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[FallacyofUrist]

Overseer has no idea about the ugly mugs, and hence waits with the wheelbarrows.

[Sir Knight]

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Ah, welcome back!

Looking at the rolls, this update turned out to be pretty brief.  Like so . . .

Spoiler: Retreating like a stealthy ASCII weasel (click to show/hide)

Dustan's stealth roll: 3, Succeed weakly!

(Surprising consistency.)

Everyone away from the wheelbarrows immediately turns around and heads back.  At minimum, seeing John reach for a weapon makes it clear to the others what's going on.

Behind Dustan's back, there's a brief sound like speech.  Yes, it's . . . like speech.  More of an "augh" with a question mark at the end.  Whether it was a last-minute glimpse at Dustan, or John's distant lantern, it seems suspicion has been raised even as detection was avoided.

Spoiler: Just getting an idea of how much you spot from your hiding place (click to show/hide)

Result: 3, Succeed weakly!

(Seriously?  Eh, it moves us along.)

Spoiler: And one roll for the ugly mugs to spot your presence around a corner where, uh, none of you extinguished the lanterns (click to show/hide)

Result: 1, Fail terribly!

(Nevermind that happening . . .)

You hear distant movement and vague curt conversation.  You can't make out words or anything.  Then you spot lantern light waving along the walls as the ugly mugs leave their position.  You guess they must be confusing your own light for theirs, what with the way the tunnels go back-and-forth down here, because they don't come after you: instead they seem to go down that southern tunnel you passed.



That's all!  Quick turnover.

You're straining my ability to depict distant light on an ASCII map, so I hope it's clear that light is shining from their south-ish location onto that apparently-disconnected wall segment in the middle-ish.

If you want an ambush or other plan now, it's up to you.

[ziizo]

Go for an attack with the sword, no ambush they probably can see in the dark better than I

[Coolrune206]

Frank moves to back up his reckless teammate, aiming at the enemy's legs with his sling and normal rocks.

[Dustan Hache]

sneak around  the strangers and avoid combat if I can help it.

[FallacyofUrist]

Overseer looks funnily at his teammates. What is to say fighting is necessary?

[Coolrune206]

Frank grins stupidly. He lowers his voice when speaking.

"Two free wheelbarrow​s."

[Sir Knight]

sneak around  the strangers and avoid combat if I can help it.

If you succeed, what is your next goal?

[Dustan Hache]

If they enter combat as the aggressors, ambush them. Otherwise examine their camp.

[Sir Knight]

Then all I need now is word from Durenadal (HugeNerdAndProudOfIt).

(In other news, I continue to work with a new computer.  I'm starting to get hand strain from having to run new combinations of keyboard and mouse just to manage the same features.  For instance, that single most important technology that makes computer text superior to printed text: the "find" function.)

(Also, I'm terribly disappointed in what happens at my "superior" resolution.  The browser upscales all my art with harmful anti-aliasing.  If the browser just accepted that pixel art is to be pixellated, then that would be fine, but nope.  Now I fear that all of you have had to look at bad images for weeks.)

[Dustan Hache]

(Looks fine to me, assuming this is the first of many. Might just be on your end.)

[Sir Knight]

(I'm sure that it is, in fact, on my end: searches online find lots of people complaining about bad upscaling in new high-DPI displays, and my display is only a few days old.  Some talk is about getting your OWN css to give proper upscaling instructions to someone ELSE's browser, suggesting that I couldn't do anything myself: I'd have to rewrite this forum's code.  Other talk is about changing the upscaling method used by the operating system, but people seem only to be talking about fonts appearing blurry, not images.  Besides, I just tried those recommendations for changing upscaling in my browser, and I saw no difference.)

(Whee.  Anyone have knowledge on this?)

[Starver]

For my part, the half-toning/part-toning shades look Ok on this (large) tablet of unknown resolution and also on a computer monitor whose resolution is certainly far, far greater but I forget the exact details until I can get back to it and check.  Scrolling up and down on the tablet does 'flicker' the shades (indicating slightly dodgy image-pixel-to-display-pixel conversion) but it doesn't affect things (or at least doesn't moire and is consistent in both axes, for every shade represented, and between every shade represented) when the scrolling comes to a rest. Pinch-zooming does give an interesting interpolation, but again to no detriment.

AFAIAC, there's no problem at my end(s), but obviously if you have legitimate complaints (assuming that it isn't just inferior up-conversion hardware, made obvious only with this particular stippling-grey method, historically well-founded as it is) then feel free to tweak...  Just don't then 'break it' for me, naturally... 

[Rautherdir]

(I think an SVG file would work fine. I don't know if the program you are using can export vector images though.)

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Be valorous! however, discretion is the better part of valor, so... HIDE!!