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slash discord. Thank you, Joy Toddles. You are grabbed by this wolf
into the shadows. You need to make me a roll to start things off
today. I would like you please to make an athletics role. All right,
Oh okay, that's the failure for those listeners, drop your bow and
pack as you are taken into the night. Aragorn Strider to all of you
stands nearby turns and yells, Hiva hiva, Huddles is gone. Did anyone
see What's why? She went? No? I poked my head up out
of the mud, and what please make awareness checks all of us? Ah,
weary failure and I'll feel good. I have a great success. Although
it does they're mentioning that I was on the opposite end of the camp from
Stryder. So I don't know if my awareness can reach that far, but
so I'm going to do something for you because it does matter. I'm going
to take away your great success here and I'm going to say you have a
regular success. But as recompense for your honesty in where you are in this
camp, I want to give you something. Let's see. I think what
I'll do for you here is remove one of your fatigue that I can get
behind. I am tired of being fatigued. I am sick and tired of
being sick and tired. Strider yells out everyone else beyond your God, they
may strike at any moment. We have to we have to get Toddles.
We will. We need to figure out where she was taken. And as
Strider says, this, you hear in the distance and a when a muffled
screen, I hear her. I hear her still, Lord Master, which
direction do I hear this? East? The totals that was pretty muffled.
They've taken her further east, deeper into the troll shows. We have to
follow. Yes, we do give me a moment. We must act quickly
in case wind or rain covers their tracks. And their scent. I would
like to start looking for tracks on the ground. If they were dragging a
hobbit, there should be a very obvious drag trail. Please make a I
will take a few different options for this. You are currently under the scrutiny
of many eyes in the darkness. How would you like to make this role?
Hm? Hm, Well, I am fairly decent at stealth and hunting
and awareness. This is my strong suit. This is what I do.
I guess I'm not quite sure what the options are being presented. Here's what
I'll say. I don't think it will be awareness, and I'll let you
choose between stealth and hunting, and depending on what you choose, different things
may or may not happen. I see well, as I come running over
to the sign, to the sight of the disturbance, if I can still
see that I am being watched, I will simply be staring back as my
own night eyes are lit up with a similar power to what these creatures have,
and then I will try to blend in. I will actually stop using
the night eye so I don't give myself away in the dark. I will
intentionally cease using my ability here and hope that By doing so, I can
make myself a little easier to close in without being spotted, and try to
stealthily follow her trail very well. Please make a stealth throw. Let us
hope that this is enough. That is the best stealth role I have got
in the entire campaign. Extraordinary success. How would you like to spend your
extra successes? I would like additional insight, and I would like to move
What is it? Moved quietly? Or move swiftly? Whichever of those two?
You can go quietly or quickly. But since your stealth you're already quiet.
Oh that's true, all right, then I will move quickly and gather
additional information very well. Moving along the edge of the ruins the wall close
by, you find a darkness. Amongst the shadow you easily manage to blend
into. There are pebbles and things, and that you know to avoid sticks,
branches, anything that could give away your position. You move quietly and
quickly, looking for any signs of where Tottles is. Strider with bow drawn
has an arrow ready not knocked, but waiting. There is something that Strider
is staring at. As you approach nearby the area where you last saw Tottles,
you can see tottles, pack and bow. The strap on her pack
has been torn, the bow has fallen to the ground. Arrows splayed out
across the ground. As you look towards the arrows, you can see this
general path heading east, which you begin to follow. You can see obvious
signs of a struggle. As you follow this path into the brush, you
begin to smell something. It is that sort of wet dog smell. It's
different than a wark. You recognize that this is a wolf. I don't
know how familiar you are with the wolves here, but they are different from
these wargs that you've encountered. The warks have this much more pungent sort of
stench, and these wolves have a much more natural sort of smell. It's
enough for you to differentiate. You have the scent, you see tracks after
picking this scent up that head east. Do you leave the area? I
think I first not turn and look to see if Strider is still with me
or if he has stopped. You are all sort of in the ruins.
I'm assuming that you're all sort of waiting for some kind of communication before you
move, Looking sort of out towards the towards the many eyes that are in
this uh in the in the brush, in the trees, sort of around
this ruined fortress. He is waiting and he's seeing something. I think when
you look up, there is a lot of focus on Strider's face. I
will follow his gaze to see what he is looking at. There's a different
set of eyes in the brush the Strider stares at. Most of these have
this sort of goldish green reflection that you see. These eyes are maybe more
human. They are tinged with white. They are more They're more human.
You recognize a more a variation in these eyes. M They are more rounded,
with the circular iris of a human, not the stretched out wolf i
that I would normally see. Yes, I understand the situation. Now,
to chase a wolf pack into its den, there's not something a sane hunter
would do. You say this out loud, No, I simply think this
to myself as I pick up my spear and head towards their den. You
say anything to the rest as you do this, I turn and I motion
them. Actually, this is an important distinction. As everyone rested or are
we still battle weary and beating, Because I cannot bring them with me if
they are close to death, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, it's
just that if we're off the back of last session, then no, I'm
not fully rested. Now there's London. Nope, but I'm hidden you.
You wouldn't even know where I am right now, I'm fully arrested. I'll
be at Scard. We'll leave the injured here. I will move closer to
Strider and say this part out loud. I must follow him if somehow his
a keen dwarven hearing will pick this up as I'm saying it quietly to Strider.
