Re: Trailing the enemy
Moving quickly through the undergrowth, Adia-Ny falls back into his training. His many long hours of physical conditioning combined with meditations and excercises allow him to control his heart-rate and breathing to pull even more speed from his already fit body. Falling into an easy, loping gait, he slips through the light woods and undergrowth in the direction in which the enemies had vanished. Considering that ogres are large and brutish, and don't even seem to be attempting to cover their tracks, he stumbles accross their path almost immediately. Flitting from cover to cover, he moves as quickly as he can through the woods. Fully conscious of the severity of his injuries, he proceeds cautiously from then on. Not that he wouldn't sacrifice his life if needed, but it would avail no-one if he were to be caught and killed, alone out here in the middle of nowhere. The young man picks a hiding spot, and then scans ahead. Seeing the way to be clear, he sets his sights on another hiding spot, then runs forward, stepping lightly over broken branches and dropping into the new spot, only to repeat the process over and over again until he finally catches sight of his quarry in the distance.
Also, he's not trying at this point to get close enough to overhear them, but just to see where they are going, how many of them there are, etc. He's going to keep them just at the edge of his sight, letting them move on before he advances. He's using the natural cover available, combined with distance to keep himself from being noticed.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:11, Wed 07 Feb 2007.