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Keth moved through the snowy woods as quickly as he could. He limped a bit his leg still sore from his injury and he would've missed out on the quest if Olmira hadn't healed his leg. At times he used his spear to support his weight but he had made good time with Woolf following the groups trail. He took a drink of water and looked. He thought he could see a fire not far away in the dusk and he could hear Woolf's excitement in the distance. It'd be good To see the others hed gotten to know in the three months hed been in Kassen. His stomach growled. A testament he hadn't eaten to I sure he caught up with the others before the crypt. He started again after putting his water skin away and pulling the thick winter cloak around him and started toward the welcoming flame
Hi yeah I was in the hospital. I'm out now. Sorry I couldn't post anything...between incoherency and drugs I was on...it was an issue
Keith has only been studying under Olmira and in Kassen about three months. He's gotten to be known for hunting for others and providing food for a way of paying his own way. That's how he would've gotten to be known by most. With Grobradon he doesn't understand why he's not trying to live down his baser self. Not seeking approval...but he respects him for it and he's become a trustworthy ally for helping Keith settle into the community and learn from Olmira.
Keith here interesting ...group? I think Keith and Grobradon probably know each other as well. Thanks GM
Thank you for letting Keith and Woolf in the game DM
It's going to be a tough choice dm...lol...what ya think Woolf?
For certain you have the right character link wise GM...here is Keths final sheet for perusal
Hi I submit Keth, who was in an iron Gods Campaign for a short time and it fell apart recently. They had just got into the dungeon Hes a Half Orc Druid with a wolf animal companion who I post separately for. background: Description
Keth is short for a 1/2 Orc and not as heavy. He has bright brown eyes that lean toward kindness when looking at an animal...and hard and flinty when looking at those unkind to the same. His hair is shaggy and unkempt. He has small tusks and his jaw looks more human than orc. He tries to downplay his orcish heritage by dressing in traditional hunters garb. Wearing black boots, and brown pants tucked into them. A White silk shirt with a black vest and a brown cloak top off his dress. He bears a spear in his hands. He carries A sling for hunting small game Personality
Background
So Young Keth had been an outcast among the people of the neighboring communities and farmsteads. Growing up quite the loner. He took to Hunting as a way to not only make some quick coin, but also to prove his worth. When he was 17, fancying himself a 'Monster' Hunter he told his father he was leaving to find his place in a world that shunned him. He left to wander the Southern Numeria Wilds. Then a fateful day occurred where he ran into some Elves who had come north to explore the wonders of the starfall. They almost killed him, out of a quick reaction to what they saw as a threat....but a member of their group saw the fear in the half orc and spared his life...He took Keth to a local 'herbalist' who nursed Keth back to health. This local Herbalist, Joseph Varan, who lived in the nearby hills to near Torch, took Keth in and found the Half-Orc an eager student. He taught Keth some of the ways of the wild and the 'old ways', Things only the Druids of old might know. To protect himself, ward off evil, Keth took to adorning his body with runic tatoos that were taught to him. Keth lived there for a couple years, actually beginning to feel he belonged somewhere. He liked that feeling...to belong somewhere. He earned the nickname Longstrider for his long strides that can take him away or into trouble quickly. Then the unspeakable happened, A about 6 months ago, some Thugs sacked the home of the Herbalist and left signs that they were from the rumored Technic League. as a message for those who failed to follow their instructions regarding found technology, and killed the elder man. Keth, returning from a hunt found his mentor dead and followed their spoor to the city, where he lost it in the alleyways and sewers. He has since lived on the fringe of society in Torch, hunting and providing meat to the butchers of the city for his coin. He has followed up every rumor he can find for who the members of the Technic League were who performed this duty. His pursuit of vengeance has lead him to the doorstep of a realization that law and order come at a price and sometimes it must be paid for in blood. On one such sojourn into the wild, hunting for locals he awoke to a young wolf standing at the edge of his campsite. Since that day, he and 'Wolf' have been constant companions. He has been working to train the feral animal and is having some luck.
sorry youre going through this. Make sure youre healthy...thats first and foremost Thank you all!!! Ill be sorry to see this game go. But itll be for the best.
Im still here too...
Keth waves Woolf forward in front of him as he advances through the low ceilinged tunnel, his spear out in front of him until he comes to the first junction and a vantage point looking down into another low area with doors and a lot of rubble. he looks to his left first fora possible ambush then to the right.