We cannot leave the injured here, or the wolves will take them.
To the moment you and I leave, we must all go or none you
know what lies in the brush. I have never met these distant kin of
mine, these wolfmen, so not exactly, I can only assume they're as
dangerous as my people are when threatened. Or we're not threatening them, they're
threatening us. We are in their territory. Well, they should have put
up a sign or something. Mm hmm. True. Even my folk understand
that sometimes a simple conversation will suffice, even if you must shake a spear
towards the end of it. Unless they're on guard from something, or perhaps
they are allied with someone who does not want us approaching either way. I
did not come this far to abandon toddles to death. We will follow,
okay, yes, like go when I grab her pack and her woe.
They will look for a time strike when we are least aware. Even with
our full attention, they managed to take models. Be wary and stay close
together. I will guard the rear, all right, a careful marching order.
Then I will take the lead and track Piper. I want you with
me. Rio in the middle. Hey, London, stain your strider,
assuming Lawton has come out of hiding, so I can talk to you.
Oh yeah, no, no, I'm I'm I'm right next to you.
You just never saw me. There you are? Yeah, stay your strider,
Okay, I can do that. I do not think they could drag
Rioth off, not easily. He's too strong, but he's also hurt.
So stay in the middle, and then Strider and I will each look after
a small one. They are will They will go for what they think is
the easiest pray, which means the smallest among us and those who are injured.
Lonton, you are both of those things, so be very careful.
Ah, I will I will do my best. Just remain hidden even as
we travel. Good, well, let us go fandomin and lead Hyper and
Lanton behind, y Oath and Strider following. You begin to as quickly and
quietly make your way along the path to find Toddles. I would like each
of you, except for Tottles, to make a stealth role. This is
a group stealth check. That's a good thing so far. Okay. If
i'd used to holt well, and when you have an extra success, why
would you like to spend it? I will use it to cancel Riot's failure.
Okay, Hyper, please make an awareness role. Okay, okay,
okay, I'm gonna use I'm gonna use a hope for this one. Oh
goodness, wow, now your last chance. I'm sorry. What Oh yeah,
so I'm definitely pulling the sword out again? Right? Uh? No,
I mean no, I promised I would never an arrow sails past your
head? Piper, what you hear? You hear a sound? Strider says,
watch them back, keep moving mm hmm, right right right, okay,
okay, I follow behind athletics check a group athletics check. Yes,
yeah, okay, I will take travel mm hmm. Oh you travel,
you so roll the difference reals whatever the difference is. Okay, we'll keep
those dice that we have so far, right, Well, I mean is
the favorite travel is favorite? I to roll another D twelve and then what's
the difference on the trained how many successes between athletics and travel? Three?
Okay, so we'll just roll the D twelve and then plus three D six.
I don't think I did that correctly, roll one D twelve slash rs
space one D twelve plus three D six or you could Yeah, that works
too, okay, so that would be uh eight ten plus eight okay,
so eighteen uh and that is a success okay, Okay, you had no
extra successes though, Okay, Lnton, you've got a weary failure. And
when you have a failure, hyper you have an extra success. How would
you like to spend it? Okay? I? Oh goodness, everyone failed
except for me except for uh so Lnton, and and win failed you and
threal past okay? Oh god, uh I think Lonton Lawnton takes my takes
my expra success. Okay. I don't want him to fall behind or anything.
And I think I grab onto your hand as I stumble, yeah,
please make a awareness role. I have a success early put a success.
And when you see the wolf creeping closer to you, just in your periphery,
you manage to scare it off. What do you think that looks like?
I think I turn and look at it, and my night eyes light
up again. I just glare at it, and it realizes that I could
see it as clearly as it sees me. Ever see the fangs just sort
of dripping with drool. They just make a slight appearance into the light briefly
as they recede back into the darkness. You continue to move. It's like
that, really, it's like that low sort of half squat kind of walking
where you're almost like a military personnel, you know, sort of on a
swivel kind of looking around. You're not like locking your knees. You're just
kind of sort of half crouching as you're moving. Ever present, you see
Aragorn with a strider with an arrow, sort of like ready not quite knocked,
but he's just kind of moving around as quickly as possible in the and
you continue to move forward. Okay, uh stealth rose please okay, ah
failure, Oh my goodness, how I want to ask? I want to
ask our hobbits how they are looking on hope. You can take one of
my hope and then you get to this is what I was hoping for.
Because my stealth is pretty decent. Maybe I can get lucky and cancel some
failures here whoa, no, wait wait wait wait wow, I rolled and
I of sour run on the feet die. But my skill dice rolled so
well that I have an extraordinary success regardless. Two extra successes. Yeah,
that's incredible. Okay, you have two extra successes? How are you spending
them? All? Right? I mean I will did he hear that I
will cancel failures? I'm trying to think I can only cancel two out of
three. Someone will have to defend for themselves and I'm trying to think of
who can do that I can find for myself. But you don't know that
I will cancel the failures of Rioth and London again. Yeah, Lion Strider
to look after Piper if it comes to it. Okay, Piper, please
roll me eight D six. Okay, Oh no, that's not good.
Okay, thank you? Oh oh what if? What if? What if?
What? Okay? No, there is the sound of that you start
to hear through the trees. Did you hear that awareness rolls? Please?
He want failure? Oh? I heard it? Ah awareness? Well goodness?
