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Lords. Thank you all right, So mid conversation, Vegas says, well,
and you hear a loud crashing through the bushes but approaching shit, not
like drag and loud, but loud enough readop stick, I'm gonna climb a
tree real quick and ready an arrow. Yeah, I'll prepare my my fucked
up adam getter bones or and chin left. Yeah. So everybody takes positions
to defend themselves to jump whatever it is that's crashing through the bush, and
then from out of the tree line is a huffing and a puffin and a
heavily winded call. Who's just jogging? You know that? Like you want
to run, but jog is the best you can manage that. I have
been there many times. His legs are not looking they're looking a little shaky,
the sweat pouring off of them. Over here he just has like sticks
and dirt on him in odd places over here. You're okay or a live
at least? Yes, the hell happened to you? Encountered the tiger from
the other day? It chased me often to this kind of Did you like
trick it? No? It literally drove me away from where I was in
towards you. Guys, you're alife? Like what I mean is saying it
out of body experience homes that most traditional Sumarian greeting of homes at most Yes,
at this point it is all right, Well, we'd probably trying to
warrient ourselves to where the tree line actually is, to see if you shook
this thing. You want to head north now, that is true. October
still has a general idea of where you are. October. If you were
to head south, maybe a hoard of a mile, you think you'd hit
the top of where the lakes are. What if we head northwest, we're
still looking for a river and we still want to try. Wouldn't heading northwest
kind of put us in the direction that we were heading back in. Yeah,
you're right, I'm thinking northeast, all right. That sounds good to
me. My west and my east is fucked up in my head right now.
I apologize. I'll ever eat shredded weat never eat saggy waffles. But
yeah, I get what you mean. Net works frothy sounds fair, all
right, And you guys should all stay within sight distance of me this time
A good plan because we obviously got separated on purpose. It is much easier
for the group to stay together as you traveled northeast since you are not blindly
panicking and running for your lives. Wow, who would have thought. Several
hours pass, probably getting close to midnight. When the tree line thins out
dramatically and you see ahead of you the ground becomes rocky. That means we
might be getting close to either the center of destruction and perhaps the wall.
Yeah. Well, when I say the ground becomes rocky, I mean like
less soil, more like stones in the soil. You're not coming back into
the scarred area of the forest, Okay, I think we might be nearing
the wall. Yeah. A short while later, maybe ten Fifteen minutes later,
the trees thin out enough that you can see the canyon wall. So
it's still always ish, but it's insight of these Yeah, yeah, you
can see it by the moonlight, but it is you know, it's still
of air distance from the tree line to the wall here, all right,
So yeah, what would you like to do now? There is no sign
of a river here? Is there a sign of a dragon trail here in
your immediate vicinity? That's a maybe improvement, not a negative. Should we
make it? We should make the call now, I mean, well by
the wall, right. If we don't make the shot now, we're gonna
get trapped between it and this thing, or we walk all the way back.
I don't know if I like that idea. Yeah, let's turn our
attention fully north then we'll try to cross over the path of destruction. All
or right? Our heroes turn their furtive attention northward, tired, dirty,
and afraid of being eaten. So we're pretty much the usual for their last
couple of weeks in this world. Dog, it's great, this is great.
It is great. What an immersive experience. What are you gonna do?
Are you gonna try and make the crossing now are you're gonna wait,
You're gonna try and put some more distance on what's it gonna be? So
I think Ricardo's a bit out of breath, considering we've all been in a
dead sprint for like the past twentiesh minutes and in France, if we try
to search for each other for the last ten I know it's not ideal,
but I think if it's actively trying to trying to suss us out, we
need to leave now. I don't think there's gonna be a situation. We
can wait it out now that we know you knows that we exist. You're
probably right agreed, it sucks, But yeah, should we go? I
guess in a diagonal direction so we can try and maybe get you know,
progress and distance at the same time from it. Yeah, toward the towards
the toward the east wall, to the east wall and north and follow me
this time, I'm gonna give beady eyes to call for a minute. You
know, I need to tell me twice. All right, I guess I'm
gonna start leading the hardy to the northeast. Follow the mustache. It's hard
to start out. Does Octomer have a mustache? I seem to remember that.
