"I admit that Jak's reasons for contacting the Voadkyn are valid, but only if they have those answers," Radagast responds. "While it seems odd that time should be a factor after all this time, I feel it best that we push on."

"We may have a lot of ground to cover. No one remembers what the Far East held, or even how far away it is, or what may have happened to it in the intervening years."

"We do know that the Entwives are there. Once we find and return them, perhaps then we can explore this area further."

"We move on."
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 Sky listened to her friend and said. "I agree. We should move in and if need be come back to explore this region better. If there are no objections I'll have Nightbreeze scout ahead for us?"

not sure what time of the day it is or if we need to rest?
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"I share your views on that Sky" Tilaleria commented "I feel the enemy is moving, we know at a least one Ent Wife has been hideously experimented on, and have no reason to believe that more are not being tormented and twisted. This gives me a sense of urgency."

"It's all very well saying, for example 'don't  hasty', but delay and inaction could mean the end of the Ent Wives, as they are turned into terrible weapons. It is this sense of urgency that is making me want to avoid delays en route. I quite like the idea of exploring these areas. I suspect given a few decades of careful study, it should be quite possible, and very rewarding to talk to the Voadkyn. We know they trade for tobacco, that implies that it is possible to interact with them peacefully."

She nodded to suggestion of aerial scouts. The more the better
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Once again, the Fellowship is in an odd position. It's the end of the day, and while there doesn't seem to be any impending threat traveling through the giant tobacco forest, setting up Anira's cottage would be obvious out here.

It would be quite dark going through the forest. The huge broad leaves of the tobacco would block out all the starlight and moonlight.

"Do we care if the cottage is obvious?" Tilalerial commented "It is pitch black in here at night, and while I can call upon my training to operate in the dark, I am unable to sense anything beyond a stones throw away. My understanding is that even the creatures of Morgoth are similarly restricted"

"MInd you we should probably have a picket line, or rather given our numbers a few guards. I don't need to sleep in the way some of you do, so I am happy to take part in one. A second person woud be good, as would any animals you can ask to keep guard for us"

"Unless a 'patrol' stumbles across us or our tracks, we should be fine." She paused "did any of you good at tracking spot signs of a patrol?"

"I think that it would be sensible to rest here for the night," Borun replied. "I am happy to take part in the nighttime watch."

Sky had her companion take the lead. Now just near the cottage she yearned him back. Sky mumbled a phrase and cast. detect magic Sky then took her pack off and said, "I shall take first watch if that's ok with you all?"
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Anira conjures up her magical cottage again, just outside of the strange tobacco forest.

So, yes, the cottage detects as magical to Sky.

Watches are posted, but the night passes uneventfully. In retrospect, it did seem unlikely that the Voadkyn would be 'tending' the plants at night. The only real concern was the wildlife. Who knew what kinds of creatures might be attracted to these giant plants.

The next day dawns mostly bright and clear, but there are dark, ominous clouds on the southern horizon.

Traveling through the tobacco forest is fairly easy going. The distance between the stalks is more than enough room for Saxon's wagon.

Scouts to the rows left and right can easily provide warning, but it isn't necessary. It takes just over an hour to get to the other side of the forest.

There were sounds heard in the forest, probably Voadkyn tending the plants, but it was far enough away that it wasn't a threat nor was it worth side-tracking.


Once out of the shade of the towering tobacco plants, more rolling plain greets the eye, but there's a slight difference. There are more rocky outcroppings here than on the other side and the hills are a bit higher.

The biggest problem with the journey is that it's long; it's already starting to wear on some of the group.

Creatures can be seen in the distance, perhaps a pack of wolves.

"Well I'm glad to be out of there" Tilaleria commented. There was always just the edgyness of 'did they have to worry about an ambush.

"So... " she shaded her eyes and looked hard. "Wolves. Or Wargs." Tilaleria wasn't the least perceptive of her kin, and hoped to be able to see if there were riders or things like that

"If they are just natural creatures and they decide to fight us, we should control it. I know normal wolves only hunt things the size of a rabbit, but if there are wargs among them all bets are off. We could set them a target, and let that target fall back a little from the others, like a solitary wounded member of a pack. When they close in the others can join in the fight. I'd be happy to be that target. I am smaller than most of you, and they will probably assume that I am the easiest killed."