Ah, two successes and two failures. Piper, Yeah, old very
I'm going to make a roll. Okay. Is it whether or not we
get donuts? It is not? Okay, that is very good for you.
Oh, biscuits? Holy shit? Uh biscuits? Okay? Uh?
Two arrows al and you hear in the distance as you hear Strider say how
many more arrows left? Everyone be on your God, they are moving in
the distance. Here, lonton and andwin. You hear the footfalls of four
legged creatures moving about little rustles in the brush. As you continue to move
and please make a hunting role. I think a great success. As you
look for Piper's trail, trying to maintain your vigilance as well as uh smelling
uh the trail, as well as observing which way your friend has been taken.
You have an extra success. How would you like to spend it?
I will I will go swiftly. Okays. Time is of the essence.
The longer we take out you have, the more we will get attacked.
Excellent. Everybody make an athletics check group athletics. Check for me. Come
on, you have a bonus one die to this everyone? Oh come on,
no, come on, come on now? Oh where come? Oh?
No? No one? Oh no. Three successes in one failure?
Is that correct? Did you take your honesty? I did? I did
that? Bona sty okayhead, you begin to move quicker and when you know
that the situation may very well be dire. These wolves are fast, cunning,
and obviously there is some sort of a strategy that is happening here,
and you are potentially being pulled into it. Moving quickly maybe one of the
only things you can do to potentially save toddles before things get worse. Okay,
I need another die? Do I not have one here? You're not?
Okay? Cool? Uh? All right? Uh? Lnton. As
you are trying to chase the rest, you begin to slow down. I
can't, I can't. Strider picks you up. You see him stow his
bow and he draws a dagger. As you begin to move. We must
hurry, You must move quick, catch your breath. And I would like
to look and see his strider out of arrows and stuff like he's stowing the
bow he is carrying. Lnton. I I will motion like, no,
come and take the hobbit. I am no marks one. Keep your bow
handy. I cannot help with a bow if I'm being carried by him.
How am I being carried? He just has you like a like a like
a sack of potatoes. Thunders. Yeah, I was home, I was
shoulders. Yeah, I'm gonna like put lundon. I'm massive and he's tiny.
I'm just gonna have him sitting on my shoulder. Okay, very well,
Uh, you will take a minus one to your athletics checks. That's
fine? Could I could I could I bargain the use of my bowl at
this point? Then? Yes? All right, a very good strategy,
sir. I'm gonna say you have a minus one to it though, because
you're in somebody's you're like being carried. Basically, it's it's awkward. Okay,
Uh, very well. Uh you are moving quickly. Make an athletic
check to start things off this time, all of us mm hmm. Athletics
one more time. I will give Can I give hope to anderwin because he's
carrying Yeah, I would like to give him hope. It's my honto without
falling, take it my feet die? Is something else? So I've not
done well. Okay, okay, As you begin to uh rush as quickly
as you can, I think you made the wrong role. Rios, you
did awareness. Oh it's an athletics. Is it the same role? No,
it's not the same role. Let's see one D six. Okay,
make that role. It could could matter. Have you got a five R
five? But I'll take it very well. Uh, let's see. Uh,
so we have success from rio of and when and failure from Lanton and
Piper. Okay Lawton. Oh wait, London's being carried right. Sorry,
Uh that is correct, but I need to see what's going to happen,
so we need the role regardless. Sorry, Lonton. As you are sort
of being jostled, you get out your bow, but you're a bit too
slow. Uh. The wolf that leaps towards you, and Strider catches you
off guard, and I'm gonna have to roll for Strider here to see what
happens. London is on my shoulder. Oh that is correct, I'm sorry.
Uh, Andwin, there is a wolf that leaps towards you and Lawton,
and Lawton you can see, is trying to get out his bow and
uh, as this happens. What do you try to do with Lawnton on
your shoulder Instead of using my big spear, I grab Lnton's small spear and
stab with that at this wolf as it comes in. All right, yeah,
I got it. If it comes close enough, if I can more.
You assume you said it was jumping in, so I have to react,
So I will go for the shank. Please make an attack roll with
the spear. That is extraordinary success, two extra successes. How would you
like to spend those two extra successes? I can assume that this is a
normal sort of combat type success. Hmmm. I think I will simply make
two heavies to dissuade this thing from coming any closer. Absolutely. Also,
I don't know the exact Lonton uses short spear, which is a different item.
I don't have the stats for a handy lolong. Could you tell me
what your weapon has? Yeah, the damage just three injury rating is fourteen
okay, okay, lotus two if that matters, and it's a one handed
weapon, so even fourteen seventeen damage then total. Okay. You stab this
wolf as it rushes forward, and you pierce its hide. You see,
it's a sort of slump. It's like hobbling away. As you continue to
move, you feel the pressure behind you of everyone, sort of like looking
around wildly. Okay, and there is a wolf that leaps towards you.
Hyper, what do you do in response? Can I can? I?
Oh? Oh, oh me. I think I'll pull out arrow, my
other sword and see if I can do a quick little dodge while also swiping
swiping up to see if I can damage it in any way while dodging,
if possible. Okay, I know that's not really a thing, but well,
I would like to attack dodge. I would like to attack dogs.
