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[dragnar]

I didn't notice I already had some flint and steel. I'll give Reece the second one, he can use it to light his lantern.

I search the nearby bins, while listening to my companion babble about some fool creature he calls a "grue".
But it would be much funnier if he did

[tehstefan]

My character didn't actually say that.

[Dwarmin]

Actions
Best not to waste my blessings!

First, as before

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I'll try to get a feel for the scepter in my hands, and determine whether it can be used as a proper weapon. If it can, store my staff in the stash and wield the scepter. Otherwise, store the scepter in the stash and wield the staff.

A couple maintenance issues...

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Check my wooden torch to see if it's still usable, or if it's too wet. Discard if so, to be used as firewood later.

I ate my bloated tuber last turn, didn't I? Inventory still lists it..ah. You had me eat my Kobold bulb instead and removed that...which should of been quite fatal!

Then leave and secure my base and range out looking for healing plant/plants similar to what I had when I arrived. The kind that can be ground up and packed into my bandages to help healing. Of course, put off milling until I can return to the quarry.

Of course, be on the lookout for wolves, at least much as I can with the fog or whatnot.

[Kel the Oblivious]

I would like to play, very much so.

Kel Ragebrew
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Class: Chaos Knight
God: Makhleb
Weapon: Spiked armor, using grappling to impale foes onto himself. (If not, just spiked gauntlets and boots)
Starting skills: Unarmed, butchery (To appease my god)

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 4: Turn 6: Order:Keris (1!), Reece (5!,6!), Dwareet'ik (2!), Dragnar (5!,3!); New order: Reece, Dragnar, Dwareet'ik, Keris

Reece-

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You realize that Dragnar isn't going to claim any of the stale bread and you decide to do so yourself, consuming a loaf on the spot to make sure it's still edible. No reason to carry it around and be hungry. It's dry and bland but somewhat filling, even if it's very crumbly. Dragnar hands you the flint and steel as you light your torch and he let's you know that you can keep it. The flickering light fills the room and you can see clearly that this room has largely succumbed to hundreds of years of dampness seeping in through the sand. Not that it's actually wet but more just moist. The plant growth is considerable and as Dragnar pokes around the old wooden bins you decide to look through the north door that lies open.

(Observation check:3!) You see what appears to once have been a storage room. There is a small passageway with another door just across from you but it is closed. There appears to be the remains of several badly weathered ballistae bolts, all apparently unuseable. There are also several more bins stacked neatly in one corner, covered in cobwebs. This room is mostly stone and though the condition of the bins and stuff is poor it's not nearly so mouldy as the other room. (See Dragnar's post for specifics)

(Luck:2!)

(Gained goods)

Dragnar-

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(Observation check:1!) You poke around the bins and though you can see that something used to be there there appears to be a few missing patches of dust. Someone has been through these already and you find nothing of particular use. Reece calls out from the other room and you go and join him as well. The bins there appear to have been largely untouched.

(Luck:5!) This appears to have been a weapon and armor storage of sorts. Most of the bins contain heaps of cloth so old and fragile they begin to disintegrate when you pick them up. You also find some leather armor, of goblin size, but nothing that would fit either of you. You notice that Reece is poking around in the back bins and go to join him. You find several apparently elven made weapons. Two wooden shortswords and a wooden longsword as well as more fabric that is useless. One of the bins does however contain some sort of elvish plate armor, too large for you but potentially suitable for Reece. It's construction is strange as it appears to be made out of fabric but lacquered with some sort of resinous material. It has several layers and is quite old. It's a little brittle now.

The useful items are:
2 Wooden short swords
1 wooden longsword
1 XRope reed plate armorX

They are all of elvish make. This must have been the unuseable armor dump placed near the Depot for trading purposes. Too bad most of the cloth is ruined, there looks to have been a vast amount of it, much of it apparently silk. The damp saw to it's destruction too thoroughly though.

Dwareet'ik-

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(Cleared up the Kobold bulb/Bloated tuber mix up. The torches are soaked in heated pitch and then wrapped in large leaves. They're mostly waterproof but if wet will spit but still light.) You heft the scepter in your hands. It's a little short for it to be a proper staff but it looks to be quite useable as a weapon. Possibly even better than your current one. You stash your staff in your staff stash and head out into the swamp.

(Herbalism check:5!) You easily manage to locate some useful healing herbs, rattlesnake plantain and some soggy looking aloe. You do what you can to pick what you find but there is a lot of it. You manage to collect two small bundles worth, enough for both your bandages. You try to remember the location but it's fairly non-descript, even if it is a good place to find these plants. (+1 to Herbalism checks for 2 turns)

Hunting the plants took longer than you thought but you've found a good supply.

