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"It's nothing. We should start down by the docks, see if you can sell the horses, and ask around for Ringeirr Malenkov. I dont know where he lives." "if we dont find him tonight, we can at least camp near the village, im not opposed to hiding in a mirror, though it sounds strange to me, very much like the winter witch mirror magic. Superstition says not to carry mirrors, if theyre looking for you, its said they can watch from within."
Nadya turns to Gondork, in his hellplate. and gives the impression that she's tapping her toe, but inside her boot.
"Have I told you much about Ringeirr? My husband's uncle? Uncle-in-law i guess. He's Hjalnek's mother's brother. When my husband, late husband,.. " she reminisces, but finds her glance falling towards Giacomo, "When he was just a boy, Reingeirr's wife and son were taken by the White Witches and brought to Whitethrone. Ringeirr went to the city tor escue them, but through he was able to secretly enter the city and leave it again many times, he never saw his family again. My late husband told me that Ringeirr stays near Whitethrone. The last I heard, Ringeirr was living in the fish camps, working as a smuggler. " "Whitethrone is built high atop cliffs overlooking Glacier Lake. The cliffs make fishing in the city impractical. So, Whitethrone's fishing industry is carried out in small shanty towns a few miles east of the city. Life there is hard, but there's less direct opression from the Iron Guard (I guess they're calling themselves the Winter Guard now ). "
"We're close anyhow, there's a small stone bridge across a river just an hour or so away, and then the fish camps will only be another hour or so after that. Then we can find my uncle, and figure out how to get you into Irrisen." "We'll need to ditch the Winter Guard's sleigh before the fish camps anwyay. And they'll already see us as outsiders, i'd hate leaving the horses too, but maybe we can sell them in the camps."
Nadya, having been brought to the brink, gives another shot at H4 since he seems to still want to play.
Nadya takes the opportunity to stand up, and shoot at H4
::gasp:: She grabs her bow and fires from the ground at the eagle that knocked her off. featherdusterds. nothing but featherdusters.
Nadya unsheathes her axe "We're a bit hampered, driving and fighting. Pass them and then slow down so we don't have them on both sides?"
nadya takes another step back and readies to shoot as well.
cold iron arrow:
seeing the cold iron work a lot better, Nadya drops her weapons, drawing her bow, and knocking a cold iron arrow to shoot the quickling
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[ round 6 ]
nadya withdraws back a bit, pairing up with Arwyn to get her flank
nadya steps over and tries to hit the twigjack
"Where'd they go?"
move up, drawing bow, and shoot at the one by the well.
Nadya runs over to Orm, dropping her weapons and picking her up in her current she-giant hands and squeezing him hard. her voice extra gravelly from her distorted size
-- orm sobs "Thank you, Thank you! " she says as you gather up your things and the bundle of firewood, heading back to camp as Nadya gradually shrinks back to medium size, still carrying little Orm.
if it runs away, possible aoo:
dropping her bow and drawing her weapons, she hefts her handaxe and chops at the boreal wolf but misses
nadya moves up, enraged,
Arwyn and Nadya are both hot on the heels of Orm's tracks, and both groups manage to find him after 10 minutes of searching and tracking. but its not a pretty sight. Orm is unharmed, but surrounding him are three white-furred wolves. You're about 30 ft. away from the wolves, which are about 10 ft away from Orm, two wolves are on one side, the third wolf that looks like the bigger one, is on the far side fifty feet away. they have Orm backed up against a tree with no branches low enough for him to reach. the terrain is snowy, so difficult terrain. theres light snow falling, but not enough to disurpt vision or ranged attacks. and there's still enough daylight to see normally.
[ round 1 ]
rolls: initiative checks
A short while later as she's finishing setting up the shelters with your help, she realizes Orm hasn't returned yet. Orm! OOOOOOORMmmm! Has anyone seen Orm? he was gathering firewood. there's no response from the boy in the camp, and no one looking around sees him.
Caladan, can you watch Mjoli? thank you. a bit frantic, she sets off as the light snow begins to fall for the evening. search party A: Nadya base camp: Caladan, Mjoli
"Orm, Mjoli, stay here with mommy while Giacomo and his friends go fight the troll." -- ' aww muddi, do we have to? I wanna see a troll! '
you vaguely recall stories of druids that fight against the winter witches eternal grip on the landscape. They don't usually last long, as the White Witches stamp them out when they are inevitably located, or they become subsumed by the surrounding magical winter when the druid's power eventually fails. "I think i've seen one of these before, but it was barely thawing from winter before it was reversed by the witches. This one seems to be so... lush. The sled will be slow going, pulling through this... grass. um. we may have to skirt the edge of it and hope it doesn't go on too far."