I would like to whisper yell. Do you have any jumbo shrimp that I
can have? You can absolutely try. I think what this will be here
is, uh, this will most likely be an athletics check. Depending on
how well you do, I might allow you to attack as well. Oh
okay, bonus dice, I can I can give you a hope if you're
if you need to give me a hope, Okay, I'll take a hope.
All right. That is an extra success going to say you can attempt
to attack as you try to dodge out of the way here, Okay,
Uh, what stunds. Do I have to be in? This will be
forward stance forward? Okay, okay, one moment. Uh, I'm not
selecting it right, so I'm just gonna roll it and yeah, yeah,
you just and the the target number is going to determine if had or not.
Oh what's the target's perry? M Sorry, I just friggin closed it.
M Uh did you roll the die that's next to the yes. It
also prompted me for a Perry rating. I just left it, left it,
yeah, just leave it at zero. Just leave it blanky okay?
Oh oh oh wow, so many ones. So here's what happens then,
Piper is you manage at first to dodge out of the way, but you
over commit as you attack, and you will take some damage okay, from
the fangs of this creature. You will take three damage as it tears into
the flesh on your arm. Oh, these are the dangers of the long
forgotten attack dodge technique high reward. Okay, that had gone off, it
would have been so sorry. Okay, And let's see awareness rolls, Awareness
rolls, awareness rolls. I hate being wary. Oh I hated so much
failure again? Okay, so bad, A great success. What would you
like to do with your extra success? Did everybody else fail? I will
continue the same game plan I have been, which is canceling the failures of
the two people closest to me, London and Rioth, and rely on Strider
to look after Piper, or rely on Piper to look after herself with a
glorious attack dodge. Okay, actually, since it seems to have already been
established with with Strider doing what he's doing, if you canceled mine, could
I potentially use an arrow to protect one of my other mates here behind me?
Absolutely? Please make an attack roll? Is that? Okay? See
what I'm going on? Doh? And you don't need to know you need
to choose who you are trying to protect. I mean, i know ri
Oath was worse for wear, so I'm really sorry Piper, but I'm gonna
have to go for it. Yeah, Son is fine, and we'll just
leave that like there we go. I've realized it's it's a bit of a
running joke at this point that rie Oath will never admit to being INOD,
but now it's becoming a problem. I actually have no idea. I'm not
sure I failed terribly with that one. So many ones on the feet died
today. It's crazy. Just the arrow literally falls to the ground. I
don't even get it into the Your other option was an eye of saraon by
the way, that was the favored roll. Are you kidding me? Nope,
fine, I have Saron and a one Okay, okay, uh so
uh you trying to protect Reel uh Reeled and Piper as you are rushing along
this time from your other side. Piper, Yeah, okay, you're going
to take three damage as the fangs of a wolf sink into probably like your
leg or something. As you're trying to run along re Oath you also take
three damage. I can see where I'm going. You don't need to keep
the going and let's see stealth rolls now sort of did a reverse order because
and rushed weirdy failure, thank you. Gandalf failed from Rio success from Lanton
with Gandalf. Gandal also got a Gandalf run and a great success on top.
Yes, we have two extra successes in total, one from and a
win and one from Piper. How would you like to spend them? We
finally got a good group role only took like twelve a time. Okay,
well, uh, I think I would like to use mine to override youth's
failure. Okay, I can see, but I'm going with uh. With
Piper taking care of real noise or shushing him or whatever she's doing back there,
stealthy, I will use my great success to let's try a different strategy.
Moving quickly seemed to get us into trouble. I will maintain a normal
pace, but I will move us quietly. Okay, perhaps into some thicker
brush. All right, well then, uh okay, hmm re old our
years was canceled. Mm hmmm, so we still had one. We have
no fails. Okay, good, that's good. That's good. That's good.
Okay, Uh, please make a stealth roll and win again. Okay,
come on, it was proud another great success. Okay, uh,
all right, the rest of you please make your stealth rolls. I don't
understand. It's all over the place. Well, that's what dyce are supposed
to do. When you get like numbers, that's when it's worrying. I
don't appreciate the sass you have to deal with a failure. Enough, Oh
it's so close. What are the odds of that? I remember that car?
I remember that. Okay, you have one extra success here andwin.
How would you like to spend it? I will use it to cancel out
thri failure. Okay, Uh, Lawton and Piper, please make a D
six roll. Okay, I don't want to no one, well, Lawton,
that is good? Okay, okay. Uh. More howls in the
distance, and there are more heads. You can see eyes occasionally looking in
from the sides. You have this sense all about you that there there is
like a massive pack of wolves that are just sort of maintaining a distance and
continuously just trying to wear you down as you move. Awareness rolls please,
oh weirdy failure Okay, oh my god, there is one success and three
failures. Gandalf smiles on me. I have a success room, yes,
but not the rest. Lawnton, hyper re old. Let's see. Shrider
is gonna help one of you, maybe two. We'll see how that's gonna
work. Uh this day, Okay, I'm gonna help Lawanton. Oh uh,
how does anyone go anywhere in this world? Just want don't don't.
I think I'm learning that now. Well that's the this is the time right
where it's everything's going down. Yeah. Uh An arrow sails past you launton
you hear another wolf fall. However, hyper and reels. You will take
another three damage as wolves consistently trying to wear you down, take bites out
of your legs or your arms as you try to protect yourself. Okay,
athletics checks. Oh goodness, weirdy failure. Okay. The thing is I'm
rolling another gun so high. I promise I'm not cheating. I'm using a
hope wasn't necessary, evidently, but I Okay, we have two successes.
