Email2020-08-06 16:06

(First apologies for the icon used for a mutant lizard horde!!!)

The horde is heading ESE (effectively just slightly south of the diagonal hex line), pretty much bimbling, hence taking 3 days to cover 3 hexes. They only move at night, and seem to be doing the standard roving horde approach of stripping the land as they move. The splinter groups do not appear to be strategy as much as small groups disaffected with the amount of food they are getting - Gilfrie suspects that given time the horde would simply disintegrate. If the horde shift direction..... well plans will have to be fluid.

Gohdes suggestion is that Cagrun should hole up in Braerk until the horde is dispersed, but has a suspicion that Cagrun will want to move quickly. There is no easy way of moving the civilians cross country and keeping them organised - so the "obvious" best way is down the track.

The overuse of "weird" (apart from my lack of a Thesaurus)...... well nobody has seen the like of these critters before, although a couple of people might remember their Granny telling them fairy tales about beasties that bear a resemblance. These are recent appearances, the Elves have been around a few years - nobody at the level you are talking to is making the connection (or is just too busy doing their job to consider the potential implications) - or if they are, they are not talking to you about it - remember you are still low on the pecking order.

Cheers

Darrell

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 15:29, <mreed@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

Can one of the pathfinders indicate on a map where the mutant lizard hoard is currently thought to be and their most recent direction and speed of travel. Also whether they move at  particular times (day and/or night) and seem to be moving with intent to get somewhere or are just bimbling around looking for stuff to do, people to mug, damp holes to crawl into etc. Is there any sense of strategy – ie are they sending out smaller groups ahead of where the hoard is moving to? If I were Cagrun that would be the sort of information I would want before making decisions about when and in which direction to bug out of Braerk with a bunch of villagers in tow.  Would Gohde suggest he makes for the bridge by road, which given the timing suggests he might run into the hoard or at least the remains of it, try to get to the bridge along the river, move back to Roseix or head east along the river? If the hoard are bimbling isn’t there a risk they may end up at Braerk in a few days?

Is it me or is it weird how everyone keeps saying its “weird” there are more random monsters they don’t recognise wandering around after the elves invaded? – like they don’t even want to discuss why the elves may have imported this lot and have all been instructed to just say its “weird”.

Kirsten might want to get a good sniff of this strange creature given there seem to be several hundred more of the little buggers out there in the undergrowth somewhere.

Best defence against being tracked by a group of mutant lizards may be moving as fast as possible along the road during daylight – their little legs mean they should struggle to keep up.  Doesn’t mean they can’t catch up at night if we travel in straight lines but its got to be tiring.