nadya moves up, taking out a flask of oil, and throws it on the burning swarm
"We can bring him back and bury him at our home in Waldsby, he'd like that. "
"Thank you all, for helping me avenge my daughter. I never would have been able to do this without you. I know you have a mission to complete still, and that you want to head to Whitethrone. I know the route. Now I've something more to ask of you, but I will need your help. " "Nazhena isn't here, but I know she'll return, and her vengeance will be great. You'll be off elsewhere. My late husband's uncle, Ringeirr, is a fisherman in a small shantytown called the Fishcamps on the outskirts of Whitethrone. I need to bring my boys and hide there. Also, if anyone can get you into Whitethrone unseen or knows more about the city, Ringeirr should be able to help. I'll take the boys with us, just as far as Ellsprin, about a week from here. After Ellsprin, i'll see you the rest of the way to Whitethrone and introduce you to Ringeirr. The total journey to Whitethrone should take us 9 days." "Maybe a day more, with the stop by the hoarwood to find your Witchcrow. "
Nadya gets up and steps aside, throwing her axe up at Radosek
"Can take my bow if you like" says Nadya, gesturing to the composite longbow (+1 strength pull, non masterwork) on her pack.
Nadya draws her bow as she moves up by Arwyn to take a shot too
(Plink)
Nadya steps back, firing her bow at Blue
"What next then? that's everything on this level. The only place to go is the teleporter we can't operate. What do we do? stand on it and let Gondork keep licking it? " As Nadya speaks, the ice crystal teleporters activate, the white witch's soldiers step out quickly look around, one slashes at Arwyn but misses, the other tries to hop across the table, to reach Nadya, but just manages to get across the table clumsily and fails to attack. Arwyn:
[ round 1 ]
init rolls: initiative checks
nadya stops muttering the phrase. and when gondork looks healed and set:
"I guess asking what you saw is kinda useless... " she sniffs the wound
"Looks like a small bolt of lightning struck him, he's scorched with electricity. Was it a trap? or someone was up there?"
"Ta vinge, sveve og fly, la meg se vinterhimmelen" ::inhales:: "he disappeared. Ta vinge, sveve og fly, la meg se vinterhimmelen"
nadya takes a shot
-round - 8
quaking, she steps up on the table and snags a cold iron arrow to fire, loosing at Mierul.
These take you up one level to the dining hall. First he says you will probably want to go to the top, but he doesn't know the pass phrase to get you there. The crystal you need to get to though he can tell you. You need to take the doors opposite the main windows of the dining hall, into the Mirrored Hall. That is the teleporter that leads up two levels to Nazhena's chambers. Hatch doesn't know that pass phrase. if you take the doors north out of the dining hall, past the conservatory, there is a telporter that will take you up one more level to the aerie. the raven-tender lives and works there. its the crecent maw 50 ft. off the ground where the light-red guard shot his warning bolt. to get there say: "Take wing, soar and fly,
to get back down say "Down a level, to the halls,
to get down to the entry hall, from the dining hall, say: "Spiral downward to the ground,
Nazhena's second in command, Radosek, has interests in Jairess, in the Aerie. Rumor is he made a key that will take you from the mirrored hall to his chamber, a black feather in a fist size crystal, like the snowflake.
Nadya whispers to y'all, away from any mirrors in a relatively safe area, away from the prisoners "Any reinforcements they've sent for will have to be other patrols that are out looking for the Black Rider. The next closest tower will take days to reach from here, even if ravens arrive quickly. They'll probably use mirrors to communicate anyway. Actually, them using ravens could mean something ... if they're resorting to their ravens over spells. " "I'll go upstairs with you, though it might be helpful to stay down here with Hatch and guard the prisoners. No matter what you say Giacomo, you can't understand what each and every guard here is guilty of, what they've done to villagers... It would be a service to the townsfolk to put these guards down like the rabid dogs they are. "
Feeling an invisible tug on her boots, Nadya reaches down and picks up Hatch. "He says they use the blue alcoves. They're teleporters. He says these ones will take us up to the dining hall if we step in and say a phrase in Skald: `En samling i hallen, ta en, ta oss alle.` " "It means - `a gathering within the hall, take one, take us all`. It's slow he says, each alcove only transports one at a time. Some of the captains have keys, which activate the teleporters without having to say anything, just step in." "He knows a few more phrases for other teleporters, but he's too afraid to go any further. He says he can make a ... nest ... for us here, if we need, he can secure one of the guard chambers and watch over us."
Nadya manages to injure the one she's fighting a little, but he's still standing on his last legs.
nadya shifts over to put the wall by her side and attacks twice, slicing him with her axe before hammering the pick into his shoulder and releasing. the guard is injured but still standing, barely.
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