Silent continues his poking around, and it becomes evident that he's looking for something specific, and he's leading with his nose.
Lots of that. You have cloths. Obvious gender differences. Raylof has a stronger sscent but the most peculiar is the stench of death and blood. Especially from one of the girls beds and a certain few articles of girls clothing. Knowledge religion will reveal more.
"Yeah, I guess you're right, Jivaji. Being gone for so long already seems like their chances are pretty dang slim." He rubs his chin. "I like the idea of the quiet fella there seein' if he might be able to locate 'em. That works for me."
Silent continues on his intentional circuit, grabbing odd items, sniffing them, and discarding all but a few. Once finished -- and once the group is alone -- Silent turns back to everyone, holding up some girls' clothes and hovering near one of the beds.
He holds up a few small items of clothing to demonstrate.
"For the benefit of those who did not follow Silent's charades, he's found the scent of Raylof and perhaps his girls. Also a lot of blood. Perhaps over the next couple of days, we can try to find out more about what went down."
"Dang. Alright, I guess we'll just have to go with that." Joe says with reluctance.
Silent nods, realizing that a few hours of tracking and scouting might go a long way to informing their decision on the man and his daughters. So he nods to everyone and stalks out, weaving his way out of the ramshackle village. If he passes the man who brought them to the shack, he nods in passing.
Stepping out of the protective ring of the small village, Silent finds a place away from prying eyes before shifting form. The forest stretches around him, his paws scratching at the earth readily as his nose seeks the scents he found in the shack. The wolf looks for local game trails as he seeks the tracks of the three humans.
Jivaji waves Silent on.
"Well, I think it is still prudent to set a watch tonight. To keep an eye or ear out for Silent, and an eye on the animals. I'll take middle watch."
You sniff the perimeter of the town. You do find a couple of local game trails but one in particular smells different than the rest. Heading west there is a sort of trail hidden. You found it by the smell of death. Once again you detect the smells of blood, death and decay. However you can find no actual blood, corpses or every any signs that bodies lay or were dragged anywhere around here. Also you smell the girls and their father on this trail. Their trail is old but the smell of death is fresh a day old to be exact. Something dead was on this trail and has left a trail into the village.
You do get the box open with a 30. You have to wait til I get home to know the contents.
"I guess I'll go on an take the first 'un then. Unless one of the rest of you fellas has a better idea on who should take what. It's all the same to ol' Joe."
The 'death and blood' scent didn't' smell like the father's or the girls' scents, though?
And was there any actual blood on the clothes or bed? Or just the smell?
Then the trails:
i found a few game trails (which might be helpful later). One of these game trails, however, was only found because of a 'smell of death'. This is the same smell from the house?
The trail had no blood, no corpses, or signs that anything was dragged. The father/daugher's scents are here, but older than that of the death/decay. And you ended with "something dead was on this trail and has left a trail into the village." Did you mean that silent can tell that the 'something dead' was actually headed into the village? as opposed to out of the village? Or did you simply put that to indicate that it was the same smell as in the shack.
I'm trying to establish some kind of timeline in my head.
Sorry if some of this seems redundant. I just want to make sure I have my story straight before I report back to everyone.
I will elaborate in more organized detail.
Shack: You smelled Dad and the two daughters. Dad didn't bathe much from the smell. One of the daughters has the oder of blood and death following her around. No signs of any actual blood or death.
Hidden Trail: Same father and daughters smells. Also same blood and death smell that was following the one daughter. Another familiar human smell is on the trail as well as a couple more blood and death smells. Only a handful of people seem to use this trail and most of the death smells lead either from the jungle to the village or vise versa or both.
Does that help? Simply put, you smell dead people.
You said "another familiar human smell" is on the trail. Who does it belong to? Someone Silent's met so far?
Silent makes his way back towards the wall, but not before marking the trail in the usual wolf manner. Don't want other predators mucking up my trail. Before coming anywhere near the sentries or town entrance, he stands back up onto his human feet, entering in human form. He nods politely at any greetings he receives, but he's only interested in getting back to the shack.
Silent walks in through the door, getting straight to business.
"This shack has the strong scent of a male and two younger females. The older male didn't bathe much by the strength of the smell. I don't smell any blood in here, so I don't think any violence happened in the shack. Strange thing is that there is the smell of… death and decay following one of the female scents around. Something undead? A friendly or malevolent undead.. I'm not sure."
"Then I found one trail that had all the same scents. It was hard to spot visually, but the scents don't lie. The 'death-and-decay' smell still followed one of the female scents. The strong male scent and the two female scents were a little old. The smells of dead things seemed to be more common and recent. But nowhere were there signs of blood or corpses."
