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'''The DM:''' As the party is concerned with Vafrandir's health, which is winnowing away a bit at a time, they hear a tremendous bang and a scream.  It comes from west of the crashed ship, upwind, about a two hundred yards away, where there is a cluster of rocks.
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'''The DM:''' In.
  
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'''[[Pandred]]''': "What NOW?" I will kick the spider's hairy body and set off towards the sound. "Odds! Hold him, will you!"
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' In.
  
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'''The DM:''' How fast?  I presume as fast as you can go.  As you rush, you see Willa stagger into sight atop a large rock, holding an unfamiliar backpack, before collapsing forward and rolling down to the ground.
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<div style="text-decoration: underline; color: green; text-align: center">'''Present:''' DM, Vafrandir</div>
  
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' I hurry out and run to Willa as fast as I can.
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'''The DM:''' Pandred's blow twists the wolf around and it turns over on the ground, landing unconscious among the ground nettles.  There are two gashes in its body, from each of the two hits Pandred has given it.  The wolf brown-grey body is breathing rapidly, as it is near death; but the fur is also possessed of a greyish radiance, indicating the creature is somehow magical.
  
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'''[[Pandred]]''': Ditto.
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Embla feels a disturbance in the air around you, suggesting from her heightened awareness that the party and the wolf are not alone.
  
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'''The DM:''' Pandred reaches her first.  She's hurt, having taken some burns on her face.  The pack next to her is definitely unfamiliar; valuable, dark grey in colour and bearing the emblem of the King of Denmark & Norway, Christian the 5th.  Your king.  Willa is muttering, half-heartedly trying to reach under her doublet.
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'''The DM:''' What do you want to do, Vafrandir?
  
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' "Willa, what's the matter?"
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' [OOC: Let me know if the Present label above is distracting or unnecessary.]
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: '''The DM:''' [OOC: I kind of like it]
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' To answer the earlier question, no I don't have any additional salves.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I will press the advantage and hope to finish the wolf with my shortsword: '''14 raw, 16 to hit; 4 raw, 5 dmg.'''
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: '''The DM:''' That's a pity.
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: '''The DM:''' You can't miss, so it is automatic damage (see [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Helpless_Defenders Helpless Defenders]).  The wolf is dead.
  
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'''Willa''': [dazed] Fjall is dead.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Is Embla able to alert me that we are not alone? Otherwise, I have no reason to delay and will continue towards the airship, hopefully encouraging my companions to follow.
  
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'''The DM:''' She struggles to reach under her doublet and gives up.
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'''The DM:''' Yes, I'll grant that some benefits from their character's knowledge ought to be available.
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: '''The DM:''' I failed to say earlier how far away your camp was; let's say it took an hour to climb up here.  After ten minutes of working your way down again, you can see about 75 yards away, another wolf.  It is just staring at you.
  
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'''Willa''': ... ''healing salve'' ...
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I point my sword at the wolf. "What do you want? Who is your master?"
  
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' Do we have any more? Is Willa in danger of dying as well?
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'''The DM:''' No answer.
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: '''The DM:''' It occurs to Embla that this is what Willa may have been reaching for.  It should be obvious, however, that Willa can't have known anything about the spider or Vafrandir.
 
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:: '''The DM:''' Willa doesn't seem to be near death, however ~ though she is badly hurt and perhaps below zero hit points, but not wounded or bleeding that you can see.
 
  
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' Thanks. With Vaf needing 5hp to live, I'd rather use this salve on Willa unless we have another salve.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Worth a shot, no indication they can understand or desire to communicate anyway. We push forward: my personal combat options are limited but if the wolf really intends to stop us it'll have to get closer than that.
  
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'''The DM:''' Vafrandir actually only needs 2 to live.  The poison will drop him to -25; he has gained 14 hp back; so he is approaching -11 right now.  2 more will get him to -9 and he'll live.  Better hurry.
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'''The DM:''' The wolf follows.  Soon after, five or ten minutes later, there are three of them.  You find yourself at the top of a defile between two large outcroppings, where the passage between is about ten feet deep, five feet wide and thirty feet long.  This is how you came up through the country, climbing upwards; you know from here it is just a mile to reach your camp.
  
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' "Willa, this will save Vafrandir's life. Pandred, stay with her!" I take the healing salve from her and make haste back to Vafrandir.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Does there appear any other way around the defile? I'm wary of entering a chokepoint like that.
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: '''The DM:''' Vafrandir is unconscious.  Roll a d4 to save Vafrandir's life, Embla.
 
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:: '''[[Embla Strand]]''' 3!
 
