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Redlun XXVIII
Missiledine: Hey!
tacit01: hola!
Dukejr01: the gang is all here.
tacit01: hey, my cat likes french fries!
Missiledine: Good, lets get going...When last we left...
Dukejr01: k
Missiledine: you were running for your lives!
tacit01: oh yeah
Dukejr01: yes. I was thinking about that. instead of galloping, we continue moer slowly, don't want to lose the
Dukejr01: horses
Missiledine: ok... the last event of note was the raven passing close by above you
Missiledine: it vanished over one of the ridges and hasn't been seen since
Dukejr01: also, we should head north. find water.
tacit01: how long since it flew over?
Dukejr01: we turn and head north the moment we get to another patch of rocks.
Missiledine: Maybe a half hour
Dukejr01: A casts seek earth looking for silver once an hour.
Missiledine: remember, east west is the way the land runs. North south means constant climbs and descents
Dukejr01: I know, but north is where the troops are and north is where water is.
Missiledine: ok
Missiledine: about a half hour later you cast Seek Earth... you detect silver about four miles behind you
Dukejr01: this sucks I really effed up lat game
Dukejr01: shit
Dukejr01: head north
tacit01: we should mix it up - hed north for a while, then east again
Missiledine: it is about an hour after dawn
Dukejr01: sounds good.
tacit01: we have 3 horses?
Missiledine: correction 3 hours after dawn
Missiledine: you are each mounted, three horses
Missiledine: Not that Miklas is actually riding
Dukejr01: okay,. how long til we get to the troops?
Dukejr01: question, how far away can A cast rain of stones?
Missiledine: well, you rode most of the night to get here... say anothe six or eight hours
Missiledine: do you mean 4 miles?
Dukejr01: What I would liek to do is cast Rain EAST of where we are about to start riding north, one hex radius
Missiledine: how far east?
tacit01: do we have any spears or anything we can make a travois out of?
Dukejr01: so that they find it and think we continued that ay. or at least we throw em a bit
Missiledine: not that I know of
Dukejr01: right now A is covering our tracks
tacit01: k
Dukejr01: I tam thinking cast it say, a quarter mile away east. jsut fling it.
Missiledine: you can cast it
tacit01: what is the wather like - sunny, cloudy, snowy...
tacit01: weather
Missiledine: scattered clouds, cold
Dukejr01: okay. A does so. andthen we head north covering the tracks as we go. hopefully they will find that
Dukejr01: patch of rocks, assume we were nearby and not realize we headed north earlier.
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: A keeps a sharp eye out for that damn bird.
tacit01: if we have the luxury of walking the horses, how long does Jacinta think they will last?
Missiledine: you ride north for how long?
Dukejr01: <might be a mage in the party if that bird was a familiar or somethign>
tacit01: not long, I don't think -we'll be profiled on the high ground...
Missiledine: they haven't had significant water or sleep in hours... may get another four or five hours out of the
Missiledine: them
Dukejr01: can we walk them for more endurance?
Missiledine: sure, but it's slower going
tacit01: if we dismount it would help a little, also
Dukejr01: we will go for a couple more hours like this. A will cast seek earth again in an hour. see where we
Dukejr01: stand
Missiledine: you detect silver about 3.5 miles behind you
Dukejr01: okay. do they seem to be following or are they directly south?
Dukejr01: I am trying to get a picture.
tacit01: crap - and we've travelled how far since we last checked?
Missiledine: they seem to be the same relative direction they were before
Missiledine: maybe three miles
Dukejr01: odd. okay go another hour.
Missiledine: <they have closed a half mile on you>
Dukejr01: again?
tacit01: <right - they closed .5 and we've gone 3 - I'm doing the math - gonna be close>
Missiledine: ok
Missiledine: north or east now?
Dukejr01: the troops are what direction? I think mostly north yes?
Missiledine: yes
tacit01: the spell reveals the single largest source? can it be cast to reveal multiple sources?
Dukejr01: I dunno. GM?
Missiledine: if you eliminate known sources
Dukejr01: A casts again eliminating the source he detected earlier
Missiledine: it will reveal the next largest
Dukejr01: gotcha
tacit01: trying to figure out possible number of pursuers or locations of scouting parties...
