Jack wakes up and looks around, too tired to talk. Perception:8

Survivals:5 7 18

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(Is that 3 rolls from each of us, or for the group?)

 (For each. If I need to make a group check, it will be quicker if I have a buffer of extra rolls handy, rather than hoping all five of you are online at the same time. :-)

And to be nice, I'll take Jack's first "18" roll as part of the 3 Survival rolls, and use his last "8" as his attempt to Perceive where his coffee mug was that morning.

When everyone is awake and refreshed, make a note when your group is ready to move, and if you are following EmperorKarino's suggestion or something else.)

Jack stretches and yawns after grabbing his Coffee. He then spits it out. "Uh.. I must still be tired. I hate coffee. Love.. Ale.." Jack then get's up, pulls out his drums from his magic sack, Puts the strap around his shoulder, and pockets a small blue crystal he was looking at that he left in his sheets. 

(His suggestion sounds good.)

(as soon as everyone is awake and any and all morning courtesies are done, trimyrai will head towards the brokentooth forest.)

Trimyrai continues to sip his coffee.

Trimyrai: (to Jack) "morning. did you get enough sleep last night?"

"Maybe.. Yes... No.. Possibly... Ughh." (Jack sleeps better drunk or alone. Heh. For literally no reason other than nightmares.)

Froskan wakes, feeling refreshed and enjoying the time outside under the sky.  He grabs his own mug and makes himself some coffee as well, using Prestidigitation a couple times to get the temperature just right, then add some extra flavor.  He casts it a couple more times on Jack's coffee before telling the other man, "Try it again." When they're ready to move on for the hunt, he uses it one last time to snuff the flames of the campfire.

Survival checks: 17, 1, 2

"I am glad that you are enjoying our companionship, Trim." Reverie replies with a smile. Then, she witnesses Jack's reaction over the coffee, her eyebrows knit for a split second until her chuckles erupt after listening to Jack's words. "You need to get used to this morning coffee, Jack." A sip. Once she finishes her coffee, she prepares herself for the hunt.

Jack takes one more sip, then spits out less than before. His cup is empty now, and Jack looks Slightly better. "Ugh.. Thank you... I needed that..."  Jack casts Mage Hand to fetch his sword, and with that, We are ready!

(To be honest, I kinda hope Trim asks Jack the question.)

(i don't have any questions in mind, Trim is focused on the hunt for the moment, assuming we are done waking up and having breakfast)

Trimyrai finishes his coffee and gets all his equipment on and packs up anything he had out in camp.

Your group cleans up the camp site, and proceeds west towards the forest. After an hour and a half, you have traveled almost 5 miles, and are within a stone's throw of the forest. The WG scout gave a description of some landmarks, so you are able to find the location where the lizard was previously seen. Based on the old footprints and the crude drawing the scout made, the beast is about 20 ft. long and several tons in weight.

Your group circles around that spot, and (OOC: majority of group's Survival rolls were high enough) a short distance away find fresh tracks, probably within the past hour. From the spacing, the beast was running. You also see several sets of footprints, similar in size to your feet, but of bipedal lizard with sharp claws. Following the prints, you find the dead body of a Deinonychus (OOC: like a bigger version of a velociraptor, as tall as a human). This one was been smashed and impaled by the spiked tail of the big lizard. The prints of the big lizard and the surviving members of the Deinonychus pack continue on, staying in the grasslands outside the edge of the forest.

Trimyrai: (to the party) "This isn't the thing we are after is it?"

(yes i know that its not, trim doesn't.)

Reverie blinks and walks towards where Trim stands; then she stands beside him. "... No, but I can see the same tactic from that creature." Then she starts to investigate how long did this creature die.

Investigation - 3

(I will start to refer to the "big spike tail lizard" as a Stegosaurus, but this is the first time your characters have encountered one.)

Reverie thinks the Deinonychus died from two tail attacks (piercing damage) from the Stegosaurus. This creature was also fighting before its demise, as it had blood and (lizard) flesh on its teeth and front claws.

Something is bugging her about the size of the puncture wounds. These seem larger than the description of the donkey's wounds. (Like the difference between a spear thrust and a javelin thrust.)... But the donkeys were partially eaten, so maybe mistakes were made. When she sees the Stegosaurus tail up close, she will be better able to judge what is going on.

(are the foot prints going deeper into the forest?)

The footprints stay parallel (roughly) to the forest edge, about a stone's throw away. The Stego is big enough that it would have trouble running full spreed in dense woods.

Reverie frowns even deeper. The wound on this creature... It is different than the information. "The size is bigger than I thought. The size is different from the data... I think we are going to face the bigger creature than we thought."

"The better the hunt, the better the reward!"

Reverie couldn't help but chuckle slightly at Jack's positive power. "Yes, but we all have to be careful. This creature's attack is hazardous."

Trimyrai: (to the party) "i hope we're enough to take down this creature."

"Obviously. Ye think I didn't know that? It has killed animals, but it hasn't met me! "