Elk Running raises her voice to shout over the burgeoning winds. "If we continue on through the storm, we may become separated! By my eyes, there is just time to build a snow shelter! I know the way of it, but will need aid from two more! Even then, it will only hold three! Unless there is another who also knows the way? We can work together!"
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Aura shivers, pulling her furs tight around her body as she trudges across the frozen ground. “I don’t know much on the subject, but I’ll do my best to help where I can!”
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If no natural shelter is immediately visible, Sabetha helps Elk Running and Aura (and any others) build as many snow shelter(s) as they can to protect the party during the blizzard.
Blackberry stares at the blackness sweeping across the sky, covering the stars with an inky blanket. He begins to shiver with fear as much as with cold. He looks left and right, looking for an escape route, apparently ready to flee into the night. After a moment, the wild look in his eyes calms a fraction, and he scrambles to help with building snow caves or shelters. He will pull a small metal tube out of his pouch, and uncork it. A faint sulphurous smell emanates from the device. He aims it at the ground and presses a button on the side, and a ball of flame shoots out, melting snow. (fire bolt). He will use this as needed to help with creation of the shelter, and also to find any fuel that can be used for firewood.
(OOC: Blackberry and Aubin, make Survival checks, Blackberry with advantage; also are you two trying to help Elk make a three-man shelter, or are you attempting to make your own)
Aubin and BlackBerry, presumably with Uthal, are able to create a shelter in time, as are Sabetha, Elk Running and Aura. Wood for a fire is harder to come by, but, using his flamethrower, BlackBerry is able to uncover some shrubs that would otherwise be untraceable under the snow. Both groups enter their respective shelters and wait out the storm.
The blizzard lasts a seeming eternity and you wonder if you’ll be able to dig yourself out. It takes so long, that you decide to get some sleep and take shifts to rest while you wait out the storm. As you do this, maybe 4 hours into the blizzard and 7 hours since you left Bryn Shander, you feel a distant rhythm through the ground, rapidly getting louder and more powerful. Even in the blizzard, you can sense the immense power of whatever creature is approaching your encampment. What would you like to do?
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Uthal gladly helped the others to create a shelter. He started making it a bit too big, before realizing the others aren't as large as he. He had to think for a second on how to make a balanced shelter that supported people of such differing statures, before resigning to just make it a bit wider so he at least has room to sit/lay down.
As the footsteps of the approaching creature are heard, Uthal puts his ear against the 'floor' of their shelter to see if he can better recognize their source.
This can be either Perception or Survival, whichever is needed, my bonus is the same for both:7
Sabetha tries to remember her training despite her numb fingers and nose. Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, to be used in proportion.
She stays still and quiet. Hidden, if she can. Peering out into the blizzard with her darkvision and listening to get a general sense of what is approaching.
Aubin does his best to listen to the approaching creature. He fidgits with his ring as he waits just on case something large barrels through the snow shelter.
Elk Running goes very still and quiet, turning to the others with a look brimming with trepidation. She whispers, giving just enough breath to voice the sounds as she mouths the words.
"Giants on mammoths."
She places a finger to her lips, encouraging stillness and silence.
Blackberry digs in the snow, using his fire-zapper to to melt his way through particularly intransient blocks of compact snow. He manages to open a small tunnel, just at the new surface of the fallen snow. He is about to crawl out in order to get a look around, when a large, hairy-looking tree is suddenly thrust into the snow in front of him, followed by a second, this one seemingly bent at the midway point. Suddenly, he realizes that this must be some gargantuan creature. And with that, a loud, trumpeting yelp seems to come from above him, followed by equally thunderous shouting from something even higher. Blackberry doesn't understand it, but he gets the distinct impression that it is something swearing.
Sabetha calls out to the party and points to the rapidly encroaching clouds from the east and the biting wind picking up.
"There is a blizzard coming. We need to find shelter immediately or risk becoming lost, separated or worse."
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Elk Running raises her voice to shout over the burgeoning winds. "If we continue on through the storm, we may become separated! By my eyes, there is just time to build a snow shelter! I know the way of it, but will need aid from two more! Even then, it will only hold three! Unless there is another who also knows the way? We can work together!"
Aura shivers, pulling her furs tight around her body as she trudges across the frozen ground.
“I don’t know much on the subject, but I’ll do my best to help where I can!”
