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A path find a second
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Eons ago, the gods descended to reshape our
world and cleanse are warring hearts.
They heal the light
stitching deep lay lines into the earth to
seal their work
and created a contingent of celestial
overlords.
Known as the warden.
Their labor completed.
The guards took their leave,
The warden
left to their own devices,
proved in ep.
For though they were gifted with great power.
Power itself tempted them.
The hub fermented war so potent as to
shattered the very pillars of the Earth.
In the wake of their devastation, the warden
too, at abandoned.
We are the den of a broken world.
A world whose ancient play lines now lie
rupture
bleeding rich veins of the magic into the
soil,
the water.
Yeah,
In the vast
secluded strat borne valley,
influences from beyond our borders
now threatened to throw the lives of 3
unlikely heroes
and to upheaval.
So army
themselves and take courage.
For adventure course,
and the gods will not protect us from
what threats may lie in store.
It is a crisp spring morning in the
village of fast.
Flowers are in full bloom, fresh dew sparkling
on their petals.
Here and there Wi white clouds fit across
the sky crossing over the E mountains into
the strat valley.
You've just eating breakfast and as the servants
clean up your plate, the steward, Nave navarro
enters the room, approaches you, and browse slightly.
Finished Missus, master Wishes to speak with you
in his office. Oh, yes. Very well. I'll
go speak to father. You make your way
upstairs and knock on the door, a stern
voice calls back. Come in
As you push your away inside, you're greeted
by the sight of your father's office. The
walls are lined with imp organized book shelves,
an expensive rug covers the floor and behind
an elegantly carved desk covered with re of
papers, quill, and ink bottles. The sits your
father. This figure framed in the gentle morning
light of the north facing window.
He makes no motion for you to sit
down, but simply looks up and waits until
the door is closed before speaking. A young
man of some import has recently arrived in
town. He is the scion of Lord Van
of Chip first.
I do not know very much about him
personally, but as I am certain you are
aware funding 1 of his station would only
help our business.
I would like you to invite him here
for lunch this afternoon. But Even better would
be if you could bring him early, show
him around the grounds and let him see
the sort of people we are in the
prosperity we bring to hostile.
I have a business proposition that I believe
will interest him. I hear he is currently
staying at the An endless arms. Very well
father. I will We'll seek this. V inject
fellow and and speak to him and see
what? What I can do. Your father looks
at you momentarily gauging your expression and your
willingness.
Nods to himself looks down at his paperwork
and returns to scratching away it a document
with his quill. That will be all. Okay.
She kind of, like, bows a little bit
to him and leaves the room. You make
your preparations and set off to find this
potential business partner for your father. You make
your way first across your state, down the
and south into proper. The streets muddy from
the recent rains make you expand far more
effort than you would like to keep your
dress clean.
A few of the local woods give you
friendly nods as you pass by each other.
After a short walk, you arrive at the
An arms, Tavern built next to the shore
of the an River and a frequent stop
from any of the town citizens as they
swap news and socialize.
It's also the only inn in fa with
private rooms available for guests.
You enter the building and see a handful
of merchants and travelers relaxing around the common
room and the quieter, Carter Mc, a tall
lean man in his forties,
helping the waits staff clean up the tables
from breakfast.
Have I been to this establishment before? Yes.
You've been here. It's 1 of the few
places in town where you can actually buy
something to eat there. Okay. And it's 1
of the biggest places to socialize us. So...
Okay. I think pretty much everyone in town
comes here? Is it fairly upscale or is
it like a hole in the wall place?
It's the nicest 1 in town, but so
this being a rather small village that, I
mean, it's not that upscale, but it's alright.
Okay.
So she goes in and goes up to...
The Bark.
Yes. Mister Mc,
miss Ebb was it? Yes. That's correct. I'm
I'm seeking someone who's new to town.
Father tells me that,
van Jack? Is his name? Have you have
you seen this fellow? Yes, I have. Mister
Van is staying upstairs.
Very good. Be kind to summon him for
me.
Certainly.
So he heads upstairs.
He comes back a minute later.
Accompanied by the man is tall and thin
with pale skin and reddish blonde hair. It's
just long enough to get in his eyes
but not long enough to tell you.
He's wearing the clothes of a noble with
a rape you're dangling from his belt. His
bearing is proud but not arrogant. And you
can see, I'm... Fluff my the ruffles on
my shirt collar as I come down like
adjusting my sleeves
as if I wasn't expecting to be called
upon.
