In reply to Orinastron (msg # 11):
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Orinastron will string his bow too. "So, what now? Shall we push on down the slope towards the camp or send someone ahead to scout it out?"
I'll try and paint the picture a little better.
From the sea you spotted something on the bluffs above the beach, and given you would have been a couple of KM out at least, that means it is something substantial. too far to make it out, but the idea there may be a camp or settlement is a reasonable conclusion in relation to the fact it appeared there's a biggish vessel (a galley) drawn up on the beach below it (ie overlooked from the bluffs).
While in the forest you are on higher ground than the beach, but the 'camp' may be on the same level as you - and just out there beyond the trees. where you are standing, still within the forest, shows the hallmarks of human activity - the first you have seen in three hours of moving trough the forest.
What is needed is statement of who is going to move closer to the edge of the forest about 50-80m away to get a good view of what is beyond, if you are moving as a group or sending a scout forward.
either way, and assuming you are not sauntering along whistling a tune, make me a stealth roll, one team test for all those creeping forward.
You can of course not move forward but scout around a bit more, follow the forest directly West as it flows down to lower ground before petering out some distance back from the beach, and make your way to where the 'boat' is instead.