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[Dwarmin]

Long turn?

Either Paul got in an accident involving a flatbed of greased stripper poles, or he might be rolling up fight or two lol
 

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

((Heh. Neither this time... just a long weekend with far too little sleep.))

Day 2, Turn 15: Sephiroth (5!), Mr. Person (1!), Weedo su (6!), Dwarmin (3!); New order: Weedo su, Sephiroth, Dwarmin, Mr. Person

Weedo su-

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Seeing the injured man you rush over to him. A quick inspection of the area reveals exactly the source of his woe. A trail of blood from where he apparently dragged himself leads into the hallway just past you. In it are several large demon rats, which is consistent with how he got his injuries. A few of them are still seeping blood and he looks very, very pale. You stick your torch into the ground next to you and get to work.

You wash his wounds with water from your waterskin and take a drink yourself. The blood washes away fairly well, which means he hasn't been this way for terribly long but you can see he's in terrible condition. He looks half starved as well.

You lay your hands on him and utter a quick prayer over him. (Healing magic:6!,6!) To your great surprise you see a faint glow surrounding your hands and going out towards him, enveloping the worst of his wounds. (Cius location:1!) The glow seems to be focused on his torso, though it spreads down to his leg somewhat as well. The action drains you and you feel hungrier but your patient seems to be doing better.

You somewhat groggily stand and take a look around at the mushrooms and plants nearby. (Herbalism check:1!-1) You don't recognize any of them at all. They look faintly reddish and bizzare.

You decide it best to not rest down here below and manage to carefully roll the human onto your cloak and use it to begin dragging him back up the ramp. You're just about to leave when (Observation check:3!) you notice a small kobold staring at you from the doorway to the hall. It's carrying one of the dead rats on it's back and is wearing a small granite crown and carrying a staff. It seems to be making no aggresive guestures but instead is showing it's teeth and holding his hands up as if he were trying to be peaceful.

(Ability to cast healing magic. +2 exp. Healing magic)

Acile-

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(Observation check:3!+1) You look around you for things you might be able to use to splint your arm with and easily find some small vines as well as some dead branches you may freely use. (Healing check:3!) You manage to immobilize your arm but it still clearly hurts and you spend the rest of the time resting.

(Recovery roll:1!+1) You arm begins throbbing badly. It may be hard to sleep.

Dwareet'ik-

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You wait for a second before carefully sticking your head around the corner. (Observation check:2!) There are two of them now! You pull your head back in and try and decide how to best handle the situation. They are blocking your only exit and soon you hear one of them doing something to the other one. Perhaps he's killing him. You stick your head back out again real quick and see the live human placing glowing hands on the other's chest. He breathes a bit easier afterwards and you realize that he's helping him. Perhaps this one isn't as bad as the injured one after all. You wait for a bit longer and try to sneak past them. (Sneak:1!) Almost as soon as you emerge from the door-way the live one looks up at you. You see a moment of hesistation from him as if he were sizing up whether you were a threat or not and you do your best to convince him you're not.

But it isn't safe to stay here. Or so you believe.

Cius-

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(Pain endurance:3-2) (It would have been -4 had Weedo su not helped) You remain unconcious.
(Pain endurance:4!-2)You remain unconcious
(Pain endurance:2!-2)You remain unconcious.
(Pain endurance:5!-2) You wake up briefly to find another human dragging you on the sandy ground away from the hallway. You weakly mutter something about food.
(Pain endurance:4!-2) Before blacking out again.

(Recovery roll:4!-1) Your condition stabilizes.

All right, we're gearing up for another night here so I'll need you all to tell me where you want to spend it. Weedo-su and Dwareet'ik may 'converse' in common if they want, but understanding will be limited. Cius is unconcious and starving. So, keep in mind that you may want to eat and drink before you go to sleep. In case you were wondering Weedo su, yes, magic does cost something. Different kinds of magic cost different things. Zestorum, I'm sure, learned rather quickly that fire magic made him really, really thirsty. Different magic and the strength of it affects what kind of toll it takes on you.

Warlord of Woe, your character is approved and you're on the list.

[Mr.Person]

om nom nom delicious soup. Probably gonna starve, at this rate. Blarg.

[Dwarmin]

Gather up some dry tower caps that could be used as firewood.

Make gestures and words to the effect of "please let me pass vile Human", and try to exchange names.

Assuming I can pass, try to get to my safe spot for tonight. If my little security system alerts me, be cautious and ready to fight-i've claimed that area as my den, by right of spilt blood, and I am willing fight to the death for it unless obviously overpowered. No matter where I end up, start a fire, cook and eat some meat, quaff from my waterskin.