Carter gestures towards the woman here. It says,
yes, this is the woman who would asked
to speak with you. The woman before you
is slight, and somewhat short with unusually grey
skin and eyes and long black hair worn
up and tightly wound. She's wearing a finely
embroidered dress,
fancy if muddy laced boots and various bits
of jewelry. On her shoulder is a large
black bird, perhaps Raven, which watches you with
its Piercing gaze.
Greetings my lady. To what doyle, the pleasure.
Yes. My name is Zara Ebb.
I was sent here by my father to
to see... You out. Dorian Ebb,
provider of Ebb bail exports, no doubt you've
heard of him. Oh, yes. Yes. I believe
I have. Thank If if you don't mind,
please come with me and we'll go speak
to him.
Certainly. Give me a moment. I must
alert my foot that I will be out
this afternoon.
And I'll retire back to my room and
go knock on the door down the hall
where my foot
Earth and stoke are staying, and say, I've
I've been summoned for business
proposition to the home of the Ebb Unveil,
and I shall be at for maybe a
few hours. E answers that Door, and he
says,
understood mister, but should we... Should I not
accompany you? Well, I suppose if you must.
Get ready. I'll have stoke remain behind and
watch all of our things. Very well. Make
it quick. Yes, sir.
So E quickly picks up his bag and
satchel and a few other things for going
around the town and
with less than a minutes notice. He ready
to accompany you.
We had downstairs, and
I say so
Is there a carriage that we'll be taking
back to your house, so are we expected
it to travel through the mud on foot.
Zara is is visibly embarrassed by this. She
kind of blush and smooth out her her
dress a little bit and she says,
Well, no. I've I've come here on foot.
Normally, I would I would take the carriage,
1 of the family carriages.
But, today I've decided to...
Take a bit of a constitutional walk.
I see.
E, if you would be so kind as
to fetch my walking boots, please. From the
room upstairs. Thank you. It's certainly.
And I just wait. They're tapping, and I
make him go awfully way back upstairs come
back down, change my boots there and then
hand in my other pair of boots sit
then go back upstairs and put back in
my room. Here he does all of that
without the slightest look of complaints on his
face.
I see your servants are well trained. Oh,
they are. They are. They're a bit of
a nuisance. I must say, but
they do what they must. Well, 1 must
put up with what 1 must.
Yes. You know, hard to find good help
these days.
Well,
I suppose we're do for a walk then
Aren't? Yes. It's not it's not a long
walk from here. Pretty well. Lead the way,
my lady. Alright. We head out and head
back to the estate. You returned to the
Oven vale estate and spend some time.
Showing him around the grounds. Yeah. We go
get up to the to the estate. There's
a wall with a gate in it. It
opens up onto the grounds and it's not
huge, but you can tell by looking at
it that there's some history here. It looks
like it once was not... In great shape,
but it's been
rebuilt and refurbished over time. There's a pond
and orchard with some different fruits and stuff,
maybe a small hedge maze. No. I don't
know.
I look around and sort of assess the
grounds and kinda nod my head. Quaint. Yeah.
This will do I suppose. Our estate in
check fourth was much grander. I I can
assure you This was... This was simply the
largest property we could no we could buy
here. Oh, yes. Yes. I I understand the
constraints of the local geography.
Does put it down on things.
After you've spent an hour to showing him
everything there is to see out around the
grounds. 1 of your servants finds you and
informs you that lunch is ready.
Mister mister Van, if you would, please come
with me. Let's sup together. I've have worked
up an appetite with all that walking. I
must say.
Yes. I... I'm not accustomed to walking more
than a few feet at a time myself.
We know not without advanced notice least was.
Normally I have a servant carry me from
1 room for next. But
like I said today, I felt like getting
a bit of what when the peasants call
excess. Eyes.
Yeah. So I no. Do not mistake me,
my lady. I'm no stranger exercise. It's really
just the eyes the mud and the general
dirt ness of the streets that it puts
me off the most.
She has no come back for this.
I I look at the mud cake to
the bottom of my boots and say, I'll
have to have earth, purchase me a new
pair of walking boots upon my return.
No cleaning the old boots. Just throw them
malay away and get new ones. Don't away
find. Donate them to charity.
And then with a little tag pinned to
the boots that say,
compliments of house.
Warren once. Yeah. He.
Lightly used.
Previously enjoyed by
jack. Then
Will you go inside. The dining room is
well lit with large windows.