We've got one extra success as from and Win. How are you spending it?
Ah? For reals? Okay, uh non mm hmm. You will
not be able to get your bow out this round. It's maybe uh Strider
has to jump over something and you just U and Win has to jump over
something and you just kind of find yourself a bit off balance. Okay,
Uh, as you are rushing uh Andwin, I need you to make another
hunting role for me. Okay, I failed on this one. Okay,
you have temporary lost sight of Toddle's trail. You can keep moving in the
direction that you were going. Would you like to do that or would you
like to stop and try and pick up the trail again. Have we been
moving more or less in a straight line this entire time? Mostly? Yeah.
I will presume then that it continues and do my best to look for
it. Okay, all right, stealth rolls success? Oh my refails?
Oh oh no, that was from the previous one. Two fails? Is
that correct? I know we're missing real Yeah we don't still stealth who any
failure? Okay, pree failures. So two fails, two fails, uh,
one from Piper and one from real Oath. Piper and re Oath please
roll me a de sixt so low is good and one you'll have a three
kidokis, need to grab my other die here alrighty howls continue to erupt sort
of more frequent. Now as you are, you hear people making a lot
of noise as you're moving through the forest here as quietly as you can and
a win. But the nature of this means that it is extremely difficult for
everyone to do, especially being so weary. Okay, awareness, no quiet
way to run through a wolf sten weirdness roll gundof wowf wow, this means
something terrible. It's gonna happen. Fliterated in light and keep running ahead it's
all good. And we're in Rivendell now and tons is they're having with l
Rod Piper Just Piper just wakes up in riven Dell. The past week is
a dream. Share in my pocket cheese and we all run into the room.
Oh, in slow motion with bright white clothing on and a lot of
blue effect. Yeah. A few extra successes launting, would you like to
see? Yeah? Yeah, one one for Piper and I tell you what
I'd like to use. The other one for insight along our our our trail
here. I want to help and and get us to forward closer to Tottles.
Whatever I can do, That's what I'm doing. Well done. You
point out that the trail sort of continues roughly on the same path, but
it's slightly off. It starts to lean sort of south. Now, okay,
so I put it right and one and one I see, I see,
I see, I see there's a drag like do you see the pauls?
And then the Is that what you were looking for before? Is that
the tracks? Oh? Yes, these these are wolves. This this middle
trench. That's our friends. This is Toddles being dragged. Good spot.
You can maybe even see some cheese. Remnants on the ground. Cheese cross.
She left us a trail of cheese. You know she did it on
purpose, because otherwise pretty sacrifice. She's just breaking pieces of cheese. L
find her. She's just scared hungry. Trying to eat the cheese is very
painful. Okay, yes, Actually, you continue to follow the trail athletics
checks. Come on, we're gonna find her writing telling him about Oh okay,
uh, and I have sour on from what old? We have one
extra success from Andwin. How would you like to spend it? We only
had one failure? Correct, I will cancel that very well. Continuing right
along, you keep pace weapons ready, and I would like stealth check to
start things off. Cool. That is a good start. Oh that is
a great start. Okay, all right, I'll go ahead and use mine
to negatory oaths. Okay, stop rolling, Soro. So have two extra
successes total here. We have one from Andwin and one from Piper. Will
you trust me in using those successes for something? Yes? By all means?
Okay, Okay, they surprised me special I love it. Okay.
One of the wolves is a were wolf and he's very handsome. I'd like
to roll courtesy for the were wolf. This is how many? How many
of the wolves fall into Myrtle's kinks. We just need to know if he's
particularly buff and if he doesn't get along the way with vampires. Wait,
she's gotta do some assessment here. Give her a second, cool to see
how I feel about that. I'm kidding very well. Okay, stealth rolls
are good. Now I need awareness rolls. Okay, h failure? Welly
failure? Uh failure success, three failures one extra success from and awin.
How would you like to spend it? I will cancel riots? Oh okay,
pulled choice hyper I figured I'd figured i'd shake it up, do something
different, Lawton. The wolves will leap towards you. Let's see. Uh,
you do have a chance right now, Lawton, to fire your bow
that idea I will do. So which one do you fire at? It's
got to be the one coming towards me. Okay, mm hmm, come
on, Oh look what I would like you to look at both of those
roles? So what did I just say? Stop rolling? This is what
happens when you say to either do or don't do something. It's gonna happen.
So we need to Okay, from now on. From now on,
only Rollstell runs there reverse psychology. They don't help that way. Well,
consider this is probably my last role. So what happens? You were being
carried by andowin. However, a wolf will manage to still take a bite.
Probably I look out of your foot, I think, well, I
get a chance to intercept it this time as I did last time. Or
is this a different don't think so. I think because of your great success
and the fact that you you were protecting real maybe and you use the spear
to maybe fend off that one, I think, but you couldn't move fast
enough to stop the other wolf. Hyper you are also bitten again? Wait
can I can? I can't hit it or anything? Unfortunately, not Okay,
this is very important, even though this thing bit my foot? How
much damage am I taking? Three? I go down? Oh no,
his proud feet London sort of goes limp on your shoulder there. Uh.
And one as I feel his grip start to loosen, I'll look up to
say hey, it's everything, are you and realize he's just falling backwards off
me and turn around and catch him. It's just not good. Uh.