Keth frowns. We could be having trouble fighting in these cramped spaces. He sets his spear against the 10' tall rise, and picks up Woolf helping him up the embankment. After he picks up the spear and sets it atop and then climbs up carefully with Woolf standing guard until hes up top also, stooping in the cramped cavern.
Keth moves to the cave near the leaders abode and looks up at the 10' cliff trying to figure out the height of the roof above the caves.
Go back to them and ask them for all the information they have on these Fey, and how we can get to them...leave it as an implied yes we will deal with it...and from how they relayed the information about the man who crawled back out..I dont think it was Khonnir. I think it was a member of his group
I dont speak Fey, but many speak the common tongue. A thought. What if these are trying to 'soften' us up Can any of you discern a creatures natural bent towards good or evil?
Keth looks at Meila and then he says...the body in the cave we backed away from? Khonnir? Mayhap we need to backtrack to confirm thats him. maybe try and rescue the body> then he thinks about the fey...I dont like the idea of attacking fey 'just because' most fey are not evil and are far more natural. Why would the fey be 'poking' them with needles....err tiny swords. unless this tribe is in fact not benign.?
Keth stares at Irrizle as he tries to figure out what the gnome said with a puzzled look on his face...
Keth smiles at Irizzle and launches into the tale... Keth lay under the boughs of the great oak slowly waking in the cold fall morning. He shifted and felt a few roots digging into his side and shifted again. He blinked sleep away from his eyes and then with a realization born of nigh unto supernatural oneness with his surroundings, he was fully awake with the knowledge he was not alone in the small clearing.
A soft whine and the wolf looked back at Keth yet again. Keth looked puzzled. This animal should've been a foe..a predator, but here it was acting like a pet....He scowled. Then got up off his haunches and said softly You hungry boy? An answering lick of the lips and a soft whine, as if it had understood him. Still scowling, Keth moved forward, dagger in his fist thinking to himself...I should strike quickly before it remembers its a wolf but the look of hunger plain on its face, and the friendly gaze it gave The Hunter was enough to soften his heart. With a quick slash of the dagger, the haunch of the deer he had been saving dropped to the ground and the black wolf went at it, tearing meat from bone with a vigor, hardly glancing at Keth at all. He shrugged and went to sit at the base of the tree and watched the wolf for a good half hour, before the wolf paused to groom himself. Keth must have been tired...carelessly, he dozed off...It could only have been for a brief second, but when his eyes snapped back open, the wolf lay next to him, it's head resting on his lap....a slow smile spread across his face and he reached down almost subconsciously and rubbed it behind the ears...a wagging tail was his reward.....I'll call you Wolf said the clearly unimaginative Hunter....
Keth nods. I dont like it. But Ill accept the choice. He pauses and looks at Lupiel and stares straight in his eyes. Know this. If any harm comes to any of my friends. I will feed your entrails to Woolf here. he gestures at the wolf standing next to him.
Keth looks at the strangers and says simply...I do not like the idea of splitting us up. Lupiel, There must be another way.You may be trustworthy. But this could also be a ploy to pick us off in smaller groups. How far away is your new chief? How would we get to him? you seemed to materialize out of thin air? how did you do that?
Keth considers the strange ones words...
Keth looked at the near naked tribesman and said simply. Luepel, I am called Keth. We are not here to fight your tribe. We come to seek why the fire has stopped burning atop the 'torch' atop the mount. And to find out what happened to the others that came before us. You mentioned two groups. One would have been of small folk. a little shorter than Irizzle there. One would have been taller folk like us and might have been willing to talk. the last would have had red armbands on. Which of those did you defeat? and which of those hurt you? The Armbands are not our friends if it was them.
As Sgraack came down and began to eat mushrooms and Irizzle moved to explore the 2nd hut , Keth moved to protect the group while they were checking things, whether the taste of the mushrooms or the interior of a hut. Watching carefully...
Keth looked puzzled and turned and ehaded to where the cliff descended. He remarked Obviously something caused this village to be abandoned...ifthey arent hiding...unless these lights are sentient? Be very wary...perhaps theres a critter down inside the hole that ate them all. he paused on the floor of the cavern and looked around
Keth moved around the cornerr, the party disappearing from view, though he could hear them behind him. He saw another hut set apart from the others down below the 10' high embankment. Scowling that noone was posted as a guard in this what appeared to be village, he pulled a small rock out ofthe wall and threw it at the hut below him to clatrter among the sticks and waited a response.
