Flea d20+13=14 d20+11=15 d20+9=15 d20+14=17 Sunday April 22nd, 2007 11:24:42 PM
Flea scans the area illuminated by Murdock's dancing lights as best she can. When Tishe' calls out her find, the rogue turns her search from traps and treasure to a hunt for survivors. As she moves quietly about the destruction, she keeps alert for any sound.
Search=14 Spot=15 Listen=15 Move Silently=17
Grymash d20+2=7 d20+5=7 d20+9=23 Sunday April 22nd, 2007 11:44:30 PM
Grymash does his best to keep an eye on the surrounding grass. Though he finds making quick glances at the wreckage too irresistible. The slightest sound makes his eyes dart in the direction where he heard it. He sniffs the air. Tastes it too. Something's not right at all.
(Spot 7, Listen 7, Survival 23)
Trellus d20+12=15 Monday April 23rd, 2007 9:08:42 AM
At the discovery of an arm, the cleric leaps over to rubble and casts a stabilizing spell on the person [Cure Minor Wounds]. Maybe he'd get lucky, and the dude is still alive.
Either way, Trellus starts moving debris out of the way. "Jake, gimmee a hand," he says. "Gil, help Gry watching the Grass. We got enough light here to attract every Rapke for miles."
While tossing rocks and wood pieces, the blond human tries to figure out what this thing used to be. [Spellcraft 15]
Gilan and Ciaran Monday April 23rd, 2007 8:36:53 PM
Gilan nods his head as he moves back to help in watching the grass. He motions for Ciaran to join him as his nose is sharper than most. "Got ya covered." He cannot help but glance back every once in awhile, much like Gry is doing.
Ciaran on the other hand is patient enough to just wait and watch the grass. He is not wanting danger to catch his pack with this much light around.
[DaveT - Do you already have a copy of his CS or do you need one? Let me know and I will get one to you ASAP.]
Jacob--DaveT-Sub Monday April 23rd, 2007 9:51:01 PM
OOC-Yes, have his sheet, thanks. Waiting on PTB to decide if I can sub him or not.
Jake does as he is asked and helps to remove the debris on the body. Afterwords he is silent and helps watch the area for attack.
The grass thickens. (DM Jim) Tuesday April 24th, 2007 12:34:21 AM
Gilan, Grymash and Ciaran keep an eye upon the grass as the rest of the group go about checking out the rubble pile. So far they have seen no signs of any dangers coming their way.
Murdock circles the pile and ponders the thing as his lights spin near him. From the general items that he can see it would appear to have been some kind of structure. Though if it was a building is not evident.
Tishe' has the same wonderings that are starting to come to Murdock, but she finds a little something extra with the hand. She call attention to it, but does not move closer to investigate.
Flea had been looking for things of value or traps within the rubble but she finds nothing of the sort, traps wise. She does find a number of spoons and forks, some cups, what might have been some rope at one time and even a rather nice piece of canvas. But with the idea that their might be survivors she starts to look and listen for sounds or sights that will lead her in that direction.
Trellus is over to the part of the arm that can be seen quickly enough. He reaches down and touches the part of the burned flesh that is closest to him with intention of casting a healing spell. To his dismay the arm is cold as stone and already starting to feel slightly leathery. Still hoping he starts to dig and see if anyone else might be under here.
Jake joins the digging with Trellus and soon they have a nice area free of debris and the severally burned head of the person that the arm belongs to is found. A slight shift in the debris turns the head to the other side and you see the face of a man that you know. He was the captain upon the very grass ship that you had gotten a ride upon.
[Flea:Highlight to display spoiler: {{You have spotted what appear to be drag marks leading to the southeast into the grass.}}]
Posting Report (ADM MikeK) Tuesday April 24th, 2007 9:24:48 AM
Posting Report for Game 10 for the week of April 16 - 20
Name MTWTF
DM JimW XOXXX
Trellus XOXXX
Tishe XOXXX
Jake XOOOX
Gilan XOXOX
Grymash OOXOX
Flea OOXOX
Murdock OOXXX
[X = post, O = no post]
ADM Note - Posting still not very consistent. Let's see if we can do better next week!