Perception: 22
If no natural shelter is immediately visible, Sabetha helps Elk Running and Aura (and any others) build as many snow shelter(s) as they can to protect the party during the blizzard.
Survival: 7
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Blackberry stares at the blackness sweeping across the sky, covering the stars with an inky blanket. He begins to shiver with fear as much as with cold. He looks left and right, looking for an escape route, apparently ready to flee into the night. After a moment, the wild look in his eyes calms a fraction, and he scrambles to help with building snow caves or shelters. He will pull a small metal tube out of his pouch, and uncork it. A faint sulphurous smell emanates from the device. He aims it at the ground and presses a button on the side, and a ball of flame shoots out, melting snow. (fire bolt). He will use this as needed to help with creation of the shelter, and also to find any fuel that can be used for firewood.
Aubin new to these frozen lands does his best to help build the shelters.
(OOC: Blackberry and Aubin, make Survival checks, Blackberry with advantage; also are you two trying to help Elk make a three-man shelter, or are you attempting to make your own)
(OOC 2: Aura, also please make a Survival check)
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Aubin trying to to help make the 3 man shelter.
Survival Check
15
Blackberry will collaborate with anyone, but there are six members of the party, so we will need at minimum two shelters.
Survival 16
Aubin and BlackBerry, presumably with Uthal, are able to create a shelter in time, as are Sabetha, Elk Running and Aura. Wood for a fire is harder to come by, but, using his flamethrower, BlackBerry is able to uncover some shrubs that would otherwise be untraceable under the snow. Both groups enter their respective shelters and wait out the storm.
The blizzard lasts a seeming eternity and you wonder if you’ll be able to dig yourself out. It takes so long, that you decide to get some sleep and take shifts to rest while you wait out the storm. As you do this, maybe 4 hours into the blizzard and 7 hours since you left Bryn Shander, you feel a distant rhythm through the ground, rapidly getting louder and more powerful. Even in the blizzard, you can sense the immense power of whatever creature is approaching your encampment. What would you like to do?
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Uthal gladly helped the others to create a shelter. He started making it a bit too big, before realizing the others aren't as large as he. He had to think for a second on how to make a balanced shelter that supported people of such differing statures, before resigning to just make it a bit wider so he at least has room to sit/lay down.
As the footsteps of the approaching creature are heard, Uthal puts his ear against the 'floor' of their shelter to see if he can better recognize their source.
This can be either Perception or Survival, whichever is needed, my bonus is the same for both: 7
...but only gets an earful of snow.
Sabetha tries to remember her training despite her numb fingers and nose. Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, to be used in proportion.
She stays still and quiet. Hidden, if she can. Peering out into the blizzard with her darkvision and listening to get a general sense of what is approaching.
Perception: 11
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Elk Running struggles to make sense of the muted rhythm…
perception: 17
survival: 11
Resisting the urge to thump repeatedly on the ground with his own leg, Blackberry asks, "Is that what a yeti sounds like?"
He will start to dig/thaw out the entryway, assisted by his fire-zapper, in case they need to make a rapid escape.
Aubin does his best to listen to the approaching creature. He fidgits with his ring as he waits just on case something large barrels through the snow shelter.
Perception
3
Blackberry, please make a stealth check.
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Blackberry Stealth 11
(advantage due to darkness and howling wind?)
Elk Running's shelter (Sabetha and Aura):
Elk Running goes very still and quiet, turning to the others with a look brimming with trepidation. She whispers, giving just enough breath to voice the sounds as she mouths the words.
"Giants on mammoths."
She places a finger to her lips, encouraging stillness and silence.
She hopes the others also realize the danger.
Blackberry digs in the snow, using his fire-zapper to to melt his way through particularly intransient blocks of compact snow. He manages to open a small tunnel, just at the new surface of the fallen snow. He is about to crawl out in order to get a look around, when a large, hairy-looking tree is suddenly thrust into the snow in front of him, followed by a second, this one seemingly bent at the midway point. Suddenly, he realizes that this must be some gargantuan creature. And with that, a loud, trumpeting yelp seems to come from above him, followed by equally thunderous shouting from something even higher. Blackberry doesn't understand it, but he gets the distinct impression that it is something swearing.
Blackberry, make a Wisdom save.
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd