WM/Treks/Log 1-11

Narrator: The delvers are locked in mortal combat with a quintet of giant spiders!
Minnizig: (( giant spiders have MONEY in them, in the form of poison, by the way. ))
GM: Who are, admittedly, doing very poorly. So poorly that the remaining 3 turn and flee.
Beltarne: Hooray!
Marik: ((Let. The treasure. Run.))
Minnizig: (( but but but ))
Wolfgang: bah
Wolfgang: IT MUST DIE!
GM: Each PC can make 1 melee attack at -2 and 1 ranged attack at -6 if they don't want the treasure to flee.
Beltarne: ((Final Fantasy victory song plays))
Ghazeb: Swings
Marik: I'm not interested in chasing these things.
Wolfgang: Axe [3d6.skill(20,-2-2)] => [2,3,6] = 11 vs (16) or less Success! by 5 
GM: Damage, Wolfgang?
Ghazeb: Sword [3d6-2] => [1,5,2,-2] = (6)
Wolfgang: Axe [2d6+8] => [1,2,8] = (11) cut
Beltarne: Sure, I'll take a swing. -2 +1 (SM) -2 (Leg) -1/2 (DA)?
Ghazeb: ((sory that should have been a +2))
GM: Ghazeb does 2d6+6 damage by my notes.
** Thasos grins as the foolish spider turns its back. **
Wolfgang: I will forgo the ranged since there are trees all over and I'm not that good throwing
Beltarne: Axe/Mace (18) [3d6.skill(18,-2+1-2-2)] => [2,3,5] = 10 vs (13) or less Success! by 3 Includes: +1 from 'Pickaxe Penchant', +3 from 'Extra Pickaxe Penchant'
Minnizig: Smallsword [3d6.skill(15,-2)] => [2,1,5] = 8 vs (13) or less Success! by 5 
Thasos: Meteor Hammer [3d6.skill(18,-3)] => [6,6,2] = 14 vs (15) or less Success! by 1 
Ghazeb: [2d6+6] => [2,6,6] = (14)
Minnizig: Smallsword [1d6] => [6] = (6) imp
Beltarne: Axe * Primary [1d6+4] => [3,4] = (7) cut
Thasos: Meteor Hammer [2d6+3+0] => [1,1,3,0] = (5) cr
Thasos: i figured in the tree penalty
GM: The spider attacking Minnizig and Beltarne does not get away. The mostly unwounded one attack Ghazeb is wounded badly enough to be quickly finished off. Wolfgang chops up another one as Marik looks on in disgust.
Ghazeb: "They are of value. yes?"
** Thasos gestures wildly at the spider and at Ghazeb. He obviously believes he got the killing blow. **
GM: The fifth spider, already fleeing a round or two before, continues on its merry way.
** Ghazeb shrugs **
GM: Is it still a spider with only 6 legs?
Ghazeb: " Are you mad?"
Minnizig: My cat thinks so.
** Beltarne whimpers slightly as he removes the rest of the legs on the still twitching spider corpse **
Ghazeb: "Look here at this wound. clearly the fatal blow."
Minnizig: Of course, she thinks its still a spider when it's got two legs and it's trying to drag itself out of her paws.
** Beltarne gives the limbless corpse one last kick, just to be sure **
** Thasos points to the fist sized and shaped dent on the thorax. **
whispering to Kevin, Giant spiders aren't poisonous really - monster drool at best. The spider silk itself is valuable, but you have to pull the raw stuff from inside them. 
Wolfgang: "This is what they make the fancy cloth armor suff from, right"
** Minnizig eyes the various mangled and cracked corpses, trying to judge if there's anything she can sell to a wizard on them. Spinarettes or something. **
** Wolfgang points at the spider silk **
Minnizig: Thaumatology (14) [3d6.skill(14,0)] => [6,3,4] = 13 vs (14) or less Success! by 1 Includes: +4 from 'Magery'
GM: They aren't constructs, so she isn't aware of anything.
Minnizig: "No clue, I'm not a clothier. But I bet the venom's worth something, if they have any left."
** Marik finishes getting the last of the spidersilk off of him. "They're not terribly poisonous, and I've no idea how to extract it in any case. The silk's worth something, but we'd have to extract the glands whole. Carefully." **
Beltarne: "Really? Guess they're not all bad. Your highness, if I could borrow a few of your arrows again?"
** Beltarne begins rolling up his sleeves and getting ready to extract spinnerets. **
Ghazeb: "So do we need to carve these things up or what?"
** Thasos has a thought, and examines the business end of his weapon. **
Wolfgang: "carefully cut up"
GM: Surgery roll at -2 for improvised equipment, Beltarne.
Ghazeb: "Well, best I just stand guard while you guys do that."
** Beltarne mutters "What our friend the flying rock said," as he prepares **
Beltarne: Surgery/TL3 (Humanoid) (12) [3d6.skill(12,-2)] => [4,2,1] = 7 vs (10) or less Success! by 3 
** Marik hands Beltarne a long knife and a couple of arrows, and glares. "'Highness' isn't really necessary." **
whispering to Ghazeb, Ghazeb always refers to himself as "this one" or "ghazeb", never "I". Check his quirks. 
Beltarne: ((Should be further minuses for not being humanoid))
Thasos: mark, is there anything from the spider stuck to our weapons?
GM: It's sloppy, difficult work, and you don't do a good job. But you have several to experiment on, and come out with 4 lbs of raw giant spidersilk.
Beltarne: sweet!
Minnizig: Hurray, some proffit. Minnizig sits on a stump, and rests, relieved she didn't get any of the horrible gooey stuff on her.
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb thinks that looks nasty, but if it will fetch a few gold Ghazeb is glad we did the work."
** Beltarne happily hands the silk to one of the burlier party members, drenched in ichor to the elbows **
GM: It has a street value of several hundred $$. It'd be worth more if it were in better shape, but stilll.
Wolfgang: "Those spiders usually attack people or did the druid send them you think?"
GM: Who is taking it? Everyone but Beltarne has enough free loard to carry it.
Beltarne: "Oh, they attack people all right."
GM: Free load, that is, without increasing encumbrance. Though Wolfgang is pretty heavily loaded as is.
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb thinks that next time you should cut slower. Hate to see gold lost."
Beltarne: ((A mule. A nice, strong mule!))
Marik: "They're vicious, indiscriminate predators. S'why I shot first."
Beltarne: "Need better tools, methinks"
Marik: "And I'll take the stuff."
** Thasos takes the bundle of silk. **
Wolfgang: "Ah, well, I guess that's kind of good
Beltarne: "You leave it too long the silk is spoiled"
GM: Alright, Marik and Thasos split the stuff.
GM: Anyone else pick up significant non-coin loot?
Wolfgang: what else is can be considered loot?
Marik: You mean, in the past, or right now?
** Thasos casually wipes his hands on Ghazeb's fur when he isn't looking. **
Beltarne: Any cacooned humanoid corpses nearby?
GM: In the past - checking my notes.
GM: Beltarne: no.
Marik: Nothing that I recall.
GM: Anything that weighs more than 1/2 lb and isn't coin.
Marik: For me, anyway.
Marik: I've been handing loot off to Beltarne.
Beltarne: What I have is the eye from the hunter thing....
Ghazeb: "Trying to touch the greatness that is Ghazeb? If you are lucky it may rub off on you."
Minnizig: Firefly didn't carry things. Minnizig hasn't picked anything up yet.
Beltarne: the alchemists' knife
Wolfgang: Yah, I think beltarne was holding the cash too
Beltarne: All the rest is coinage and jewelry
** Ghazeb wipes his fur clean. **
GM: Great!
Wolfgang: who got the potions again?
Beltarne: I have one minor healing that minizig gave me still
GM: Yeah, there were 22 offensive potions. all the healing potions were used to replace
GM: And Marik picked up the lightning flare.
Minnizig: Right, hang on. lemme check those potions.
Marik: Marik, I think, is likely also the best candidate for carrying spare potions.
Beltarne: ((I can't wait for treasure tables))
Minnizig: *goes and checks the log, as the GM is being suspicious*
Marik: On account of he packs things REAL careful-like.
Ghazeb: ((I'm sorry, how many hp does Ghazeb have?"
GM: Just updatting my notes.
GM: Ghazeb has 15/15 HP.
Wolfgang: did we ID the combat ones for sure?
GM: I don't think so.
Beltarne: I think so
Beltarne: well, that's the "think" that matters, I suppose
GM: "Minnizig starts sorting them into little piles. "These two are sleepytime" and she puts them aside, "and these two are the Big Sleep, if you know what I mean." "
GM: " Minnizig splits up the last 18 into equal piles, dubbing them each "cold", "fire", and "rot". "
GM: I don't know if that's an ID or not.