The table is set with fine silverware in
China atop of pure white table cloth. A
servant white near 1 of the doors to
assist with anything that may arise.
Meal consists of fresh fish, root vegetables, bread
and mild cider, all skill prepared and seasoned
with fine herbs and spices.
Dorian Evan is there along with his wife
L son and Eldest Daughter Ali.
L cassandra speaks little, but Ali practically radiates
energy, carefully engaging in whatever conversation arises it.
Mister V, it's rare for visitors of your
station to visit this sleepy village? What brings
you here? How long do you expect to
be in foster? She has is
my grandfather has sent me to assess the
conditions in the town to look over the
buildings, the businesses,
the commerce.
And do a general assessment
of the health and well being of our
people. Oh, that sounds wonderful.
Pleased to have you here.
You make small talk as eat discussing the
current state of check for local politics and
so on. And as the meal is drawing
to a Dorian speaks in a more serious
tone.
Master,
I thank you for taking the time to
join us this afternoon. Now if we may
discuss business. Those It recently came to my
attention that a newly discovered grove full of
valuable herbs both medicinal and edible was found
a short distance from here.
I would like to establish a small facility
there to harvest the herbs, but also to
tend them protect them from wild animals or
monsters.
And research the soil and other conditions that
may have led to their growth. With the
intention of expanding the global region such that
it can supply herbs to the entire area
and or even perhaps the whole valley. The
reason I'm telling you this is that I
would like to ask for a small investment
from the.
In exchange for 5000 silver coins front You
would receive a share of profits from the
sale of these herbs, not to mention the
increase in tax revenue that would flow into
your coffers from Evan vale exports. Of course,
you need not act upon my word alone.
I insist that you visit the area and
see its produce for yourself. My daughter Az
zara will accompany you. I would certainly be
willing to
assess the conditions here and
take a proposal back to my grandfather. By
all means, you take all the time you
need to make your decision as well. Father,
nothing would make me happier than to escort
this man.
But, you know that I do have duties
here around the house,
perhaps my sister could escort him instead. Your
sister is busy this evening.
She will be unable to attend to such
matters is this.
I trust that you would be able to
make adjustments to your sc. Role is needed?
Yes. Yes. Of course,
and you can tell that she's a little
bit put off by, having to travel with
this guy.
Feel free to take the horses.
I'm sure they'll make your trip much easier.
I, thank you. So he gives you directions
on how to get to the place of
interest, and
you set up. The journey is close to
2 hours, almost 2 hours by horseback.
You crossed the river to the west, then
follow it north through the forest.
When you reach a small flowing into the
river, you crossed that and then begin to
follow it deeper into the forest, looking for
the grove. A few minutes after leaving the
En endless river, you spot a figure ahead
sitting on a fallen tree at the edge
of a blade, seemingly deep and thought. It
appears to be a dwarf albeit an uncommon
thin 1. He has short hair on the
top of his head, but along tail side
burns and beard braid, as well as a
very curled mustache.
His outfit is indicative of an outdoor iced.
Wears a dagger and c on his belt
with sturdy steel shield leaning against the log
next to him. He doesn't seem to have
noticed your approach yet.
Pray, do you see this stranger up ahead?
Yes. I do. Allow me to ride ahead
and see what his intentions may be, my
lady. You right behind e. Oh, no no.
Please. Allow me. I will I will make
sure that there's no danger here. As a
gentleman, I must insist.
Please. Stay with air At and allow me
to ride ahead.
Very well. Alright. So III
ride up ahead and then I turned my
horse so that it's like, sideways, you know,
sort of blocking
between this the store and the lady and
my servant.
I say,
excuse me, sir. Good sir.
You're there.
Oh, hey. What brings you here on that
beast?
Well, I happen to be pursuing a business
venture. I must say you strike me as
a dwarf who refuses to take maybe for
an answer. So I must insist that the
road be cleared so that my lady and
I may pass.
Well, stranger, you can have safe passage all
that you like. I I hope that you
haven't pinned me wrong. I mean, this is
about our first meeting.
Yes. Well, I must insist that you step
aside so that we may pass un unattended.
If I may while you pass,
and and I do beg your pardon. I'm
sure I'm sure you're plenty busy. But I
just wanted you to be on your guard.
Apparently, there's been some G
cited nearby. And,
well, if you do have the time,
maybe you could help me to clear them
out. I don't I don't feel like the
town is safe with these Gram lin running
a mu. Well, maybe we could work together
for a bit. G, you say?
