Payngor grunted as he was healed, doing his best to hide his surprise-the herd had no such healer. If you got hurt badly, you walked it off. Or died. He gave both Fenal and Kryas a short nod with more grunting, as a sign of acknowledgement to one and thanks to the other. He looked to the spine dagger as Cartimandua handed it to him. He fiddled with it and nodded-it seemed passable. "Thanks..." he muttered, though he didn't deserve their praises. He should've died for fighting so recklessly. Perhaps sleep will help him get over his own stubborn ego.
As the sun rose and he checked his leg, he rose with the rest of them. feeling better after said night's sleep. "Onwards to the mountain then?
Payngor grunted as he was healed, doing his best to hide his surprise-the herd had no such healer. If you got hurt badly, you walked it off. Or died. He gave both Fenal and Kryas a short nod with more grunting, as a sign of acknowledgement to one and thanks to the other. He looked to the spine dagger as Cartimandua handed it to him. He fiddled with it and nodded-it seemed passable. "Thanks..." he muttered, though he didn't deserve their praises. He should've died for fighting so recklessly. Perhaps sleep will help him get over his own stubborn ego.
As the sun rose and he checked his leg, he rose with the rest of them. feeling better after said night's sleep. "Onwards to the mountain then?
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Payngor shakes his head, briefly experiencing deja vu, before shaking his head. Was probably nothing.
Cartimandua worries for a second after Payngor thanks her and makes the same question twice. Maybe the hit to his head was harder than they thought.
She signals the mountain and nods... she will keep an eye on the half-orc. If he collapses and dies she will move for the new knife.
Kryas sees a mountain ram about 85 feet from their nighttime encampment, grazing on a few grasses.
Cartimandua smiles. Seems the gods are happy with them, sending them over plenty of food.
"I can try to trap it too. Will move to the other side of it, set up the trap, and then you can scare it towards me."
With little hesitation, the half orc drew his axe and once again tried to get into a good position 60ft away for charging purposes. Seems he learned little from the scuffle the night before-except maybe to watch out for horns
Kryas slowly approaches the ram. He gets about 60 feet away, when the ram looks up, startled. The ram looks skittish. Kryas pushes his luck while trying to ease the rams fears. He pushes another few steps, but the ram bolts up the mountain.
Kryas looks closer at where the ram fled, and it appears there is a small trail leading up the mountainside. There is no telling if the trail goes beyond up just scales the mountain.
You decide to head up the trail the ram ran off on. After about four hours travel, you get the feeling the trail just keeps heading farther UP the mountain instead up THROUGH the mountain.
You keep progressing, determination the stubborn mistress of foolishness some say. It’s now midday, the sun is beating on you which feels nice. You notice a cave off to the right of a small landing. You don’t see any visible signs of animal tracks, or other humanoid inhabitants that have recently disturbed the area.
You head over, and Payngor takes a peek into inside, his Orcish blood letting him see in the cave..the cave goes beyond what he can make out.
Payngor peered into the cave, axe in hand, looking around for something in there to split open with his obsidian blade.
Choking up on the handle,he signaled to the others-he was pretty sure he saw something move
Fenal would hang back a little so as to not screw up Payngors stealth
Cartimandua, at Payngor's signal, grabs her last javelin, ready to defend the group if needed.
Payngor can’t see anything, beyond the black and white he can see. He hears some heavy breathing in the back corner of the cave. You can only presume it’s a humanoid creature breathing.
Kryas sends a globe of light into the cave, and Payngor can see a young girl, no older than 14, huddled near the back corner with a longspear in her hands. She is trying to hide, but her eyes lock with Payngor, and she takes up a defensive posture.
Cartimandua relaxes, drop the spear, and moves towards the girl with her empty hands high.
"We won't hurt you. Who are you?"
Fenal puts away his weapons and steps up also
"As she says, we won't hurt you. Please, lets just talk"
The girl, doesn’t put her spear down, even as Fenal speaks to her, hands up. She does speak though.
My..name..Lissa
Father..coming..back
She isn’t hostile, just very cautious and not easily trusting of people she doesn’t know.
Cartimandua, seeing that she is not helping to reach the girl, steps back out of the cave and looks around for this "father". He wouldn't like for him to find them unawares.
Payngor snarls upon the sight of the human pointing the spear at him, though with everyone else saying they won't hurt her, he loosen's his grip and decides against just hacking into her anyway. "When was the last time he was here? and when was the last time you ate something?"
Food..yesterday
Payngor looked back outside, keeping watch-the last thing he wanted was for someone to sneak up behind them and catch them by surprise. Plus, he had little interest in the girl, and didn't want to scare her, messing things up for those who did. Axe at the ready, he looked around outside the cave for anyone else.
Payngor, bearing that the girls father was going to be returning soon, steps outside to survey the trail. He easily spots a male human, older, trying to sneak up the side of the hill. He wears a hodgepodge of furs over his back, and holds a spears at the ready.
Payngor swore, readying his axe if the man with the spear came to close. "Hey, could use some help out here!" he called over his shoulder before looking to the apparent father, snarling. "You put that spear down. NOW. She's unharmed in there, I swear, but I don't like sharp things being pointed my way. So drop it... or maybe you two won't be so unharmed.
"If you and your father join us we will share our food with you. There is strength in numbers"
Fenal steps up behind Payngor
"We mean you no harm. But we WILL fight back if attacked"
Cartimandua readies her javelin, just in case.
The man refuses to drop the spear, even as Payngor instills certain doom in the man.
Lissa, are you okay?
Yes, she replies.
Bring our stuff out
The daughter gathers a few sacks, and carefully walks out the cave entrance. All the while keeping her longspear at the partial-ready should Payngor get testy. She heads to meet her father, as they speak in private for a few.
After a minute passes, they both return. The father nods his head, We will join...for now
The father shakes Fenals hand in agreement.
Where next?
He points up the hillside, Another ledge, half day up. Not sure of things
He than points along the path than continues past the cave you just found.
Travelled half day, mountain goes on
"Let's keep on the trail. Let find that other ledge."
"Agreed. Even if we move on we need to know what is behind us"
Payngor nods and, unsurprisingly, grunts. Then up the ledge we go. Follow me And, if they were all ready to move on, would be out in front as they travelled again, weapon at the ready. Just in case.
You gather yourselves up, deciding to go up to the next ledge farther up the mountain side. You travel, for half a day as the man had said. You spot the ledge ahead, but before you can make your way towards it, a young mountain lion emerges from the cave entrance, and growls at your group.
Cartimandua gets her javelin ready and moves to protect the others.