I could tell you what she is saying
"Please do."
Yes, knowing what she is talking about might help.
Dain steps up with Yori to act as translator.
"Hello Mrs. Dwarf. We are curious about what brings you here and if we maybe could help you. You look somewhat lost here." Yorikata tries some nice conversation opening.
As Dian and Yorikata make their approach, the woman stops and eyes them. "Umlo?" She says staring for a moment before shaking her head "No.. No.. They took him, those green skins. I will have to find the Mercenaries"
Now that you are closer you can see that the woman is covered in mud and feces, 2 axes hand from her hip and a long bow rests just outside of the tent flap.
She is affected by some sort of Mental Illness, she appears unstable
"Is that normal, to look like that for a dwarf?" Yorikata whispers to Dain.
The feces? Nope.
The woman continues around the fire, poking at it and stiring whatever is in the pot. After a few minutes she turns to you again. "Umlo?" Before shaking her head. "You look like one of them, those hags."
The Dwarves affect changes as she finally looks at Yorikata, her eyes look a bit more fuzzy and her hands go to her hips....
"Laneth, could you let the sleeping fairies sing for that one?" Yorikata asks, and gives the dwarf the evil eye.
"You're Green Skins in disguise!" The woman shouts as she draws two axes in a flash. "I don't need all of you to make you tell me where Umlo is"
William moves closer to the apparently touched dwarf. "Ma'am, I can assure you we will help you find Ulmo. Please, holster the blades and tell us what has happened here." He moves forward 30 feet, taking a totally defensive posture.
Drat. Let us try to restrain her
We are not green skinned! Night Fairies, make her safe!
Dain will try to thump her with the flat of his axe
Dain wacks the female Dwarf with the flat of his Axe distracting her from Lanneth's power. She falls asleep instantly on the spot, standing there with her eyes closed.
What are you doing now?
"Who is good with rope and knots?" Yorikata asks. "I suppose we're trying to find out what is wrong with this dwarf, and not kill her. Right?"
William carefully binds the female dwarf.
Yes, hurry, she will not stay asleep forever.
Dain helps tie her up.
With the Dwarf tied up, the party is free to explore. The Camp site holds little of interest. The Lady Dwarf has 2 axes on her, one a magical battle axe and the other a finely crafted Hand Axe, a long bow with a quiver sit near the tent. 2 Potions are found in a touch wrapped so they don't break, a Silver Hair Clasp in the shape of a Fist is in her hair.
This is a potion of Cure Moderate WOunds
This is a Potion of Remove Curse *hint*
A +1 Dwarven Waraxe
Lanneth scans for magic.
That potion is a medium strength healing drink. The other potion, removes curses from someone and the Waraxe is a simply enchanted axe to make it hit more often and stay sharp.
I'm more interested in what the dwarf has to say.
Lanneth detects some magic on the Dwarf, she is unable to determine what it is though , the Dwarf starts to stir in her bindings.
So what happened to her? Is it sickness?
Having disarmed her, William takes a few steps back and drops her weapons on the ground. He looks at her with concern. "No idea, Dain."
"Gah, Who are you?" The woman says before you see her eyes glaze over. "FILTHY! Green Skins, you took UMLO!" She shouts.
I can't tell. There's some sort of magic here, but I'm not sure what it does. But clearly she thinks we are Orcs.
See seems to start normal and go crazy at the end of every statement....
William looks her over, attempting to discern what ails her or if there is an unusual item on her that may be the source of this magic.
William gets the feeling that she is under some sort of Psychosis, maybe something magical since Lanneth could tell that the aura is not normal. A curse maybe?
William ponders out loud. "What kind of magic or curse would do this to a person?"
It's most likely a curse. If we wanted that potion might fix this. She points to the Remove Curse potion they just found.
"I believe it is the least we can do for this poor soul. In exchange, I believe she can enlighten us as to what has happened here."
Best use the potion and then maybe we can find out about Ulmo.
Lanneth forces the potion down the Dwarves throat as everyone holds her. You can see the magic Take hold but are unsure if it worked or not.
"I am not crazy, you know." The Dwarf sasy
"Hey, a full sentence. That looks promising." Yorikata states.
"Of course not. What is your name. What happened here?"
"I am Ingrahild, I don't remember full details but a battle with some Orcs. My Brother and some Mercenaries were with us." She says
Ulmo is your brother?
Was it back that way a bit? Lanneth asks pointing back in the direction of where they saw the bodies?
Ingrahild shakes her head, trying to clear it. "he is and that area I think so yes, why did you find him?" She tries to stand even though she is still tied up.
"Are you good with a bow or axes, Ingrahild? You did survive the encounter. Can you tell us more about these orcs? Anything you can recall might be of help."
No dear. We found equipment, but no creatures. But it looked like it was quite some time ago. How long have you been out here?
Ingrahild takes a few deep breaths, calming herself. "Umlo is strong, he will have made it away... we were attacked by a coven of witches. They had orcs and a Giant with them. I Killed ne of the witches and Umlo another but the third escaped." Ingrahild says to Lanneth. Axes are my specialty"
Perhaps we can locate Ulmo and this third witch
William steps away from the group, attaching his shield to his waist. Facing away he attempts to cast a spell in full plate.
He tries again.
And again.
He whispers "I think we should take her along with us. She has no one else and a pair of axes could help us out. If you whisper, I can hear you as well."
Each of you hear this whisper as if he were speaking to you.
Yorikata looks amused at William, how he tries gymnastics in his heavy armor. Which looks really funny, until she is startled by his voice appearing next to her ear.
Hmm..I guess that might work. Dain mutters to himself
Ingrahild continues to look at everyone not sure if you are going to untie her or not.
"Well, how about you tell some more and we check if that not crazy behaviour of yours stays this way, before we untie you? You know, you attacked us with the axe and talked gibberish." Yorikata suggests to Ingrahild.
"sorry They did something to my mind." Ingrahild says "Those witches will pay. What do you want to konw?"