Then try to sharpen my bone knife with a cutting edge before sleep.

And LOL at my rolling a 1 on a sneak roll. I mentally picture my Kobold being as stealthy as a giant troll with bagpipes for shoes.

[Anti-Paragon]

At first, I'm a bit nervous. Was the kobold trying to sneak by, or ambush? When the kobold says "please let me pass vile Human", I almost laugh. I make a graceful gesture to let it pass, perhaps bowing my head respectfully as well; the creature is wearing a crown after all, and could be some sort of royalty. We exchange names. I am now Dwareet'ik! Sorry, couldn't help myself.

However, I pay no further heed to the small creature once it goes by (unless it gets my attention for some reason). My concern is to get this wounded man up towards the dais (which is spelled correctly this time). Once he is there, I carefully roll him off my cloak and place it over him. I walk back down and look for any way to mildly barricade the way up the ramp. Nothing major, just enough that would cause some noise if someone tried to get by. Since everyone is already passed, I reactivate the traps. Gee, that was a lot simpler. After that, I extinguish my torch and place it near the ramp upwards towards the outside, writing the word 'Elbereth' (Hey, you can't blame one for trying.) almost right under it. After that, I eat half a loaf of my bread (unless you can only eat 'whole units', in which case I'll eat the whole thing).

Against my better judgement, I'll sit the man up and pull out the pot full of strawberries, mash them up, and place the strawberry... mush on the wounded man's tongue, and rub his throat to try to stimulate him to swallow it - a bit painstaking but it's better than having him choke. Perhaps give him a drink of his waterskin (although I'm oblivious of the mushrooms in it), too. Come to think of it I'll sample some of the strawberries, too. That bread was probably awfully plain.

Finally, I do my nightly ritual. Pay heed to my ancestors, meditate on what I had done throughout the day (which was very plain, oddly. We'll focus on the healing magic for meditation), and finally say a personal blessing to the area we reside in, lay the man down back on my cloak. Just before I go to sleep, I make sure all my belongings are back together (Except that torch by the ramp) and finally I'll go to sleep myself.

Edit: The 'reactivate the traps' thing came to me this morning. Hope you don't mind.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 16: Order:Weedo su (6!,2!), Sephiroth (1!), Dwarmin (2!), Mr. Person (6!,4!); New order: Mr. Person, Weedo su, Dwarmin, Sephiroth

Mr. Person:

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(Pain endurance:2!-2) You remain unconcious.
(Pain endurance:3!-2) You remain unconcious.
(Pain endurance:1!-2) Yup... still out.
(Pain endurance:4!-2) Oooh... you twitched, but still out.

Recovery roll:5!-1 You're still unconcious.

Weedo su-

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You think back to when you were reading the instructions at the gate and realize that the traps automatically re-arm themselves after an hour. Some sort of sand timer probably. In any case, you continue dragging the human up the ramp. (Action:5!) It's rough going but you manage to do so smoothy and with a minimum of cracking the guy's head on the floor. Everything is as you left it up there. You see no sign of the kobold by then.

You extinguish your torch now that you have the setting sun providing you light in here and quickly write the word 'Elbereth' in the dust with your finger. You roll Cius onto one side and then place him gently on his back again, covering him with your cloak. You eat a half loaf of bread. (Totally possible, but only gives you half the food value.) You pull out your pot and mash the berries up and feed them to the other human. (Healing mundane:4!-1) You make a bit of a mess, but manage to get most of it down him and wash it down with his waterskin. It smells funny and is charred.

You then sit down as the sun sets and meditate. (Meditation:2!-1) The excitement and exhaustion from your labors put you to sleep nearly instantly and you forget to do anything else you intended.

Dwareet'ik-

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(Action:3!) You grab some of the dead shrubs and carry them with you, making your way past the human and carefully through the traps, back up the ramp. It takes a little while to make your way back down, and you nearly fell on the bridge, what with both your hands full, but you managed to catch yourself, if only by dropping the shrubs. It's ok. It's a long ways down but it looks like they'll land on the slopes near the door and you can get them again. The doors are still shut and you see no signs of tampering so you confidently enter.

You have to gather some more wood from the swamp nearby since the shrubs aren't enough. (Action:2!) It takes you quite a long time to do so and by the time you're done it's nearly dark.

(Light fire:2!) You try to light a fire but fail to do so at this time. You fumbled the striker and are having a hard time finding it in the rubble. You eat some of your meat and take a drink from your waterskin, and get ready to go to sleep. After all the pointless firewood collecting you just don't have time for more and it's essentially dark. (Keep in mind that you can take a turn while you're supposed to be sleeping to finish cooking the meat if you want but it will leave you less rested. Up to you.)