Beltarne: I'd say so
Minnizig: YOu whispered me
Minnizig: with 5 different symbols.
Minnizig: I'd copy/paste but my firefox has just picked now to have hysterics.
GM: I'm quoting from Log1-7, what you said.
GM: Anyway.
GM: Who has the potions?
Minnizig: They're roughly identified anyways :D
Beltarne: Not it. I can barely afford to carry food
Wolfgang: Minn I guess since noone else touched them that I can see
Minnizig: Works for me.
Minnizig: I've got spare encumbrance.
GM: Alright, thanks!
Wolfgang: anyone want to add potion chucking to their gameplan?
Thasos: i have the sneaking suspicion you guys put them in my backpack
Minnizig: I'll just need to know how much the whole mess weighs.
Wolfgang: no, those were rocks
Wolfgang: :P
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb can carry no more."
GM: After disecting the spiders, you continue on your path, circling around the lake, through forest, near but not on the road.
GM: (Minnizig, 11 lbs).
GM: Around 5, you come to the edge of the forest.
Minnizig: I'll need to give half of these to someone, then. THat bumps me to Heavy encunberance. More than I thought.
Ghazeb: ((afk a sec))
Marik: I'll take 'em.
Beltarne: ((Marik?))
Ghazeb: ((back))
Minnizig: SO, around 5, we come to the edge of the forest!
Narrator: The forest opens up onto the peninsula the delvers saw earlier - a long arrow of dirt pointing southwest into the lake. The road runs along its length, for maybe a mile and a half, before turning south into the lake.
Beltarne: ((The road goes INTO the lake?))
Marik: How close are we to sunset, if it's 5PM?
** Wolfgang tries to figure out why there is a road into a lake **
Narrator: The rocky mess of land that Marik saw earlier is separated from the peninsula by a narrow channel. It looks to be less than 100 yards, and from the way the lake is rippling over it, there are shallow parts and rocky passages that may make it fordable.
GM: It's hard to see from this angle, but the road may lead to an old ferry or collapsed bridge.
GM: You're about an hour and a half from sunset, but Wolfgang can't walk much longer.
Beltarne: "Great. There's a moat"
Ghazeb: "Not sure Ghazeb likes the thought of geting wet."
Minnizig: "Why? The waters nice and clean."
Ghazeb: "I'm sure of it in fact. Yes, it is out of the question all together."
Marik: "We'll camp here in the forest for the night and we'll see how things look by morning."
** Thasos nods, missing the civilized life of the monastery a bit. **
Wolfgang: "Well, the river was clean, we've not tested the lake."
Beltarne: "True. There were those rumors"
Marik: "The rumors were about the other lake. I'm pretty sure this lake's fine."
** Thasos begins setting up his tent, leaving the firestarting to the others. **
GM: Marik estimates the peninsula at about 2 miles long and a mile wide at the base where you are.
Ghazeb: "either way Ghazeb is not going in."
** Marik melts into the trees to find something to eat. (Foraging!) **
Ghazeb: ((are we low on food?))
Marik: ((Never spend rations when you can eat bugs.))
** Ghazeb gags **
Beltarne: "I don't think a fire is a good idea tonight"
GM: Roll foraging!
Thasos: ((Marik has a few... habits.))\
Ghazeb: "Why, Ghazeb will protect you if anything comes in the night."
** Wolfgang thinks Marik just likes grossing poeple out by eating bugs **
Beltarne: "Because it would fairly obviously point out that we're coming to the harpies"
Minnizig: "I KNOW Marik likes grossing people out by eating bugs. But suspects he may just like eating bugs, too."
Marik: Does this count as woodlands?
GM: Yes, the forest counts as Woodlands.
Marik: Survival (Woodlands): [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [5,6,2] = 13 vs (15) or less Success! by 2 
Ghazeb: ((lol))
** Thasos sticks his head out of his tent, frowns at Ghazeb, then pulls it back in. **
Marik: Add 4 to that.
Marik: So success by 6.
GM: Everyone eats bugs tonight! Marik, roll Survival, Hiking, or Observation at -2, please.
Marik: "Insects are some of the most nutricious, high-energy food you can find, particularly in the mountains and particularly when they're the size of your foot."
** Ghazeb sneaks around Thasos's tent, looks to see no one is watching and takes a leak on it. on it. **
Wolfgang: "By that logic we should have eaten those huge spiders"
Marik: Observation: [3d6.skill(17,-2)] => [6,3,1] = 10 vs (15) or less Success! by 5 
** Minnizig makes gagging noises. **
GM: You spot the poisonous snake before you step on it.
Marik: "Spiders aren't insects. Seriously, people."
Marik: Snake is good eating.
Wolfgang: "Eh, you fight them pretty much the same though."
Beltarne: "Yeah, they're worse"
GM: Well, okay, instead of bug, you guys have snake. Like I care.
Marik: Either way, I feed the party. :D
Marik: Because that's what I do.
GM: Food check, at nightful:
Minnizig: Snake is actually acceptable.
Minnizig: Minnizig will eat snake, although not raw thankyouverymuch. That's just gross.
Thasos: ((to be honest, thasos will eat just about anything if you provide him with enough condiments))
GM: Beltarne still has no food. =)
Ghazeb has 6 Elven meals, 9 normal meals, and a bit of confusion as to why his elven meals aren't lasting as long as they should.
Marik has 18 fine meals.
Thasos has 21 fine meals, 22 normal meals (smoked venison jerky).
Wolfgang has 24 normal meals.
Minnizig has 24 normal meals.
Beltarne: I'd really rather not start a fire tonight.
Beltarne: I'm on a diet
** Marik starts a small fire, making sure to keep it well-hidden. **
Thasos: mark, shouldn't that be smoked mutton?
Beltarne: ((The "you forgot to pack food?" diet))
Marik: Camouflage: [3d6.skill(17,0)] => [4,6,4] = 14 vs (17) or less Success! by 3 
Marik: Wow.
Marik: That was a shite roll.
Marik: I'll Luck that.
GM: No, you ate the mutton days ago. The venison is the stuff you picked up from the first band of goblins.
** Ghazeb eats a normal meal, while he eyes the snake. **
GM: Okay, Marik.
Marik: Camouflage: [3d6.skill(17,0)] => [2,5,2] = 9 vs (17) or less Success! by 8 
Marik: Camouflage: [3d6.skill(17,0)] => [1,1,6] = 8 vs (17) or less Success! by 9 
Marik: There we go.
** Minnizig updates weight. **
GM: Uhm... Ghazeb has Gluttony and eats anything. Including meals specifically described as rotten tubers and spoiled meat. I think he has a Minor Delusion that he has a Cast Iron Stomach.
GM: On the other hand, maybe the encounter with rotten goblin food cured him of that.
Ghazeb: ((K sorry))
GM: Eh, it's your character now!
Wolfgang: Wolfgang has gluttony but has the good sense to just eat lots of real food
Marik: So, we have an hour for foraging, during which Thasos and Beltarne can start their rituals?
GM: Right.
Marik: Putting us at 7PM, I assume, after camp is set up and hidden.
GM: Thasos: [1d6] => [1] = (1), Beltarne [1d6] => [2] = (2)
Marik: (Hidden like a NINJA.)
** Wolfgang cleans his gear carefully **
Marik: It's -2 to forage again in the same place?
Beltarne: casting watchdog after rituals
GM: Right.
** Thasos comes out of his tent having finished his meditations. **
Beltarne: 10 yard radius... mods?
** Ghazeb does as little as possible. **
GM: -5 for an opposed High Holy Day.
Marik: I have absolutely no problem with taking advantage of the fact that I've found a Real Forest(tm) to get more food. They won't last more than a couple of days, but that's okay.
** Minnizig refrains from whistling, but humms to herself as she tidies her gear and sets up a tent. **
** Ghazeb grins at Thasos. **
GM: Roll if you're going to forage some more.
Marik: Survival (Woodlands): [3d6.skill(19,-2)] => [2,5,3] = 10 vs (17) or less Success! by 7 
GM: Who's carrying it?
Beltarne: Watchdog (Holy) (16) [3d6.skill(16,-5+3)] => [6,2,6] = 14 vs (14) or less Success! by 0 Includes: +4 from 'Power Investiture (Holy)'
Marik: I suspect 'Nobody, we're eating it tomorrow morning' is the best answer.
GM: Actually, you can just eat it in the morning, never mind.
GM: Right.