Murdock Tuesday April 24th, 2007 9:58:58 AM
All Murdock can feel is an extreme sadness for the ship that bore them, and all the souls lost when she fell. The drow feels even worse because of the relief he feels for not being aboard that ship when it fell.
As the drow looks over at Tishe', the mage momentarily looses his composure, and a few tears fall. Murdock knows that because of this tragedy, her message home will not be delivered.
After that moment of grief, Murdock moves to assist Trellus and helps him to dig through the rubble.
Trellus d20+12=22 Tuesday April 24th, 2007 4:00:45 PM
The cleric pauses at the sight of the captain's face. "Light," he grates.
Questions roll through his mind. Was the captain in the wrong place at the wrong time, or did someone think the Bloodpack was still on that boat? And how do you rip up a druid wood boat anyway? Trellus ponders - could a Flamestrike have done this? [Spellcraft 22]
[ooc - reading ahead and assuming Flea breaks the news]
Flea's news about drag marks going in the direction the Femme Fatales were last seen gives the pack leader a really bad feeling.
"All lights out. Now." he orders, tucking his holy symbol back into his backpack. "There's some totally dangerous dudes around here somewhere, and we gotta stop advertising we're here."
Trellus looks around. "I think whoever did this took the survivors back to whereever Jenny and her group are," he says, more thinking out loud than anything else. "So, how about we put a cairn up over the good captain here, get a couple hundred yards into the Grass and bed down, and then in the morning get REALLY careful and see if we can find these sunblasted druids without them finding us first."
"Whaddya think?"
Jake d20+7=12 Tuesday April 24th, 2007 4:48:44 PM
After helping remove the rubble, Jake stands and listens to his surroundings. So thiswas the grass ship.
"Ah agree."
Jake then moves to help the others with thier departure. Daylight may shed new information on the encounter. For now their safety is important.
Listen 12
Tishe' Tuesday April 24th, 2007 9:52:40 PM
The brown-haired woman is startled that Trellus and Jake found the Captain of the Grassship. "But they were going another way!", she cries. Thoughts flicker across her face that are easy to see; sadness, disappointment, and loss.
Yet Trellus breaks her mood, and she immediately extinguishes her light and moves closer to Gilan and the protection of Cirian.
Flea Wednesday April 25th, 2007 5:40:54 PM
Flea shares her information about the drag marks with the rest of he pack. "Can anyone tell what was doing the dragging, and what was being dragged?"
Flea continues to scan the area, as best she can, with what light is available, wishing her ranger friend Anuk was there to read the signs left behind. With a sigh and a shrug of her small shoulders, she returns to the nucleus of the group. "We're going to be up to our armpits in piggie dumps with the beaters back home, if we don't find those girls!" The rogue reddens, "sorry Trellus'" she adds, "we'll find Jenny." Only, the gnome isn't feeling as confident as her words might sound.
Gilan and Ciaran d20+21=32 Wednesday April 25th, 2007 7:16:04 PM
Gilan is saddened as the news is passed around and he shakes his head. He looks around and then nods his head. "I can but try and make something of the tracks you found...Gry might also be helpful as he can see better than me in the dark." He looks around and shakes his head again as he tries to catch one of the group before all the lights are put out. "I will need a little more light over here and Gry might need it too." If he catches someone or someone wants to add light to the area for at least a little while he will have a look. If not he can do the light trick himself.
Ciaran leans into Tishe' as she comes over, feeling that she needs him a lot more right now than his brother. He licks and bumps her hand a couple of times in comfort.
[survival(plains) 32]
[Sorry guys. It looks like storms all this week. I will try to get out earlier posts to compensate.]
Read the tracks. (DM Jim) Wednesday April 25th, 2007 7:23:05 PM
The group breaks up the light and are soon gone to a safer spot to set up camp this night. This is not accomplished till the tracks have been looked over.