Acile- (No action posted, not waiting any more)

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You sit there under the tree and calmly let the sun begin to sink into the horizon. You eat your second to last berry ration and drink from your waterskin. Hopefully you sleep well under this tree. It seems like that's where you're sleeping.

(Sorry, waiting to see if Sephiroth would post but apparently not. Will try to have the night turn up tomorrow, in case action needs to be taken.)

[Dwarmin]

Ugh, horrible turn.

I guess I should gather firewood beforehand...

But, I don't mind cold meat. Time to sleep.

[Anti-Paragon]

Well, I'm certainly glad I prepped the exits before meditating!

Question, though. Why the -1 to meditation? Simply unskilled?

Should I wake up due to some attackers: If I feel it's too much to take, I'll simply grab my pot, cloak, and pack and book it. Light a torch if I must. Standard premade combat rules apply.

[Mr.Person]

If that happens, watch it. I'll wake up and have to fuck some shit up. You laugh, but it'll happen, just you wait and see.

[zchris13]

I hope you end somebodies day, Mr. Person.

[major_sephiroth]

I'll scab up a bit of wood, and try to get some berries too.

[Dwarmin]

Sephiroth, if you take any more actions your sleep will be interrupted, just so you know, and I doubt you will be able to find much food/wood in the dark. It's up to you, though.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Night: Order:Mr. Person (4!), Weedo su (1!), Dwarmin (3!), Sephiroth (5!); New Order:Sephiroth, Mr. Person, Dwarmin, Weedo su

Sephiroth-

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(Action:5!) You easily manage to gather a very sizeable pile of branches and sticks. And while you were out you tried to find some berries in the darkness or other plants. (Herbalism check:1!) You wander around for some time looking and then quickly realize you got turned about and don't know how to find your way back to where you were. Not that it really matters. Sleeping under one tree is about as good as another. Presumably. You curl up and try to ignore the pain in your arm.

(Random encounter:1!-1) (Opposed ambush checks: Enemy:4! You:2!+1)

You were sleeping soundly until a sudden sharp pain woke you from your sleep! You startle awake and realize that you are surrounded by a small pack of wolves. (3!) They were apparently drawn by the scent of blood. (Free attack round:Wolf 1:3!+1 (surprise) (Dodge:3!-1 (prone) (Location:2!) (Damage:6!) One of them sinks it's teeth into your left arm and you cry out. It was probably this that awoke you. (Luck:1!) It holds on tight. You are held.

(Wolf 2 attack:5!+1,6!) (Dodge:2!-2) (Location:5!) (Damage:1!+1) The second wolf lunges at your injured arm, smelling the blood. It tears into your sling, destroying it, and bites your arm hungrily. Despite that your arm doesn't seem that much worse off. Then the wave of pain hits you.

(Pain endurance:4!-1) You barely manage to keep concious. You're not sure if that's a good thing or not.

(Wolf 3 attacks:1!+1) It snaps at you but misses in your thrashings.

You frantically try to free your arms from the wolves. (You:4!) (Wolf:4!) You manage to do so, tearing your arm out of it's mouth but the flesh tears in the process. You are now bleeding heavily.
You manage to stand and face the pack.

They attack you. (Wolf 1 attack:2!) The one that had your arm is caught off guards and bites only open air. (Wolf 2 attack:4!) (Dodge4!) Another wolf lunges at you but you barely manage to dodge out of the way. (Wolf 3 attack:4!) (Dodge:6!,5!) The third one lunges at you but you jump back and realize then that you're backed against the tree. You get the fantastic idea to climb it to avoid them. Easier said than done with only one arm of course.

(Climb:3!) You try to scramble up into the branches but are terribly slow doing so.

(Wolf 1 attacks:2!) The lead wolf jumps at you again and misses your arm as you climb. (Wolf 2 attacks:6!,6!) (Dodge:3!-1 (climbing)) (Location:5!) (Damage:4!) The second wolf, however, is faster and latches on to your injured arm that is dangling uselessly by your side. (Wolf:2!) (You:1!)
It drags you back down to the ground and you fall heavily on top of it. You are stunned, as is the wolf.

The remaining wolf pounces. (Attack:2!+2 (helpless)) (Stunned, no dodge) (Location:6!) (Damage:5!) He leaps for your throat as you lie stunned and before you know it he's removed a vast portion of your neck. You gasp for air. You bleed. You die. And the wolves eat you.

You are dead. I will update the High score board here in a while. Official cause of death is blood loss. You were eaten by wolves.

Mr. Person-

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(Action:3!) You manage to rest fitfully for most of the night but you do sleep despite your injuries. At one point you awake screaming in terror but it is dark and you're alive, which is kind of surprising.

