Chapter Two: Adventures Beyond Crydee

[vilenatas]

When you have all decided to move on beginning posting in context in this thread.

[Mandoor]

Tork walks somewhere in the middle of the party to try to keep as many party members in his Senses Aura.

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Senses Aura gives every party member with in 30 feet of Tork a +1 to listen, spot and initiative rolls.

[ShadowViper]

Bobbynock too chooses a place within the middle of the group, walking at a steady pace near Tork.

[LordBlades]

Beorn walks alongside Mizar (assuming he doesn't plan to wander off)

[Hallack]

Everyone ready to move out Jax let's them know he will be ranging ahead 75-150 yards depending upon the terrain.  As he sets off it is with a long stride and a quick step that eats up the ground.  After moments he seems to disappear amongst the terrain.

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10 Perception checks.  If allowed I'll just take 10's for 17 on them.  If not... these rolls:

Rolled 1d20+7 : 6 + 7, total 13

Rolled 1d20+7 : 16 + 7, total 23

Rolled 1d20+7 : 2 + 7, total 9

Rolled 1d20+7 : 4 + 7, total 11

Rolled 1d20+7 : 16 + 7, total 23

Rolled 1d20+7 : 5 + 7, total 12

Rolled 1d20+7 : 4 + 7, total 11

Rolled 1d20+7 : 1 + 7, total 8

Rolled 1d20+7 : 13 + 7, total 20

Rolled 1d20+7 : 12 + 7, total 19

Stealth:

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29 if can Take 10, otherwise

Rolled 1d20+19 : 1 + 19, total 20

[DrHorrible]

Mizar

Mizar closes the group, silent and apparently bored. To his side walks Beorn.

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Lammasu Mantle: +2 Deflection to AC against attacks and effects made by evil.
Totem Avatar: +1 HP and +1 NA (because of the invested essentia point)

AC: 21/23 against evil

[phaedrusxy]

Kalal walks silently just ahead of the main bulk of the group, ready to throw himself between any dangers that appear and the rest of his comrades.

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Perception rolls: 1d20+2=21, 1d20+2=21, 1d20+2=12, 1d20+2=3, 1d20+2=17, 1d20+2=6, 1d20+2=10, 1d20+2=10, 1d20+2=9, 1d20+2=16, 1d20+2=22, 1d20+2=5, 1d20+2=7, 1d20+2=7, 1d20+2=6, 1d20+2=10, 1d20+2=20, 1d20+2=21, 1d20+2=6, 1d20+2=20

HP 16/16, AC 17, Touch 11, Flat-footed 16
(in hand)  dwarven warpike +7 (2d6+9, 20/x3)
Tremorsense 10'

[Flay Crimsonwind]

Half walking and half swaggering, Brone makes up the rear in his heavy cloak. There was enough in the front; a rearguard seemed ridiculous, but he'd rather not have the travelling group snuck upon. One too many dealings with bandits.

[LordBlades]

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My 10 perception rolls:

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    1d20+5=17, 1d20+5=13, 1d20+5=8, 1d20+5=18, 1d20+5=20, 1d20+5=23, 1d20+5=20, 1d20+5=19, 1d20+5=19, 1d20+5=14

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@Mialgru

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As you fly over the terrain ahead of the group you notice the terrain get steadily more overgrown and marshlike.  You realize that the group is making very slow headway as they hack their way through thick undergrowth.  After many hours of work you spot the moathouse in the distance.  It lies in an area between two rivers, and once was probably highly defensible, but has since fallen into ruin.  As the moon rises over the crest of a hill you spot an enormous wolf wandering through the mist-shrowded undergrowth directly in the path of the party.

@Rest of the Party

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Though your senses are fully alert, the journey through the rest of the day and into the night is uneventful except the nasty mosquitoes and other vermin that plague you as you hack through the thick undergrowth.  The journey is grueling, taking all of ten hours to cover what should have been at most 5, but finally a change in the taste and smell in the air suggests that you may have reached your destination.  Foulness pervades a thick mist that sits on the ground, and the vermin seem even hungrier.  A howl splits the air and loud croaking reverberates through the clouds like a foghorn.

[Mixster]

@Vilenatas

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As Mialgru sees the wolf he starts heading back towards the party, hoping he can reach them before they reach the wolf.
Also, knowledge Nature on the wolf:

Rolled 1d20+12 : 14 + 12, total 26

[Mandoor]

Tork wispers to the players that is near him I will be around close. I'm going to go hide and sneak toward the moathouse.  Tork starts slowly moving in the direction of the moatouse then fade from view.

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Hide in plain sight and my Stealth roll is

Rolled 1d20+11 : 12 + 11, total 23

  for all who's spot roll can not beat my Stealth roll then it would seam like I just start fading from view as I walked toward the moathouse.

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@Mialgru

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The wolf isn't large enough to be dire, but its jaws seem exorbitantly large, and it seems to be thicker across the chest.  You have a sneaking suspicion this wolf may have been influenced by the evil of the area.  You fly quickly back to where you last saw the party, and with a quick reconnoiter find them still hacking their way through the undergrowth.

@Tork

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You still have not seen the moathouse, but have noticed a palpable feeling of wrongness, and suspect that you are nearing an ancient bastion of evil.  The mists clinging to the ground soon put you out of sight(and sound) of your party.

[Flay Crimsonwind]

Low voiced, but calm, Brone asks, "Mialgru, what've we got coming, and how far? These damn weeds are making life difficult, please tell me they mysteriously let up soon..." He says it with a sarcastic smirk, knowing damn well what the answer will be.

[Mandoor]

 I thought we was closer to the moathouse.  This mist is two thick so I move back to the party.  The plan is to keep them within the 30 foot Senses Aura.

[Mixster]

The Ibis that Mialgru likes to turn into appears in front of the group, lands on a branch and says:
There's a corrupted wolf up ahead from you, about 700 meters or so. Pointing in the direction with a wing. It has huge jaws and is smaller than a dire wolf. I suggest you getting your weapons ready and we could sneak up on it, it probably smells as well as other wolves, so we should go around it so we'll face the wind when sneaking up on it, then decide whether we want to fight it or not.

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I just made up the range, I can edit it to whatever it really is.

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@Mialgru

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Distance is fine.  I figure you are flying ahead for just this reason.

@Tork

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You slip back through the mists, fearing for a moment that you might have made a wrong turn in the thick mists, but eventually stumble back onto the rest of the party just as Mialgru flies in with a warning.

[phaedrusxy]

Kalal says "Should we try to avoid it? Or should I draw it out for the rest of you?"

[Flay Crimsonwind]

"A large wolf in overgrowth that is known to spread some horrible disease? I'd say we just avoid it. We don't need it dead, it wont have any gold or treasures anyway, and there's no reward for killing it yet. Mialgru, could you keep an eye on it, give us a warning if it seems to be approaching? I'd rather not have to kill it, but if we must, it would be good not to be taken by surprise on it's own familiar soil...."

[LordBlades]

Beorn nods I agree.  Fighting makes noise anyway and if there's somebody in the moathouse I'd rather not have them know we're here yet, so let's avoid it if we can.