But yes, okay, that was the second thing said in the character
the prior statements to past. All Right, leading the party to the northeast
at night time, trying to keep everybody together, that is going to be
a difficulty three survival tech to maintain the correct distance, which you are again
allowed to reduce that. I think I'm gonna the fortune pool also should be
back to normal for everybody. I'm gonna blow a fucking fortune point on this
though. Alrighty smoke him if you got him pretty much? Who Okay,
that's two crits. That's two chritz one, two, three, four,
five, sixty five successes. Did you spend a fortune point two point yeah?
Yeah, yeah, that's said in successes. It's all right, so
that's difficulty too, right, it's difficulty too So that is uh, that's
five successes, sick five extra successes high Scovilles out the gate, Spicy.
Can he spend the momentum on anything for the survival or does he could spend
some of that momentum to make you guys move faster? I would like to
do that, please. He could spend some of that momentum to try and
cover your tracks. Although he would probably need to spend all of it to
do both up to you busy, you know, I think it's worth the
investment at this point. Yeah, Hey, look, you got seven fucking
successes on something. You want to do something right. We're gonna move quickly,
and we're gonna move tracklessly. I believe the last thing we need other
than the dragon is something else, right, and the dragon that would suck.
You're right, Yeah, this is literally what my characters here for.
No momentum and pool none. Okay, so it has written though. You
lead the party very competently to the northeast, and you break the tree line
rather abruptly, and you find yourself staring across a much more narrow stretch that's
probably only about a mile a mile and a half, okay, where it's
The terrain is all shattered and flattened down. You feel like you're at the
extreme eastern boundary of this creature's territory. Because it's not so bad here.
It gives me some heart. I'm gonna continue quickly ushering my charges across the
desolate landscape. All right, You make your way out from the trees.
The moon is giant and hanging very low, on the horizon. Visibility is
far shattered, upturned stumps here and there, trampled down tree what looks like
low brush along the ground. A lot of that is just like tree branches
that have been really beaten down with dying leaves on it. And as before,
there are like crazily tossed about stones and whatnot. You are able to
quickly and quietly move well before I say that, you guys should if you
want to be stealthy. Yeah, there should be an additional role here.
Yes, please? You're only gonna make one or one check for the party
and one person assisting, or do you want all four of us to make
stealth checks? So? Who here has expertise in stealth? I I just
bought it because I spent my experience points. Guys, yeay, we've all
got it all right. So who wants to be making the lead check?
I have a twelve in it? Who would occumer? I have a nine?
Actually, okay, I have two points spertise. I'll focus, but
my agilitiously to seven. I'll lead it then, all right, so you're
gonna lead it so you hold everybody else is going to roll a difficulty two
stealth check. I'm going to spend a fortune? Yeah? Same, all
right, it's a two automatic passes you don't get Yeah, two automatic passes
then? Or do you need focus to get a grid? You do need
focus to get a grip? Yeah? Otherwise it's one three successes for you.
Hooray? Nice? Does call have focus? Yes, and that's why
he's got two successes? All right, So you're going to add one momentum
to the pool. I know we have rules about this, but I am
both scared and scared of this. Also, I'm gonna be that is an
inside joke that no one will get it. But that's fine. I'm gonna
spend that momentum as well. So I'm rolling five D twenty on this skull
check. I respect this choice. You know what, I'm gonna spend the
fortune. I'm scared, Yeah, fortune, I mean the dragon could basically
just like, there's a complication in there too. Fuck all right, So
a total of five successes with one complication work brutal. Well, first we
wait for the dragon's perception ship. Yeah. Yeah, the contested roles require
me to compare. So this was a difficulty too. So you got three
momentum on that, yes, plus dragon? I don't know what plus dragon
is. I know that's that's the scary part, all right, you guys
make it a little more than halfway across. There is a fair degree of
tension. Everyone's moving as quietly as they can. Octimer in Vega or clustered
together. Octomer making sure that you're still perceiving a little more east and north,
and you know, to keep you on the shortest path across. Vega
is picking the cover as you move, like cover to cover. A couple
of times you guys have to backtrack because he just decides, m that's too
open. I don't want us to go that far, you know, without
any cover. Different routes, yes, but all in all, things are
moving pretty quick. You're about three quarters the way across when a decent distance
to your west there is an audible crash at the tree line and the beasts of merges