Gilan and Grymash(?) check over the tracks and come to the conclusion that it was a group of at least eight to ten people and a few animals. There are no signs of blood or anything so it is suspected that they might have been captives and not dead.
The group spends the uneventful night hunkered in the grass and pondering the things that could have destroyed the ship.
Trellus had found scorch marks upon some of the pieces of the hull, but that could have been from the storm. Some might have also noticed the claw marks that marr the ship as well. In fact some parts of it seem to have been shredded by something with claws or at least great strength.
Flea d20+9=24 d20+11=24 Wednesday April 25th, 2007 11:55:05 PM
Flea huddles on the woven grass mat that offers some degree of protection. Her magical cloak keeps her comfortable...not too warm...nor too cool. Flea takes whatever watch is assigned to her.
Spot=24 Listen=24
Paired up with a pack-mate, Flea will revisit the adventure the group had in Ice Vein, recounting how especially heroic the gnome magiker Bohdi Nackle of Zarnan City was, and wondering, in general what that group was up to, for surely, "they must still live, and be up to some grand adventure!"
In the moning she will point out the drag marks that are visible to all. "I guess its that-away?" she asks as she shoulders her pack.
Jake Thursday April 26th, 2007 12:35:47 PM
Jake takes his usual watch. When he is not on watch however he is definately disturbed. He wakes many times during the night. Hopefully the coming day would give him the solace he needed.
Trellus Thursday April 26th, 2007 3:42:23 PM
Trellus points to the claw marks on the boat. "Something big," he says. "And it got burnt too. Somebody really wanted this boat ripped." WHY is a question he just can't answer, a common enough occurrence that the cleric just internalizes the question.
In the morning, he gets his spells and gets with the group. Pulling out a rod, he casts two on himself, and then a third that encompasses Flea, Grymash, and Gilan. "Its called Status," he explains. "It lets me know if you're twisted up or not."
The cleric also has three Endure Elements for the first three volunteers.
The blond man nods at Flea's question. "Thataway. Let's all be seriously shuttlecocked dudes. Gilan, you can move best through the Grass, right? Can you range out front and give us warning if anything comes up? I'll keep track of you by my spell."
Spells Prepared (cast as level 10 due to Setanos' Vestment): d -- domain spell 0 - Create Water (x2), Detect Magic (x2), Guidance, Read Magic 1 -- Endure Elements (x3), Prot v. Evil, Remove Fear (x2), Enlarge Person (d) 2 -- Lesser Restoration (x2), Resist Energy(fire), Resist Energy(elec), Hold Person, Status*, Bulls Strength (d) 3 - Dispel Magic(x2), Prayer, Searing Light, Magic Vestment(d)**(pearl) 4 -- Air Walk, Freedom of Movement, Divine Power, Spell Immunity (d) 5 -- Greater Command, Flame Strike, Shield of Faith, Spell Resistance (d)
Tishe' Thursday April 26th, 2007 6:49:23 PM
Passes the night, and quite content to tell stories and recount tales of past adventures with Flea. She remembers the male gnome, and will reminisce about the severe, almost magical cold from the Ice Vien. She'll also talk about thier adventure with the dragons and Grand Maw, but will avoid any conversation about the dryad and fauns, not certain about the vague tuggings of her heart.
In the morning, she casts Endure Elements, extended (48 hours) on Jake to keep him from being boiled in his own armor. And then she is ready to follow the tracks.
"I can also feel Grymash through the Dragon's Tear", she reminds Trellus. "And can help him if the pattern requires."
Grymash d20+2=5 d20+5=20 d20+9=15 Thursday April 26th, 2007 7:41:54 PM "Thanks Tishe," says the half-orc with a smile. "Da healin' wills go both ways if needs be."
After his morning prayers and rituals, Grymash gets to inspecting tracks and whatever looks interesting. Too bad the sun was in his eyes.
(Spot 5, Listen 20, Survival(track) 15.)