Missiledine: about 3.5 miles behind you on the same bearing
Dukejr01: k
Dukejr01: lets contimue north. continueing to cover tracks
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: do I see any bords?
Dukejr01: birds even
Missiledine: boids?
Missiledine: a few in the distance, none behaving unnaturally
Dukejr01: allright
tacit01: how is Miklas?
Missiledine: still unconscious
Missiledine: how long till you cast again? 1 hour?
Dukejr01: Athamar checks him regularly.
Dukejr01: yes
Dukejr01: we should be finding water soon.
Dukejr01: <of course, what do I know?
Missiledine: an hour later you cast Seek Earth and again pick up the silve, a bit more than 3 miles behind you on
Missiledine: the same bearing as before
Missiledine: <nothing>
Dukejr01: okay. arethey paralleling us?
tacit01: J suggests if they locate a scouting party, she'd like to ambush them and capture horses
Missiledine: no, following, seem to be coming straight after you as opposed to following your trail
Dukejr01: I see. how much silver is on US?
Missiledine: lol
Dukejr01: not kidding.
tacit01: <or iron...>
Missiledine: probably a fair bit oh wealthy noble
Dukejr01: could be that too.
Missiledine: or horses or clothing or copper or food or water or....
Dukejr01: well, I deliberately left silber at home cuz I wanted to be able to use Seek Earth unfettered.
Missiledine: ok
Missiledine: not that having it would have caused a problem
Missiledine: just exclude it
Dukejr01: okay. we are out of water. we have food. we can bury that. iron is problematical. horses we can't do
Dukejr01: without
Dukejr01: how far til troops? 3 hours now?
Missiledine: about that
Dukejr01: if we stop covering tracks will that speed us up?
Missiledine: a bit, will save you energy too
Dukejr01: stop covering tracks
Missiledine: continue north?
Dukejr01: yes.
tacit01: so we're about halfway between troops and the enemy (we hope)?
Missiledine: an hour later you cast seek earth again... they are just over 2.5 miles behind you....
Dukejr01: any ideas?
Missiledine: Who, me?
Dukejr01: have we come across water?
Missiledine: not yet
Dukejr01: not you. troy
Missiledine: <I'm full of em!>
tacit01: any sign of water yet - trees, anything?
Missiledine: as you top one of the ridges, you can see maybe a mile west of you, what looks like the tops of trees
Missiledine: in the next vale over
Dukejr01: but the troops are north,. yes?
Missiledine: yes
tacit01: not really - I know what J'd do if she was alone.. but with an injured man, and a lord to protect...
tacit01: head for reinforcements and water
Dukejr01: This is A's plan: we get to the troops. we hurriedly remove the shoes from the horses. while
tacit01: pray to Mitra for protection (which she's been doing)
Dukejr01: others tie the dead men <maybe to teh wild ponies. we shoo the ponies in groups of 6 or so away in
Dukejr01: all directions.. A then uses his spellcraft to cover our tracks as we head NE to back home.
tacit01: were others in our main party wounded?
Dukejr01: not really
Missiledine: none seriously
Dukejr01: one took a point, another took two. but A patched em up
tacit01: how many other tame horses?
Dukejr01: that reminds me. being that A is wealthy,. its been too much trouble setting up a "stuff carried list
Dukejr01: that will change
Missiledine: lol
Dukejr01: we have a total of 11 horses. including 3 pack animals.
tacit01: and how many people?
Dukejr01: well, I was thinking about the question: Do we have any healing grass?" it seems to me that I
Dukejr01: shouldn't have to ask that question.
Dukejr01: we have 8
Dukejr01: including a wounded miklas.
Dukejr01: we head North.
Missiledine: ignoring the trees?
Dukejr01: A casts Seek earth. excluding everything south of him, loking for Steel
tacit01: no - trees (usually) mean water
Dukejr01: <maybe the trees are the pther party>
tacit01: at the very least, trees mean cover to shoot a bow from if we're attacked
tacit01: I thought the party was the opposite direction of the trees?
Missiledine: you detect a large concentration of steel north and slightly east, about 7 miles
Dukejr01: I don;t thin kwe will survive a fight just the two of us with thoe following.
Dukejr01: the trees are how far away?