What manner of creature might this be?
Small,
fe, mischievous.
I mean, you really can't trust them. I
mean, some of them are pretty adorable and
and cute, but these surely are here for
nefarious reasons probably
attracted by some of the resources of our
fair town. Are I look back over my
shoulder and some in air and lady Ebb
unveiled to my side. Yeah. What will come
up.
Enough, kindly go investigate this, Grim siding with
the this dwarf here. He claims that there
are,
creatures running a mock in the forest, and
I would like you to
to see what this is all about, please.
With with all due respect, friend,
I it's kind of all hands on deck
situation Is it that bad? Is multiple G
cited.
Be so kind is to take account of
these g while you're investigating pieces?
He looks over at the dwarf. It says,
where did you say these criminals have been
cited?
I I could take you right to him.
By foot. We don't you don't need horses.
Arr looks over towards the glad, then he
looks back at 2 of you on the
horseback. He says, is this not the very
place that we were sent to investigate and
look at these herbs in here. This growth
looks different from the rest of the forest.
I turned to lady Edd.
Mister V, please. Why don't you must surely
you must be weary from traveling. Why don't
you sit here and rest. The 3 of
us will go here and clear out this
is troublesome imp problem
and we'll come back when it's all over.
Is this is the place that you've been
to take me to him my lady.
Yes. I I believe so.
Well, then it seems our journey is at
an end, and you
just so happened to be here, mister Wolf.
Well, for friends, if I may, you have
an interest in herbs
in a roundabout
sort of way. My interest in herbs begins
and ends
with their value.
Well, sure. I mean, they can they can
fetch you good price. We always have to
be careful not to take more than what
will replenish. Let's see. I could show you
what I know and and and show you
some good ones to to pick if you
want some advice What say you lady? Or
were you expecting to meet a person of
such
expertise here today? I certainly wasn't, but and,
you know, I do have a bit of
schooling in plants and herbs and the like,
but I suppose a little bit of extra
expertise wouldn't be harmful. You see the dwarf
eyes light up when you say that. And
he comes over to you and ginger like
takes 1 of your hands and says, oh,
my good woman, you know about Good herbs.
This there's nothing like go.
She pulls her hand away when you take
it and kind of, like, wipes it off
on her. Dressing says,
yes. Like I said, I've studied them a
bit, but,
perhaps you do have more expertise than me.
Oh, I don't know if I'd say that.
Last? But, oh, you might wanna wipe that
hand off. Sorry. I had some fresh soil
in my hands.
Yes. I noticed.
Sorry about that. I got caught up in
the moment.
Yes. You have an air of soil about
you. Let's
Yes. I I was planning to to go
to the river.
Later this evening. I just was so excited
about these findings, but then I I heard
about the the G and I just... I
couldn't do nothing, but go and see what
the problem was.
Ebb,
if I might inquire, I'm not certainly your
father
mentioned
who it is that owns. Eddie these lands.
Are these lands currently in your family's possession?
Outside of the town, no 1 really owns
the area directly.
Or be, like, the maybe the local lords
would have indirect control over the region, but
it's largely une unemployed wilderness
or at least un unmatched,
aside from the roads. Okay. So then these
lands are technically
in the dominion of
my grandfather. Through a few steps of the
hierarchy. You can see that the dwarf is
like trying to hide that he's a little
bit prick by this
conversation of ownership of the outside lands.
But I'm trying to hide that face.
Who is your north grandfather again?
My lady, I'm referring to my lord Jo
Van, the Lord of Chap forth, the land
in which you now reside.
I see. Yes.
Then I suppose these lands fall under his
general
jurisdiction.
But
let's say we go and investigate this G
problem together.
And if it is as bad as...
Mister,
what did you say your name once again?
Beg pardon. It's Cardi
Deep Fury.
And, what would yours be? My lady? Yes.
My name is Zara Ebb.
Ebb. And I am ver of house.
Pleased to meet your acquaintance. Master dwarf. Yes.
Let's say we go investigate this problem together,
and if it's as bad as you say,
mister Card, then,
we will
take care of it altogether, and then we'll
be rid of these metals and creatures. Oh,
that would be great. I mean,
I was just go in the into the
woods by myself, but there must be a
reason you came when you did.
Must the oh, really?
I gonna I flourish my cape over my
shoulder and dis mount.
Aircraft kindly mined the animals.