"I assume if 'the target' was to lure them together you nature magicians have means of restraining them."

Tilaleria paused in thoughts

"They are pack animals. If you were to either control or replace the alpha, would the rest follow you?"

Then continued with

"Mind you if they have riders, it's all moot. We'd have to deal with the riders, and that's a totally different situation"


OOC Perception 48

Sky used her wild empathy and nature sense tword the pack of animals, As she stood at the beasts, she suddenly could feel the pack,their hearts beating, the air flowwing through each members lungs.

Tilaleria does not see any riders on the distant creatures, and they appear to be just wolves, although the pack is rather large.



Sky is able to sense the pack's 'emotions'. The first thing she realizes is that there are three separate packs--meaning three alpha males. Yet they aren't fighting each other.

It's because they are fleeing. There is something they all are afraid of that is pursuing them.

"They are just wolves. Three packs to be accurate. They are scared and fleeing something? Give me a minute." Sky said word in Elvish and began to levitate into the air to get a better view. Once Sky had gotten high enough to make out the surrounding area, she pulled her bow out and notched three arrows. Using her empathy with Nightbreeze, Sky felt a protection sense and had her friend run to the packs and lead them back tword the group.

Sky waited to see what purcuced the three packs before doing anything. Even though Sky despised anything that hurt nature and its animals, unless it was for self preservation. "0nce the packs get close to us form a circle so we will have every direction covered."

Sky was now in her element, a farm with huge plants. Sky waited till she was able to see and the packs were being chased by.

" If we must fight then so be it. If anyone can cast a greese spell? If so then wait till their pack leaders are about to fall behind a bit. Cast the sell in a circle around the evil enemy or whatever it is? After the greese is down I'll use a fire arrow to ignite it. That should give us a nice containment until we either kill or question they might just be hungry, tired, and being squeezed of the three packs hunting ground. so any objections? These plants should be helpful and then we will make a more stealful way tword the cottage." .

"It's personally to me now. I am ready to fight off this threat," Sky told the others.


Sky rolled + 35 perception, plz bear w/ me I hate typing & am using a phone. I wish there was a microphone for this game instead of just texting. And to top it all I lost over a third of my books.
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Leviteing now for a bit the others found see the bottom of her boots sole tapping up and down. <red>"it could be an ambush?" Sky came.bak to earth and want happy she was ready to get this done.

Sky hoped on her own wolf and scouted ahead. <red>"I'll find out.".<red>
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"If they are fleeing in terror will they pause to hunt?" Tilaleria asked. "Perhaps if we just move sideways out of their path, they will move past us. We should of course prepare" in fact she prepared right then casting a charm that protected her from fangs and claws a little "I think though that preparing a few hundred yards away from their line of flight should help"

"Do you think you can see what is chasing them, or what they are worried about Sky?" she asked "And are the other animals fleeing, or is it just this wolf pack?"


OOC Shield spell

The wolf packs are fleeing northward, pursued by something from the south. They are about 2 miles away from you.

Nothing is immediately visible of the their pursuers.

The words of the two women wash over him as a breeze, but like a breeze, they carry the scent of their concern. It is not their welfare that concerns him, any more than all creatures of the world concern him, but the tone arouses his senses. Something does concern them.

"Mordor... yet different... a blend of old and new... new blasphemies that taint the land, corrupt the living, invoke the dead," he mutters.

Once again in his hybrid deer form, he turns his head to the southeast, his sight penetrating the distance like the sting of a bee penetrates the skin.

"Orc-but-not-orc. More than Orc, less than Orc. Vile and foul, their very touch is anathema to the living. Their mere presence corrupts the air, carried on the winds for all to sense."

There were clearly times when Tavaro seemed to exist on another plane, or perhaps it was that his own senses were perceiving other times and places. As if coming out of a reverie, he shakes his hand and turns his gaze back to the others in his company.

"You call them gorgun. And perhaps that is how they started, but they have been corrupted beyond all that is natural."

"Black be their skin, red be their eyes, with extra limbs and extra size. Should they but touch a wolf, the wolf will be transformed into a warg--the only beast that could be a suitable companion for their kind."