Missiledine: the enemy is SW, the trees W your people are NE
Missiledine: trees are about a mile
Dukejr01: in otehr words going htere would carry us TOWARD the enemy
tacit01: oh.. crap again
Dukejr01: NE
Missiledine: ok
tacit01: how are the horses?
Dukejr01: you had to ask
Missiledine: very tired.. maybe another five or six miles like this
Missiledine: <I haven't forgotten!>
tacit01: can we tell if the enemy is heading for us or for the trees?
Missiledine: can't be certain since you have only just seen the trees
tacit01: k
Dukejr01: NE
Missiledine: right... cast Seek Earth again in an hour?
Dukejr01: yes.
Missiledine: silver or steel?
Dukejr01: we dropped food and extranious supplies. silver.exclude the stuff north of us
Missiledine: silver... 2 miles SW
Dukejr01: okay.
Missiledine: continue NE?
Dukejr01: well, nothing for it. lets go. yes.
Dukejr01: I know the horses aer about to drop
Dukejr01: can we walk them?
tacit01: I thought we were walking them
Dukejr01: that is right
Missiledine: you ride on.... about three quarters of an hour later, Athamar, your horse starts to stagger
Missiledine: ride and walk and ride and walk
Dukejr01: poor horse. its dying?
Missiledine: not yet, but its exhausted
Dukejr01: drag it along as far as it will go.
Missiledine: walking it?
Dukejr01: yes
Missiledine: stopping to cast again?
Dukejr01: No.
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: yes.. yes.
Dukejr01: I am sorry.
Missiledine: ok
Missiledine: silver?
Dukejr01: yes.
tacit01: we shoud start considering leaving the horses as a decoy...
Dukejr01: if the horse slows us down we will have to kill it
Missiledine: fifteen or twenty minutes after your horses starts staggering, you cast Seek Silver and find that the
Dukejr01: <the suspense!>
Missiledine: enemy is about a mile and a half to the SW
tacit01: maybe keep the strongest for Miklas, but leave the other 2
Dukejr01: okay. shouldn;t we be close to the troops?
Dukejr01: good idea.
Missiledine: maybe, it was almost dark when you left this area yesterday so its hard to judge where you are in
Missiledine: relation
Dukejr01: okay. I like troy's idea. A will cast seek earth looing for iron ignoring all that is south. that wil
Dukejr01: will find our troops.
tacit01: query - if we take a saddle of a horse, can we still tie Miklas on it's back?
tacit01: off, that is
Missiledine: you detect a mass off iron about a mile due north
Missiledine: of iron
Dukejr01: then we send two ofthe horses SE
tacit01: yippee (i hope)
Missiledine: that would be hard to do, keeping him up there
tacit01: k - just trying to reduce the load on teh horse...
Missiledine: they won't go anywhere
Dukejr01: okay. leave them,
Missiledine: they walk about twenty feet and start grazing
Dukejr01: okay.
Dukejr01: north
Missiledine: ok
tacit01: take off tehir saddles, bridles, etc.. and leave them on the ground
tacit01: unburden tehm
Dukejr01: that is nice of you, but I think our friends will take them. :-)
tacit01: <them and their, that is>
Missiledine: as you stumble to the top of a ridge, you see a very faint trace of smoke about a half mile further
Missiledine: on
Dukejr01: keep going.
tacit01: fine -it may also confuse them and the may lingure to investigate
Dukejr01: lol. we can hope.
tacit01: how far away is the enemy?
Dukejr01: can you see em?
tacit01: <won't hurt>
Missiledine: you cross another ridge and see the familiar valley where the horses and your people are waiting
tacit01: whew!
Missiledine: no sign of the enemy
Dukejr01: A has J prepare the troops for departure while he casts seek earth
tacit01: put out the fire immediately
Missiledine: "My Lord! What has happened?"
Dukejr01: put Miklas on a pack horse.
Missiledine: seek silve shows the mass to be about 1 mile back
Dukejr01: "I was a fool. and there are more of them than I expected. 1 mile thataway. Lets move."
Missiledine: "What of the prisoner, My Lord?"
Dukejr01: A mounts a fresh horse, there shoudl be enough for everyone yes?
Missiledine: yes
Dukejr01: Good.