Make sure they're tied off well and then
a accompany us, if you will. Yes, sir
right away. We ties all of the horses
to nearby trees.
You sure we don't have any other allies
we could come call on for this
excursion.
Not easily. We are a few hours ride
from town. So, I'm afraid we are on
our own. Well, I've brought 1. He's a
little bit shy. But and you see that,
like, behind car danes head, it was, like,
hiding there the whole time, a little
stick like teeny tiny, little wood if you
will, creeps and poke around his head and
inspect you all with his little Bd i's,
I shout and point to your shoulder Kremlin.
I'll get back. Wait no.
Oh. 0, don't scare him. Oh, this is...
In my tongue, he would be little root,
but you can call him Braun.
Braun.
I see. You
are acquainted with this creature. Oh, yes. He...
It's a story for maybe later friend. We
can talk about it after we deal with
the problem, but you can trust him. I
trust him with my very life. Very well,
I could see how you would equate yourself
with someone so covered in dirt?
Do you say that a car danger face.
Yes. Yes. I do. I try to hide
AAA
grim of disdain to while we're was speaking
of allies. I I forgot to introduce. This
is my
my Raven, mister Crowley. I almost mister Crowley.
Yes.
Fantastic.
Hyde I'd meant to ask you, but
did not want to be rude. And, mister
Crowley, is... It's is a spiritual guide of
yours or Merely a pet.
You you could call him a pet, and
mister Crowley Sq and at that.
B is feathers. It this seems like a
fine team. We're going in with... I wasn't
very good at math. Hang on. There's 5
of us
If you're if your attendant, your friend gets
back? Darrell was it? I am barrel of
house jackson and this is my foot footprint.
Air. Air. Okay. I I think this is
a good group should be able to travel
lightly as 5. Well,
I cannot say that a G...
Has ever met the pointed end of my
blade before, but
I'm looking forward to the opportunity.
Alright. I think we head to the grove.
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Carta leads you a short distance away from
the stream through the grove to the opposite
side where there's somewhat rocky hill rises up.
There are fewer trees here. Due to the
Rockies soil. And this hill looks like a
good vantage point to look down on the
grove, and as a point of interest for
the future, perhaps it would be a good
place to established whatever facilities they wanted to
have here to manage the area Without disrupting
too much. So you climb up the hill,
and you can hear what sounds like distant
muffled
high pitched,
voices.
Not... You can't make out any clear words,
but there's some sort of muffled voices coming
from somewhere ahead on the hill, it looks
like, but you don't see anything around there.
Okay. I draw my
rap here? Yeah. Could we see if we
know anything about G. Sure. You can make
a recall knowledge
check.
That's a great idea. Let's do that. I've
just heard that recall knowledge checks are, like,
1 of the most common ones you're making
in this game. Alright. First roles of the
game. Nice.
Now how do we do that?
Yeah. Recall How do I recall something that
I already know? If you go to your
efficiencies,
actually, I should maybe roll it potentially since
it's supposed to be a secret? Check.
I wonder if some of car
skills might be particularly useful at knowing stuff
about their faye. Aren't they? They are a
variety of b. It seems like something Car
might know a little bit about?
Yeah. What what languages did I pick? I
might have actually picked fe.
So that's on your main character page, the
very first tab. Oh, yeah. I have faith.
Look at that. Wow. Oh, dude. Okay. I'm
glad I didn't pick it. Nice.
So what is recalled knowledge actually? It's not
like a 1 of the main skills? It's
to find out stuff. And, like, that can
actually have combat implications sometimes too because you
can learn about what they might be weak
to or immune to sometimes or... But, like,
how is it calculated.
Like, I don't have anything that says recall
knowledge on my skill sheet. It depends on
what skill you're trying to recall the knowledge.
Of. So in this case, it will be
a nature check. A,
okay. K. Can I roll that? I think
we all can. Right? I actually am doing
to do this here. Oh okay. Okay. Well,
that's fun. There's lots of secret rolling in
Pathfinder. Correct? Yeah. There's a lot.
Well, I feel like for, like, traps and
stuff, that's like a key time to be
secretive. So Ver and Cardi,
you know a little bit about G.
With your general knowledge, you understand that there
are many different varieties of them. There are
generally
small, vaguely humanoid
but often with some animal parts to them.
They're very
mischievous and
depending on what type it is, they might
be more inclined to ruin things in different
ways basically.
