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Vishantos turns his head to the side, covers one nostril with his thumb, and unclogs the other towards the wall.

Vishantos smiles sheepishly and slides the extra bolt back into the case.

I no longer recall if my crossbow is loaded or not. Rather than digging through several old posts to find out, if it is currently not loaded, I load it now.

"I say we find out what's behind the big doors we passed." Vishantos moves down the passage to the entrance hall, making room for the others.

Vishantos clears his throat and then spits out a dark gritty glob.

"Cough seems to have mostly cleared up..." he spits again then wipes his mouth on his sleeve.

Hmmm.. what? Is somoene in there? or something? What is it?

Vishantos continues to monitor the hallway for danger.

Vishantos says "Normally I like to see people eat crow... heh... nevermind. Clearly someone is living here. We need to be careful."

Vishantos takes a look. 14+7=21"No idea I'm afraid."

As the cloud of spores erupts around Vishantos, he holds his breath and waves his hand frantically. He steps away and lets out a deep sigh.

Vishantos looks around carefully, particularly examining the fungi. "Are any of these the ironbloom mushrooms we're after?"

Search roll 4+2=6 :P

Vishantos will follow the others, taking rearguard, crossbow ready. peering into the darkness, he offers to cast a light spell on Calar's hammer.

Vishantos moves into the yard and stands with his back to the corner of the tower, watching the doors in the north and west walls.

"This structure is more intact than I expected."

Vishantos moves up to the entrance and points his crossbow into the courtyard, watching for giant skunks (or any other dangers).

He whispers "Perhaps now is a good time for someone who's quiet to sneak in and peek around. Just don't go further than where we can see you."

"Well, they didn't like him if they scratched his name off, I'd guess. But this other fellow they smashed to pieces. A god or priest who fell out of favour I'd imagine."

KN Arch 20+7=27

Vishantos starts imagining what kind of equipment he would need to fix this place up.

Vishantos loads his crossbow. "Who knows what find of animal has taken shelter in these ruins. Might be worse than a skunk. I think it is unwise to split up until we have at least done a quick investigation."

Vishantos gestures and mutters a few arcane words, a brief sparkle of energy surrounds him. casts mage armour, duration 1 hour

"I think we should be prepared for trouble."

Vishantos looks up from his spellbook. "Hmm... what? Oh. Yes, I'm just a bit tired, what with this cough. must have picked up a cold sleeping out like this. Not used to it. I'm much better off than those poor souls who have this blackscour fever or whatever... I suppose we'd better get going."

He stows his book in his pack and shoulders it, then picks up his crossbow and gets ready to hit the trail.

How's a natural one do?

"Sorry, friends, I hope my coughing didn't disturb you too much last night..."

Vishantos shoulders his pack and hoists his crossbow (not loaded) and gets ready to go.

Vishantos looks around at all the weird fetishes hanging around the clearing. "If we camp here, I suggest we bury some of this stuff, along with the witch. Otherwise I doubt we'll get much sleep."

"We may want to push on a little further though. If we can find a good site a little closer to the monastary, then tomorrow we could go there, look for the mushrooms, and return to the same campsite. It shouldn't take us long to find the mushrooms if they're there."

Vishantos rummages around in the cottage. "Wow, there's quite a lot of useful stuff here. Just give me a few minutes... I wonder if she was planning to... No i'm sure the skunk moved in after she died... something though, I'd say..." He shoves seeming random herbs, jars and bottles into his bag.

"I wonder if What's her name in town would be interested in any of this stuff. We could bring her back here when this is all over."

After he is done he goes back out to the edge of the clearing and finds the injured fox. "Still here? I may have to give you a name..." He gives the fox a piece of dired meat from his rations.

BTW, made the Knowledge, Aracana, failed the Appraise.

Vishantos reloads and fires. 15+3+1=19, damage 2+1+1=4.

"Maybe if you drag it outside I could look around better."

Vishantos reloads. "I don't think that's an option, unless you're prepared to hold it for a while." He fires. 6+3+1=10, I'll assume a miss. "This witch wasn't very organized. She should have arranged this stuff alphabetically. I could easilly set something up..."

Vishatos steps away from the cauldron (to A1) and fires his crossbow.

11+3=14, damage 5+1=6

Vishantos yells "Cauldron Attack! Cauldron Attack!"

