Tests and Trials Game Thread

After a rather terrifying event Cladmir is going to find a nice place to lie down for a bit.  Too much excitement for an older man like him.

The skies are clear as Mikram finally works his way outside and squints around against the brightness.

"Are ye done playing in the...white stuff? Get in here."

The rest of the day's work continues uninterrupted, Kroshav largely finishing his expansion plans while Mikram alternately working on the statue, yelling advice at Kroshav and somehow making the stonework look like it was done by a professional with only a few choice stone removals.

A small fire near the opening of the tomb is started to warm dinner, though it doesn't do much to warm the cold stones.

((Setting watches in your cave tonight? Inside or outside the 'door' Cladmir made?))

Cladmir got up by the smell of food, and with an object eye looked at his "door" and felt slightly embarrassed.

"I can take first shift tonight since I just got some rest.  Will have to stay inside tho, too cold out there for me at night."

Kroshav doesn't argue, tired from his exertions, will find a place call forth Ealu and comfort her before settling to sleep until woken for his watch.

<Sorry you got hurt, are you feeling better now? One of them tried to take Cladmir, but he got free. Couldn't make him poof away though, so he landed kind of hard.>

Second watch for Jaq, from inside.

Ernos can offer to take third watch, then, from just inside the doorway.  He's suited to keeping watch when it's darkest.

((Kroshav can see in the dark now with his borrowed belt, so can take whichever watch he's woken for.))

Eula responds and assures Kroshav,

<Its okay, I understand. It doesn't hurt when you send me back though, so thanks for that! I'm fine now, I have hurt before or at least I remember hurting before. I don't think I looked like this then.>

((Okay roll perceptions please! Mikram can take a night watch, so second or third.))

((Looks like I'd taken find steed off of Kroshav's list for the day, so suppose Ealu would have to wait until the morning.))

Perception: 21

Beard: 91

((Although I think that spell list was from the final push vs the drow, so he'd probably have swapped the poison protection back out last rest, I just forgot to do it.))

Kroshav wonders why no one has remarked on his unbelievably stylish dragonbread.

He rather thinks he looks like an elder gold wyrm!

((I'm picturing him like a 14 year old, proud of their first mustache that looks like someone rubbed dirt on their face. But the gold dragon barbel equivalent.))

Perception: 22

Does Cladmir recall from his studies whether Kroshav's beard would classified as "impressive" for a dragonborn or not.  History: 24

Cladmir thinks it is some sort of molting process that came on over night, very not impressive.

12

Mikram perception: 13

A cold night is had in the cave by all, and neither Mikram nor Ernos hear or see anything out of the ordinary during their watches. Kroshav, as he thoughtfully strokes his beard and ponders on the day, does notice in the darkness the faint glows of distant fires. They look to be mostly be ones that Jaq pointed out earlier and Kroshav can't really tell if they are closer or not, but they certainly aren't close enough to be a concern tonight.

Cladmir, the most alert of the group after having been almost eaten, sees the same glows in the distance Kroshav spotted and equally can't tell if they are closer or not. Unlike Kroshav, Cladmir does spot something moving along the edge of the forest and a bit into the wash out area. Watching it in the moon light, which is doing wonders to light up the snow covered ground, he notices that it moves in bursts. It also looks to be staying close to the ground and weaving behind drifts. His night vision isn't great and the whatever is pretty far off so he can't tell much more about it before it re-enters the forest.

((Nature roll please @Cladmir))

Nature: 16

Cladmir squints and considers the whatever before it disappears. He is confident that it isn't a wolf, bear or anything like that. Something about it's movements and, from this distance, stillness don't seem likely to an animal, despite the way it moves.

The thing doesn't show up for the rest of Cladmir's watch.

((Weather: 79))

Before the sun rises the next day the clouds threatening snow get down to business. It's not a particularly heavy fall but it limits visibility, the Library entrance is no longer visible, and it'll start to pile up soon enough.

The wind, though, is thankfully light.

Mikram squints out in the dim light of the morning and comments,

"Wet dust from the top of the cave? Odd place up here."

He then returns to work.

((Anything different today or just more tomb shaping?))