Beltarne: +3 for elaborate gestures and loud words
** Thasos glances at Ghazeb, then at the water, then back at Ghazeb. **
Marik: *koff stelathy campsite loud words bad koff*
Marik: Stealthy, too.
Marik: And the extra one ration can split between the gluttonous folks.
** Ghazeb smiles and drinks some water. **
GM: Camp is made, rituals occur, watches are set, night falls, Thasos' tent begins to stink mysteriously, the wind dies down to a light breeze around 3 am, sun rises, it's morning again.
Beltarne: ((Wasn't shouted, just loud. We're more than a mile away. It'll be fine))
GM: It's still a High Holy Day of Cunning, but also one of Nature.
GM: Which, y'know, doesn't help Beltarne but whatever.
** Ghazeb makes note of the smell. **
GM: On the other hand, if you run into any Elder Things, they'd be in trouble today!
Minnizig: Just a footnote: I'm wearing all those potions in my Delvers webbing.
Beltarne: ((Yaaaay))
Marik: ((Don't fall)
Marik: Do we have enough people that Marik can afford not to take a watch tonight?
** Thasos makes a face as he packs his tent. He sniffs himself. **
Minnizig: Quick Release Backpack is down to 37.375 lbs, which does not have potions in it because dropping a bag full of death would be dumb.
Marik: If we're asleep at 8PM, Marik can sleep through till 4, wake up while it's still dark, and scout our path.
Beltarne: Works for me
Minnizig: I don't mind taking a night shift if needed. I've got great night vision.
Wolfgang: Are we there yet?
GM: Works for me.
GM: Marik notices spots a couple of gigantic insect wings and a stinger the size of dagger while scouting.
Beltarne: ((Ruh roh shaggy))
Thasos: ((oops, mark said it was morning already, so i thought the night was over... thasos is still asleep in his tent of course)
Minnizig: (( giant bugs for giant spiders. fab. ))
** Ghazeb sleeps in too. **
GM: Other than that... the rocky island is about 500 yards E-W and 1000 yards N-S, roughly oval, mix of stone and marsh. It looks like the harpies have a nest in the center, but they're sleeping when he scouts and he can't really see them.
Marik: Er, are they attached to an insect?
GM: Nope.
GM: Looks like there was a fight, though.
Marik: ...Is this a normal sort of thing to find?
Marik: So no.
GM: If there are giant insects fighting in the area, yes?
Marik: I'll take the stinger. It's the size of a dagger, I might want to stab something with it
GM: It's rotting, so ick, but go ahead.
Marik: Marik embraces 'ick'.
Marik: I assume the peninsula's largely bare of helpful things like 'cover'.
GM: Wake up just before dawn (around 6:30).
GM: The peninsula is rolling hills, sloping generally down to the south, spotted with trees, ferns, and bushes.
Marik: "Break camp quickly. We'll eat as we move. Is the plan to go in fighting, or try to talk first?"
** Ghazeb sleeps in **
** Thasos makes a face as he packs his tent. He sniffs himself. **
Beltarne: "Well, we have any evidence these creatures have harmed anyone?""
Marik: "Also, Thasos, you'll want to wash the cat piss off your tent."
Marik: "They're harpies. They're not exactly known for their genteel manners and considerate outlook."
** Marik wakes Ghazeb. **
Wolfgang: "So we should have hit them before down eh?"
Minnizig: (( What ARE harpies known for in this game world? ))
Ghazeb: "YES"
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb is trying to get some sleep."
GM: ANyone have faerie lore?
** Thasos wordlessly - but angrily - goes down to the water to wash his tent off. **
Beltarne: ((Seriously. Are they part of the "Kill on Sight" genus?))
Minnizig: Closest I have is Thaumatology, which aint close.
** Ghazeb thinks thats worth geting up for. **
Beltarne: Occultism, here
Beltarne: If it's undead I'm handy!
** Ghazeb gets up trys not to laugh at Thasos and packs up. **
** Thasos is about to wash his tent in the water. **
** Wolfgang gets ready quickly **
Wolfgang: "Might as well leave the tent here"
** Minnizig is packing up her tent and re-organized belongings! **
GM: Then you guys only know rumors, and nothing clear. Harpies are beautiful or maybe ugly bird women with claws or pretty voices. They eat everything, or maybe nothing. They can sing you into a sleep or maybe make your brain explode or perhaps they just claw through metal or they're just so pretty you want to do whatever they say.
** Ghazeb looks around for any leftover food. **
** Thasos pulls up some grass and rubs it on, then scoops water up with his hands and rinses off the tent. **
GM: So you head out around 7, as usually.
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb hopes they are the beautiful kind."
Ghazeb: "If they are we should try to talk with them. We can just attack if they are ugly."
Beltarne: "good to know you have principles"
GM: 50 minutes later, you come across something that Marik must have missed during his scouting: a bunch of tiny bones, clearly picked over by some predator, surrounded by large black feathers. The feathers are unkempt, like from a molting bird.
Minnizig: "I believe we'll have a shortage of silky fur and pink noses, I'm afraid.
** Thasos frowns at Ghazeb and shakes his head. **
** Ghazeb nods **
Minnizig: "
Minnizig: Must have missed, or newly tossed out.
** Ghazeb sniffs the air in Thasos's direction. **
** Ghazeb shakes his head. **
** Thasos points at the feathers as if he's discovered some important clue. **
GM: The bones are humanoid, but very small. They look old.
** Ghazeb ignores the find. **
GM: Old as in, the deboning happened some time ago.
Beltarne: "Faerie"
Wolfgang: "So, those harpy feathers? Don't look brass to me"
Beltarne: ?
** Thasos nods at Wolfgang sagely. **
GM: Could be, probably leprechaun.
Marik: "Something hunting harpies, or else harpies hunting their own."
Ghazeb: (( I'll walk on it if it is in my way))
Minnizig: "I will be sure to demand my drink back from the old bard when I see him, for telling me that fib about the feathers."
Wolfgang: "Er, the bones from the harpy too?"
Beltarne: ((The old bard? You homies with Shakespeare?))
Ghazeb: "Wait, This is a harpy? %^%^ they are going to be the ugly kind."
** Thasos picks up a feather and hands it to the gnome questioningly. **
** Ghazeb holds his head down, looking sad. **
** Minnizig examines the feather critically. **
Marik: "I think we should be approaching quietly. And carefully. And keeping an eye on the sky."
** Ghazeb looks for a cunfy spot to sit down. **
Minnizig: "Yup. Definitely not brass. Hey Marik? You recognize this, or are we in 'unknown harpymonster' territory?"
Wolfgang: "Well, quiet ain't my thing really, but I'll try"
Marik: "Never seen a harpy in my life until yesterday."
Beltarne: Stealth checks!
Beltarne: Stealth (12) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [5,4,2] = 11 vs (12) or less Success! by 1 
Marik: Stealth:</B> [3d6.skill(19,0)] => [6,6,1] = 13 vs (19) or less Success! by 6 
Minnizig: Stealth (13) [3d6.skill(13,0)] => [4,6,5] = 15 vs (13) or less Failure! by 2 
Ghazeb: Stealth (15) [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [6,1,4] = 11 vs (15) or less Success! by 4 
Thasos: Stealth (15) [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [1,4,1] = 6 vs (15) or less Success! by 9 
Wolfgang: DX (14) [3d6.skill(14,-5)] => [6,3,5] = 14 vs (9) or less Failure! by 5 
** Ghazeb glares at Wolfgang. **
GM: Okay, you guys all hide, some better than others.
** Wolfgang prepares for the inevitable attack **
Beltarne: Figured that was for the approch, which I assume will be underway shortly
GM: You're about a mile away. It's still rough going.
Beltarne: "Shall we continue?"
GM: For what it's worth, the sky is getting cloudy. Still fluffy white clouds, but they're covering much more of the sky than yesterday.
Ghazeb: "lets"
Marik: And now it's stealthy rough going. More or less.
GM: Right.
GM: You continue on for about 15 minutes.
Narrator: The delvers head west toward the island, marching through tall grass and mud. Suddenly, everything they can see begins glowing yellow and green. Ghazeb yowls and Minnizig wails in recognition and frustration as the colors overwhelm everyone's vision. There is a faint whirring of the wind and the delver's ears pop as the colors fade again.
The delvers find themselves on a hillside. A range of mountains towers over them to the north. To the southeast, sunlight gleams on the water of a lake, bisected by a familiar looking peninsula. The ground rises and falls in a series of rough hils to the west and south.
Immediately to the south, smoke rises from behind a hill. Moments later, a pair of green-tinged giant eagles rise above the hill, spiralling away from each other in a search pattern.