(+2 Herbalism exp., 2 small bundles of healing herbs)

Keris-(Absent)

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You should probably check out the cave just in case it's a escape shaft and so while you sit and eat some food and take a drink from your waterskin you send Nolsmuok and Odessnanspex into the cave. (Luck:4!) They return a while later and report that it is empty. The walls were engraven by the dwarves but there appears to be nothing else in this cave. (Observation check:2!) At least you're not hungry and thirsty anymore.

Kel, I'll put you on the list. Keep in mind that starting gear and starting skills I roll for. If you get good rolls I can accomodate you on some of it, but otherwise, what you get is what you get. Welcome though.

[Kel the Oblivious]

Those are just the skills and equipment I would like him to have. If he ends up with a toothpick and master levels in origami, well, I will just have to make due.

[tehstefan]

I pick up and don the armor, and arm myself with the long sword, unless Dragnar has anything to say about that. Also, I'd like to look around for anything interesting.

And finally, got some good stuff to make up for my lousy equipment rolls!

[Dwarmin]

Welcome to the game Kel, in a way! It might be a while till enough corpses pile up for you to play though. 

Actions
Nice! Continue to scour the area for plants, using my entire turn, and be on the lookout for danger.

Make sure to only pick mature plants, and leave the younger ones to grow, even if it means I get less, I'll have more in the long run.
Sustainable herbalism ftw!

Edit: Whoops, you my forgot healing roll. It's easy to forget, I know!

[dragnar]

Those short swords should make good torches.

I will keep looking around, there has to be a storage room for more useful items somewhere!

[Anti-Paragon]

Careful there, depending on how those swords are conditioned, they might be more of a torch than you bargained for. More of a !!torch!!.
Also, welcome Kel!

[Kel the Oblivious]

Thanks Anti, Dwarmin. I am looking forward to two of you dying so I can play   

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 4, Turn 7: Order:Reece (6!), Dragnar (3!), Dwareet'ik (1!), Keris (2!); New order: Reece, Dragnar, Keris, Dwareet'ik

Reece-

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(Luck:1!) You manage to slip into the armor well enough, though it was made for someone skinnier than you which makes it chafe when you move. In fact, it's down-right uncomfortable and you try bending the pieces a little into a more Reece-like shape. They move a little but you crack the armor further in the process. Still, it's better than nothing. You slip the elven wood sword into your belt, feeling a little better with a spare weapon, and one better than your practice sword.

(Observation check:1!)
You look around in the shadowy room, but wind up spending most of the time admiring your shadow with your new-found plate armor. Dragnar pokes his head into the other room and you follow him. (See Dragnar's action)

(Gained items)

Dragnar-

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You toss the two swords into your backpack. They're sure to be useful for something, even if it is only a torch. They likely wouldn't last very long as a torch though, not having been soaked in pitch or treated in any way.

(Observation check:3!+1) You make your way carefully to the door opposite the one you entered and find yourself at a small hallway which turns abruptly in front of you. The dust on the ground is thick and shows no sign of recent travel. In fact, the room is somewhat anti-climatic. It's another small fortification room with a second mouldering ballistae overlooking the trade depot. The firing slit actually points directly through the middle of the depot and in your mind you see merchants inside trapped, starving and insane as another dwarf fires upon them. You shake your head and the image fades. There appears to be no other exit from this room so the pair of you make your way back to the hatch-covers heading downwards. A strong rotting smell is evident from below.

(Gained items)

Keris-(Absentx2)

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You decide it's time to take a break from scouting and order a halt. No reason to throw yourselves at the traps. You've seen no dwarves and don't believe there's any reason to think there are some. The goblins talk amongst themselves a while before Ustolosmod ask what you want them to do if you fall in battle or to a trap. You think about it for a while and tell them they should avenge you if in battle and return an report if a trap. You also decide to appoint Ustolosmod as your second in command.

Dwareet'ik-

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(Observation check:4!) (Herbalism check:1!+1) You keep an eye out for any wild animals devotedly as you also search for more healing herbs. It also makes sense to you to only pick the mature plants but that unfortunately makes your work much much harder. Very few of the plants are of the proper size for you to consider them mature and so you spend most of the next hour looking around before giving up. You nearly wandered into a patch of poison oak in the process but managed to extricate yourself carefully from the low-growing plants with little more than a few annoying patches.

The fog certainly didn't help though it looks to be rising slightly and might burn off here in a little while.

Recovery roll (x2 for the last one I missed):5!,4! You seem to be completely recovered from your injuries.

[Dwarmin]

Might as well head back toward the skull depot and press on, tap dancing over the corpses of course.

[tehstefan]

((just a question, I should get a plus one bonus for active observation, which was what I was doing right?))

I open the hatch, just a little, to try and see whats going on, without alerting anything to my presence.

[dragnar]

Open one of the hatches and hit my sword against the cover a few times. With any luck, I should be able to draw any nearby monsters to this easily defended choke point.