(Random encounter:4!+1 (secured)) You are not disturbed by anything however and quickly fall back asleep.

(Recovery roll:6!-1) You awake feeling better, despite all you've been through. You are, still in pain, though it's considerably lessened. You feel almost miraculously better, all things considered. Your leg still hurts badly, you can't put weight on it. And your chest is still badly scratched, but it could be worse. You are, however, starving and have no food, nor drink.

Dwarmin-

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(Action:5!) You sleep great, secure in your little quarry. (Random encounter:2!+2 (well secured)) You hear some howling and sounds from outside but it seems like whatever it was didn't know how to open the door. You feel well rested and refreshed for the day and you even find your flint and steel again the next morning after you wake up.

You are a little chilly again, but not nearly as bad as the night before. Perhaps you found a more sheltered location to sleep, or perhaps the rope helped shield you from the cold.

Weedo su-

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(Action:4!) You also sleep well and wake up and stretch and yawn. (Your disturbance roll was done during Cius' turn since you're in the same location.)

You realize that the other human is awake as well and though you can't see the sun you can tell it's beginning to get light outside. You are thirsty and hungry.

(And yes, the -1 to meditation was due to skill lvl.)

Day three dawns with a low fog that rolled in sometime during the night. It's light though and should burn off. It is chilly.

Zestorum, you are up again. I'll need your character's name as well as starting direction. You have until Monday to post.

And an unfortunate congratulations to Acile who is now our High score holder.

[Dwarmin]

Another one bites the dust...

Welcome back Zestorum. I got some advice for ye! Assuming your an archer, you need to be careful about positioning when you enter the fortress proper. Narrow tunnels and blind corners are better suited for crossbows, not longbows, like you will probably have-seeing as you might only get 1 shot off anyway in close quarters, archers are at a clear disadvantage there. I suggest you obtain a melee weapon if you don't start with one.

Actions

First, lets go drink from the lake and refill my water skin, make sure to clean off my bandage and clean and try to identify my various artifacts. Try not to drop them in the lake. I guess I could also try to clean myself up if the water isn't too cold.

Then stockpile more firewood in addition to what I have, so I can start a fire this morning, and have enough if and when I return later in the day to do so again. While I'm searching, look for a distinctive log, tree, boulder, empty animal den etc that I could use for hiding loot, as well as large leaves I could use as pouches for powders, regents etc.

If I find it, store these things in my hiding spot, unless I find something interesting when I'm identifying them, like magic properties or secrets.

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1 Felsite crown (unless this provides some kind of minimal head armor, if so keep it)
1 chestnut toy boat
1 obsidian earring
1 felsite ring
4 Bone bolts (including the gem studded one-keep what bolt looks sharpest for utility)

It goes without saying to check around and make sure I'm not being watched, as well as trying to cover any tracks I leave in the area.

EDIT: In response to Paragon, since we will meet up now, or more likely later on, this will be my reaction.

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Be cordial and non-combative, exchange information to the best of my ability and press him to respond in kind.

Explain to him he is welcome to travel with me if he would like, as long as he swears an oath of brotherhood between us-tell him that with me being a *powerful* shaman, either one of us breaking the oath could have dire repercussions...whether this is literally true or not, if I have various ancestral guardians, there exists a God that punishes oath breakers, etc is irrelevant, as long as he and I believe it. I would swear the same oath to him in turn-due to my faith, I truly do believe I or He would die if we broke the oath.

Also explain to him that I consider the Human he is helping very dangerous, that he attacked me unprovoked and to be careful of his treachery-I would not willingly help him unless our lives were at stake.

[Anti-Paragon]

I do my morning workout, which is mostly stretches, as I talk to the wounded man I greet the wounded man and explain that I found him near death and presumably robbed. I ask his name and how he is feeling. Thirsty, I take a drink of my waterskin (which should be pretty light about now) and also ask if he knows any sources of water. If he does, I give him the remaining half of my loaf of longland bread and tell him I shall return with food and water soon, which I promptly go to collect (there should be something growing near the water anyway...). If he does not, I tell him I will go seek some (no bread for you!) and go seek some myself. I take my pack, my pot, both waterskins (after urging him to finish off anything that may be in his) and put on my cloak in both circumstances. I also keep a keen eye for anything that could be used as clothing for the man. I never want to see another man's morning wood as long as I live.

Also! If I run into Dwareet'ik I greet him by his name. Hmm. Not sure what I'd do if I'd meet him, though. Perhaps ask him if he knows any healing herbs that grow around here (along with food/water sources if I have failed to find any).