Missiledine: uhm, not the prisoner
Dukejr01: ye. I get it.
tacit01: J suggests we leave the last of the fatigued mounts here - it's a liability
Dukejr01: A casts entomb on him drawing his single point left from the powerstone and 8 from himself
Dukejr01: agreed
Dukejr01: Chase off the ponies.
tacit01: J will get a LOT of water
Missiledine: "What of the other horses?"
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: Separate the ponies out and lets try to take the cobs along.
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: does entomb work?
Missiledine: yes
Dukejr01: okay. if everything is ready we ride.
Dukejr01: go west
Missiledine: it takes a few minutes to organise, but you are moving at last.... West?
tacit01: J also east as we ride
tacit01: whatever direction home is? :-)
Dukejr01: nah. NW
Dukejr01: I mean NE
Dukejr01: I am getting fatigued myself
Missiledine: which?
Dukejr01: NE
Missiledine: ok
Dukejr01: west would be stupid.
Missiledine: true
Missiledine: you head NE
tacit01: what time of day is it?
Missiledine: men ride on either side of Miklas, keeping an eye on him... it is getting dark... almost 6pm
Missiledine: (Winter hours)
Dukejr01: gotcha
Dukejr01: already?
Dukejr01: hmmmm...
Missiledine: let me recount, I may be off!
Dukejr01: I was jsut thinking it took us 9 hourse to get to the enemy stronghold.
Dukejr01: should have been quicker on the way back. daylight and all.
tacit01: sounds a little high, but not too far off
tacit01: walking fatigued and dehydrated horses
Dukejr01: yah. we got there wat. at 3 or 4 am?
Dukejr01: maybe took us 8 hours. dunno
Missiledine: your right, call it 4
Missiledine: still an hour or so till sunset'
Dukejr01: okay,. good two hours of daylight.
Dukejr01: or an hour
tacit01: Ok, it's a 4
Missiledine: 5 ish is sunset, but not full dark
Dukejr01: well, we can use cont light to keep going at night.
Dukejr01: which I plan to do.
Missiledine: ok, are you casting seek earth again?
tacit01: how far/long to the manor, or some kind of shelter or aid?
Dukejr01: yes. as soon as he is able
Dukejr01: that is my next question. is it farthur to go to the monstary than directly to Redlun? A wants to
Dukejr01: get Miklas healed.
Missiledine: your a good day and a half to the manor, maybe more. You already camped one night
Missiledine: little further to the monastary...
Dukejr01: this time we are not stopping for hunting or investigating places.
Dukejr01: okay. Redlun it is.
Dukejr01: okay. A casts Seek earth
Dukejr01: a little furthur as in an hour or two more?
Dukejr01: to the monestary that is
Missiledine: one of your men says, "Due east of here, maybe twenty, twenty five miles, is the village of Windhook.
Missiledine: It's no closer, but it's easier terrain between here and there."
Dukejr01: ah. in that case. lets head directly that way.
Missiledine: three or four hours probably... extra to monastary
Dukejr01: okay. A is mostly concerned with getting muklas to help as quickly as possible
Missiledine: How long do you wait to cast Seek Silver? a half hour?
Dukejr01: yes.
Dukejr01: half hour about right. gain some str back
Missiledine: you will have traveled about a mile and a half from the campsite, the spell shows the mass of silver
Missiledine: is 2 miles behind you, south and mostly east
Dukejr01: east?
Missiledine: sorry, west
Dukejr01: oh. okay. we maintain the pace.
Missiledine: <We have to wrap this up soon guys, I need a decent night sleep!>
Dukejr01: I assume J sleeps in her saddle
Missiledine: <Sorry>
Dukejr01: okay.
Dukejr01: that is okay!
Dukejr01: I am surprised adn delighted we made it this far.
Missiledine: lol
Missiledine: <Think you've escaped, ehhh!>
Dukejr01: A will take his men to the other village the man mentioned. he earns a "good job" BTW.
Dukejr01: well,, now THEY are on fatuigued horses. though not as bad as ours.
Missiledine: we shall see.....
Missiledine: well gents, I will say good night.!
Dukejr01: night
tacit01: ah - g-nite!
Dukejr01: thanks for running us
Missiledine: look for me this weekend
Dukejr01: okay.
Missiledine: my pleasure
Missiledine: night
tacit01: oh - I'll be on vacation next week
Dukejr01: night
Missiledine: ok
Missiledine: email me
Dukejr01 has left the room.
tacit01: k
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