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7/30/2025 5:36 pm  #8181


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Iron Ranger wrote:

FERRAND points to the floor and moves his fingers as legs walking away.

Communicating with the mutes was still a work in progress, 

"You found a trail? Which way?"
 

 

7/30/2025 9:44 pm  #8182


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

He points in several directions.


 
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7/31/2025 9:27 am  #8183


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[ Just for clarity...when you say mute, do you mean deaf as well as can't speak? Is it just the 
brothers? or the scouts as well? Did these guys just earn their Junior Woodchuck badges or the scouts just out of their environment?]

 

7/31/2025 9:29 am  #8184


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Turok looks over the maze of trails and pretty much concludes any fresh trails would be hard to discern.

"Let's look behind the broken doors, if that turns out to be a dead end, I saw an interesting staircase in the kitchen."

 

7/31/2025 10:44 am  #8185


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Ferrand and Akeley squeeze through the opening and try to discern which of the prints leading  -  south out of the dome of mysterious light. -  north out of the mysterious light,  -  west out into much more of the mysterious light could be those of the Scouts or if they separated in 3 directions. And if so, what made the noise inside the Church?


 
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7/31/2025 10:51 am  #8186


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

[ Just for clarity...when you say mute, do you mean deaf as well as can't speak? Is it just the 
brothers? or the scouts as well? Did these guys just earn their Junior Woodchuck badges or the scouts just out of their environment?]

[Akeley and Ferrand are not deaf. (I sent their tale to you elsewhere.)
They are not Scouts.


The Scouts have been gone for several hours now.]

Last edited by Iron Ranger (7/31/2025 12:24 pm)


 
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8/02/2025 9:24 am  #8187


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[WIP...my wife wanted a dog but it was in another state]

 

8/03/2025 10:16 pm  #8188


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[So we wound up with two puppies...]

 

8/03/2025 10:19 pm  #8189


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Oh boy....


 
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8/03/2025 10:20 pm  #8190


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Turok is puzzled...Why would they split up?...Have they not listened to anything he's told them.

It's a bad place to be, alone in the dark, in hostile territory.

While waiting for the two to return ,Turok wonders what could be down the stairs?

Last edited by bald_headed_yeti (8/03/2025 10:21 pm)

 

8/04/2025 4:08 pm  #8191


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Turok squeezes through the broken doors as well, looking for the pair of mutes.

 

8/05/2025 8:09 am  #8192


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Turok sees the stranges spheres of lights extend west out to what looks like a broken wagon in the distance. The muters point that a set of prints lead that way. Also a jumble of prints lead south around the church into the dark. And another jumble off into the north.

The bitter western wind picks up a touch, carrying some denser sleet than before.


 
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8/05/2025 2:41 pm  #8193


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"Very well...let's stick close to the buildings and see what's close." pointing to the south, "Weather's
getting nasty, don't want to get lost in it." 


[If the pair agrees the let's head around the church...anyone has a torch lit?]


 

 

8/06/2025 4:51 am  #8194


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[There is light around part of the outside of Temple.]

Church of Helios v12 | Nialldubh | Flickr

 

8/07/2025 7:30 am  #8195


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

The mutes are low on torches, and dry kindling has been sparse, but the church is lighted in this glowing sphere. They sense the shaman's hesitation and Signal several hand signals to each other then walk off south keeping to the path of previous prints. At the corner, AKELEY pauses, take a knees.  He plucks a pinch of the snow /ice up in his fingers and rolls it around under his nostrils. He looks at his brother, then continues on.
They move around the corner.


 
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8/07/2025 12:23 pm  #8196


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[Do not forget the Hell Hounds ]

 

8/07/2025 10:08 pm  #8197


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Caveman wrote:

[Do not forget the Hell Hounds ]

[Hell Hounds?]
 

 

8/08/2025 4:35 am  #8198


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[lol, there is a few dead Hell Hound bodies lying about the temple ]

 

8/08/2025 8:17 am  #8199


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[FROM JUST A SECOND EARLIER:

The mutes nod and quickly slide down to join the shaman on a raised 25 ft wide crescent shaped dais overlooking a 40 x40 stonewalled room. Its contents, a few badly charred wooden pews are tied together and to a pair of broken doors at the far end. There are frozen carcasses of slain wolves among the littered pages of destroyed books strewn everywhere nearly buries in the ice and snow coming through the burned out ceiling. A melted harp of gold is against the righthand wall. There is a 3x 6 ft pool of dark murky water with a crisp layer of thin ice on its surface behind you at the back of the dais.]


 
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8/08/2025 1:33 pm  #8200


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[ "frozen carcasses of slain wolves" ...  well at least they're dead...]

Iron Ranger wrote:

At the corner, AKELEY pauses, take a knees.  He plucks a pinch of the snow /ice up in his fingers and rolls it around under his nostrils. He looks at his brother, then continues on.
They move around the corner.

With war club in one hand Turok uses his free hand to dig out a torch then falls in behind the mutes.
 

 

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