Minnizig: "I gottdam hate that."
Beltarne: "What..... the hell"
** Minnizig stamps her foot. "I gottdam HATE that." **
** Ghazeb looks confused. but trys not to let it show. **
** Thasos points at the nearest eagle and looks at Marik. He raises his brows. **
Marik: How far away are the eagles?
Wolfgang: "Ok, I'm assuming a double cross unless I hear another explination"
Beltarne: "Seriously, lets just kill the bastard"
Ghazeb: "Did someone set off a trap, Thasos!"
Wolfgang: how fast are the eagles?
** Minnizig crosses her stubby little arms and stuff out her lower lip. "Some day I'm going to find the damn wizards wot screwed everything up and suff a tuba up their arses." **
Minnizig: "It's not the eagles. Probably."
whispering to Kevin, Looking at the clouds in the sky and the lake, then consulting your map of the West Gray Mountains, you believe you are just northwest of the Druidic Earth Foci Circle. 
** Minnizig waves her hands around. "It's this whole freeking country." **
Narrator: Hard to say, but definitely out of bowshot range.
** Ghazeb looks at Minnizig in shock. **
Beltarne: "even with the yellow and green colors? Seems to be our boy's signature."
Minnizig: "This is what happened when I was on my way to Shirgrad. Just minding my own business, and then wham pow sparkle."
Minnizig: (( what color WAS it last time? ))
Thasos: ((is there any place to hide))
Ghazeb: "So this is your fault?"
Minnizig: "I wasn't anywhere NEAR this area, furface."
GM: Same colors, Minnizig.
GM: There are rocks, trees, boulders, bushes... this looks a lot like the terrain where you met those goblins by the creek 2 days ago.
Ghazeb: "But this sort of thing happens to you and you did not feel the need to tell us?"
Minnizig: "Happened. Once."
Minnizig: "Singular."
Minnizig: "Never made a habit of it until I met up with you guys."
Beltarne: "Leave it, Ghazeb. Just a coincidence."
Ghazeb: "K"
Marik: "So we're about five miles away from where we wanted to be, and smack dab in the middle of that insane druid's territory. I don't think he brought us here - he really seemed to want to be left alone."
** Thasos shakes his head sadly at Ghazeb, as if he wouldn't have been the first to make accusations were it not for his vow. **
Marik: "However, he said he'd be trying to kill us if we invaded his range again, and that we needed to deal with the harpies."
Beltarne: "well, what now. seems we've alerted the druid we're here. Think he'll believe it was coincidence we popped back up here?"
** Marik shrugs. "How persuasive do you feel like being?" **
** Beltarne snorts rudely **
Minnizig: "Dude's from around here, he's got to have seen it before."
Beltarne: "Fine, shall we go check on that smoke and explain it?"
Ghazeb: "Are we now not going to the lake? Ghazeb likes that plan."
Marik: "Let's."
Beltarne: ((Lake or smoke?))
Wolfgang: "Well, wouldn't the same thing just happen again down there, maybe they live out there since you have to fly in."
Minnizig: I don't know! Thaumatology to try and guess!
Minnizig: Thaumatology (14) [3d6.skill(14,0)] => [5,2,2] = 9 vs (14) or less Success! by 5 Includes: +4 from 'Magery'
Beltarne: "I assume it's somewhat random, if Minnizig hit something similar on a road"
Ghazeb: "That would keep the rifraf run off."
** Thasos thinks awhile, then points in the direction of the lake. **
Marik: "Let's investigate the smoke, first - it seems more immediate - then start back towards the lake. That's a day's travel or more we've just lost."
** Ghazeb sniffs the air and moves down wind of Thasos, and finds a hnice spot to sit down. **
Ghazeb: "Lets not rush into anything."
Ghazeb: "We could take a short break."
Wolfgang: "Eh, whichever is closer"
whispering to Minnizig, Fae gates are faerie magic, and therefore not something you know much about. However, faerie magic is not known for its consistency. Unless you are of the Sidhe, in which case it probably makes perfect if arbitrary sense. 
Beltarne: "Do you feel the need to rest, or just want to give those eagles time to spot us?"
** Thasos gestures at Ghazeb, indicating he will DRAG the big cat along. **
Ghazeb: "I could use a short nap. And I do not fear the eagles."
Ghazeb: "I'm ready if you guys are, just saying."
** Ghazeb stands up and streches. **
** Minnizig sighs and rubs her temples. "Let's just leave the booring old rug here and we can go do interesting adventures." **
Ghazeb: "Not sure you guys would last with out Ghazeb."
Ghazeb: "I best keep you safe."
Marik: "Our food supplies would last longer, at least. Let's get moving."
Minnizig: "Nono, don't let us interrupt your boring nap. We'll go do awesome things and get famous."
** Marik heads off towards the smoke. **
Wolfgang: "Lead on your highness"
** Minnizig heads off after Marik, for Adventure! (tm) **
** Thasos starts heading off towards the lake, then turns around when he realizes the others are going the other way. **
** Beltarne follows everyone else **
** Ghazeb follows Marik. **
GM: Right then.
GM: about thirty minutes travel leads you a hill overlooking what can only be called a goblin encampment.
Minnizig: (( Adventurers: Oh look another shiny! GM: Aaaarg. ))
GM: (Ah, but this time I'm prepared!)
Thasos: ((I spent all week making this map and you're ignoring it! AND heading toward the place I haven't mapped yet!))
Beltarne: ((His fault))
Ghazeb: ((about how big))
GM: You're in the irregular and infrequent trees northwest of it. The encampment consists of 2 circular walls of earth, slightly separated from each other. The smaller one is southwest of the larger one. Beyond that, there is a watch tower. The encampment is surrounded by low hills that make it hard to see.
GM: Oops, the smaller circular walls are southeast!
Minnizig: Pretty big encampment!
GM: The larger, northwest circle is roughly 40 yards in diameter, and seems to be surrounding a huge, shimmering white dome.
Minnizig: For six adventurers anyways.
GM: You can't see through the dome clearly.
GM: The smoke comes from beyond the southeast encampment.
Marik: "Well. That was unexpected."
Minnizig: Ominous force bubble!
Marik: "Still think we should just march on in and kill everything, Wolfgang?"
GM: If you look on the Accumulated Maps page on the area I just forced everyone to center on, you can see a simple drawing of the campsite.
Minnizig: I bet that thing is maaaagical! Speaking of which, what's the mana level?
Ghazeb: "No problem Ghazeb is here. Lets march."
GM: Mostly normal, with some low aspects that aren't affecting druids.
GM: Err, bards.
Wolfgang: "So, anything in the cage Marik?"
** Ghazeb looks at Wolfgang. "Are you ready?" **
Wolfgang: "Always!"
GM: Looked like shocker lizards - several, maybe a half dozen - from the one clear glimpse you got earlier.
Wolfgang: "Who a plan may be in order, one we all know"
** Ghazeb pulls his sword and starts smeaking to the camp. **
GM: There's also a dozen or more greenskins wandering around, and the eagles overhead.
Beltarne: "I do believe we are substantially outnumbered"
GM: No sign of Kalless, but he could easily be behind the walls.
** Thasos hurriedly runs over and grabs G **
** Thasos hurriedly runs over and grabs Ghazeb before he can cause trouble for all. **
** Ghazeb trys to stop. **
Ghazeb: Impulsiveness (12 or less) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [2,3,6] = 11 vs (12) or less Success! by 1 
** Ghazeb stops. **
Ghazeb: "Well I guess we could make a quick plan."
** Wolfgang hides under a tree to plan **
** Thasos points at all the goblins wandering around, as well as the convenient ambush points. **
Ghazeb: Overconfidence (12 or less) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [5,5,2] = 12 vs (12) or less Success! by 0 
Wolfgang: Are there doors in the wall openings?
Marik: "I'm thinking we want to turn around, get as much cover between us and those eagles as we can, and get back to the damn peninsula. Fast."
Beltarne: "Agreed"
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb guesses we could be slightly out numbered."
Thasos: Resist Overconfidence (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [6,6,6] = 18 vs (12) or less Critical Failure! [B556]
Minnizig: Low aspects aren't affecting druids, but are affecting bards? sorry, just checking
Beltarne: "But the eagles are gonna spot us"
Ghazeb: ((Thats my boy))
GM: Are effecting neither druids nor bards, Minnizig.
Minnizig: Curious (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [6,6,4] = 16 vs (12) or less Failure! by 4 
** Thasos shakes his head furiously. He wants to attack! Just... with a plan. **
GM: There are doors in the wall openings, Wolfgang.
