What's Nala's comfort level with this? She's deep behind at the camp. She
is not going to go any further. Good. Good, actually great.
She will guard the camp for a few days in the hopes that you return
being unweara wolf watching fun. All right, I suppose we go further to
the east and try and wind our way sideways up the cliffs of desol Agent
towards the quote structure. So since the sun has just come up, you
have a full day of potential travel ahead of you. So if you move,
let's say you're gonna be going north east instead, so you're making progress
as you circle around. So the first thing would be, Octimer, give
me a survival check so we can see this is only going to be difficulty
one. There's unfortunately not very much in the way of cover here. That's
fair. The check is more representative of you picking out good footholds and like
a stable ascent up the side of the slope. I got four successes.
Nice doublocrit baby, let's go. That's how we do it. Would you
like to use those successes to help the party travel faster? Would you like
to put some into momentum? Maybe a mix of the two. We got
three in the momentum pole. Yeah, we burn all three. We move
lightning quick. Okay, So after all of the difficult terrain you guys have
been struggling through, you're finding that your bo have really kind of conditioned to
this kind of endurance stuff. The angle of the slope is not enough to
impede you right now. So you're moving faster than you have in quite some
time. So we're gonna say about five hours go by when you are going
to be taking your first break and you circle around. By Octimer's estimation,
he thinks you guys made about ten miles. Wow, look at odds,
Dese, we did pretty good Workcross one. Oh Man. You slow down
and take a break and find a spot where the rocky terrain is a little
bit more stable. As you go higher, there's more and more of that
loose shale, so everything is kind of a bluish gray. There's a lot
of bluish gray dust that gets kicked up in the airs you moved. It's
not necessarily pleasant, but it's still easier than save the jungle or the swamps.
The sun has burned away some of the fire. You can see above
the structure. There are a lot of what looked like hawk or eagle sized
birds. Judging by the distance, it's probably something much bigger than that.
The structure itself, Now that you're a bit closer, it is much too
large to be considered a building a keep proper as you will a complex.
Maybe you wouldn't really necessarily toss the word city around, but oh shit,
okay, it's pretty large. Not what I expected. Then again, wizards
are fucking ostentatious. Yeah, and given the hubris of our oh so generous
captor, this dude definitely put a town in his keep that he visits this
and this is his summer keep, like he's This is not even his regular
house. This is just his fucking vacation home. Is this wizard the rich
askhole with a yacht. He's had a two bon garaget his other pre rich
guide grenades. He reached a point of wealth where he's beyond yachts. Now
he's got two gigantic birds that he can fly on the back of, even
though he can personally fly himself. Yachts are for the new rich. The
sky is og. There might be more than one of them living in there.
How close do you want to get when you scout this area hmm,
close enough to smell it, but not close enough to spit on it.
That might get us some bird brain range. But I'm about too overly worried
about that. Well, I wouldn't say overly worried. I'm kind of worried
about that. Actually, Yeah, in retrospect, I mean we're gonna have
to deal with it eventually. Right, Theoretically we might be seeking cover from
the birds in the villa. I guess close enough to see if I can
find any other maybe wyte of attack like ways to get in. It would
be nice if we could isolate one of those creatures and either observe it or
Yeah, there's no nice way to say it, maybe kill it, understand
it more. I just get information so we know what we're up against.
If we had some kind of spyglass or way to see farther away, even
though I don't think we got glass tech yet. Unfortunately, Oh, they're
usually things like that are very expensive. Yeah, you would have to set
up a pretty permanent base to get to the level where you could make something
like that. It would probably take years of work at this point. Yeah,
to mention all the precision carving necessary a glass lens. I mean,
fuck, just getting the glass itself sounds hard. Yeah, the uh level
of tech that you guys have been able to produce so far, Yeah,
I feel like we could get glass. I don't feel like we could get
nice glass. Yeah. And for any kind of lens or anything like that,
you need pretty solid quality. Yeah. So basically what I'm asking is,
are you looking at more of an approach straight towards the corner and then
stop maybe a half mile out to try and see what you're dealing with,
or are you thinking more of an approach like I mean more like yes,
that is the second one is more what I'm looking for. Okay, so
definitely more trying to get around to the side than even the corner of the
front. Basically, yes, I feel like that's gonna take us, Assuming
we are proportional up with the slope to where we started, that looks to
be like double the trip we have a few days. True, well,
we've also got in return time hasn't been a day yet. We'll be fine.
That is the course of action you wish to pursue, Optimer, You're
gonna have a harder time finding a decently steady ground so we're going to up
the difficulty on this survival to two. Okay, I'm gonna spend one momentum
out of the market, all right. Do you wish to roll or you
could just spending a momentum? I think momentum just added one more dice.
Yeah. Oh oh sorry, I was thinking fortune. My bad. Oh
okay, yeah, momentum adds one die three successes. I'll put that last
success back in the momentum pool. Okay. I wish to succeed, but
I do not wish to be greedy. All right, So you dealing with
the increase pitch, you do slow down considerably. Another five ish hours go
by. The group has gotten pretty close to the canyon wall, and for
the first time since you've been down here, looking across to the west,
although it is far, you can see kind of like natural light travel coming
in over the top of the canyon walls. Sick. Hell yeah, prin
for this place at least, and you are able to fight as you kind
of shelter close to the canyon walls. There's places to rest. You guys
have had rough travel for ten hours now. You probably want to take it
easy at this point, but you are close enough that the mist and fog,
although it feels kind of unnatural because the sun hasn't burned it down.
You can see that the walls of this structure are tall and dark. You
can't make any detail out from where you are. You're still kind of miles
away at this point. Cool. From here, you do have every so
often one of the flying creatures kind of patrols around over the walls, and
you can see four limbs dangling down underneath the body. Fun. Yeah,
that checks out. Are we talking two arms and two legs? Four legs?
You can't really make it out. You're still miles away at this point.
Oh history, Octaborer, give me an observation difficulty three? Oh boy.
Anybody else can make an observation test if they want to, but the
difficulty will be four for them. I'm gonna fortune. Can I give Octimory
dice by helping him? No? Because this is kind of a passive thing.
Got you, Okay? Look at that? A twenty and a one?
What a hero? What a wow? What a split? What a
what a what? What? What? What a I got four successes?
All right? So the first thing is, mister Cale, the hell even
happens when you botch on a passive roll. They like have a sneezing fit.
You know what, I'm taking doom for that. Yeah, yees,
you fuck, you're just giving me doom on that. All right, cool,
good work everybody, all right. So as you guys are settling down,
everyone else is kind of like dealing with breaking out the rations, finding
level places to bed down. There's no roll or anything. Nobody is thinking
about starting a fire. It's gonna be a cold night with cold food because
those flying things would spot that fire easily. But October is off to the
side and he's just watching as the sun is going down, and the day
actually feels a little bit longer than usual because of your increased elevation. Like
I said, there's actually light coming in over the sides instead of just directly
down into the canyon. But October is watching intently, and he sees one
of the creatures towards the end of the day, flying up from the swamps
towards the structure. Guys never saw a lead. Closer to the western wall,
you see one of the flyers, just a spec at first, making
its way up, and as soon as it gets over the southern wall,
you see it's flying, kind of clumsy, and it drops something special.
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