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As you start your second day of travel , the sky is cloudy and ominously gray.
A nasty storm is heading down from the north and could intersect your route. In order to stay ahead of it, you are going to have to push further today. You'll need to eat on the move, and minimize any rests.
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Conditions:
Bon Jon: 44/44 [-6NL] Fatigued
Chamius: 31/31 [-6NL]F atigued
Grunt: 34/34 [-5NL] Fatigued
Jordun: 27/27 [-3NL]Fatigued
Ktasha: 37/37 [-3NL]Fatigued
Sunlight: 53/53 [-5 NL]Fatigued
Sven: 30/30
Wrex: 34/34 [-3 NL] Fatigued
Ten feet into this dark granite cave, a large cavern opens up, its ceiling rising as high as thirty feet. Warm, humid air fills the chamber, and colorful fungi cover the floor and walls. Beneath a layer of iridescent algae, the faint images of cave paintings can be seen on all the cavern’s walls. Signs of a rockslide block what may once have been a passage farther into the cave.
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Jordun heals everyone up, and you enter cave!
In the cave, you hear a very familiar growl... a pair of deinonychus in the back of the cave stand up and start moving to flank you!
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Red rushes up to attack Sven! It manages to hit twice!
- x Red
- => Grunt
- => Sunlight
- Green
- Bon Jon Bovi
- Ktasha
- Wrex
- Sven
- Chamius
- Jordun
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
Conditions:
Bon Jon: 44/44
Chamius: 31/31
Grunt: 34/34
Jordun: 27/27
Ktasha: 37/37
Sunlight: 53/53 [-5 NL]
Sven: 30/30
Wrex: 34/34
Enemies;
Green:
Red:
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Sunlight Under Stone lobs his chunk of rock at the raptor, and then grunt slashes his talon into it!
Green rushes up to pounce on the leshy!
The little guy proves to be too tough for the beast.
- x Red
- x Grunt
- x Sunlight
- x Green
- => Bon Jon Bovi
- => Ktasha
- => Wrex
- => Sven
- => Chamius
- => Jordun
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
Conditions:
Bon Jon: 44/44
Chamius: 31/31
Grunt: 34/34
Jordun: 27/27
Ktasha: 37/37
Sunlight: 53/53 [-5 NL]
Sven: 30/30
Wrex: 34/34
Enemies;
Green: -28
Red:
Wrex, being a raptor and thus having no conception of less-than-lethal combat tactics, rushes around the giant mushroom for an unrestrained bite on the agitated deinonychus.
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Sven tries to attack, but manages to miss.
Wrex, on the other hand, does not miss!
- x Red
- x Grunt
- x Sunlight
- x Green
- => Bon Jon Bovi
- => Ktasha
- x Wrex
- x Sven
- => Chamius
- x Jordun
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
Conditions:
Bon Jon: 44/44
Chamius: 31/31
Grunt: 34/34
Jordun: 27/27
Ktasha: 37/37
Sunlight: 53/53 [-5 NL]
Sven: 30/30
Wrex: 34/34
Enemies;
Green: -28 {calm]
Red: -9
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- x Red
- => Grunt
- => Sunlight
- x Green
- xBon Jon Bovi
- x Ktasha
- x Wrex
- x Sven
- x Chamius
- x Jordun
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
Conditions:
Bon Jon: 22/44
Chamius: 31/31
Grunt: 34/34
Jordun: 27/27
Ktasha: 37/37
Sunlight: 53/53 [-5 NL]
Sven: 30/30
Wrex: 34/34
Enemies;
Green: -28 {calm]
Red: -26 4NL
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You see a series of paintings underneath the phosphorescent fungi. The paintings depict a castle at the base of a mountain. Outside the castle, a large creature with wings and a long neck lies on the ground before a figure lifting a huge red axe over its head to strike. Other humanoid figures cluster around the scene. The mural is then interrupted by a repeated design: two mammoths with a smaller one in tow marching east. This motif is repeated over and over in an orderly line from the top wall of the cave to the bottom. There are 30 copies of this design.