Wolfgang: and are the doors open or closed
Ghazeb: "The Gobs are way better than the lake pluse it is so far away now."
GM: Most of them look partially open.
Thasos: Stealth (15) [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [6,3,2] = 11 vs (15) or less Success! by 4 
** Thasos begins sneaking closer for a better look. **
Minnizig: I totally need to find out what's in there, Thasos is convinced he can find out on his own, and I should probably tie someone's shoe laces together while I'm there. I say we sneak in and get them!
Minnizig: Stealth (13) [3d6.skill(13,0)] => [1,4,5] = 10 vs (13) or less Success! by 3 
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb must agree with Thasos lets get this dance started."
** Minnizig is right after him. ANd small, which probably gets a penalty on their spotting her! **
Ghazeb: Stealth (15) [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [3,4,6] = 13 vs (15) or less Success! by 2 
Wolfgang: well, we could go for the place with the dome, if we get in we might be able to hold off the gobbos
Minnizig: That diminishing margin of success worries me :D
** Minnizig is totally heading for the dome, damn everyone else. **
** Marik melts into the underbrush. "I'm right behind you guys, honest." **
Beltarne: "Oh sweet Tyr, they're all wandering off"
** Ghazeb follows Minnizig. **
Wolfgang: "Lets stick together!"
Wolfgang: Leadership (11) [3d6.skill(11,0)] => [6,1,3] = 10 vs (11) or less Success! by 1 Includes: +2 from 'Born War-Leader'
Marik: ((It's that, or shoot Thasos in the leg to keep him from leaving. >.>))
** Beltarne sighs unhappily and tries to skulk after everyone else. **
** Thasos pauses as he hears the noisy folks. **
Wolfgang: is Marik actually going with the stealthy crowd?
** Ghazeb grins, thinking how nice it is that everyone is finaly coming to their senses. **
Marik: No?
** Thasos tries to gesture to the others to keep quiet. **
GM: Okay, the ground rule here is that you can't force action by being a dick.
GM: What's the vote on run forward vs run away at?
Beltarne: Away
Minnizig: Forward!
Marik: Away.
Thasos: ((True. WHich will save us from breaking character))
Thasos: forward
Wolfgang: how many gobbos?
Ghazeb: forward
Marik: "Assault a camp with sixty or seventy times our number in goblins" is "let's go make new characters, see you all next week" territory.
GM: A dozen or so visible.
GM: 1 of them in the watch tower.
Marik: I do not have even the slightest assumption that 'just because the GM put it there, we can beat it'.
Ghazeb: ((I fear Ghazeb's disads suggest forward))
Thasos: i crit failed overconfidence... thasos believes that the gobbos won't know what hit them
Beltarne: Can't we at least wait till night to wander in, and stay hidden in the cover till then?
Wolfgang: Away
Minnizig: Oh, as the player, I say away. But my PC says forward.
Marik: Goblins see BETTER in the dark, Beltarne.
GM: Marik estimates the total number of goblins at around 30-50, based on the camp fires.
Marik: Better than we do, certainly.
Ghazeb: ((Can't gobs see in the dark?))
Wolfgang: yes, they see in the dark, it's day
Minnizig: Player TOTALY says away. but I'm not sure if this is an IN Character or Out of Character vote.
GM: Forward: Minnizig, Ghazeb, Thasos; Away: Marik, Beltarne, Wolfgang.
Wolfgang: but we are BADLY outnumbered and I don't think we all can get in the walls in time, defend them and kill whoever is in there too
GM: You guys like Minnizig better than you like Wolfgang. The forwards have it.
Thasos: IC: let's get 'em OOC: omg someone stop thasos!
GM: ... You guys can talk it over. I'm not requiring a vote yet. I just require that everyone stick with the vote and not go haring off.
GM: Haring off == new character who plays better with others.
Ghazeb: "So you Fear the goblins Wolfgang?"
Wolfgang: "Oh, I'll be fine, but I'd hate to drag your cropses back
Minnizig: Totally understandable Mark.
Ghazeb: "Even Thasos is not afraid."
Beltarne: I think we should do a stealthy insertion to check out the force dome, not an assualt
Marik: About the most I can see Marik doing is pulling a Han Solo on you all and taking off, only to come in once battle's actually joined to try and pull your fat out of the fire.
Beltarne: the goblin in the watch tower has to look in the other direction sometime
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb thinks we should sneak in and kill them all."
Thasos: Resist Overconfidence (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [6,4,3] = 13 vs (12) or less Failure! by 1 
Wolfgang: "Our only chance is to take at least one set of walls before they come en mass at us"
Minnizig: "I just want to know what the heck that dome is. I don't think we need to charge it.
Minnizig: "
Marik: And even that's stretching 'callous intolerant loner with no particular ties to any of you' about as far as I can take it. I *can* reroll, without bitterness.
Minnizig: "I just want to seeeee."
Beltarne: Are the dirt walls actual walls, or just dirt berms?
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb just wants to do something!!"
Thasos: ((em, stubborness and jealousy also get rolls don't they?))
Wolfgang: so, can I use leadership to sway other PCs to not be dumb?
Ghazeb: ((I hope so))
GM: You can allow them to reroll stuff, I think.
GM: The walls look like they were made by Shape Earth.
Wolfgang: Leadership (11) [3d6.skill(11,0)] => [3,3,1] = 7 vs (11) or less Success! by 4 Includes: +2 from 'Born War-Leader'
** Ghazeb looks antsy. **
Thasos: [3d6.skill(0,0)] => [2,3,2] = 7 vs (0) or less Failure! by 7 
Thasos: ignore that :P
Ghazeb: Impulsiveness (12 or less) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [6,6,4] = 16 vs (12) or less Failure! by 4 
Ghazeb: Overconfidence (12 or less) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [4,5,4] = 13 vs (12) or less Failure! by 1 
Minnizig: I'll happily try to help people with Overconfidence, but I'd need to be talked out of the curiosity. (rolls curiosity)
Thasos: [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [4,4,1] = 9 vs (12) or less Success! by 3 
Minnizig: Curious (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [5,6,6] = 17 vs (12) or less Critical Failure! by 5 [B556]
Minnizig: ...
Minnizig: Luck that.
Thasos: resisted stubborness
Minnizig: Or my head will explode.
Minnizig: Curious (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [2,5,4] = 11 vs (12) or less Success! by 1 
Minnizig: Curious (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [1,2,6] = 9 vs (12) or less Success! by 3 
Minnizig: AHA!
Thasos: Resist Overconfidence (12-) [3d6.skill(12,0)] => [4,1,1] = 6 vs (12) or less Success! by 6 
Wolfgang: yah, but did he make them high enough to not be easily climbable?
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb will just go check it out."
** Ghazeb starts sneaking to the camp again. **
** Minnizig applies social pressure to Ghazeb. **
** Thasos thinks a scouting mission would be wiser. **
Minnizig: Leadership (13) [3d6.skill(13,0)] => [3,6,6] = 15 vs (13) or less Failure! by 2 Includes: +1 from 'Charisma'
Minnizig: blah.
Beltarne: Shape earth won't keep em in place if they're just dirt, so they're mounds?
Wolfgang: you can just change your vote
Marik: "Ghazeb, if you take another step towards that camp, I will pin your foot to the ground."
** Ghazeb stops. **
Marik: "I'm not going to let you get me and the rest of us killed."
Ghazeb: "Why?"
** Ghazeb looks confused. **
GM: They're about 10' tall, hard-packed sun drenched nearly adobe earth.
GM: Probably laced with local rock.
GM: But yeah, not impossible to climb over, dig through, or destroy magically.
Beltarne: Okay
Wolfgang: hmm, not that high
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb will not get anyone killed, well Thasos could be in trouble, but everyone else should be fine."
Wolfgang: tactics to realize they can help each other over the walls and swarm up?
Marik: "Until they swarm out of there looking for the rest of us, since they know who you are, and all."
** Minnizig sighs. "Oh woe, might Ghazeb leaves me behind with nobody but Thasos to protect me." **
GM: Uhm? No, Wolfgang, that's pretty straightforward.
Wolfgang: ok, good
** Thasos looks about to protest, then he gets it. **
GM: The tops of the walls are wide enough to move on, too.
Wolfgang: "Those walls won't stop the swarm of gobbo for more than a few seconds, lets be off to the lake"
Wolfgang: "Scouting will only provoke them
** Ghazeb fakes a loud sneese. **
Ghazeb: **sneeze**
** Minnizig facepalms. **
GM: So did any votes change?
Minnizig: Yep.
