In reply to McNealy (msg # 730):

Trying to butcher the invisible is not an easy feat.


The footprints trail off around the side of an oddky symmetrical hill.

OOC:  If people want to get off after the paw prints while they're fresh, Jednesa can bundle the carcasses up in her tarp and stow them in the wagon.  A little Create Water will clean us up, and we can be off.

Just say so.

The elder sister kneels beside the younger's bedroll.

"Come, Holy Sister, it's time we went to find where those things came from, and perhaps who sent them."

She looks toward the lightening sky.  "I wonder if it will rain soon?"

[Private to GM: 19:26, Today: Evelina Grattan rolled 11 using 3d6.  Weather Sense (14) for today's weather.]

In reply to Evelina Grattan (msg # 733):

Emma, finishing a reasonable job on the creature she is skinning, rolls it up for later sale, before noticing the odd hill. She rouses those still resting (Christine, and others?) and heads over there.

In reply to Emma Wilson (msg # 734):

Christine follows her friend...is Crispin still hanging around? She has not specifically dismissed him, but she has not told him to stay, either.

In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 735):

Crispin was ruining a tiger skin, now more like a leather hide than a rug... still useable as invisible light leather armor if brought to the right armorer.

The prints lead around the side of the hill, beyond which is a bit of a drop off.

The sisters stay near whoever is following the tracks back, walking with their slings wound into their fingers and a stone each gently swinging like a pendulum.

In reply to Fire elemental (msg # 736):

lol,

"Come, my little pyromanic friend. Lets see what else we can find..."

She will follow the others investigating the path. It might be a good spot to rest.

When the rest of the group decides to investigate the hill, Alchemist McNealy practically can't get there fast enough, although he stays behind the fighter types.

All the while he'll chatter on excitedly...  "Do you think he'san alchemist?  This could be the find of a century.  What kind of skill would someone need to make tigers invisible, much less trigers.  This is exciting.  Do you see anything?......"

OOC I would rather just say that he's overly excited about this discovery, and with some chummy he's going to be...super annoying.  In this case I'd rather just explain instead of posting over and over with different questions and comments....  But you can imagine he is a real handful right now.

[Private to GM: Chummy, Curious, Impulsive, and obsessed with filling out his formulary...  Yeah, he's a super anti-social pain in the buttocks right now.  I don't want to be super annoying but the character would be.]

"...By the way, I really think your fire elemental is cool.  His name is Crispin is it?  How did you come to be friends?  Where did he come from?  How does the burning work?  Does he pull from the existing mana, or is there some sort of planar interaction? Does need heed food?  Or does he need to burn things?  Can he speak?  Isn't this exciting???....."
[Private to GM:
Oh yeah, forgot pyromania.]

In reply to McNealy (msg # 740):

"I learnt to create fire elementals, and this particular friend is one who I befriended from the elemental plane of fire. He does speak, in a fashion, though he is a little hot-headed at times. You can ask him yourself...I am interested to see what may lay ahead."

Masugatan follows the sisters, keeping an eye on the rear of the party.  And he also makes sure nothing is sneaking up on them.

In reply to Masugatan (msg # 742):

Lol, with that array of posteriors, anything more sneaky that a herd of charging elephants may not get noticed!

On seeing everyone scrambling to follow the sisters, Evelina shrugs and continues following the tracks back toward their origin.

[Private to GM: 05:01, Today: Evelina Grattan rolled 11 using 3d6.  Survival (Woodland) (defaulted from Swampland, 10).]

"...I would be glad to meet your little friend.  Does he have a name?  How would I talk to him?  You said he communicates a little differently..."

In reply to Masugatan (msg # 742):

"Hey! Eyes on the prize! Also, little man is a bit chatty, no?"

In reply to Valerie (msg # 746):

"Quite. Silent for days on end, then talks like a town crier when we should be quiet...lets discuss this later."

In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 747):

A few per rolls folks

In reply to Narrator (msg # 748):

Christine notices very little...

[Private to GM: Rolls of 15 and 16 for both Emma and Christine, both are 4 over Per. ]

Despite his chattiness and generally animated behavior, Tradesman McNealy is paying attention to his surroundings.

"Say, does your fire elemental have a name?  How should I address him?  Is there any special trick to communicating with him...?

[Private to GM: Makes it by 1.
13:14, Today: Secret Roll: McNealy rolled 12 using 3d6.  McNealy PER 13.]

Jednesa is paying too much attention to clambering up to the top of the oddly shaped hill in order to get a good look around to actually notice anything.



OOC:  19:25, Today: Jednesa rolled 15 using 3d6.  Per 7.

In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 749):

"Perhaps not the best time for this discussion, McNealy..." Emma comments, distracted by the chatty gnome.

02:58, Today: Masugatan rolled 10 using 3d6.  Per roll. (Made it)

The sisters continue moving forward slowly, trying to keep to the triger tracks.

[Private to GM: 05:10, Today: Evelina Grattan rolled 4 using 1d6+2.  Per (14).
05:11, Today: Elaina Grattan rolled 8 using 1d6+2.  Perception (13).]

In reply to Evelina Grattan (msg # 754):
 OCC: Evalina, you need to refresh the dice log

Masugatan and McNealy spot the tracks heading into a cavelike opening in the side of the hill.