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[Flying Dice]

Mier eats one of his red apples as he walks through the streets of the village. He stops to fill the empty waterskin at a public fountain or well. While doing this, he watches for unusual activity-anything out of the norm for the valley villages, especially people and things with that 'red scale' emblem mentioned in the bounty note. After around an hour he walks into the temple and stands as if waiting for someone, occasionally glancing surreptitiously at the area of the left atrium where the man with the red scale shield was supposed to be.

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Mier Destha
Light
Stealth
3/6 Power
Inventory:
-Namu Shard
-Brown Clothing
-Engraved Brass Ring
-Iron Dagger
-Iron Rapier
-Iron Crossbow (x2)
-f₁₀₀ note (x1)
-f₂₀ note (x4)
-15 copper coins
-3 days worth of salted meat
-Backpack
+Iron Crossbow Bolt (x30)
+Day worth of rations (x2)
+Red Apple (x2)
+Dried Fruit
+Bounty Note
+Stick of Charcoal
+Grindstone
+Wad of Leather Strips
+Cloth Pouch (Copper Coin x26)
+Unused Torch
+Flint & Steel
+Case of Oil (Metal)
+Rope (20ft)
+Spare Clothes
-Small Bag
+Waterskin (full)
-Waterskin (empty)
-Note (unreadable; language of the Deep Centrals)

[Sinpwn]

"Should have seen that coming...
Kaelan once again gathers his magic, willing the namu to become more buoyant.

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Name: Kaelan
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: Tall, thin and rather pale, dull blue eyes and black hair.
Personality: Calm, but always poised to move. Rather cynical and distrustful, but friendly to those who gain his respect.

Primary school: Life
Secondary school: Adaptation

One skill: Hunting

Power: 2/5
Weapon: Bow
Inventory: -Tattered Gray Clothes
                  f125
                  dagger
                  dagger
                  axe
               -Quiver
                  arrows
               -Shoulder-Pack
                  day's rations
                  half-empty water-skin
                  wooden travelling staff
                  stick with cloth wrapped around one end

[Tiruin]

Spoiler: Aile Urien (click to show/hide)

Health: Healthy
Power: 6/6

Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance: Aile is tall, measuring at about six feet in height with long flowing black hair coursing down to shoulder length. She has light brown skin and deep brown eyes.
Personality: Aile is stern and uncompromising in the face of adversity, if there is danger she is unafraid to face it. Aile is fair and lenient,  one with an open mind and usually friendly to strangers and neighbors alike. She is bold, brash and determined to her cause, driven by passion and very stubborn.

Primary school: Life
Secondary school: Fire

Skill: Medical Care/Healing

Inventory:
The clothes on her back.
Herbal Mixture in an alcohol-filled jar - potent enough for ten portions.
One bunch of good mushrooms.
Heavy straight tree branch
Small Trowel
Blunted Dagger - Equipped
A diamond-shaped, palm-sized piece of namu, colored like the rest of it {Fire Namu}

Talking Cat

"Wow, I didn't even think this would work. Well, before it worked, that is.

"Where can we go now, cat? Or do you have a name?"

Flee out of the forest, maybe back into my village. Converse with cat on the way.

[Azthor]

Seek apprenticeship with the village's blacksmith.

Spoiler: Trendam Werks - The sheet cannot be past... Oh, wait (click to show/hide)

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall fair skinned bald male sporting a light brown beard.
Personality: Lawful, Religious, Devoted, Charismatic.

Primary school: Sky
Secondary school: Preservation

Skill: Speechcraft

[Grek]

"Magic? Ahah! Finally, someone here to do something about Jacques! He is a scondrel and a layabout good-for-nothing, my younger brother is. Always mooching and being a burden on his hard working family! And now, he is practicing strange magic! Just today, he cast a spell that frosted over the tavern! I do hope you can find him in time - last I heard, he was headed for the village just east of here, something about meeting with another magician!"

Thinking quickly, Jacques (who shall now refer to himself as James) lies to the armed men at his doorstep.

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Jacques
Sculpting
Ice
0/6
Inventory:
a chisel (on belt)

[Skyrunner]

Inser
You sit and rest against the namu.

You feel 2 other power draining away, and you also feel yourself gaining 1 power.

The raven notes, "Maybe you should get a move on. Who knows when someone would stumble in on you ...


Salden

"I suppose you'll have to get out of this basin. It's all too easy to find you here. I suggest going to the north village ... I have my sources - and they tell me some of the others are going there."


Thoki

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[1]

You are waken by someone shaking you. You groggily get up, and notice that two men who are armed and armored in thick leather are shaking you. They seem to have lived a rough life, judging by their numerous scars and their muscles. They each have a mace on their belts, dented and scratched from long use.