Beltarne: Not mine
Thasos: yes
Wolfgang: Ok, then the aways have it
Wolfgang: lets be off
Ghazeb: No I failed my rolls
Thasos: luckily, group vote trumps failed rolls
GM: Okay, so the new course of action is?
Marik: ...Now I really want to find those harpies.
Wolfgang: head toward the lake
Marik: Lake!
Beltarne: Lake!
Ghazeb: lake...
Minnizig: Lake. Drown harpies. THrow dead harpies at druid. Possibly tautn him a little.
GM: ... do you mean, head toward the closest shore of the lake, or circle back around on yesterday's path? I'm just a dumb GM, I don't know these things.
Minnizig: I"m not sure we do either :D
Marik: Straight course for the peninsula, using as much cover as we can.
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb likes the shortest path."
GM: The nearest part of the peninsula is 4 miles due east. It's also separated from you by 2 miles of water.
Minnizig: ANy straight course that doesn't involve going through goblin camps.
Minnizig: I might add.
Ghazeb: or water
Marik: Nearest USABLE course to the peninsula.
Marik: Which is to say, I suspect we lost some time on our last hike by sticking to the trees and going around the lake by a fairly circuitous route.
Marik: I'd like to avoid that this time, by taking the straightest route instead of the safest, assuming there's a difference.
GM: In that case... you can either circle clockwise, like you did yesterday, or counterclockwise. Counterclockwise is probably shorter and looks to invovle less forest, but involves crossing the lake at some point or taking a WIDE detour.
Marik: Clockwise it is!
Ghazeb: "Wait will we need to cross the water this way?"
Marik: "No."
Minnizig: Clockwise is better it seems.
Ghazeb: "ok"
Marik: "Just that small ford we crossed yesterday."
Marik: "A whole six inches of water."
Ghazeb: "Ok, That does not sound too bad."
** Thasos flexes, indicating he will carry Ghazeb if necessary. **
Ghazeb: "Ghazeb would rather get wet. But ubderstands that Thasos would want to serve him by carrying him around."
** Thasos opens his mouth to talk, and promptly shuts it. **
Narrator: After a brief discussion and evalutation, the delvers turn east, circling the edge of the mountains and working their way back toward the lake.
GM: A little after 10 am, Marik notices goblin tracks - looks like a small party, half dozen or so, with a few shocker lizards. They were heading northeast and came through this way a few days ago.
GM: They probably started our passed through the druid's circle.
GM: Around 11, Marik's scouting gets less anxious and more regular. He stops consulting the map and the sky and leads the way confidently, pointing out your footprints from yesterday as you travel.
GM: (hang on, gots to do some math and stuff)
Ghazeb: ((K afk a min then))
Minnizig: (( also gonna quickly afk grab some food ))
Ghazeb: back
Narrator: The delvers easily retrace their steps, descending out of the hills and crossing the low ground on the edge of the lake. Around 1 pm, they are skirting a marshy extension of the lake when they spot something strange in the distance: 4 brightly colors snakes are floating above the marsh, a few hundred yards away!
Ghazeb: ((How far above?))
Narrator: Maybe a yard or two?
GM: Maybe a yard or two?
** Thasos doesn't notice anything amiss, at first. **
Ghazeb: "Well there is something you do not see every day."
Beltarne: "Faerie?"
Wolfgang: "What the..."
** Thasos looks at Ghazeb curiously. **
** Ghazeb sniffs at Thasos and moves down wind of him. **
Wolfgang: how big are the snakes?
** Marik tries his best to avoid them. **
GM: Hard to tell at this distance. More than 3', less than 20'
** Ghazeb follows Marik. **
** Thasos now notices what's unusual about the snakes. **
Minnizig: bek
** Wolfgang follows Marik as usual **
** Beltarne joins Marik in attempting to skirt them **
Minnizig: "Well, that's odd. Hey, Marik, what's the deal with the snakes?"
Marik: "If I knew, I wouldn't be avoiding them."
Minnizig: "Anyone wanna bet the snakes are with Mr. Big?"
** Thasos looks doubtful. **
Minnizig: "Secret flying snaky agents."
Wolfgang: "Eh, could just be more weird magic crap"
** Minnizig follows Marik, making very sure not to end up in the muck. **
Beltarne: "So far all we've seen from his is the lizards, gobbos, and eagles. And that elemental."
** Minnizig keeps watching the snakes. **
Ghazeb: "Yeah, snakes sound way out of his league
Minnizig: "Snakes are... like lizards with bits cut off. Hey, I wonder if they're lizards with invisible legs?"
Wolfgang: "They'd need invisible wings for what they were doing"
** Thasos holds his hand 3 feet off the ground and looks at Minnizig as if to say those would be really long legs. **
Minnizig: "... could be spider legs."
GM: You avoid the snakes and continue along your way, crossing the ford and working your way through the brief woods northwest of the ruined town, then circling the town and heading into the thick, grayish forest.
Wolfgang: We taking the road this time?
GM: As the sun begins to set, you're in that forest, still on the taller, hillier part, but downsloping.
GM: Are you?
GM: That would be good to know.
Minnizig: "I bet the spiders are too smart to come back."
GM: That would be good to know RIGHT NOW.
Beltarne: "I bet they're too hacked to bits to come back"
Beltarne: ((Marik?))
Wolfgang: up to Marik
Ghazeb: Thats who I am following.
Marik: ((No road))
Marik: ((Roads are bad))
Minnizig: We fear no spiders!
GM: Okay.
GM: ANyway, uneventful travel, boring scenery, you make camp.
Marik: ...This will be my third foraging roll in this area in the last 24 hours.
** Ghazeb checks his food. **
Marik: Survival (Woodland): [3d6.skill(19,-4)] => [1,1,1] = 3 vs (15) or less Critical Success! [B556]
Marik: Or. Y'know.
Marik: Maybe I missed something on the first two passes.
Minnizig: Deer with a broken leg?
GM: You're actually several miles away from where you camped yesterday.
Minnizig: Nice, fat deer with a broken leg?
Minnizig: Swamp hog?
Marik: Something impressive.
Minnizig: Mammoth caught in tar? >.>
GM: Nah, he only finds ~30 lbs of food.
Beltarne: ((Nah, it just wandered up to him, nodded nobly, then had an anuerism))
Marik: Small crocodile?
GM: Whatever, you find 25 forage meals. I guess that's 50 lbs, that could be a small deer.
Minnizig: Turtles!
Marik: I think I spend a couple of hours turning them into normal meals.
GM: Alright, you start a fire and start smoking them.
Minnizig: I think so!
Marik: ...We're near a ruined village. I just found a vegetable garden gone to seed.
Thasos: so we're ending here for the night?
Marik: Carrots and potatoes and stuff.
Minnizig: Stew.
** Ghazeb will eat that. **
GM: You think you hear some buzzing or droning in the distance, but nothing immediately approaches camp.
GM: Rituals: Beltarne [1d6] => [3] = (3), Thasos [1d6] => [6] = (6)
Minnizig: Minnizig will totally eat that. She will NOT eat the giant bugs that are coming to eat us though.
Thasos: ouch
Thasos: someone will be tired and cranky in the morning
** Ghazeb ritual take a leak on Thasos tent when noone is watching. **
Thasos: once is funny, bub
Minnizig: Twice is a tradition :D
Beltarne: Radius 10 watchdog, -5 for opposed holy day, +3 for extravigant gestures and loud words
Minnizig: I thought it wasn't opposed?
Ghazeb: Looks like something this "cat" would do.
Beltarne: Watchdog (Holy) (16) [3d6.skill(16,-5+3)] => [3,5,3] = 11 vs (14) or less Success! by 3 Includes: +4 from 'Power Investiture (Holy)'
Beltarne: still a high holy day of cunning or whatever
GM: Here you are, in the forest, at camp, right before 7 pm. Tents are set up, peoplare are praying, Beltarne just cast a Watchdog ritual about 2 minutes ago.
Minnizig: Oh, thought we were on nature.
Marik: ((I need to be kicked out of Maptools.))
GM: Arrange yourself as you please.
Beltarne: ((Cunning and nature. Usually 2 per day))
whispering to Beltarne, Your Watchdog spell just went off 
Wolfgang: hmm, I see the druid thing still
Beltarne: "INTRUDERS!!!"
Thasos: same
** Beltarne readies axe **
Marik: ((Still can't get back into maptools.))
GM: It says you've been disconnected.
** Thasos readies his kusari. **
GM: Though I can still boot you... hmm.
Beltarne: ((Do we have a campfire map to arrange ourselves on?))
Minnizig: Anyone see my test in Maptools
Minnizig: ?
