All right, hello again, and welcome everyone to another episode of suffering in
the swamps, or I guess, in this case, fresh out of the
swamps. Maybe we'll find out together we're on land at least you are,
it's true, which is the segue of when we last left our heroes question
mark. I guess we had just landed after a brief and shockingly uneventful raft
ride. And there's basically upsloped terrain. It's misty, like very very dense
fog in the distance. There is a flickering light. So what do you
all want to do? Let's see if we can explore the land beyond the
lights that I have a bad feeling about over there. We've been here too
long. I know this because I see that light in the distance, and
I just don't know about trusting it. It's because we should not. But
let's at least get the rafts up onto the shore, and I mean take
a lay of the land from what we can can from the mists. See
if you get an idea of how big this place is. All right,
So the northeast is where the flickering light is coming from, but the land
continues to slope upward and it seems to be, at least what you can
see around you. It seems to be a lot of rock and knee high
periodical patches of grass. The soil is spongy. Optimer would recognize it as
almost like peat e kind of soil, call it loam, but I don't
think that's right. Is there a part where it plateaus off? As far
as the incline goes in the mists, you cannot see great sorry, within
your visible range, it still is inclining. It's not like a like a
super steep like forty five degree incline, but it's it's steady. Okay,
where are we sitting as far as our means to make a torch? Well,
what do you guys have on you? A good question? Did we
take anything from the swamp? We did was all pretty wet and so,
I mean what we took was we made it into the raft and then we
got like a little bit of food, a little bit of Hm. Well,
we do have the raft bush comes to shelf. We could always just
tear that motherfucker art. We maybe do a survival check or something like that
to even get some materials around you hit a pole for the raft. Oh,
we did have a pole for the raft. Okay, we can probably
so you could chop some off the pole. We don't theoretically want to go
back through the swamp. Yeah, let's repurpose the pole and make a torch.
Let's go for that. If that even help? It won't, but
we should do it. Can we just do that? Do it the role?
Anything for that? Oh? No, that's there's plenty of bundles of
grass around, and even though it's soggy near the base, it's like I
said, they're pretty tall. So you can chop some off higher up and
make some kindling. No trees or anything, right, not yet, should
keep an eye out. You wrap the top of the torch and shove some
grass in it, and you can light it up. It doesn't really extend
how far you can see because the light is pretty reflective in the fog,
but it does give you pretty good clarity of vision within the radius of the
torch. If that makes sense. Sounds like a it's better than nothing situation,
my friends, Shall we move up? He'll like glance start the incline
and devoid of gray. I don't have a better idea. Let's move all
right, So you're going straight northward, I suppose, so as north as
we can. Yeah, I want to see if we can hit the peak
of this and then maybe trying to circle around to get to the light.
All right, So what you're seeing is this line I'm drawing on the map
that is going north and west. This is representative of how the incline is
going. So you're gaining altitude as you go north, but once you make
a little bit of northern progress, you see that the closer to the wall
you get, it's starting to level off. But there's a continued pitch basically
below this line. Do you understand what I'm saying. I'm imagining we're going
around the circumference of a cone instead of up the cone. Yeah, sort
of, the slope is gaining altitude the more north you go, but the
more east WeGo it stains the level out. When you say we're going more
close to the wall. Yeah, So basically, the more north you go,
the incline goes up, but everything above this line is starting to level
off. Okay, so it does. It does reach like a precipice where
things plateau. Yes, okay, yes, it's just not in the direction
we're thinking of. I wouldn't call it a plateau, but the elevation is
flatter, We'll say something you could imagine like that without being able to see
that far. So we have angles on this side and then flat on this
side. Corey has lovingly illustrated a curved line below which is sloped, and
above which is flat. Yes, checks out complex geometry, I guess,
kind of looks like the lower half of the letteracy. You guys, going
straight up, get to a point where you're passing the source of the light
on a north south axis. How far away would we could we estimated light
to be. It's hard to say precisely. From here. It looks like
a candle light effectively, but with the fog being the way it is,
it must be bigger than that for you to be able to see it would
be coming at it from like directly east. In this sense, then light
is coming from right here. Got it? Okay, yeah, we should
probably see what that is, just in case. You know, do we
have our sharp objects ready? Yes? Yeah, I'm sleeping with it.
It's never less not, I grasp, but one time since we got it,
Oh my goodness, Dan, As you attempt to approach the light,
how are you moving cautiously. I'm trying to I'm trying to be like with
me not knowing what could it could be. I'd be like trying to creep
on it little bit, see if it's a trap, if like there are
other people around. I'm trying to keep my gear out, but slow insteady
for the most part. All right, everybody give me an observation test.
At this point, the difficulty will be three. A fog is a momentum
accurate? Or should I subtract? One? Momentum is accurate? I subtracted
last time? Got it? I'm sorry? How much did you say?
The difficulty was difficulty three? Difficulties three? Yep, it's meaning three successes.
I am you spending two momentum? Fully admit to relying on you guys,
because my unskilled in eight is just not gonna cut it. I tried.
I'm gonna shot okay, oh two, I'm just gonna spend a fortune.
Okay, I can have done that. Goods. That puts me down
to two fortune? Right? Yes, new session? Nice? Alright?
Got it? Nice? All right? So one momentum back in the pot
unless he wants to spend it on additional info. I will hold off until
we have a chance. Optimer is kind of from his conflicts on the borders
of the Pictish Wilderness. It's kind of used to having to deal with heavy
fog like this, and he leads out in front of the party and gets
the border of the torchlight so he doesn't have so much reflective light, and
he's able to see just well enough that he believes that there's a little hut
or something and it's very well lit from the inside. All Right, Yeah,
I guess I'll add the momentum to the pool and I'll relay that information
to my friends who would willingly live out here. I mean, this is
not the first huts that we come across. We know of at least one
wizard ye bad bastard too, and maybe it's someone else that made it,
or at least this far. Well, if we count our captor, isn't
it two wizards? Then I don't think he would live here. But I
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