  
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'''The DM:''' Congratulations, you're allowed to live another day, Vafrandir.  You're at -8 hit points.  Please roll a d20 to see if you wake up.
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'''The DM:''' All around it looks as though you'd have to climb down the outer edges of the rocks; the defile is a passage way through exposed rock ledges and falls.
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: Incidentally, Willa is up 140 experience from the damage she takes.  I'm working on the spider experience now.
 
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I roll a 14.
 
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: '''The DM:''' Vafrandir's wisdom is effectively 2.2 right now; so your roll doesn't make the wisdom check.  You'll have to suspend adding this experience until you wake up.
 
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'''[[Pandred]]''': I love XP the way one loves a child, but first things first. "Willa, what happened?"
 
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: '''The DM:''' She's unconscious also.  She'll need a day to heal before she can speak.  You look around, however, and unexpectedly you see something that looks like a flag sticking up among the rocks.
 
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'''[[Pandred]]''': Like a flag? Do I recognize it? I'll approach if I need to get a better look. I seem to recall there was a helluva banner in our possession, or at least in Lothar's.
 
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'''The DM:''' This doesn't seem to be that.  It is a tent flag; you see two different scenes; one is Fjall's dead body laying amidst what appears to have been an exploded fire trap spell.  This is overtop a scene that is much older - a tent, a skeleton lying in it with a broken femur, signs that the camp was lived in perhaps 3 years ago.
 
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'''[[Pandred]]''': Let's see to Fjall first. I'll be careful not to disturb anything.
 
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'''The DM:''' Longer than expected.  I'm here now.  Pandred, it does appear that Fjall was killed by the [https://tao-dndwiki.blogspot.com/2018/02/fire-trap-spell.html fire trap].
 
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' I haul Vafrandir outside.
 
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: '''The DM:''' The battle took place outside the ship.
 
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== Setting Camp ==
 
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'''[[Embla Strand]]''' Right! I look for a place to set up camp so Willa and Vaf can recover.
 
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: '''The DM:''' The best place seems to be the protection of shelter where the tent was placed, as described above.  The tundra being all the same here, the wind gets nippy at night.  This being summer, it isn't so bad; but apart from the rocks, the terrain goes outwards for half a mile before it rises up the slope across the valley.  How far from the ship do you prefer to be?
 
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::'''[[Embla Strand]]''' That'll do, I suppose, if there are no more tricks or traps at this campsite. I move both Willa and Vaf about 20' from the campsite and then go investigate the campsite with Pandred.
 
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[OOC '''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Just letting you know I'm paying attention to the feed here even though I'm unconscious]
 
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'''The DM:''' The campsite itself seems to be the only flat area amid the rocks that you can use.  The tent, skeleton and area looks as if it has been undisturbed for a very long time.
 

Revision as of 11:38, 5 January 2021

The DM: In.

Vafrandir: In.

Present: DM, Vafrandir

The DM: Pandred's blow twists the wolf around and it turns over on the ground, landing unconscious among the ground nettles. There are two gashes in its body, from each of the two hits Pandred has given it. The wolf brown-grey body is breathing rapidly, as it is near death; but the fur is also possessed of a greyish radiance, indicating the creature is somehow magical.

Embla feels a disturbance in the air around you, suggesting from her heightened awareness that the party and the wolf are not alone.

The DM: What do you want to do, Vafrandir?

Vafrandir: [OOC: Let me know if the Present label above is distracting or unnecessary.]

The DM: [OOC: I kind of like it]

Vafrandir: I will press the advantage and hope to finish the wolf with my shortsword: 14 raw, 16 to hit; 4 raw, 5 dmg.

The DM: You can't miss, so it is automatic damage (see Helpless Defenders). The wolf is dead.

Vafrandir: Is Embla able to alert me that we are not alone? Otherwise, I have no reason to delay and will continue towards the airship, hopefully encouraging my companions to follow.

The DM: Yes, I'll grant that some benefits from their character's knowledge ought to be available.

The DM: I failed to say earlier how far away your camp was; let's say it took an hour to climb up here. After ten minutes of working your way down again, you can see about 75 yards away, another wolf. It is just staring at you.

Vafrandir: I point my sword at the wolf. "What do you want? Who is your master?"

The DM: No answer.

Vafrandir: Worth a shot, no indication they can understand or desire to communicate anyway. We push forward: my personal combat options are limited but if the wolf really intends to stop us it'll have to get closer than that.

The DM: The wolf follows. Soon after, five or ten minutes later, there are three of them. You find yourself at the top of a defile between two large outcroppings, where the passage between is about ten feet deep, five feet wide and thirty feet long. This is how you came up through the country, climbing upwards; you know from here it is just a mile to reach your camp.

Vafrandir: Does there appear any other way around the defile? I'm wary of entering a chokepoint like that.

The DM: All around it looks as though you'd have to climb down the outer edges of the rocks; the defile is a passage way through exposed rock ledges and falls.

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