"Boy, y'know'f there's a ... whadyasay, uh, a colored wooden totem? We really needta find them."


Mier

You look around while filling your waterskin at one of the founts in the temple plaza. You notice that some men who have a red scale image on their shields enter or exit the temple, and that other men who seem to be of the same organization are spreading out into the city. You can see that they each go in groups of three, knocking on every single door in the city and asking some brief questions. You have never seen this many armored men, who are all unfamiliar faces and thus outsiders.

The left atrium is inside the temple complex.


Aile

You head out of the forest.

"Hmm, well, I am called ... or rather, you may call me Nnaranha."

The village is reached by noon.

"I suppose you should go to the north village, because I know that some of the others are likewise headed there... and anyways, the north is the easiest way to get out of the basin. They have a road, I believe."


Azthor

The blacksmith of the north village is a man with white hair, but a sharp face and a well-built body, perhaps due to many years of hammering bits of metal.

He is dutifully hammering today, too. The loud sound of the anvil was a factor in him relocating to a couple hundred feet from the main village. Beside him, his daughter, a lively-looking tanned woman, who has straw-colored hair hastily lashed into a ponytail, is polishing what seems to be a dagger.


Jacques (alias James)

The men look at each other, before the center one speaks again.

"I see you know him. Thank you, citizen, for confirming a prior report by le bartender. If we catch that dangerous man, we shall reward your dutifulness. Good night."
The man inclines his head and turns.

The men depart and clunk towards the temple.

[Lillipad]

"Can I have you keep watch for me, or is that unreasonable?"

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Inser(life, nothingness)
1/5
0/50 'other'

Age: 25
Skill: animal husbandry
inventory:  f₂₀s(2), rations(10), namu shard

[IronyOwl]

"Um, shouldn't I tell people I'm leaving? Or does it need to be secret...?

And anyway, who's looking for the namu and me and why again?"

Head to the north village.

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Salden
Creation
Scribing +1
[4/6]
-Traveling Robe
-Pack
-3x f20s notes, 22 coins
-2 days' food
-Waterskin
-Charcoal & Parchment
-Hunting Knife, Hatchet, Razor
-Amber
-Namu Shard

[The Fool]

Thoki was being shook by the man. "Alright, alright I'm awake." He looked at the two. "Totem? I don't believe I've seen one. I was just headed to the temple and nodded off. Why? Is it valuable? I could help you look if it's on the way to the temple." Thoki knew that these people were looking for a quick buck and that they probably wouldn't want to split it more than they had to. Even if he did join them he'd just make for the city and take them further away. "What do you say? I'd have company as I go to the temple, and you'd have another pair of eyes to look for this... What was it, a totem?"

Try and mislead them.

Spoiler: Thoki Corviaten (click to show/hide)

Primary School: Earth
Secondary School: Darkness

Health: Healthy
Power: 0/5

Inventory:
-Hand-crafted Sage Green Coat
-Old Pocketwatch
-Pince-nez (Worn)

Skills:
-Tailoring +1

[Grek]

Jacques swore. He swore again. He continued swearing for quite a bit. Feeling somewhat better for it, he resolved to wait at home for an hour before starting out on his plan:

Jacques will go out into the forest, find the namu and try to hide it near the north village, where he can get it back later.

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Jacques
Sculpting
Ice
0/6
Inventory:
a chisel (on belt)

[Flying Dice]

Oh dear. This is worse than I thought; no way is this a small group of people looking for those things. But still, if I leave the valley, there might not be anyone at all with information about the namu. The temple is far too dangerous with this many of them in and out of the place.


Mier looks for a fairly busy tavern or inn, checking to see if there are a large number of men bearing the red scale emblem inside before entering.

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Mier Destha
Light
Stealth
3/6 Power
Inventory:
-Namu Shard
-Brown Clothing
-Engraved Brass Ring
-Iron Dagger
-Iron Rapier
-Iron Crossbow (x2)
-f₁₀₀ note (x1)
-f₂₀ note (x4)
-15 copper coins
-3 days worth of salted meat
-Backpack
+Iron Crossbow Bolt (x30)
+Day worth of rations (x2)
+Red Apple
+Dried Fruit
+Bounty Note
+Stick of Charcoal
+Grindstone
+Wad of Leather Strips
+Cloth Pouch (Copper Coin x26)
+Unused Torch
+Flint & Steel
+Case of Oil (Metal)
+Rope (20ft)
+Spare Clothes
-Small Bag
+Waterskin (full)
-Waterskin (full)
-Note (unreadable; language of the Deep Centrals)

[Sinpwn]

"Should have seen that coming..."
Kaelan once again gathers his magic, willing the namu to become more buoyant.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: Tall, thin and rather pale, dull blue eyes and black hair.
Personality: Calm, but always poised to move. Rather cynical and distrustful, but friendly to those who gain his respect.

