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Lords. Thank you. It is every bit as monstrous as you imagine.
It's the most massive creature any of you have ever seen. It's got giant
claws, big meaty arms. It doesn't have wings or anything like that.
It has kind of a crocodilian head, but at this distance it's tough to
say the exact length of the creature, but you can tell at this distance
it's big enough to make the crocodile that you've fought look small. Oh shit,
is it quadruped or is it on its time? Like it is quadruped?
Yes, oh, and its tail is still in the tree line,
but it is moving in a slight zigzag pattern and like rapidly breaking from the
trees towards us. No, no, parallel to you, but further out
to the west. When it lifts its head and it starts snorting air to
try and figure out where you are. That's not great. It's almost funny.
That's investing this level of effort on us when we are tiny. We're
not food like beef jerky sticks at best, and I'm talking like the small
stick kind. Yeah it is because we are not because that is a guard
dog. It's not interested in eden. Ah. Oh, that's worse.
Yeah, we should stick So the is that what you guys? You want
us to the plane or do you want to break and run? I think
I agree with optomers that we don't panic in this thing and we stick to
the plan for right now. Yeah, it doesn't movement attract predators or something
I would like to mention because this is a very interesting mechanic. The sight
of this creature fills you all with dread. Oh and I shall add three
more points to the doom pool. Fuck you, it's got pepperoni site.
Guys. All right, we keep to the plan, So stick to the
plan. So you guys are going to run the same sequence again, everybody
rolls stealth except for me, and then we'll okay, all I'm spending another
fortune Wait am I rolling? Did I? Yes? Everyone's roll in the
help stealth. Yeah. Yeah, and then I roll the old mid one.
Thank you, Cole. Hey it's still too It's true, I too
wish to spend another fortune point because nah carry out here, dude, Yeah,
here we go. Hey, you needed that, That's all I need?
All right? So am I at two total? Yes? All right?
Oh look at that. Wow Octomer, good job, buddy. Once
in a while, fate throws me a bone that it is two successes.
So you are now rolling five dice on this check? Yes, I am
still afraid. So we're spending the fortune point because I me no like he
dragons? Yeah, wow, the same fucking thing. Wow, five successes
one complication, God damn. All right, So you can go ahead and
well, you generated three momentum on that check, so yes, would you
like to spend it or drop it in the pool. I'm spending all of
it. If you want to do the move faster momentum, spend, it's
gonna cost two. I thought this was a okay. I was on the
impression that you were going to make a perception check, and the three momentum
was, oh I already did that. Oh okay, okay, sorry,
got it. I'll do do fast than one of the pool. Okay.
The way that you guys keep shooting glances at this thing, it kind of
hard to miss. The way that it's moving suggests to optim or at least
who's a very experience in woodcraft, that it hasn't directly caught your scent yet.
It'll move a little bit and then it'll stick its head up and sniff.
It's not sniffing at the crowd. However, bad luck, it happens
to be moving roughly in your direction. Ship. You all get probably a
few hundred feet away from the far tree line, and from here Vega cannot
see any more cover to move from. Done what I could? I think
we have to run from here. Yeah, we're gonna have to dash for
it. I take a quick look around us. Is there any like huge
bronze, or like slabs of wood or even a light still, like something
we could use so that it won't recognize what we are immediately if it sees
us. Maybe, so you basically want to like try and whip up some
camo some like rough like branch cover or something. It's a hail Mary,
I realize. But it's better than nothing, because who knows that split second
of it deciding what the hell is that could be all the difference in this
case, desperate or not, I would say natural camouflage would fall under their
survival skill. Okay, so basically we're gonna see if you can at least
get a little bit closer before you have to break and run. That's the
goal of this, right, or at least make it so like if it
sees us, it doesn't just see people. I think. I think we're
at a point where any movements. Yeah, I guess that's that is the
thing. It's gonna it's gonna see us. Now there's no, there's no
it's straight shot. No, I agree with you, but yeah, it's
gonna be I think any any time we get out there, it's inhabulative armor.
Maybe it doesn't see you for a couple of seconds, or maybe when
it does it gets confused for a moment or two. Yes, exactly.
If I was in this position, if I could get even a few feet
closer before I had to support, I would definitely take that show. Yeah,
I'll take I'm buying any I'll buy any amount of distance that Lydia can
buy me. I'm spending my last fortune point. You're welcome. Hey,
we're do we have two or three fortune points to start with? Three?
Three? Oh? I miscounted, Okay, I have one more? Okay,
so plus the fortune I believe it gives me three successes total to three.
You said, yes, Wow, well done. You generate one point
of momentum, and y'all creep for about what seems like forever. October has
got an eye. He's like going backwards. He's got an eye between two
like friends of the leafy thing watching the dragon, and it swivels its head
around a few times, still moving and sniffing the air as it was before.
But eventually it catches sight of the movement, but it freezes and three
four seconds, five seconds go by as it's frozen in place, watching and
then all of a sudden, it throws back its head and lets out a
bru and with nothing in between you and hit like the last time you heard
it score. Even at this distance, you feel like you can feel it
in your chest. It's a very like, almost brassy like horn like quality
to it just blaringly loud enough too for your ears, but not in any
way that the coust injured. Okay, and this thing starts moveing, we
gotta go. The need to get t f outa here,