And lastly, athletics, please you said athletics or travel right or was that
for specific rule? I will take travel for you. I'm worried about everybody,
Okay, cutten off again? A fail from piper and a success from
riodes and and dowing. Uh. And as you are rushing forward, uh,
trying to sort of manage Lanton, you can see that the trees sort
of begin to open up. You see that there are several trees that have
been downed, and you hear this sort of from Strider behind you as he
picks up a piper to avoid what appears to be a series of spiked traps.
As you come into this clearing and it you see more ruins, and
you start to see some fires around, small bonfires. There are ruins and
stone all about downed trees, some of which have been made into kindling and
fuel for these bonfires. Looking at these. As you begin to look around,
please make me an awareness role. I can't off ruin, I can
have ever rolled so many in one session. You hear another muffled cry from
Toddles. Can I tell if you do from Is it within the ruins or
is it closer to us? It is within the ruins. They've taken her
inside. This is no ordinary wolves, Oh Master, Can I tell the
trees that have been downed in this clearing? Can I look to see have
they been cut clean with an axe or have they been torn up by some
big creature like a scaneral. I have a great success, so I will
request additional insight, not just the trees, but the camp in general.
Can I tell who were what type of construction this is? Yes? Does
it look like elves or dwarves or something else. It's very primitive. It
looks like a sort of nomadic camp. There's evidence of people sort of gathering
around a fire. There's human remains that lie around. You see maybe an
arm bone like you see, maybe a femur. Yeah, and the tree.
The trees are chopped with some kind of probably like a stone axe.
I'll turn to the rest to puddle up, call a huddle. They've taken
her inside. A right, London has London has passed out. It's two
inches to continue. You can't leave him out here if we go inside.
That's just my thought. We have a couple of options. I could take
one extremely bold volunteer who will bravely volunteer to stay outside and watch London.
I'm not a child and Darwin, oh, I was talking about Strider,
But since you've spoken up, I might nominate you alternately. Wolves cannot climb
trees. I could climb up into a tree, put him somewhere out of
reach. If they want to get him down, they'll have to cut down
the whole tree, which would take time and make noise. I've never heard
of a wolf cutting a tree down before. If these R and D sorry
go ahead, it might be worth a shot. Like you said, if
these are in fact wolf men, like Strider said, they are using tools.
As you can see, they've cut these trees down already, but it
would take time. Ay, what's a U, Strider? This is clearly
some sort of trap. Whatever we do, I think we are at a
disadvantage. Then let us do what they would least expect. They would not
expect us to hide one of our own outside in a spot where they cannot
reach. I'm going to approach whatever I can find that looks to be a
sturdy tree, right. I want one that has wide enough branches that I
think I could sit him up there without him being in danger of falling off.
And I will take Paddle's pack as well, and sling that on my
shoulder and try to climb up. You can use my hood to oh my
cloak even to uh bundle him. I mean he's not that much smaller than
me, but I am big like a hammock. You think, yes,
good idea. I will take Toddles's pack and Reel's cloak attempt to climb a
tall tree that's reach the top of it. Make an athletics check. I
got another candlf for rum. Okay, you have no problem doing this?
Yeah? I think I climb the tree mainly by taking advantage of my height.
I just reach way up and grab a branch, pull myself, and
then grab another one and scale the tree very quickly. This way here we
go. And now I will use Toddle's pack the strap and if she has
any ropes in it, to basically tie Launton's torso to the trunk of the
tree so he is unlikely to fall off very well, and then rain safety
to fall hard all around you. All right, so we'll wash away Toddle's
scent, but it may also hide ours. I will use Rio's cloak as
well and tie it almost like a safety net in case Lawnton does somehow fall
we'll have the cloak stretched between the branches below him. I just in case,
very well, so I haven't done out here to watch London. If
this is a trap, as you say, and I'm sure you are right,
there may be many of them waiting inside. I will probably need your
sword arm in there. Should this turn into a fight, perhaps it can
simply threaten them and get tottles and leave, but I don't know if that
will work. If anyone towards London and says very well, if anyone were
to may outside, it should be our other injured man, but dwarf hmmm,
Rieth. I will let you decide. It is your decision to make.
You can come with me inside potentially a fight, or you can look
after Lawnton, maybe even stay up in the tree with him. Will you
not be harassed? Whilst I would like a good death, I do not
chase one. I shall wait out here so you have the capable arm of
mister Stryder, and I shall watch over mister Launton if he rouses good.
I would hate to go inside and retrieve one hobbit simply to lose another.
Hey, well you lose mister Lawnton, you will lose me too. So
let's get at it, right. I will kneel down at the base of
the tree so Reels can just stand on my shoulder and then stand up so
he gets a good head start way up into the tree. I'll use it
any and I'm not persed onto a branch like a misshapen owl. All right.
Wolves do not climb trees. But these are no normal wolves. If
they do, in fact turn into men, they may try to climb the
tree after you. Well, I have reas for that, or even try
to cut it down. Perhaps. Do you have the horn the piper gave
us? Hey, Tottles gave it. I keep getting I keep getting them
backwards every time. Okay. If they should try to scale the tree or
cut it down, and you think that they are actually going to get to
youth, blow the horn. Hey, you can count on me for that.