"I didn't' follow the trail too far, so I don't know where it leads. Might also be good to find out if anyone in this village is some kind of necromancer."
He shrugs as if to say, 'that's all i can figure out.'
Joe watching Silent flash his hands in a rapid movement, "You know, I'm really gonna have to figur' out how to understand that quiet fella. One o' you fellas is gonna have to teach me that."
After Eltumal translates, "He really said all that? That's mighty impressive. Hm. Welp, looks as if we got more dead'uns walkin' 'round. That's kinda funny soundin', ain't it? 'Dead'uns walkin' 'round'." Joe chuckles. "Anyhow, looks like we got our work cut out for us, fellas. The quiet fella's right too. We best speak to some o' these village people, see if they know somethin' 'bout all these dead folk walkin' 'round." He chuckles again.
Yes, we definitely have our work cut out for us. If you want, we can teach you. Silent and I taught Jivaji and Tam, so I don't see a reason we couldn't teach you, given time.
"I'd 'preciate that Eltumal. I'm tired o' not understandin' what all that hand movement he's doin', means." Joe moves his hands around messily. Looking to Eltumal, he scratches his head. "I think you're right about the whole 'given time' bit."
Joe listens to the planning amongst the group. "Alright, I guess I can go with our little buddy here." He smiles as he slaps Tam on the back. "We'll have a good ol' time! I guess we ought to get started now then. Unless you fellas think we ought to wait 'til tomorrow. Makes no mind to me."
Well, I can't Identify anything until tomorrow, so I'm going to have to wait, at the very least.
"If you won't be ready to do the trading until tomorrow, why don't you come with us into the forest or help Tam and Mac with the village-work?"
"Sure, Silent. I'll go with you into the forest. If we happen to come across dinos, I'll be fairly helpful in directing our movements away from them without them noticing."
As soon as Tam picks himself up off the ground following Joe's "friendly slap" he brushes himself off and nods to Joe. "Let's go meet the natives, right Joe? And no falling in love this time, right?"
"Excellent, then. Let us make good use of the night."
Jivaji leaves the animals behind, but takes some supplies with him.
Okay so just let me know when you guys head out. Ball is in your field.
Joe and I will head out. I'll let Joe do his own thing while I take my tools and go in search of people who need a carpenter. Mostly I'll just listen, letting my innocent face put people at ease and allow them to talk about whatever's on their minds.
Okay Tam and Joe. If you are going out to talk or listen, I need to know one of two things. First what kind of people do you approach? (ie demographic or apparent responsibility or job.) What exactly are you listening for?
Finally I will need a perception check abd diplomacy check from each of you.
Joe puts a hand to his chin, pondering Tam's question in a serious looking manner. Unable to control it anymore, Joe can't help but smile real big. "Alright little buddy, let's go people meetin'! And I promise, no fallin' in love. But in my defense, she shor' was a sight to look at when she wasn't wearin' nothin'. Whooo! You know, all I can really say 'bout that is...," he thinks a moment on how best to describe it. And the only response he is able to muster, accompanied by a big Joe smile is, "Whooo! Let's go little buddy!" Joe then leads the way out to the people.
Tam rolls his eyes and follows Joe out.
Perception:
Diplomacy:
Watching Tam and Joe head out, Jivaji turns to Silent.
"Well, I suppose we should be going."
Effect Atk +10 melee (2d6+3); sharp jaws spring shut around the creature’s ankle and halve the creature’s base speed (or hold the creature immobile if the trap is attached to a solid object); the creature can escape with a DC 20 Disable Device check, DC 22 Escape Artist check, or a DC 26 Strength check
Effect CMB +10 (vs. target's CMD; target gains grappled condition and is yanked 10 feet into the air). A caught PC can escape this snare on his own by making a DC 22 Strength or Escape Artist check, or automatically if he has a slashing weapon with which he can cut the snare line (although this action results in a 10 foot fall).;
You guys gather little to nothing useful. However you did learn one bit of interesting info. No dinos or undead have ever wandered into this village.
Traps are set. Hunting finds a few food stuffs for a total of 7 rations.
Jivaji, if Silent takes you to where the hidden trail was, you will find the daughters and dad's trail.
Also you guys find a Pachysephiasaurus. (Totally butchered spelling)
Didn't see that anywhere. You can read their spoiler.
"Sure, Silent. I'll go with you into the forest. If we happen to come across dinos, I'll be fairly helpful in directing our movements away from them without them noticing."
"Well, little buddy, I didn't do to durn good today, but, there's always tomorrow." Joe smiles real big at the thought. "Let's get on back and see what the others might 've found on out. How'd you do, by the way?" He asks as he starts out back toward the cabin.