Way back to when the group was traveling from town to here:
Anachain chatted up the two elves from town and tried to get more from them than had already been shared. "I overheard you two talking about the tracks you spotted," she claims as way of starting the conversation. She rehashes what had been learned - long toed, four clawed tracks that revealed a gait more appropriate to a biped than a four legged creature and fresh moss growing near the tracks, almost as if the forest was trying to hide them up. Anachain tries to see if they have anything more on the tracks and makes sure the other party members are aware of this information.
She also coaxes them about something else she says she heard from them - information about a drifter. "You talked about a drifter you heard about, orders milk and pays in copper pieces covered in mud? Did you ever get a description of this drifter, other than a big fella?" she asks.
Given this information, and as part of sharing it with the others, she inquired with them if any of this made any sense to them. "Know any creatures or people who can use moss or bits of nature to cover their tracks? Only using copper pieces relevant to anything?"
(I think some of this may have been shared before but if not it should have been so I am retroactively putting it out there!) :D
Currently:
"Are we investigating or trying to sneak up on?" Anachain asks the others in a bit of a hushed tone. "If it is going to town and making purchases on the regular it doesn't sound like this needs to turn violent? Perhaps we could just call out and ask it to talk with us?"
Togarflies right over the tree line, near the bridge. As he shifts and moves position in the air, he senses something. Three somethings. He senses excitement, not a good kind of opening-your-birthday-present kind of excitement. More of a ... lethal ... kind of excitement, the thrill of the hunt. The owlin's eyes go especially wide, he sees Deniz near the river bank, he quickly casts mage hand that appears in the ethereal form of a bird claw, it shoots forward toward Deniz and down near the ground / waterline. He makes the hand point urgently toward the area under the bridge, then it extends the thumb, index and middle finger while holding back the fourth and fifth claw, indicating "3" and then pointing back under the bridge. If Deniz looks up, Togar continues flapping and points under the bridge, waving his wings and circling.
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Deniz is just in the process of casting a magic spell over the water when the ethereal hand appears. He cuts his cantrip short, observes the message, and glances up at Togar and the bridge, then quietly stands and approaches the others on the bank.
To his companions he quietly says: Prepare yourselves. We may be in an ambush. Three, under the bridge. Don't look now!
Then turning to Ashton he adds in Elvish: Call to your companion. He may be in grave danger.
Perception: 18 if Deniz can see anything from his brief glance at the bridge
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How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Deniz takes a look under the bridge, the lateness of the evening and the bedraggled vines which hang over the bridges edge, swaying underneath do not help him see clearly, but aside from the bikes he sees no movement, no bubbles in the gently running water, no silhouette in the mud.
Ashton shouts up to warn Darryl, who begins moving away from the bridge. Togar feels the thought patterns speed up, activate, not wanting to lose their chance. Deniz watches as the vines begin retracting upwards, up to the bridge forming quickly, wrapping around themselves and twisting into the crude form of a humanoid, three of these corrupted plant creatures rush Darryl and attack.
Way back to when the group was traveling from town to here:
Anachain chatted up the two elves from town and tried to get more from them than had already been shared. "I overheard you two talking about the tracks you spotted," she claims as way of starting the conversation. She rehashes what had been learned - long toed, four clawed tracks that revealed a gait more appropriate to a biped than a four legged creature and fresh moss growing near the tracks, almost as if the forest was trying to hide them up. Anachain tries to see if they have anything more on the tracks and makes sure the other party members are aware of this information.
She also coaxes them about something else she says she heard from them - information about a drifter. "You talked about a drifter you heard about, orders milk and pays in copper pieces covered in mud? Did you ever get a description of this drifter, other than a big fella?" she asks.
Given this information, and as part of sharing it with the others, she inquired with them if any of this made any sense to them. "Know any creatures or people who can use moss or bits of nature to cover their tracks? Only using copper pieces relevant to anything?"
(I think some of this may have been shared before but if not it should have been so I am retroactively putting it out there!) :D
Currently:
"Are we investigating or trying to sneak up on?" Anachain asks the others in a bit of a hushed tone. "If it is going to town and making purchases on the regular it doesn't sound like this needs to turn violent? Perhaps we could just call out and ask it to talk with us?"
Togar flies right over the tree line, near the bridge. As he shifts and moves position in the air, he senses something. Three somethings. He senses excitement, not a good kind of opening-your-birthday-present kind of excitement. More of a ... lethal ... kind of excitement, the thrill of the hunt. The owlin's eyes go especially wide, he sees Deniz near the river bank, he quickly casts mage hand that appears in the ethereal form of a bird claw, it shoots forward toward Deniz and down near the ground / waterline. He makes the hand point urgently toward the area under the bridge, then it extends the thumb, index and middle finger while holding back the fourth and fifth claw, indicating "3" and then pointing back under the bridge. If Deniz looks up, Togar continues flapping and points under the bridge, waving his wings and circling.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Deniz is just in the process of casting a magic spell over the water when the ethereal hand appears. He cuts his cantrip short, observes the message, and glances up at Togar and the bridge, then quietly stands and approaches the others on the bank.
To his companions he quietly says:
Prepare yourselves. We may be in an ambush. Three, under the bridge. Don't look now!
Then turning to Ashton he adds in Elvish:
Call to your companion. He may be in grave danger.
Perception: 18 if Deniz can see anything from his brief glance at the bridge
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Deniz takes a look under the bridge, the lateness of the evening and the bedraggled vines which hang over the bridges edge, swaying underneath do not help him see clearly, but aside from the bikes he sees no movement, no bubbles in the gently running water, no silhouette in the mud.
Ashton shouts up to warn Darryl, who begins moving away from the bridge. Togar feels the thought patterns speed up, activate, not wanting to lose their chance. Deniz watches as the vines begin retracting upwards, up to the bridge forming quickly, wrapping around themselves and twisting into the crude form of a humanoid, three of these corrupted plant creatures rush Darryl and attack.