Eve hears Ryhunis’s question and sees the finger bounce and spin, and, as it looks like it might stop on her, she tugs on a bit of fleece inside her coat and scratches a symbol in the air, with one finger, inside her glove, under her furs ((sleight of hand with advantage due to her thick furs (?): 11 )), and she silently casts minor illusion to make the finger look like it stops, pointing at Iris…

Aside from that she remains perfectly quiet and still.…

@All…

(Iris, Maudath, and Ryhunis would all notice Eve doing something with your passive perception. Iris and Ryhunis being familiar with magic you can both make Investigation  DC14 check to see if you recognize it was an illusion spell. Maudath you are unsure what she did only that she did something and she was trying to not be seen doing it. If you feel you would want to know more of what she did you can make an Investigation check as well.)

Investigation: 17

((OOC: What I'm understanding based on what Andrew said, Iris would know that a spell was cast, and the investigation check is to figure out what specifically it was. According to the description of the spell, if you roll investigation high enough the illusion becomes faint to you. I'm assuming that's going to happen as I write out Iris's reaction, but if not let me know and I can change it.))

Iris huddles up against the wall adjacent to Maudath and Eve, tucking her knees close to her chest. She's about to suggest that they try and see if a fire will withstand the winds when Ryhunis spontaneously starts another round of spin-the-finger. The appendage slows to a halt facing Eve, but then the other tiefling makes a tiny hand motion and a translucent copy appears, shifting a few more inches before stopping as well. The pieces click together in her head - Eve is trying to avoid the question.

That's when it registers that the illusory finger is now pointed at her, and the others are probably expecting her to speak. She falters for a moment. "O-oh. I, um, well-" She stutters incoherently for a couple more seconds, then tries to style it off with a cough, raising a gloved fist to cover her mouth. "I mean, I've had to kill plenty of creatures while traveling in the wilderness. But they were trying to eat me, so there really wasn't much avoiding it."

Remembering that Ryhunis got rather frustrated last time when she had to spin the finger every time, Iris reaches out to spin it herself. She's careful to completely cover both the real and illusory finger for a second so Eve has a chance to drop the illusion if she wants.

The finger lands on... 1 Eve again ((lol sorry, the dice have it out for you))

Eve does dismiss the illusion as Iris goes to spin it again, but she casts minor illusion again too, as the finger lands on her a second time! ((sleight of hand (advantage?): 5 )). This time the illusion points to the professor…

The Professor is trying to get un-hooked from his snowshoe contraption, and is paying the lot of you no attention at the moment.

Eve looks at the professor, preoccupied with his contraptions, and then at Iris, and then Maudath… She lets the illusion fade…

She speaks to Ryhunis, “Look!… We’ve all killed animals in the wild, to eat… or to survive!… What kind of question is that?! We’re not murderers!!!…”.

Deception check: 11 

She grabs the finger up and throws it back at Ryhunis’s feet. Ironically, when it lands, it points at her still, accusing…

She sits back down against Maudath, and turns her back on everyone, under the pretence of getting warm and maybe some rest.

"Aha! Got it!" 

The Professor finally frees himself and looks around triumphantly. 

"Any idea how long it'll take for this to blow over? Anything in here for a fire? I'll at least make sure this isn't going to collapse and bury us."

He gets out his tools and moves around the structure, having Maudath or Ryhunis lift him where needed, working on reinforcing the dilapidated shelter where he can.

As you inspect the structure what remains looks fairly sound, You feel pretty good it isn't going to collapse on you anytime soon.

There are a few pieces of broken rotted furniture you gather probably won't burn too well, anything of that nature was surely pilfered long ago. 

"I've  been working on developing a portable campfire, but the mixture has proven to be a bit too volatile for field tests just yet. If there were anything to burn, I could get a regular fire going, but otherwise we might be without. I can provide some light if the storm makes things unpleasantly dark."

"My master, my first friend and my adoptive father, it was a ritual of passage on his family, even though i wasn´t related by blood he thought i deserved it, his words, and one of my greatest pains. You see it´s impressive the ammount of knowledge one can learn for each first experiences. I once meet twin babies, when they grew up, the first cooking dish one made was vegetarian, while the other was more... meat. One ended up becoming a druid the other a absolute mad man of a warrior" she then looks at Eve
"I am not calling you murderer just that you did what was necessary for survival, or for any other reason, i was just... curious" she said in her most smoothing voice possible, her objective wasn´t to offend anyone but rather to discover more about them, mainly about Eve wich she had grown quite a large intrest
She then looked around her and looked at the professor " we are in a house with furniture, that is wood, you sure on all your great inventions you haven´t made one to.... start a fire without blowing us all up?"

With Eve’s back to the group, and talk moving on to campfires and the weather, she suddenly blurts out “THEY STARTED IT!!…”, as if she’s having an argument with someone not there.

As everyone grows quiet behind her, she speaks, almost to herself, almost like she’s reliving something. “It was over a moon ago… I was on my way back into town… They came out of nowhere… “.

”They dragged me into a barn. I fought them…scratched at them… But one had a knife and the other had a club… They told me to stay quiet… They tore my clothes and I screamed… … the big one clubbed me and I don’t remember anything else…”.

“When I came to, I was freezing…”.

”… …”

“… There were…  ‘bits’.. of them.. everywhere!!… … “. She spins round to the group. Eyes gistening, her face streaked with tears. “… I don’t know what happened. I promise!… … … “.

”I ran home… I never told anyone…”. She looks at each of the party suddenly terrified.

"it´s ok you are safe here, you did well" she walks to Eve and tries to give her a hug, kinda she was hardly touching Eve, one thing she was sure, she could crush people very easily on purpose and by mistake, so she wanted to be as caurefull as she could
"You survived and that´s all that matters, never be ashamed of your past, mainly if it envolves beeing as strong as you are"
"Blind rage? Double personality? Maybe a bit of both"
"Big guy your turn, and if your answer isn´t that you grabbed your father axe´s that was 10 times bigger then you and killed a dragon-god when you were 3 years old. I shall be beyond dissapointed! On second thought... we talk later" she says looking at eve falling asleep, lays her on the ground on a more confortable position and returns to the door sitting there

Eve clings to the huge form of Ryhunis for a while. And as she calms down, she actually falls asleep for a bit like a child.

"Well certainly, but fire consumes fuel, unless we want to start burning the house down around our ears, I'd need something else to burn.", the Professor adjusts his fire-flinger, and when he squeezes the button, it shoots a tongue of flame out a few inches. He clicks it back off as Eve shares her recent trauma.

"Ah, harrumph... Eve, I'm sorry. You... you seemed off a month or so back, I figured you were still upset that I gave you hiccups for a week... I should have seen it wasn't anything to do with me, and been a better friend... Ummm however you resolved things, I don't fault you for it. If you hadn't settled them, I would have if I ever found out.", he has a hard gleam in his eyes as his hands alternately clench and fiddle with his fire-flinger. 

((Any of you that have been on runs with the Professor in which it became necessary to defend yourselves would have seen his fire-flinger  in action, it's mostly a brass tube that lunches a small flaming projectile at the target, like a more controlled roman candle.))

Ryhunis taps the professor and does a sign for him to not talk, then poiting at sleeping Eve, then she crossed her arms and started shaking her head
"I swear everyday i grow more and more dissapointment with the professor, first he wakes up late, almost blows up the house, wich i had cleaned it the day before, and now is talking not letting other´s sleep, shame on you professor, shameeee" she  moved her mouth but didn´t actually any sound

Insight: 18

"Oh, stuff it Ryhunis...", the Professor mutters.

Maudath listens to the others and most closely to Eve. His brow furrows deeply at her story, only relaxing when she mentions her assailants are all dead. He watches her sleep for a few moments than finally looks up at Ryhunis.

"Just because you ask a question doesn't mean someone needs to answer it," he says in his deep voice.

He looks out the door at the falling snow for awhile, lost in thought for a moment.

"My parents are gentle people," he finally says after a long silence. "Brilliant, sly, and crafty as anything, but gentle. But I suppose that's not unusual for their kind. They raised me that way too. Same with my brother and sister. But, well, when you're taller than your parents by the time you're three years old, and obviously adopted, you attract attention and it's usually not good attention."

He stops and takes a breath while looking at the snow again.

"Not much to tell really. Guy should have checked if I was around before he threatened my brother. Zallos, my brother, is wire thin but he won't back down from anyone. There he was, 8 years old and ready to guard our receipts from our last show with his life. The thug wanted the cash box and Zallos wouldn't give it to him. When he pushed Zallos down and threatened him with his sword, something changed in me. I was only 10 at the time, and the thug was a big man, but not big enough. He knew I was strong. It was already part of the act but he still laughed at both my brother and I and then lashed out at me with his sword. Let's just say my brother and I ended up okay and the other guy didn't. We had to leave the south after that."

He looks around and then laughs.

"Can't say I ever lost sleep over it though."

Ryhunis laughs both at what Maudath said to her and his story
" i never obligated her to answer, just made a question to know you all better, because truth is I can´t help you if I don´t kn" she stops mid sentence her happy and confident expression changing into one of suprise, looking at the ground"ow... y...o....u"she says with stops between each letter stuttering and starts breathing rapidly
She then returned to the inside of the golem, and a few seconds later the drawings of the golem brighted alot more then normal and then they stopped, becoming the same grey color that her skin had
Some resemblence of a long and paused breathing could be heard from inside the golem yet nothing more

"Ryhunis? Hey! Sorry I told you to stuff it! Eve, dear, best get up, go with Maudath please, just in case Ryhunis topples?"

He gets out some tools and lights up a glowing sphere, checking Ryhunis over for the cause of her glitch. 

Investigation: 8