we 're in the right place. The carvings read Theses stones were carved to remind us of the 2nd great battle between elf and dragon. The dragons were defeated, and fell against our might. Yet many of our kind were also killed in the battle. Let no elf forget them. The greatest hero was Verthelineal and so we built a great tomb in his honor. It is 1 days journey west, near the Hill of Fire, where he fell against the Red Dragon.
--Looks like we have to continue over land. And looks like we need to find a hill. Can't see a hill, too many trees.
Using a rope for support, Vuk climbs to the top of one of the near by trees.
Vuk will climb down after scouting the area. "It looks like there's several game trails heading west. I know I saw some deer tracks and perhaps some bear tracks as well. If we follow those, we should be able to move quicker, however locals could be keeping an eye out on those trails."
"So to avoid hunting parties, should we take the bear trail? Or I can let Ios choose our path." He comments while holding up two darts and gives a grin.
Xenarchy waits and listens as the priest translates. Once he has finsihed, she turns aside and looks out toward the tracks. "Do you believe you are sufficiently capable to deal with an unruly bear? If so, we might be able to follow its path. Hunters in the area will more likely avoid the bear and go after the deer. Do you wish to deal with people or predators?"
Vuk grins slightly at Xenarchy's question, "I can deal with predators much better than I can with people."
--Well since we'd rather deals with bears, than those bearing arms, I say follow the woodsman's advice. Now we need to decide, to we want him to scout ahead of us? Or should we all stay togther?
--The gametrail runs west. The trail is about 3 feet wide, and you'd have to move along in single file. The surrounding forrest is light undergrowth, which means you can't run or charge. It would be easy to be ambushed along the trail, but you don't have any choices.
"We should be able to follow this trail for a ways. I did see a large hill about two days journey. Perhaps that is what you are looking for. I could travel slightly ahead of everyone, but still within eyesight if you like."
Vuk holds up his hand to alert everyone to stop. Walking back to the group he whispers, "Pair of boars in the brush up ahead. We can either attempt to go around them and hope they aren't hungry or grab ourselves dinner for tonight."
Garesh looks over to what Vuk is pointing out, "We should move around them, it's still early in the day and we don't need to be attracting attention to us so soon. Plus we don't need Roh to get tried from carrying around two boar carcasses all day." He gives the orc a friendly smile and looks towards the other groups responses.
The sorceress quirks her lips and flexes a free hand. "Agreed. Now that we are aware of them, we can respond appropriately should they assail us but there's no need to expend ourselves on them."
Vuk nods in agreement, "Sounds like it's settled then. Let me clear a path around them."
Vuk will create a make shift path around the boars, giving them plenty of space.
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Initiative check:
Garesh moves deeper into the woods with his sheild and dart drawn and lets loose one of his darts at the closes boar.
Vuk draws hus greatsword as he moves in to dispatch both boars.
Move to C6 and use power attack and cleave.
-all squares except the game trail are light undergrowth. rules posted below for ease of use.
Undergrowth: Vines, roots, and short bushes cover much of the ground in a forest. A space covered with light undergrowth costs 2 squares of movement to move into, and provides concealment. Undergrowth increases the DC of Acrobatics and Stealth checks by 2 because the leaves and branches get in the way. Squares with undergrowth are often clustered together. Undergrowth and trees aren't mutually exclusive; it's common for a 5-foot square to have both a tree and undergrowth.
roll for miss chance on thrown dart
under 20 misses.
-Vuk moves quickly, drawing his greatsword as he races to the boars. He is nervous, and swings the heavy weapon slowly through the air. The boars, startled, move aside, and focus all their attention on Vuk...
-Garesh, hurries down the trail, and throws one of his darts at the boar nearest him. It sticks into the beast's back, and it lets out an enraged squeal. It shows no sign of slowing down...
-Father Isaak mutters a prayer, and you all feel stronger and braver.
Grant us your aid today, Mother, and save us from death at the hands of nature! As he says these words, his hands are covered in a glowing light...
Move to D-12 while drawing my double axe.
Xenarchy flexes her gloved hands, strolling casually along the path toward the others. She stops a short distance from the boars and watches them, holding the fingers of her right hand in the first somatic position of a spell.
In that case I will draw my axe and move to E8 instead. (I'm not seeing how I would be able to attack this turn because I can't reach the boars even with a double move.)
Same here. Would need to take a double move to reach the same location. No attack, but no AC penalty.
Garesh moves forward drawing his longsword,
Vuk swings his greatsword at the boar that attempted to gnaw his leg off, cleaving over to the stunned one.