Gilan [longstrider, endure elements] and Ciaran [longstrider, endure elements] d20+8=14 d20+3=7 d20+8=10 d20+21=37 d20+3=9 d20+3=16 d20+8=11 Thursday April 26th, 2007 9:32:38 PM
The night was nice and quiet, leaving him time to rest in comfort upon his grassmat. His brother was by his side the whole time and they both got a good amount of sleep. Gilan was up early, as usual, and going through his morning song to Mother and Father.
He smiles as he had shared stories with the others through the night. Stories of his home before he came to Rattledam. Of so many different things that he had experienced...giant libraries, manageries of different animals and helping out his parents in the morning at the shop they owned. Most know that he gave up that life for this one, though through his parents death..he was the sole owner..but gave it up to his other family.
Gilan nods his head and then looks to the path they will take. "How far ahead do you want me and do you want me to leave a trail to follow." He knows that his natural ability will allow him to leave no trail and he would be virtually impossible to follow. He takes the time to pass out a couple spells to help out.
Ciaran pulls up alongside his brother and refuses to leave his side. His own senses are attuned to the Wold around him and he plans to not fail the pack.
Search and destroy? (DM Jim) Friday April 27th, 2007 12:54:29 AM
The group is up early the next morning and soon ready to go. With a little breakfast in them and a plan of action they start to move out.
Gilan is out in the lead with his trusty brother Ciaran. As they search the ground for signs, they also keep an eye out for trouble. A trail is left in the grass to note where the two have traveled and they stay twenty feet ahead of the group.
The group has moved through the grass at least a mile when Gilan comes to a stop and lets the group catch up with him. He has noted an area of earth that seems to have seen reason movement, either through digging or something of that nature.
Murdock Friday April 27th, 2007 11:08:44 AM
Murdock follows along with the pack. The drow hopes that the disturbance in the earth that Gilan has found will generate some action. The process of endlessly slogging through the grasses is tiring and Murdock would like a distraction.
Tishe' d20+6=12 d20+6=14 Friday April 27th, 2007 1:49:05 PM
Her druidic pace allows Tishe' to effortlessly glide through the grasses of the Sargrass. She keeps a watch out for anything out of the ordinary, (Spot:12, Listen:14), but her constant curiosity in other things keeps her from being too vigilant.
Her mind keeps moving around with the information they have already seen. "I can't help but think that the disappearance of the Femme Fatales, the destruction of the Grasship and capture of at least one person, and the appearance of the new Rapke are all related.", she states while walking.
"I wonder if the fact that there was a girl on the ship and all the Femmes are ladies has something to do with thier disappearance?"
Jake d20+4=7 Friday April 27th, 2007 2:08:41 PM
"Thank you Tishe, the heat is nearly unbearable without your help. I will hold up the rearguard as usual."Jake then waits a few moments, and follows the others. Alwayshe keeps at least one person in sight.
At the stop of the new find, Jake does his best to spot anything unusual.[Spot 7]
Returning to the vanguard he leans on his sword. The others would need to lead, as usual.
Trellus Friday April 27th, 2007 2:58:14 PM
"Oh, I was thinking sixty to eighty feet," Trellus responds to Gilan. "Kind of out there so we can see them long before they know we're around."
As the move out, the cleric casts Endure Elements on Murdock and Grymash, which should take care of the whole pack.
The object of the mission is starting to have an effect on the man. His face is intent and focused. Its obvious he's working very hard at not thinking about what might be happening to his sister.
At the torn up earth, he waits for Gry or Flea or Gilan to inspect the area. They're better at searches and such. "Could it be Oglians?" he asks.
Gilan [longstrider, endure elements] and Ciaran [longstrider, endure elements] d20+19=28 d20+3=21 d20+21=26 Friday April 27th, 2007 8:14:27 PM
Gilan moves over to examine the ground and gently pushes aside the dirt a bit to have a better look. "I am not sure." He looks to the rest of the group and looks around.
Ciaran is seated by his brother's side and seems intent upon waiting to see what is found.
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