"The wolves are too close to nature, so easily fall prey to nature's corruption."

"Four and twenty gorgun will soon turn this way, for even as I sense their  corruption, they will surely sense our purity, which is as anathema to them as they are to us."

"This be not a battle we can avoid, nor should we."

"Ah, there it is! The source of the corruption, the architect of their vile construction!"

Tavaro transforms into a giant eagle and takes wing into darkening sky.

Borun frowned at Tavaro's disconcerting words. Mutated orcs with multiple limbs and warg companions would be formidable foes. On top of that, twenty-four of them heavily outnumbered our modest group.

Borun had been considering an illusion spell, but Tavaro implied that the orcs' senses would penetrate such minor magic.

Borun steeled himself for combat. If he was to die here alongside these brave, honourable friends, so be it. He would make the orcs pay heavily.

"Well then Orc blood is on the soup menu today. I've been itching to slay some nasty orcs. I'm sure they know we're here and we know they are there so neither has a surprise advantage. Let's prepare now and kill them once they attack." . Said Skyy.
Oh course Skyy wasn't about to eat blood soup it was a saying. She readied her bow and leaned it against her hip. "I have a couple buffs I can give out but my spells are more suited for pain."

Skyy closed her eyes,said a word or two,then snapped her fingers. She then focused on the three packs of wolves. Sending out the feeling of safety if they came to the group and helped fight the orcs. Skyy took off a black mask and replaced it with one that was white with blue stars. She gave Nightbreeze a loving rub on his neck, then grabbed her bow and notched an arrow.


Ooc cast bless + 1att for group& cast bark skin on Borun lasts 5 min/ +3AC
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Skyy heard the worry in Borgun's voice. "No need to fear my friend I have plenty of spells suited for this type of terrain. We will make mincemeat out of these ugly things. So let's set up for a fight, let them come to us and use some of their energy.
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Borun's heavy heart was buoyed by Skyy's confidence. He looked up at the elf and nodded. "Thank you, Skyy. Let us prepare for the battle."

Borun flexed his limbs in a kata.

"Can any of you nature types make the plants grow enough to allow us some structure. It would be ideal if they could only approach us from one direction, and then we can place those that are robust in melee combat in the way, while the other fire missile weapons and spells. It's a simple plan, but I think it would make a big difference. Some sort of Wall of Thorns, or even Plant Growth..."

"We are not as outnumbered as you think," Arithal says as he glances around at everyone. "Counting Otorno and Nightbreeze, there are 18 of us... well, perhaps only 17. I don't think we can count on Tavaro to be of any help, if he returns. He seemed to think that there was some controlling force behind these gorgun. If there is, it may be a match for the Maiar."

"I'm sure some of us can create a barrier, but, alas, that spell is not in my repertoire. I have other things that can handle these creatures, though."

"I have many of the spells you speak of. But we need to wait till they get in range then I can snare and entangle them making easy targets," said Sky. She looked back to the wooded tobacco fields and said, "Let's move back closer to the fields." Sky then cast warp wood making a small shelter with slits to shoot arrows out of.

"Once they attack I'll be able to snare and entangle them using the plants. It shouldn't be a hard fight then."
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Elmohtar, who has been lost in thought for the last day or so, is awakened to danger at hand. Perhaps, he too, senses the coming evil.

He directs his great bird to fly alongside Tavaro, and bring news when the enemy nears.

"With so many plants around I will be able to teleport to essentially any point within this, well, forest, I guess. And take three of you with me. So we can flank them, once they are here. But for now, I can raise a wall to protect us."

He casts Plant Growth to make a kind of fort or wall to best defend them against the oncoming attack.

"My proposal Sky" Tilalera commented "was to prepare the battlefield so that they cannot circle around us. For example some thick undergrowth here and here" she pointed "would mean that they could come at us from only one side, giving us a huge defensive advantage, and allowing those of you who want to stay out of the physical fighting to do so"

"I imagine that her entangling strategy will work extremely well, but if we can funnel the attackers, concentrating their forces by restricting where they can come at us from, then I suspect the spells will work end better"

She nodded to Elmohtar "Please" she said. "The wall is good. You flank, and I will be part of the living wall and bait that you will flank them against. We need something to draw them in after all"