Wolfgang: kick me pls
Marik: ((Yeah, name in use.))
GM: No, okay.
Minnizig: Try restarting the server.
Beltarne: I see nothing, Emily
GM: Apparently MapTools problems was with me. Wait 1 minute, restarting server.
Thasos: yeah, kick me
GM: Well, saving campaign then server.
Minnizig: eheh
GM: Okay, forcing Windows to kill MapTools, then restarting server.
GM: kill -9 fixes everything.
Minnizig: Snrk.
GM: Server claims to be back up. You guys should be on "Forest Camp" map.
Minnizig: "Loading Campaign"
Minnizig: Swapping to map.
Minnizig: Looks good.
GM: Everyone back? Put your tokens where you want them, Beltarne just shouted a warning.
GM: Everyone satisfied? Great.
Beltarne: ((Ready!))
Minnizig: Do I get to come out of the tent?
Minnizig: Or put us wherever we were sleeping?
** Wolfgang grabshis shield **
** Minnizig will also make with the shield snatching, if given a chance. **
GM: It's not even 7 - you guys are finishing dinner, really, and have time enough to grab weapons.
GM: And shields. And to knock arrows.
Minnizig: (( looks like James needs ownership of the GHazeb token ))
Minnizig: Sweet.
** Marik nocks an arrow. **
GM: Thanks!
 1) YOUR TURN NOW:: [29] Ghazeb 
(on deck: [28] Thasos) 
GM: Apparently, still eating!
 2) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Thasos 
(on deck: [28] Marik) 
** Ghazeb stand up and draw sword. **
Ghazeb: ##
** Thasos stands ready with his weapon, looking around. (all out defense) **
 3) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Marik 
(on deck: [25] Beltarne) 
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Marik: Scans the woods.
 4) YOUR TURN NOW:: [25] Beltarne 
(on deck: [24] Wolfgang) 
Beltarne: AoD(Double)
 5) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Wolfgang 
(on deck: [24] Minnizig) 
Beltarne: ##
Wolfgang: fast draw a hatchet and wait for a target to throw it at
 6) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Minnizig 
(on deck: [29] Ghazeb) 
Wolfgang: Fast-Draw (Axe/Mace) (15) [3d6.skill(15,0)] => [6,3,6] = 15 vs (15) or less Success! by 0 Includes: +1 from 'Combat Reflexes'
Minnizig: Um. Stand ready with her sword sheathed, waiting to figure out what's up? All Out Defense (Dodge) on deck!
Minnizig: ***
 7) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Floating Snakes 
(on deck: [29] Ghazeb) 
Minnizig: (( AHA! Now I get to find out if they have invizible spider legs and work for the druid or not! ))
Floating Snakes: Floating Snake 1 slides out of the woods, concentrates, and casts Levitate (Ranged Malediction) on Marik! [3d6.skill(18,-2)] => [5,5,3] = 13 vs (16) or less Success! by 3 
GM: Resist with Will.
Marik: Will: [3d6.skill(11,-3)] => [3,2,6] = 11 vs (8) or less Failure! by 3 
Minnizig: ... Apportation snakes? That's awesome.
Narrator: Beams of green and gold sparkles spray out from the floating snake as it comes around a tree, enveloping Marik. He begins to lift into the sky, his feet losing contact with the ground
GM: You're at -3 to DX skills, Marik.
Floating Snakes: The other snakes slither out of the woods, jerking and dodging as they do.
 1) YOUR TURN NOW:: [29] Ghazeb 
(on deck: [28] Thasos) 
Ghazeb: Move.
GM: Changing your facing?
GM: Ah, okay...
Ghazeb: Trying too. having trouble
GM: That the way you wanted?
Ghazeb: ##
 2) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Thasos 
(on deck: [28] Marik) 
Thasos: moving
** Thasos sees the threat and confidently heads towards the action. **
GM: Alright.
Marik: "Thasos, get that chain wrapped around my leg!"
GM: For what its worth, there's no vision penalty inside the circle of light and only a -3 outside of it, as the sun just set.
Thasos: er, can i do what marik asked instead?
GM: Uhm... you can try and move and attack to entangle his leg, sure!
GM: You need to end up within 4 yards of him.
Thasos: i believe this puts me in range, and is only half my move, yes?
GM: Nope, 4 yards, not 5.
Thasos: ah, found the spot - that works
GM: That's good. Going for the all-out attack?
Thasos: what options do i have?
Marik: Move and attack at 9 skill.
Marik: AoA is not an option. :D
GM: Or all-out attack, no defenses in case they have something weird(er), +4 to hit or 2 tries.
Thasos: well then that's my option :D
GM: Alright, go for it.
Thasos: Meteor Hammer [3d6.skill(18,-9)] => [6,4,3] = 13 vs (9) or less Failure! by 4 
GM: [3d6.skill(6)] => [1,5,4] = 10 vs (6) or less Failure! by 4 accidently hits Marik somewhere sensitive?
GM: [3d6.skill(6)] => [2,5,1] = 8 vs (6) or less Failure! by 2 accidently hits Ghazeb?
GM: Nope, just plows the ground.
 3) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Marik 
(on deck: [25] Beltarne) 
GM: (skipping, he'll act later)
 4) YOUR TURN NOW:: [25] Beltarne 
(on deck: [24] Wolfgang) 
Beltarne: Move, turning around
GM: That's 2-3 MP of your 4.
Beltarne: Figured.
Beltarne: Think I'm good there.
Beltarne: ###
 5) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Wolfgang 
(on deck: [24] Minnizig) 
Wolfgang: move and throw at snake 4
GM: Make a DX roll at -4 to fly through Marik without fouling your wings.
Wolfgang: can I go over him?
GM: Uhm... sure, why not!
Wolfgang: ok, sny SM on the snakes?
Wolfgang: any*
Wolfgang: Thrown Weapon (Axe/Mace) (16) [3d6.skill(16,-2)] => [5,2,4] = 11 vs (14) or less Success! by 3 Includes: +1 from 'Master of Arms'
GM: Nope, they're SM0.
Floating Snakes: Dodge! [3d6.skill(10,2)] => [2,1,3] = 6 vs (12) or less Success! by 6 
Marik: ((Back, jesus. That guy is REALLY drunk.))
Wolfgang: fast draw axe, done
GM: Fast-Draw is at -2, roll it.
Wolfgang: Fast-Draw (Axe/Mace) (15) [3d6.skill(15,+1)] => [4,4,5] = 13 vs (16) or less Success! by 3 Includes: +1 from 'Combat Reflexes'
GM: Good enough.
 6) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Minnizig 
(on deck: [24] Floating Snakes) 
GM: Marik can cut in at any time.
** Minnizig runs over to Marik, next turn intending to grab his leg and drag him back to earth. **
Marik: I'll jump in at the end of Minn's turn.
Minnizig: Done.
GM: Now is good.
** Marik releases the arrow, letting it fire wildly into the bushes, and readies his cloak. (Extra effort: Ready and attack) **
GM: Uhm, okay.
Marik: DX: [3d6.skill(14,-3)] => [4,3,5] = 12 vs (11) or less Failure! by 1 
Marik: Nope.
Marik: I ready the cloak.
Marik: ###
GM: Alright.
 7) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Floating Snakes 
(on deck: [29] Ghazeb) 
Floating Snakes: Snake 1 slithers and concentrates, lifting Marik 3 yrds into the air.
Marik: Well, there goes that idea.
Narrator: Marik lifts into the sky, immediately being buffeted by Wolfgang's wings.
GM: Wolfgang, DX-4 or drop, as you don't have 12' of wingspace behind you anymore.
Wolfgang: I'll drop down
Wolfgang: if it's controlled
GM: Well, you can try at DX-2.
Wolfgang: DX (14) [3d6.skill(14,-2)] => [1,2,3] = 6 vs (12) or less Success! by 6 
Floating Snakes: Snake 4 slithers forward and tries to levitate Ghazeb [3d6.skill(18,-3)] => [5,3,3] = 11 vs (15) or less Success! by 4 
Ghazeb: Will (10) [3d6.skill(10,-4)] => [3,3,5] = 11 vs (6) or less Failure! by 5 
Floating Snakes: Snake 3 slithers forward and tries to levitate Beltarne [3d6.skill(18,-3-1)] => [5,1,3] = 9 vs (14) or less Success! by 5 
Floating Snakes: Snake 2 slithers forward and tries to levitate Wolfgang [3d6.skill(18,-3-1)] => [3,3,5] = 11 vs (14) or less Success! by 3 
GM: Beltarne and Wolfgang need to make Will rolls, at -5 and -3 respectively.