Primary school: Life
Secondary school: Adaptation

One skill: Hunting

Power: 2/5
Weapon: Bow
Inventory: -Tattered Gray Clothes
                  f125
                  dagger
                  dagger
                  axe
               -Quiver
                  arrows
               -Shoulder-Pack
                  day's rations
                  half-empty water-skin
                  wooden travelling staff
                  stick with cloth wrapped around one end

[Azthor]

Try and persudade the blacksmith to take you in as an apprentice. Use oratory to bolster my chances.

"Greetings, good man, I am a newcomer to these parts and find myself in need of employement; I'd have said apprenticeship, but it would seem that fine lass over there has that covered. While I lack any noteworthy experience with smithing, I am able-bodied and an eager learner, and would gladly work but for a day's meal. What say you?"

Spoiler: Trendam Werks - The sheet cannot be past... Oh, wait (click to show/hide)

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall fair skinned bald male sporting a light brown beard.
Personality: Lawful, Religious, Devoted, Charismatic.

Primary school: Sky
Secondary school: Preservation

Skill: Speechcraft

[Tiruin]

Spoiler: Aile Urien (click to show/hide)

Health: Healthy
Power: 6/6

Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance: Aile is tall, measuring at about six feet in height with long flowing black hair coursing down to shoulder length. She has light brown skin and deep brown eyes.
Personality: Aile is stern and uncompromising in the face of adversity, if there is danger she is unafraid to face it. Aile is fair and lenient,  one with an open mind and usually friendly to strangers and neighbors alike. She is bold, brash and determined to her cause, driven by passion and very stubborn.

Primary school: Life
Secondary school: Fire

Skill: Medical Care/Healing

Inventory:
The clothes on her back.
Herbal Mixture in an alcohol-filled jar - potent enough for ten portions.
One bunch of good mushrooms.
Heavy straight tree branch
Small Trowel
Blunted Dagger - Equipped
A diamond-shaped, palm-sized piece of namu, colored like the rest of it {Fire Namu}

Talking Cat "Nnaranha"

Begin journey to the North village, looking for herbal plants along the way and using the tree branch as a walking stick.

"There is a way out of-..."

"...Nnaranha. Beautiful name, if I have to say so myself! It's a long ways off, but I guess my supplies are adequate. Come here you cat."

Aile picked up Nnaranha and cuddled it for quite some time before setting it down, regardless of it's reaction. "Hey, don't give me that look. I like cats."

[Skyrunner]

Inser

"Keep watch for what? I think I told you to quickly move ..."

Thoki

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[5]

"Hmph. Well, we don't need to go to the temple... Farewell, then. "
The men bumble off into the brush.


Jacques

You head out to the forest. After a long time of searching around, you chance on your namu.

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[6->2]

Your heart seems to stop - there is a single child looking curiously at the totem.
Phew, not a big scary black-clad mercenary, you think. The child doesn't notice you.


Kaelan

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[2,5,3]

You use 1 power. The namu ripples like a stone was dropped into a pond, before becoming still. You try and lift it... and it is now lighter than wood. Not exactly floating, but a good start.


Azthor

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[4+1,6->5+1,4+1]

The man stares at you.

"That's weird. I could have sworn you talked like a villager. Well, I don't have enough work nor income for more than two..."


Aile

Nnaranha purrs in your arm.

You hike towards the northern village. It takes about two hours to get there, because you are scanning the forest for herbs.

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[3+1]

Though your pickings are few, you collect a lot of snowberries (which are black colored in the warmer months and become whitish red in the winter), renowned for both their medicinal properties (they bestow vigor) and their taste.


EDIT

Mier

The largest tavern in not only the north village, but all of the basin, is packed with people, mostly outsiders. You guess that it's because the natives don't like the outsiders and their rowdiness, and stick to the smaller but cozier inns.

You glance inside: no-one is armored, and there aren't any red-scale-bearing men. You enter. The stifled air is washed out as you open the door widely. The outsiders loudly order drinks such as beer or wine; at this time, meals are also being dished out. The handful of waiters and counter clerks are quite busy. No-one especially notices you.


Salden

"The outsiders, a good number of them are looking for your - and other- namus. Why, I don't know. I'm not an oracle. Still, I know that you probably don't want to be captured, nor do you want your namu taken away."

You head towards the northern village; it takes about an hour to get there.