"The dirt does seem strange. Unless there is something unusual about it. I think maybe we should search around until we find a trail or more clues."
"I assume the chest is so that he can carry this camp back and forth. The dirt, however, is as good a guess as any. Like I said, I'm not a hunter perhaps there's a purpose for it that we aren't seeing because we don't know that much about hunting or camping... As for trails, I believe our best bet would be to locate the freshest trail and begin expanding our search in that direction. "
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Nolath nods, Hopefully we can find some trace of him that can give us a clue.
Nijena begins to circle the camp looking for a fresh trail.
Jonuli walks around with Nijena pointing out little signs as the search for a trail.
Nijena and Jonuli work the perimeter of the camp, carefully, backtracking and circling around, pulling back foliage, and looking closely at the ground. While Nijena wasn't a trained tracker, she could at least look for tracks as she was perceptive. Following them might be a bit of a challenge, but at least if there was a trail blazed it would be easy even for the unskilled.
She tried to think like the man that had camped here. What would he bo doing or looking for. Maybe he had set traps for animals. "We should tread carefully, not only to not disturb any clues, but in case there are snares. While not likely to kill us, it would ruin ones day to limp around with an injured foot for hours."
"This thick forest is hampering our efforts. If the canopy was not so dense, I could merely fly up and cover more area."
[ooc]Roll goes to 30 with Jonuli's aid[/dice]
Nolath watches Nijena and as soon as she finds traps, he strides to where she stands. Let me see if I can track them, I've got a bit of experience with tracking, albeit not much.
"Well we can return to town and seek an experienced tracker, or we can puzzle out various other options. Time seems to be of the essence with a missing person though. I have not memorized any magic to aid in tracking, however we have at least found some."
Nijena tries to follow the trail that Nolath lost.
Jonuli sighs, "I have no magic which will help us and have no skill in tracking people. Maybe if we spiraled out from the camp we might find something useful."
"It cannot hurt except in the expenditure of time. Let us take wide spirals and look for larger clues."
She will fan out and spiral out around the camp looking for anything obvious and doing smaller careful checks if an area looks promising with a trail or possible chance someone or something would have passed though.
"Cripes. This job really isn't suited for us... " He lets out a disappointing sigh, "Alright, new plan. We finally found what seems to be his freshest trail; even though we cannot follow it, perhaps we may find some clues if we look in this direction. Let's fan out and cover as much ground as we can and make our way towards where he was last headed."
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Nolath nods, Sounds good, I'll start this way and see what I can find. He begins to slowly walk straight after where the trail ended, hoping to see where it picks up.
Jonuli nods, "That sounds good. I'll be to your left Nolath." Jonuli moves off to the left about 10 feet and looks for clues.
"Then I will take the right. Nijena, perhaps you may get a better angle from above. Let's all report back here in an hour to report our findings."
Jonuli spends the next 45 minutes looking for clues and then walks back to the camp.
Perception 25
Survival 21
Nijena takes to the air and begins scouting, flying slow spiral patterns with her snail kite familiar looking for anything odd.
Nijena: Take 20 perception = 28
Famililar: Take 20 perception = 34
Nijena: Take 20 survival = 23
Perception 25, Survival 21