Wolfgang: Will (10) [3d6.skill(10,-3)] => [2,5,3] = 10 vs (7) or less Failure! by 3 
Beltarne: Will (14) [3d6.skill(14,0)] => [5,4,3] = 12 vs (14) or less Success! by 2 
Beltarne: Er, you get the picture, failed by 3
Narrator: More gold and green sparkles envelope Wolfgang, Beltarne, and Ghazeb.
Wolfgang: hmm, can't I use ST?
GM: All of you are at -3 on DX.
Minnizig: Very little magic spells resisted by ST
GM: It's a Malediction.
Wolfgang: if it's levitate it is
GM: It's like Levitate.
Wolfgang: ah, power then
GM: But resisted by Will.
 1) YOUR TURN NOW:: [29] Ghazeb 
(on deck: [28] Thasos) 
** Ghazeb trys to drive his sword into the ground so he can pull himself down. **
Ghazeb: Broadsword (21) [3d6.skill(21,0)] => [2,5,5] = 12 vs (21) or less Success! by 9 Includes: Enhanced Parry (Broadsword); Conditional: +1 from 'Weapon Bond (Broadsword)'
GM: Uhm, sure.
Ghazeb: ((hope that was not a fancy sword.))
 2) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Thasos 
(on deck: [28] Marik) 
** Thasos decides to save Beltarne instead. **
Thasos: Meteor Hammer [3d6.skill(18,0)] => [3,1,6] = 10 vs (18) or less Success! by 8 
Thasos: i've got beltarne by the ankle with my chain now, yes?
GM: Checking... p411, sure looks like it.
GM: Dunno how helpful that's going to be, but hey.
 3) YOUR TURN NOW:: [28] Marik 
(on deck: [25] Beltarne) 
Ghazeb: (either that or you crushed his leg.))
Marik: Fast-Draw (arrow): [3d6.skill(18,-3)] => [2,2,6] = 10 vs (15) or less Success! by 5 Fast-Ready: [3d6.skill(20,-3-3)] => [2,3,2] = 7 vs (14) or less Success! by 7 and fire on snake 1. I have 4 yards up +3 yards high = -3 for range, -3 for floating, -3 for fast-load, +3 for Acc?
Thasos: great... does that end my turn or can i pull him towards me?
GM: That ends your turn.
GM: Marik: sounds right.
Marik: Bow: [3d6.skill(20,-3-3-3+3)] => [4,6,4] = 14 vs (14) or less Success! by 0 
Floating Snakes: Dodge [3d6.skill(10)] => [5,1,3] = 9 vs (10) or less Success! by 1 
GM: Nimble little monster.
 4) YOUR TURN NOW:: [25] Beltarne 
(on deck: [24] Wolfgang) 
Beltarne: My axe is on a 1 yard lanyard, that mean I can hit snake 4 from where I am by throwing?
GM: Yeah, I suppose so.
GM: ... at -1 for the lanyard pulling at the end of the arc.
Beltarne: Okay, no range, so -2 for lanyard, -3 for DX
Beltarne: ?
GM: That's it. -1 for the lanyard.
Beltarne: -1 for lanyard, my bad
Thasos: message for you, mark
Beltarne: Thrown Weapon (Axe/Mace) (18) [3d6.skill(18,-3-1)] => [2,1,3] = 6 vs (14) or less Success! by 8 Includes: +1 from 'Pickaxe Penchant', +3 from 'Extra Pickaxe Penchant'
Floating Snakes: Snake 4 dodges! [3d6.skill(10)] => [5,5,5] = 15 vs (10) or less Failure! by 5 
GM: Damage?
Beltarne: Is that just normal swing, I didn't write down a dif one for thrown
GM: Same damage as normal.
Wolfgang: same
Beltarne: Axe * Primary [1d6+4] => [4,4] = (8) cut
Floating Snakes: Resist stun! [3d6.skill(12,3)] => [5,3,1] = 9 vs (15) or less Success! by 6 
 5) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Wolfgang 
(on deck: [24] Minnizig) 
Wolfgang: ok, how does moving against the levitate work since I'm a flyer?
GM: I think it just slows you down and provides a -2 on DX rolls as you struggle against it.
Wolfgang: so my move is 10-3=7 now?
GM: Right.
Wolfgang: ok, step and SA snake 2
Wolfgang: -2 for levitate thing?
GM: Right. I'm not sure you can fly with everyone behind you blocking your wings.
GM: DX roll at -4 to get some movement.
Wolfgang: well, I can't see where they are, I though Marik was above me now
Wolfgang: DX (14) [3d6.skill(14,-4)] => [1,2,4] = 7 vs (10) or less Success! by 3 
GM: Marik is, but Ghazeb and Minnizig are immediately SE of you.
GM: 'kay.
Minnizig: I'm short?
Wolfgang: at most I need 2 hex on a side, really more like 1.5
Wolfgang: anyhow, SA at -2
Narrator: The delvers here a loud, bellowing voice from behind them that they do not recognize.
Floating Snakes: Resist Feint! [3d6.skill(14)] => [2,1,3] = 6 vs (14) or less Success! by 8 
Thasos: "Everyone grab hands! It's our only chance!"
Wolfgang: Signature Attack feint [3d6.skill(20,-2-2)] => [1,6,5] = 12 vs (16) or less Success! by 4 attack [3d6.skill(20,-2-2)] => [2,6,3] = 11 vs (16) or less Success! by 5 
Floating Snakes: Dodge! [3d6.skill(10)] => [4,3,3] = 10 vs (10) or less Success! by 0 
 6) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Minnizig 
(on deck: [24] Floating Snakes) 
** Minnizig boggles at Thasos for a fraction of a second. **
Minnizig: How high up is Marik's foot?
GM: Just under 3 yards.
Minnizig: Gah.
Minnizig: Not happening.
Minnizig: Anyone else danging within reach?
GM: All of Ghazeb.
Ghazeb: ((1 yard))
GM: Actually, Ghazeb is only 1 ft up.
** Minnizig tackles ghazeb's ankle, adding 90 lbs of gnome and 35ish pounds of gear to gravities side in this battle? **
Minnizig: I hope.
GM: Sure, no problem.
Minnizig: Knee. whatever.
 7) YOUR TURN NOW:: [24] Floating Snakes 
(on deck: [29] Ghazeb) 
Floating Snakes: All the snakes Concentrate. The delvers currently being levitate all raise 3 yards up.
GM: Except Ghazeb, he only goes up 2.
** Minnizig points at the clock **
GM: And Wolfgang can make a Contest of ST at +2 against the Snake to stay where he likes.
GM: Yeah, then we're ending.
Thasos: "Grab Beltarne, you silly feline, or you're lost!"
Ghazeb: ((even the ones holding their swords plunged into the ground?))
Wolfgang: ST (16) [3d6.skill(16,+2)] => [2,3,3] = 8 vs (18) or less Success! by 10 
Floating Snakes: Move Wolfgang! [3d6.skill(18,-5)] => [1,4,1] = 6 vs (13) or less Success! by 7 
GM: Not Wolfgang.
GM: Ghazeb can roll ST to resist!
Ghazeb: ST (13) [3d6.skill(13,0)] => [2,3,2] = 7 vs (13) or less Success! by 6 
GM: Move Ghazeb! [3d6.skill(18,-5)] => [3,3,3] = 9 vs (13) or less Success! by 4 
GM: Not Ghazeb.
Beltarne: ((Swords are straight. Not so good for hooking things))
GM: Move Marik! [3d6.skill(18,-5)] => [2,1,3] = 6 vs (13) or less Success! by 7 
Ghazeb: "Of course not Ghazeb!!"
Ghazeb: (( I did not hook it I stabed it into the ground.))
GM: Wolfgang, roll ST at +2 to hold Marik in position.
Wolfgang: ST (16) [3d6.skill(16,-2)] => [5,5,2] = 12 vs (14) or less Success! by 2 
Beltarne: ((Which makes it real easy to pull it right back out))
Wolfgang: er, wrong mod
Wolfgang: so by 6
Ghazeb: ((Or end up with my feet over my head.))
GM: Right... do you hang on or let go as Marik lifts out of your reach?
Wolfgang: how do I have him again?
GM: SHoot, got Thasos and Wolfgang confused again. my bad!
Wolfgang: doh!
GM: Thasos,roll ST+2 to keep hold of Marik.
Thasos: eh?
Thasos: i've got beltarne, not marik
GM: You're playing tug of war... fine, Beltarne!
Thasos: and can i throw extra effort on?
GM: actually, never mind, he's not out of your reach yet.
Narrator: Some of the delvers rise into the air.