Trying to keep his distance from the thing, he casts a spell. Unfortunately, he fumbles the gestures while dancing away from the cauldron, and the spell fails.

Cast defensively, rolls a one (total 7), loses 'enlarge person.'

Vishantos is checking along wall A for herbs and information. Say he's in A2

"Let me see if I can help." Vishantos casts prestidigitation and tries to remove the odour from Geddoe. Failing that, he will add flowery scents if possible. Worst case, he will create a gentle breeze to direct the worst of the smell away from himself.

"Now then, let's see how organized this witch was." Vishantos will look and see if he can make sense of the herbs were sorted and stored. He will avoid the moldy corpse.

"That was weird" says Vishantos, loading his crossbow. "I'm not sure how much this will do against undead, if we meet more, but I'm out of acid spells."

Vishantos uses his second and last acid splash spell, moving if needed for a clear shot.

Attack roll 6+3=9 touch attack
Damage 2+1=3

Wagh! HP adjusted

EDIT: Beaten to the initiatives.

Vishantos steps back from the creature and utters a spell.

5' step, Acid Splash

Attack Roll 13+3 (point blank) =16 (touch attack)

Damage Roll 3+1 (point blank) =4!

Vishantos takes a few steps (5') to the right, alnong the edge of the clearing, trying to get a clear view without getting any closer.
Listen roll 7-1=6. Vishantos hears his own heart pounding in his ears.

Vishantos murmurs "...perhaps I should have been ready with detect magic. Ah well..."

Vishantos looks up suddenly. "Did one of you yell 'Braains' a minute ago? Oh! we're here!"

Vishantos decides that keeping his crossbow out while exploring is a good idea, although he doesn't reload.

"I believe we should find this witch's hut next, no? Or is the dwarven ruin closer now?"

Vishantos loads and fires his crossbow.
roll 11+2=13, damage=1

I'm back, although I've only quickly skimmed the action I missed.

Given that Laurent is taking cover, Vishantos will instead cast enlarge on Calar. EDIT: Or is it too late now that Calar has rolled his attack? If so I will stick with my original plan /EDIT

Inspire courage lasts for 5 rounds after the bard stops singing

Listen roll 17-1=16!

Vishantos wrote:

When it comes to my next action:

** spoiler omitted **

Hey, Vish? Shouldn't that be "-1 AC"?

oops, yes, that too! but I'm still way ahead of myself too.

When it comes to my next action:

On his next action, Vishantos will close to within 20' of the tree and fire his crossbow at the hunter (point blank).

Attack roll 7+3+1=11 Damage 3+1+1=5 (although I imagine I miss)

Init 11+2=13. Spot 7-1=6

Vishantos quickly mutters a spell mage armour, profile adjusted and then loads his crossbow.

Vishantos puts his staff away and unslings his crossbow, but holds off on loading it. He peers around into the forest.

Listen check 10-1=9

Vishantos stays as much to the middle of the group as possible

Spot check roll 2 -1= 1 total

Vishantos sinks deeper into thought, head down and hand on forehead.

Vishantos walks alongside the others, humming absently to himself. Occasionally he mutters "...no, that'll never work..." or "mm hmm, mm hmm that's a good idea. I'll have to remember that..." Once in a while he suddenly blinks and looks around as though startled to find himself walking through the woods.

"Ahem (cough). I suggest we check at the witch's hut first. If she's still there, she may be able to give us more information, or she may even have the ingredients we need on hand. Then maybe we can use that as a base point from which to explore the other locations."

"If we head out now, we can probably make it to the river by evening, and then we can figure out how to cross it while we camp."

Am I remotely correct in my belief that we can reach the river before dark?

Vishantos follows at as quick a pace as he can muster. "I won't be able to keep this pace all day..." he admits, wheezing a little. "We'll need to take it a little easier in the afternoon."

EDIT: I started typing this before Dragonmann's last two posts appeared.

"Oh, thank goodness!" Vishantos rests in the wagon, catching his breath.

Vishantos also purchases some extra food for the journey. 2 gp deducted

"I don't think horses or carts would help us much in these woods. The terrain is too rough and the trails get narrow. I'm not much of a woodsman or anything, but that's been my impression. I'm pretty sure the lumber is floated downriver as rafts, but boating upriver would be slow going. I think we are better off walking. A donkey to carry some of our gear might be useful, but I don't know how to care for such creatures."