Keth motions for Meila to stop descending. He didnt like the thought of leaving the left side of the ledge unexplored behind them, so he moved to look around the corner and noticing another hut and more lights....he paused. Were the lights some form of sentience? A threat? he tried to think what they might be.
Keth slowly moved down towards the large cavern, seeing what looked lights lights shining up and piles of wood? and a path that wound down to the cavern to his right...he moved to his left and whispered for Sgrack to go move to the left and protect that flank so Meila/Sron and Irizzle could look down into the cavern. He tried to be quiet as he entered but he could hear the metal of his gear and the boots scuffing on stone as he walked. He gazed around trying to discern what he was seeing.
Keth slowly backs up, saying to the other. Theres a Mold in here that sucks the heat from your body. Only extreme cold kills it. Heat makes it larger. we arent going this way. He turns down the other hall and walks a few paces motioning for Woolf to follow he is looking forward intently listening as well as looking.
keth thinks what kind of Mold it could be
rubbing his arms because of the cold Keth Remarks to Woolf Back up boy! as he looks at the brown dust and tries to search his memory of natural things...
Stuffing the silverdisks in his belt pouch Keth tells the others to stay there and he and Woolf creep down the hall with the 10 foot cliff and he looks around to see what might be there, glancing at the body leaning against the wall from above...
Keth glances at the others to make sure they move up behind him and Woolf as he first goes around to the heavily rubble choked dead end and pokes his spear in cracks and moves thigns around while looking. It wouldnt serve them to have some vermin creep up behind them as they moved down a different direction.
Keth inches down the hall....slowly...spear at the ready.
Keth Edges slowly down the hall about 20 feet and seeing an intersection with lots of rubble and another body propped against the passage leading straight down...at what looks like a dead end. he pauses. Spear at the ready and looks carefully at all ahead and waits for the others to catch up.
Hearing Sgrack exclaim his visions returned Keth stands up and moves to the hall intersection, and seeing the dead body amid the stalactites he nods. Hed heard of creatures that lay in wait in the shadows of the roof and drop on unsuspecting prey. he took a few more steps down the other hall, his spear at the ready and looked into the darkness.
Away from computer over weekend please not me DM
Keth listens to all of this and first says to Irizzle This substance ...Gunpowder...is it natural? I have never heard of it. What makes this 'gun' better than just a crossbow or a bow? it seems to be too .....intricate...to be of much value? and way too noisy. then he says to Sgraack Friend. youre right. The Wild is unsafe and it can kill. But it can also provide if one knows where to look. I have lived all my life in the wild only coming to Torch when needed. My father was a Half-orc. An adventurer going from town to town, or so my adopted father ...a simple woodsman told me. My mother died birthing me. Jebediah...tried his best to teach me...raise me...but it must have been hard to raise another mans child who had an illicit relationship with your wife...anyway....I learned about the wild though from my Mentor Joseph Varan. Learned the wild is not a place you can ever elt your guard down. Then to Sron...You know nothing of your past? that must be very difficult
Keth nodded and sat down, pulling rations out to eat spartanly...as he nodded at Woolf to go ahead and enjoy the frog leg. He looked at the gnome and said Gun? what is that. Is that what bade the loud noise and belched flame? is it some sort of magical wand?
Keth left the body and moved to Sgraack's side bending over he looked at his eyes. . The blindness may last for a while I cannot tell if his eyes were damaged or if its just the brightness of the sudden flash that lingers. Whichever, rest assured we will find a cure for you if thats the case. My suggestion lets pause fora short time here while we see if his vision clears and check out this creature and perhaps see if he had any treasure in the pool
Keth looks at Meila and nods. Thrusting his spear into the frog-things body one more time...and with Woolf's help he pulls him into the beach to examine.
Keth frowned, the creature looked to be blinding the others with some weird sort of vision, and he seemed to be hard to hit. He thrust out with a spear while he thought of what to do. and felt it bite the mottled skin of the frog creature. he then shouted 'Ionsai'
Ive been looking in daily, thought about just taking Keths turn but thought that Sgraack probably smooshed it. so held off to see if that was the case
Keth faces the water and readies his spear to attack anything coming close....
Keth moved forward up the beach keeping Woolf away from the waters edge he tried to make out what the creature was and if he knew anything about it.
spear at the ready he said Irizzle, you might want to get out of the water. Sgraack I think you need to get in front of Meila.
Keth looked around carefully and strained his ears
He then scrambled out of the water quickly pointing saying Something floating in the water over there pointing at the far end of the stream where it turned.
Slowly Keth edges forward in the water trying to wait for the others to catch up |