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[Dwarmin]

What about undue haste?

I will not answer that response with an indignity. Q-o

[Dwarmin]

Tehs, you need to amend your actions. I already have everyone's waterskins. If your coming out too, lets you and I stick together.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

That is true... Dwareet'ik has all the empty skins. Dragnar suggested you go out and try to find food, not water. Please confirm what sort of food you'll be looking for if you choose to do that. Plant, animal or fish. The goblin food is inedible for human and dwarf consumption.

Oh, and Zako, you're on the list.

[tehstefan]

I look mainly for animal or fish, though if I see any promising plants. And yes, lets stick together no matter what, getting attacked together is better than being attacked alone. Also, practice sneaking whenever possible.

[Zako]

Just had a thought on that rust monster oil you got dwarmin. If you, for example, smear a thin coating on the edges of, say, Reece's wooden longsword, you have a weapon that when it hits metal, will quickly destroy it. Same thing if you do this with stone tipped arrow heads or thrown rocks, so you have, in effect, armor destroying ammunition!

Just a thought you might want to keep in mind...

[Dwarmin]

Good idea Zako! That stuff is game breakingly good.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 5, Turn 9: Order:Dragnar (5!), Dwareet'ik (4!,5!), Ajax (1!), Reece (4!,1!); New order: Dragnar, Dwareet'ik, Reece, Ajax

Dragnar-

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Reece offers to go help the kobold gather water and look for food and soon heads off, bumbling his way up the ramp in the dark. You hear quite a few scuffles and cursing which gradually fades.

(Decipher language:3!) (Interrogate prisoner:3!)

You plonk yourself heavily on the ground next to the goblin as you bring out your new sword and slowly begin working the nicks out of it with a stone. Fortunately for you, you speak a little goblin and between your mild familiarity with the language and your massive menacing sword you get the goblin to cooperate a little further. You learn that he is actually part of a sieging force, recently arrived from the east, roughly four war-patrols strong, which you interpret as being around sixty-four goblins. He has little more to say about that but looks longingly at the food you scrounged from his leaders' satchel, but which you had left discarded on the floor.

Dwareet'ik and Reece-

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(Action:6!,3!) The kobold was moving slower than the human in order to make sure the way was safe and by the time Dwareet'ik had reached the bottom of the large ramp Reece had caught up with him, out of breath and rubbing an elbow ever so slightly.

Working together the pair of you is able to quickly find a suitable pond and fill all the waterskins, as well as slaking your own thirst to your satisfaction. Reece follows the kobold to where he had sunk his skin and you retrieve it Dwareet'ik. There appear to be no additional threats at the moment. Dwareet'ik is also able to clean himself free of the gunk properly and his skin feels better.

Ajax-

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"I'm simply a curious ranger of a neighboring civilization and came to explore what I thought were ruins. I was hunting in the area when I saw your walls."

(Reaction roll:2!)

She frowns slightly at this. "A hunter are ye? I suppose you use a bow then?"

Ajax shakes his head slightly before holding up his crossbow. She grunts.

"Pah, cowardly weapon that, though better than a bow I suppose."

You offer her one of the mountain goat roasts and offer to trade with them. She looks at it and smells it.

"We could use some fresh meat that isn't bird. I'll ask. Wait here then."

She goes off leaving you alone with your fading torch at the top of the winding staircase. She's gone for quite some time while you wait.

[dragnar]

I'll give the goblin a bit of the food(not like I can eat it anyway), then try to determine why they are laying siege to an abandoned fortress.

[Dwarmin]

Okay, if we're lucky we have ONE turn to gather up whatever food and supplies we need before the Goblins come, now that Tehs has informed me In-character that one escaped. Tehs, I'll need to hear your actions...if one us can't make it, the other will have to destroy the bridge, possibly leaving the other stranded...

Actions
Fan out and do a search for edible plants, OR a bird's nest with some tasty eggs. Depending on which terrain I am searching in-a forested area, I will climb a tree, a marshy area, I will search for plants. Do this for 30 mins, or 1/2 of my turn, and I am rushing, so penalties should be applied.

I will inform Tehs to meet me back at the foot of the rope bridge in 30 minutes no matter what...

Eat any eggs I find immediately.

If I see more than 1 Goblin on the horizon, or my searching is done, call to Tehstefan and run back across the rope bridge, at which point I light my Torch and burn down the bridge, to deny the Gobbos an easy path. I would prefer Tehs be on the safe side before I do so...

Then continue back down to where Dragnar is.

[tehstefan]

I look around for any animals or fish, and by the way, I try and keep around a central area, so I'm never too far away from the Kobold, or at least within shouting distance, so I can hear him, and he can hear me.

[Anti-Paragon]

Hmm. I don't like this. I mean, they're dwarves and probably trade with them, but there's stories of those crazy dwarves that lay siege on everyone. What if these are them? That would explain why they're hidden away instead of milling about the fort. But then again the dwarf didn't seem malicious, if a bit blunt. Clearly the tension of waiting is killing my character, especially with a failing torch. If I leave though, I might as well leave the meat as a good gesture, just in case I'm wrong.

How about I take a paranoia roll. If it passes(or fails, depending on how you look at it), I stay, and try to trade for a lamp or something (for now). If it don't, they're clearly rounding up a trader murder squad or pulling their doomsday switch or whatever those bearded little psychopaths do. If I bail, then I'll probably explore more of the courtyard. Maybe round out my meat and bread diet with some herbs and fruits/vegetables.

This character amuses me, and I feel he's going to get more and more paranoid as we go along.

[Dwarmin]

Yeah, your not standing under a drawbridge right, Anti-Paragon? 

[Anti-Paragon]

That's the problem. My wood bundles only have a 20' radius. There could be a huge drawbridge right over me and I wouldn't know it!

[dragnar]

These dwarves have lived here for many, many years. They won't have something as simple as a drawbridge, that would be far too painless...

[Zako]

And quick.