Completed [Play-by-Post] Magic World/BRP: "In Search of the Sorcerer"

[Wayward Son]

"If need be, I am willing to go."

 

[nikolokolus]

So I gather Mab and Borric are going to investigate the hut in the marsh?

 

[Wayward Son]

Spoiler

So I gather Mab and Borric are going to investigate the hut in the marsh?

I am. Should I make a Hide roll?

 

[nikolokolus]

Answer

You estimate that the hut is about 1/2 miles to a mile away across the featureless bog. There is a ridge of semi-interconnected hummocks that meander in the direction of the hut, but there are no trees or scrub to take cover, only the occasional tuft of sedge or rush. "Hide" attempts will be difficult (half skill), but you are certainly able to try.

Just to be clear on my end, you are going alone?

 

[Wayward Son]

Spoiler

Answer

You estimate that the hut is about 1/2 mile to a mile away across the featureless bog. There is a ridge of semi-interconnected hummocks that meander in the direction of the hut, but there are no trees or scrub to take cover, only the occasional tuft of sedge or rush. "Hide" attempts will be difficult (half skill), but you are certainly able to try.

Just to be clear on my end, you are going alone?

I didn't want to speak for ERYFKRAD but if he doesn't want to then yes I'll go alone.

 

[nikolokolus]

Wayward Son Make a hide and move quietly roll. If you wish to do anything else during your creeping, I leave it up to you to tell me the ways and means.

 

[Wayward Son]

[1d100] = 80 Hide vs Difficult Hide(38) [1d100] = 97 vs Move silently(28)
Man creeps along the ground and turns to his friends who are holding their ears at the noise levels and calls, "Oi! I'm being stealthy!"

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Borric avoids stealth and walks forward.

 

[L'ennui]

Urash observes as Mab tries to advance unseen, with mixed results.

He then watches Borric start after him.

Finally, he sighs and mutters: "Well, I suppose I can't be arguing for us to go there, and then not go the distance myself. Off we go again."

Urash follows some distance behind Borric.

 

[Grimgravy]

Rhenmyr will stay behind as Borric suggested and take stock of Ker's belongings.

 

[nikolokolus]

Rhenmyr goes over the deceased Druids belongings. in his possession are various bits and bobs. A pouch full of bronze and silver, a pinch of mistletoe, a well-made dagger and the resplendent bas relief bronze shield with the head of a roaring lion embossed on its surface; slightly pitted and greened with a patina of age. The shield is slightly mesmerizing in its own way -- its craftsmanship and artistry seems beyond anything you've ever seen. You wonder what its story and its latent powers might be?

Meanwhile, Borric strides purposefully across the stinking marsh with Mab carefully creeping from hummock to hummock behind him and Urash a hundred yards or so behind him. Borric finds that there are many sunken logs laying in the soggy ground bridging some of the more saturated areas. When he steps on them and they support his weight, but don't feel all that secure. Despite your misgivings and a rising sense of unease as the bog goes very quiet, nothing unusual or disastrous happens and you walk the last dozen or so yards and come up to the hut sitting about 10 feet off of the ground on two large knobby stilts rising out of a murky pool of black swamp water. Stragely there are no stairs leading to the hut. You walk a complete circuit around the pool and also discover that there is no door. However a plume of black and gray smoke continues to curl from the central a stone chimney set into the center of the conical, thatched roof. A few minutes later Urash and Mab join Borric and discover the puzzling sight.

 

[Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]

Cormac looks over Rhenmyr as he searches Ker's belongings. "So, are you going to use that shield? I'm sure Ker would want one of us to get some use out of it."

 

[L'ennui]

"No doors, yet a chimney... whoever is inside must have come in from the roof, unless there is another entrance hidden somewhere. Consider also that a strangely communicative crow led us here. One who could grow tiny and winged would indeed need no other entry than a chimney... I wager a shapeshifter awaits us. But for good or ill?"

 

[Wayward Son]

"If the crow be that who lives here, and enters through the chimney then perhaps we can sneak your crow in? Or, if it be a shapeshifter, then it would be a powerful magi, who may have no need for doors but a need for privacy from all those who are unworthy."

 

[L'ennui]

"If we have been invited, as would seem to be the case, certainly the privacy of this place has already been forfeit by its owner. Even then I should not like to send Maru-Enlil rudely unannounced, lest we offend our host or be taken for spies and brigands."

After a moment of consideration, Urash clears his throat and proclaims loudly:

"Here stand Borric, Mab and Urash, who answer your beckon! Show yourself if the ancient custom of hospitality has any worth to you, and if it does not, let us away without trouble, which we are sure to repay in kind!"

 

[Grimgravy]

"I can certainly make use of the shield. It looks like it would offer more protection than my targe, which you're welcome to, when I'm in the thick of battle. Someone will be able to use the dagger, I'm sure, and the coin will buy a round in his honor. Does anyone have use of mistletoe?"

 

[Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]

"My shield should be fine for the time being. Maybe one of the others can use your targe when they return? The mistletoe is of no use to me, but maybe of use to Urash?" Cormac pulls out his flask and takes a drink. "I thought the area around the village was an awful place, then we decided to come here."

 

[Wayward Son]

"I will take the mistletoe. It is a druid's holy symbol."

 

[Grimgravy]

"Just imagine how dismal the place we are going will be!"

 

[Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]

Cormac cringes after Rhenmyr's comment. "I do not look forward to that. I hope the group hurries up, the longer we remain here, the more likely we end up like our horses."

 

[Wayward Son]

"Nice job getting their attention.

 

[nikolokolus]

"If we have been invited, as would seem to be the case, certainly the privacy of this place has already been forfeit by its owner. Even then I should not like to send Maru-Enlil rudely unannounced, lest we offend our host or be taken for spies and brigands."

After a moment of consideration, Urash clears his throat and proclaims loudly:

"Here stand Borric, Mab and Urash, who answer your beckon! Show yourself if the ancient custom of hospitality has any worth to you, and if it does not, let us away without trouble, which we are sure to repay in kind!"

Spoiler

Just a reminder of what the crow said: "Away you fools. Tarry not in this curst place. Go back to your village across the river and let the dead lie."

 

[Siveon]

"My cousin is right, it wouldn't be inaccurate to say we're poking at the proverbial hornet's nest, and then waiting to see what happens next. "

Spoiler

Continuity check, isn't Mab with Borric and Urash at the moment?

 

[nikolokolus]

"My cousin is right, it wouldn't be inaccurate to say we're poking at the proverbial hornet's nest, and then waiting to see what happens next. "

Spoiler

Continuity check, isn't Mab with Borric and Urash at the moment?

Spoiler

Yes

 

[L'ennui]

"If we have been invited, as would seem to be the case, certainly the privacy of this place has already been forfeit by its owner. Even then I should not like to send Maru-Enlil rudely unannounced, lest we offend our host or be taken for spies and brigands."

After a moment of consideration, Urash clears his throat and proclaims loudly:

"Here stand Borric, Mab and Urash, who answer your beckon! Show yourself if the ancient custom of hospitality has any worth to you, and if it does not, let us away without trouble, which we are sure to repay in kind!"

Spoiler

Just a reminder of what the crow said: "Away you fools. Tarry not in this curst place. Go back to your village across the river and let the dead lie."

Spoiler

Oh.

Let's pretend Urash is too tired and not thinking straight. Like me!