The valley of Morglynd is one of many in the wrinkled old skin of the Weather Hills. To the north, south and east of the valley rise tall grey hills, stony and barren; to the west are lower hills dotted with small thickets. A stream runs through the valley, quick and cold. It flows around an earthen mound called the Wart of Morglynd, forming a little mountain lake before it finds the path down west. The Wart was raised by Men of Arnor, long ago. Other than the landmark of the Wart, the rest of the valley is a landscape of moss-hung rocks, shadowy clefts, and piles of scree.



The day is still overcast and lacks any proper sunlight but at least it has not started to rain. You see Jari leading you towards the valley from the southwest where a path runs along the bank of the little stream. It was obviously cleared at some point in the last few years; rocks have been rolled aside and brambles cut to make the going easier.

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Roll STEALTH with -1d to avoid being noticed by Jari, or HUNTING if you track the party from out of sight.

Huge question for you: does the -1d I get on STEALTH due to Jari's vigilance (paranoia?) mean Sidh cannot use Elven-wise to achieve a Magical success? Or does she still have the necessary one skill level to permit use of her Cultural Blessing? I intend to spend Hope to achieve a Magical success per Elven-wise no matter what, but if I choose STEALTH could she reveal herself to the other player-characters whilst remaining wholly unseen by Jari and Diarmoc? Maybe grant each an AWARENESS check to catch a fleeting glimpse of her out the corner of their eye?

Just realized I forgot to choose Useful Items, and could opt for 'a dependable cloak' to benefit STEALTH. That would counter the obstacle by giving me a bonus die, so I guess that would make my above question moot.

A child of the semidark of dusk wrapped in a cloak of mistweave, Sidh moves with preternatural ease among those Gilraen bade her watch over. Though walking in plain sight of the company, fleeting glimpses of her are the perhaps the best that Aldaron, Haldan, Nor, and Perry can catch of her. All hear a faint female voice whispering as if in their ear, but it is not until she speaks in Westron that the message become clears to most. "Be thou not afraid. I am sent by friends."

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OOC: Spending 1 Hope to utilize Elven-wise and achieve a Magical success using STEALTH, -1d for Jari's obstacle and +1d for Sidh's cloak. I might permit the other player-characters to catch one of those fleeting glimpses on an ordinary success of AWARENESS, and on a great or exceptional success they see an Elf-maiden smile playfully at them. As for the whispers, I imagine no one understands Quenya and only Aldaron understands Sindarin.
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Sidh enters the valley behind the company, moving unnoticed between the boulders and thickets.

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Very well, you let them catch glimpses of you and whisper in their ears. What do you do next?

OOC: Were the others able to inform Gilraen of the nature of the threat they faced? I presume Gilraen passed that along to Sidh if so. Either way she is going to be watching for foes. Given what I just rolled, her LORE doesn't tell her anything about the valley's history. Keeping a watchful eye for threats, either way.

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04:50, Today: Sidh Evendim rolled a total of 6: a failure using the The One Ring with a target of 13 with rolls of 1 (Feat Die), 3, 1, 1.  Lore.
04:53, Today: Sidh Evendim rolled a total of 16: a great success (same result if weary) using the The One Ring with a target of 13 with rolls of 9 (Feat Die), 1, 6.  Awareness (Favoured).

Sidh vaguely recall that the valley of Morglynd was a part of the line of watchtowers and other defenses in the Weather Hills erected by descendants of Númenor.

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You will have to ask them what Gilraen said. She didn't tell you anything that isn't already written in this thread (you assume beacause she didn't know anything else).

Sidh is aware of movement north of the path.

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Sorry, I missed to give you this: You sense that there's probably something moving in the crevasses and small gulleys to the north of the path.

I can't warn them about this since the scene progressed before I got this, or is this in lieu of the current request for AWARENESS rolls?

Added that information to my most recent post, let me know if I need to change it.

That's fine. I'm going to close this thread soon so it'll be easier for me to track what is happening.

Roger that.