The next scene shows the wielder of the red axe lying on a raised mound within the castle, his weapon clutched to his chest. Other figures leave the castle carrying large bags on their shoulders.
The drawings continue on the other side of the cave, showing an avalanche cascading down to cover the tower. The last drawing shows more of the humanoid figures standing over the edge overlooking the castle’s previous location, while four drawings of the moon in various states arc above the scene. In this last picture, all of the humanoid figures have a smear of white color around their lower faces.
The creature on the ground in the first painting was originally painted white, but that time has eroded whatever the painter used to show this color. The character brandishing the axe was also painted white, but around the face, suggesting a large white beard.
The axe-wielding figure in the first scene is different from the other humanoids depicted, as he is shown with a white beard, a feature uncommon among the Kellid peoples. The painting of the three mammoths symbolizes migration, and each painting of three mammoths stands for the passage of a single year. The moon in its various stages symbolizes eternity or a period of time that cannot be depicted with the migration symbol, usually meaning hundreds of years.
Amid the fungi are the remnants of a long- decayed party of Kellid hunters who were snowed in the cave and died of starvation.
3 bandages of rapid recovery*,
2 masterwork throwing axes,
+1 bolas,
+1 studded leather
a potion of barkskin,
2 potions of endure elements,
6 pairs of snowshoes*,
a cloak of resistance +2,
a potion of cure moderate wounds
a fully charged wand of longstrider carved from a smilodon’s tooth
a bag of unworked gemstones worth 40 gp and 5 topazes worth 50 gp each.
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The bard peers carefully at the painting, ioun torch floating closer to shed more light on the ancient artwork. "Interesting...looks as though this drake, or dragon, was originally painted white. Most of the pigment has worn off, but there are a few traces left. Same stuff is around the face of the axe wielder--makes it look as though they've got quite the beard, hey?"
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"That beard is interesting, now that I think on it. Kellids aren't known for their luxurious facial hair, so the gent with the axe is unlikely to be from these parts. That motif with the mammoths? That's indicative of the passage of time in this particular style of iconography--it's the annual migration, see, so each repetition indicates the passage of a year. The moons also denote the passage of time. It's an indeterminate amount, but usually long. So this tells us something interesting, hey? We've got our non-Kellid with a red axe, defeating a white dragon. Thirty years pass, he dies, and some folks leave his castle with goodies that don't include the axe. Then the castle is buried by an avalanche. A long time goes by, and now the castle's location is watched by people who commemorate the warrior and his beard by...wait a minute. By wearing white pigment on their faces...and who have we seen do that recently, hey?"
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After the fight with the hungry creatures is over, Bon Jon hands his wands of cure light wounds and mage armor to one of his friends and asks them to use them on him.
Bon Jon gazes at the paintings in mystification and scratches his jaw. "Someone had a lot of free time!"
Looking through the loot left by the Kellids of long-ago, Bon Jon holds up the cloak. "I'll wear this if no one else wants it - it seems a bit better than mine."
He also shakes the wand to see if he can figure out how it works.
He smiles as it lights up on the first try and he notices that his feet are even quicker than before.
"Here, anyone else care to try it?"
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By the morning, the storm has gone and you are free to set off again. Their path slopes downward as they approach a series of high, rocky cliffs on the edge of the Tusk Mountains. Near midday, Skagni’s map directs them through a narrow ravine of ice and rock.
The shriek of a snowy owl dances off the high, rough walls of ice and rock inside this gorge, and the long shadows inside make it feel like evening rather than midday. Although the canyon provides a direct path through the rocky terrain of this area, the other side is almost invisible from the entrance. In the snow drenched plains leading to the gorge mouth, primeval aurochs and bison paw at the new snow to unearth scrub grass.
You all notice some tracks leading in to the gorge. These tracks are humanoid in nature and go only a few feet into the gorge before turning around. Additionally, you find the remains, partly eaten by scavengers, of a large saber-toothed tiger.
Despite being a top predator in this region, it appears to have suffered extreme bludgeoning damage as if trampled to death.
Rolls erased.