Good luck, my friend. I won't be back with Tottles or I
will not be back piper. Which way are you going? I'm going with
them to get turtles. Okay, fair enough, I hear you. Fuck
Lawton, fuck weo what what I was reading between the lines? I got
it. But we're dinner first, and his sleep you see London I can
say, and a tear falls, I can stay if that makes the whole
sense. No, you're fine. Uh So, just to confirm, Lawton,
you're at zero endurance right now? Yeah, I'm at zero? Okay,
fair enough, are you? And stay behind as andouin, Strider and
Piper begin to wind their way through these ruins. And just to clarify these
ruins, they sort of look like are there's various sort of hills and small
cliffs here and top these cliffs, these and hills are you would imagine to
be uh maybe formerly homes. There's stone, and some of them are a
little bit bigger than others. But you wind your way through these sort of
uh I guess paths in between these cliffs in the direction where you heard toddles
muffled mean And one please make an awareness role is another candle amazing? Okay?
So uh And one you catch yourself before you stumble over what appears to
be a a piece of like twine or something sort of uh covered in dirt.
You follow your eye and you realize that it is connected to a concealed
uh like sort of mechanism type thing. It's very rudimentary, sort of just
a bunch of rocks that are sort of held up by a few pieces of
wood, but they're big enough that they could very well break your ankles,
break your feet, whatever may be worse. With your hobbit friend, very
devious mm hmm. The way that the way the trap is designed just it
looks like the rope is holding these things back and if the rope is broken,
they will fall, or if the opposite the rope is pulled, the
rope can pull the wood out and the rocks would stumbleone gotcha by that logic,
then I'll just take out a skinning knife and cut the rope, which
would not set a trap off. So I'm sorry you cut the line.
If it is designed in such a way that I would have to hit it
and drag it with me to trigger it, then yes, I will simply
cut it. Yep, okay, you cut it. Arm the trap?
Yeah, it just kind of it just stays there basically so that we don't
trip on it on the way out. Watch your step a devious Yes,
Okay, did you notice the eyes are gone? M hmm, the howling
has stopped. Yes, I noticed. Does that mean that the things that
were chasing us are scared? Of the things we're going to I do not
perhaps yes, normally a pack of wolves fears very few things. But these
wolves have some sort of intelligent leader. It seems perhaps they do not go
near We will find out soon enough. Come moving through the path violently,
begin to approach one of these destroyed and ruined homes. It's divided into a
few different sections formerly rooms. You can see that there are two openings in
the wall. One is up a small cliff, the other is up a
small hill. The opening on the south side is where the cliff is.
The opening on the northern side is where the hill is. So we must
choose to go down or up. You can choose to go on the north
side. To go up the hill, you can climb the cliff where you
can do something else. I will look for signs of Toddles again. If
they dragged her through here, it should be evident which path they took.
If I can find signs of it, make a scan roll or a hunting
thank either I have a great success which I will use to collect additional insight
about the layout here. Okay, as you make your decision, there's the
sort of impression that you get that easy path is probably more dangerous than it
appears. As you begin to look over that way, you search for traps
just from a distance. Nothing jumps out at first, and then you notice,
as the rain is pouring, various puddles are forming on the ground.
There's a crack of lightning that illuminates the one of the puddles. You think
it's a puddle, but it appears to be a hitfall. There is something
covering a hole up ahead, and maybe it's sag, just a little bit
some water, and it's a little uneven, and you just catch a glimpse
of it. M Did I have any luck figuring out which way they took
tuttles? It looks like they took her that north way regardless path from what
you can tell, that way does appear to go into the ruins up this
cliff. Can I approach the southern cliff and just look down and see where
it leads to be up? To be looking up, you're down basically,
so i'd have to scale it up. Then perhaps I could take a step
back then to get a better angle and try to see where it leads up
top you are tall. I would say that you can give yourself hope if
you'd like, and I'll give you two bonus dice if you'd like to use
it to roll scan again. This will be a scan role. Yeah,
okay. I I am fairly confident that I can scan without hope. I
know I've said that before and I immediately fail the role every time I say
this. But also I have very little hope to spare, so I cannot.
I will try to scan, though I willed it into existence again.
Oh, you missed it by one. Wait. Actually, if we are,
if it is still nighttime and I'm still able to take my cultural blessing
of ey cited nighttime, then I would have a plus four on this role,
so it'd be a nineteen. Okay, then that is a success.
I will start looking and can't really get it until stopping for a second to
focus those yellowish eyes, you begin to look like up. You can see
that there there's some like muddy like handprints and stuff that are fresh on some
of the stone. There is some kind of writing, maybe some kind of
symbols or something on the stone on the ruins up on top of this cliff
strider. You know, the language is here in the West much better than
I. What does that say? I do not think it is a language.
Looks to be some some sort of symbol drawing of some kind. What
does it depict? I do not know. I have never seen its like.
As much as I would like to stay and investigate, time is of
the essence. We must get to Toddles quickly, though, I'm starting to
feel as though they don't intend to harm her, or if they did,
she would already be dead. We heard her yelling. Perhaps they mean to
bargain with us, lure us that too. They climbed up here and prince
of men, but they dragged Toddles that way. They split up, perhaps
an ambushing group up top and the bait down below. I believe you are
correct. Perhaps then the hunter has become the hunted. We do not follow
in a straight line anymore. They will be ready. Let us go up
the top route. Besides, we can see further from up there, and
perhaps spotter in the distance. Very well, make haste. I need an
athletics check from both of you as you tend to climb this wet stone cliff.
