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

nikolokolus

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one more thing, if you're successful, please note how many skill points you add to Borric's devise skill chance.
 

nikolokolus

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[1d100] = 34
Well then, manipulation roll. Did I clear it?
It depends on Borric's Repair/Devise skill? (which should be DEX x 4) so I think you passed your roll on your own without any assistance (so mark the check box on Borric's "Repair/Devise" skill to remind you that you get a chance to raise the skill when I tell everybody to make experience rolls). Manipulation isn't a "skill" it's just a heading for skills that use Dexterity as their primary characteristic and give a bonus equal to half the characteristic.
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Additionally, Physical skills are governed by Strength, Communication by Appearance, Knowledge, by Intelligence, Perception by Constitution.

Borric's nimble hands move swiftly and quickly lash together a makeshift travois that should hold both Rhenmyr and Cormac and make it possible to descend the hill.
 
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Not to take away any of the drama of a night-time descent, but unless somebody fumbles their climbing roll you will arrive back at your makeshift campsite on the other side of the river in a couple of hours. I presume you are all descending. Is there anything else you want to do up here by the ruined broch?
 

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Group climbing roll. Since the only outcome that spells doom is a fumble you just needed below 99.

Good news, nobody fell off the mountain and died.

Under the wan light of the quarter-full moon you carefully pick your way down the mountainside, moving cautiously over the worst of it near the summit. You reach the faint trail and after 3 or 4 hours you reach the heath covered valley floor. You back-track to your encampment and can hear the shaggy ponies nickering softly as you approach. It appears that all is as you left it.

After the long hard ride out of Crannógmere, to Balor's notch, the fight with the gryffons, cave lion and the strenuous climb and weird encounter with the fey "man" with the cloven hoof, you are all utterly spent. The moon has dropped low over the vast forest to the west of you and the eastern sky gradually lightens as dawn approaches. Where to go and what to do next seems a distant concern compared to the overwhelming need to sleep and recover your stamina. Luckily, Rhenmyr and Cormac caught a few winks while being carried down the mountain on their travois, and although four hours isn't much rest, it's enough that they can now function and provide a watch while one-by-one the rest of the troupe collapses on the mossy ground and quickly succumbs to exhaustion.

Several hours pass uneventfully; the horses crop succulent sprigs of new growth from the shrubs and tufts of spring grass, and eventually everyone wakes, sore and stiff, but restored somewhat. The sky is heavy with low scudding clouds that threaten to bring rain and a light mist has dropped on the valley that soaks through your woolen garments and mats your hair to your scalps.

What would you like to do?
 

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"Let us head off. In which direction should that place where we thought that Oona is be?" Mab says with a groan and a stretch that pops his shoulder and back.
 

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"We should search the area for tracks in the light of day. After breakfast."
 

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Dawn breaks; the sky turning from deep purple to steel gray. It is now raining softly, but steadily.
 

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On a hunch, Rhenmyr starts looking around the area where you camped, hoping that there might be some sign of passage from the spindly-armed, green-skinned men you saw in Ymae's scrying pool. Although, the image of Una, was most definitely in and around the summit of the mountain which is now obscured by the low-hanging clouds filling the valley and blattering you with rain.
 
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Cormac wakes a bit, and peeks out from his bedroll. "This rain is terrible. I wish I were back at the town, dry." Cormac rolls back over and begins to drift back off to sleep.
 

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"Summit sounds fine. As long as we find something." Marcan says, packing the last of his gear. "We should all be heading out soon then, Cormac." He lightly kicks his cousin's bedroll to wake him.
 

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"Uhh... blast these lands of hills and mountains! Almost makes you long for the desert again..."

Urash packs up his stuff.
 

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