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2/17/2023 7:48 pm  #5541


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Iron Ranger wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

"I share a similar quest, my [insert forgotten relative here] was kidnapped by feral beastmen."

"Your nomad family went out hunting/gathering 12 years ago and never returned.

The elders left in charge died soon after. 

Your sisters were recently taken by talking beastmen in the night.

You have tracked them for 6 months. 

The path has led to this ridge.

You hear sounds of skirmish over the crest."

 

[OOC: Thanks!}

 

2/17/2023 7:51 pm  #5542


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Votin advises the two to shield the fire while he takes a look past the double doors at the raised dais...concerned about the enemies the firelight may attract.

He looks cautiously out the doors and if no danger is sensed , will make his way to the dais.

 

2/17/2023 9:43 pm  #5543


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin advises the two to shield the fire while he takes a look past the double doors at the raised dais...concerned about the enemies the firelight may attract.

He looks cautiously out the doors and if no danger is sensed , will make his way to the dais.

Votin moves away from the dais at the front east of the room and heads through the pews toward the broken double doors at the west end of the 40 x 40 ft space. Looking out into the thickening flurries of sleet and snow, Helios has sunk deep below the treeline of the wood 200 yards out. The chill is bitter and he cannot wrap his mind around how it could be this cold, and what was that the newcomer said of Nightfall? Which seems years away...
A sudden howl in the far distance breaks his wandering worries.


 
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2/17/2023 9:46 pm  #5544


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

achiriaco wrote:

This place is in bad shape! At least I find comfort in this dried meat.

The meat staves off madness to be sure, but these men without winter furs strike chords of lunacy. 


 
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2/18/2023 1:12 pm  #5545


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

"Was that the grizzly howl of a wolf?"

 

2/18/2023 3:52 pm  #5546


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

achiriaco wrote:

"Was that the grizzly howl of a wolf?"

[Malak roll d12]


 
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2/18/2023 10:07 pm  #5547


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Votin cautiously backtracks into the larger room,

"Perhaps we should go back into the stairwell...at least it will be warmer and more defensible...and look for some sturdier materiel for clothes."

 

2/18/2023 10:24 pm  #5548


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary


 
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2/18/2023 10:25 pm  #5549


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary


 
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2/19/2023 7:32 am  #5550


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin cautiously backtracks into the larger room,

"Perhaps we should go back into the stairwell...at least it will be warmer and more defensible...and look for some sturdier materiel for clothes."

"Yes, let's do that."



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

2/19/2023 11:38 am  #5551


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

If Votin and crew have enough time to retreat back to the stairs, Votin drags anything possible to block the door once they are in and asks another of the party to bring some charcoal or burning embers from the fire inside as well.

 

2/19/2023 11:53 am  #5552


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

If Votin and crew have enough time to retreat back to the stairs, Votin drags anything possible to block the door once they are in and asks another of the party to bring some charcoal or burning embers from the fire inside as well.

Tillak follows Votin back through the burnt out doorway next to the dais and through the small wooden door in the corner.

[Did Tillak bring the embers as requested, and if so, how did he transport them ?]


 
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2/19/2023 6:36 pm  #5553


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[OOC: Does Malak follow?]

 

2/20/2023 2:06 pm  #5554


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Iron Ranger wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

If Votin and crew have enough time to retreat back to the stairs, Votin drags anything possible to block the door once they are in and asks another of the party to bring some charcoal or burning embers from the fire inside as well.

Tillak follows Votin back through the burnt out doorway next to the dais and through the small wooden door in the corner.

[Did Tillak bring the embers as requested, and if so, how did he transport them ?]

Is there a receptacle of any kind near by?



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

2/23/2023 10:09 pm  #5555


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

SullyB74 wrote:

Iron Ranger wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

If Votin and crew have enough time to retreat back to the stairs, Votin drags anything possible to block the door once they are in and asks another of the party to bring some charcoal or burning embers from the fire inside as well.

Tillak follows Votin back through the burnt out doorway next to the dais and through the small wooden door in the corner.

[Did Tillak bring the embers as requested, and if so, how did he transport them ?]

Is there a receptacle of any kind near by?

Assuming Tillak remains fireside with Malak -- not that he sees, though he cannot see atop the dais from his squat. He does recall the cast iron pot hanging the fireplace in the other room where Votin has gone...

Meanwhile Helios has set. It is officially dark. And the snows thicken falling steadier through the broken out roof in this space.
 


 
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2/23/2023 10:32 pm  #5556


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Votin shivers in the dark frosty air,

"Those old time stories by the campfires....about things that lurk in the dark....didn't really scare me as a child....it's the possibility of the things that are actually out there cause me to give pause.

Malak, come and let us get some place warmer."

 

Last edited by bald_headed_yeti (2/23/2023 10:33 pm)

 

2/24/2023 9:37 pm  #5557


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Iron Ranger wrote:

achiriaco wrote:

"Was that the grizzly howl of a wolf?"

[Malak roll d12]

8

 

2/24/2023 9:38 pm  #5558


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

achiriaco wrote:

Iron Ranger wrote:

achiriaco wrote:

"Was that the grizzly howl of a wolf?"

[Malak roll d12]

8

Malak knows the howls to be the same as the ones tracking him for last 3 days.


 
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2/24/2023 9:40 pm  #5559


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

[OOC: Does Malak follow?]

Yes

 

2/24/2023 9:44 pm  #5560


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

"These are the same foul beasts who hunt me. My friends. Prepare to defend yourselves."

 

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