Yeah, we'd all my candle for let's go. Oh, you have
a great success. How would you like to spend it? I cancel out
Andoan's failure by pointing out, yeah, where to go? Yeah, Piper
sort of catches you here andwin by saying to look out for various handholds that
look like they might crumble under your weight, and that one right here,
I think I actually I'm grabbing onto a rock that starts to give way,
and with her warning, I quickly redirect and grab a different one and finished
scaling that way. I would like stealth checks for both of napolease okay,
oh goodness, oh excellent. As you climb up, you start to head
towards the southern opening in the wall. Ground is wet. You can see
that there are many sets of wolf tracks around, as well as rough booted
feet. These are not the boots of civilized people. But as you approach
the opening, you start to hear a familiar voice and so oh that maybe
potentially you have a language, and that it's considered dog language, you know,
or like wolf language. Sorry sorry, sorry, but like are you
telling me that you you just don't communicate. See, that's what that's what
I was saying. I was saying that that's not possible. You have to
communicate somehow, Like what did that growl mean, and can you teach me
because I'd love to show them a thing or two when I see them again.
You see a singular wolf just in front of Tottles bearing its fangs.
Tottles is sort of all scooched up in the corner as this wolf kind of
stares at her. Do you just speak like human when you're in human and
then just assume that you know each other well enough when you're in wolf form?
That can't be. Your song's got to mean something. Do you make
your way into the ruined house? Not until I check the outskirts, But
for us, she seems to be doing okay, just for this minute,
so we can Yeah, she does not appear to be in mortal danger,
and if she is in fact bait to lauris In, I would first look
for ambushers around. Very well, please make an awareness role. There's the
gandolf ruins again. A great success. How would you like to spend your
extra success additional insights to look for hidden foes and traps? Very well?
You don't see eyes in the surrounding trees and bushes. You don't see any
sort of immediate threats, but you start to recognize the symbol that is on
the ruins. You saw this symbol on the farmstead. Ah, the symbol
was evil the pillars that we knocked down. Yes, the wolves are in
league with the undead. That makes no sense if there is no sign of
any other attackers or any other wolves nearby that are going to jump us.
The second we expose ourselves, I will start to make my way down.
Can you describe again where Toddles is being held? Is it a sorry a
house or a cabin or is it just a chamber in a cave. It's
a ruined house. The second floor has collapsed in various areas. There is
a sort of small entrance room, like a foyer kind of room. That
is the sort of entryway that you have made your way up and into the
rest of the house is broken down in various places. Of course, on
that northern side there's a gap in the wall, and there's also a gap
in the northern side of the small room that must have been the entryway originally.
Sooner or later it all comes down to this. As I was talk
to approach the house, you worry that there might be some sort of reinforcements
of some kind. There is a shadow that is starting to move some strange
shape. At first, it slow, it is getting bigger. You start
to recognize some sort of wings. I'd look up the one place I haven't
been looking. Oh lord, oh Lord, and the rain. It's difficult
to see. They can to make a scan roal for me. Please right
on the money, a success. It's hard to pick out that this might
be lightning flashes. You see a worm like shape wings upon it. I
just watch see what it is doing. If it is coming to land?
Ah Dan, what is that? Strider looks up, his eyes go wide.
A black figure, shadow like clothing rests upon this creature. Horrible shriek
rips through the air. I need Hoddles, I need Andolin and hyper please
make a valor row for me, fall through the mound, whispers of night
beyond the bad I forget. If we are allowed to spend hope on these
No, in that case, I'll hope for you. In that case,
when Gandolph isn't our patron, we can use a fellowship point to make a
shadow test favored, can we not? I'll probably do that then, so
be it? Wait can I also do thatast years? It's a what we're
using a fellowship point for all of us are just you, it would be
it's effectively the same as spending a hope. But we can only do it
so long as we are working for Gandorf, which we are. So that
makes the role favored, though correct, which just barely passes it. For
me, I have a great success. I still fail. Never seen anything
like this. Yeah, a strange wormlike creature with wings and a black rider
upon its back. But viper, viper, you recognize this one. You've
seen this one in your dreams before. This is the creature that has plagued
you. A creature that has plagued end of whin and his line. Strider
confirms it in a whisper nearby a score, and then he yells, Hi's
good. He looks frantic. This maybe the first time that you've seen him
afraid. A creature descends, wings flap. Each of you please make an
athletics check, I mean athletics check. Tottles failure. And when you and
Piper hold fast beyond Toddles. As you're trying to sort of nervously speak at
this creature, you see its ears go flat. It looks over its shoulder,
sees this creature approaching and your eyes start to slowly go up to follow
where it looks. You see this as well, and it takes your breath
away. Four shadow to start with four I think just toddles hyper hue shadow
and three shadow as andwin and Piper holds steady as this massive wingspan worm like
creature bats its wings to land. You see these challenge large dig into the
ground, tearing it apart, and all that it holds is unearthed. The
noscule on its back begins to descend. You see this creature yielding a sword
on its hip a flail hyper You feel apple at your hip hold as the
boots of this noscule sh land on the ground. With each step, can
feel your heart beat beating in time with this cold pulse begins to make you
shiver up your spine. But you recognize this creature as this helmeted face looks
towards you sh man, fuck, gosh, there, my god, I
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