But without actually seeing any knowing what particular
types of g loans you're up against, you
can't get a whole lot more detail than
that. Okay. So maybe once we get a
visual on 1, we could try again, but
using actions. Yeah. To see what... Which 1
it might be specifically. Yeah. They're they're pesky
little group. Aren't they viral. I seem to
a call learning about
something.
Related,
perhaps in a lesson, a long time ago,
but I must admit I did not recall
very much. What do you think about G
sorry? I don't know much about them apparently.
I think my role is not very good.
Don't count yourself out last.
I'm I'm having a bit of an off
day. I... Normally, I'm super knowledgeable about these
kinds of things.
I'm sure you'll prove useful in this encounter.
So you make your way
towards the noise or what?
Yeah. Do we wanna try to sneak up
on them? That's a no go for me?
Oh, yeah. I'm wearing a type of armor
that would give me away, but you guys
could... Sneak. Okay? Well,
we can try. Right? We can try to
sneak up upon them. It... Well, so this
this is technically just just rules question. Is
explore mode. So couldn't each of us
dictate a particular skill and say, hey, like,
I'm doing x. Like, this Couldn't I say
that Cardi is, like, using his survival skill
and, like, looking for tracks right now.
Maybe like, for a good way to enter
the forest?
Yeah. So that's what you're gonna be doing.
Each of you can basically do 1 thing
during exploration mode, that's your focus. So if
you want it to be sneaking, then that's
what you're doing without. Regard for looking for
tracks or safety year or whatever. Okay. Or
it can be... If you have your shield,
you could be on guard, so your shield
is always raised when if that'll starts, know,
stuff like that. Mh.
This is actually probably something that Cardi is
already used to doing just his fighting style,
I'm probably going to... And you guys won't
cure it, but I'm gonna whisper something to
Braun, and he kind of, you know, looks
at me and I look at him with
kind of a loving glance.
And then I gently
set him down from my shoulder to the
ground, and he looks back at me in
nods, and then he starts to sc off
into the forest,
kind of, like cro like, and I'm gonna
have Braun use his
stealth as his
exploration activity. Mh. That's a great visual. I
feel like he's pretty, like
naturally camouflage,
just the way that he looks kinda like
the little moss
branch body. That he has yeah for sure.
Okay? So he's just gonna go ahead of
you sneak? Yeah. I'll will also be stealth.
Yeah. A stealth, and I understood air to
do the same? Are you guys gonna draft
behind Braun? Are you kinda making your own
way?
We'll
Maker, is Braun, like, going into, like, the
under growth because I think we should sort
of stay in the the clearing. I don't
wanna get my cape. Tangled up in a
thorn bush.
Yeah. I mean, I imagine that Braun is
no stranger to dirt... Mean he loves it.
So I bet that... I don't I mean,
I'm not saying he has a brewing speed,
but I bet he's just like, loving all
of this under brush. Yeah. He's he's getting
in there. Yeah. So So I wanna try
to stay in the in a clearing, like,
if, you know, space between trees. Yeah. Same
here. But he's he's very natural on the
forest floor. The way that he's moving and
barely disturbing a leaf. Yeah. And I'll lean
back to Air before we start stuffing, and
I'll say,
earth should fighting break and and the worst
happen,
see yourself safely home, make sure the lady
is looked after.
Don't mind so much about the dwarf.
Understood.
Even though I'm bad at stealth, should I
just stealth anyway? Instead of survival. I don't
want to be too far away from Braun,
like too far away to, like, give him
instructions
Well, it's up to you. I mean, do
can you do
survival as as a potential initiative check? Like,
would that even make sense for Car? I...
Am I just gonna be too far behind
the rest the party to be useful. Well,
if you're the trying to follow tracks, it
would make sense for you to be near
the front. Yeah. I'm I'm letting you lead
the way. I'm still thinking and I'm going
very slowly, and I'm I'm probably not gonna
like overtake you and charge in because I
don't really know very much about these creatures
of this situation whereas you've... I figured you've
laid eyes on them. So I'm gonna let
you
maintain a lead. So all that your armor
does is it gives you a minus 2
to your stealth checks.
Not nearly as bad as disadvantage and this
disposition Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
I did not take stealth though. What about
nature? That's not really an exploration thing here.
Okay. Okay. All survival, and I will be
looking for G tracks and I'm gonna try
to... Like, if I see tracks, I'm not
gonna follow them directly. I'm gonna follow them
from a distance, like, kinda using my knowledge
of just like, okay. That's going that way.
I'm gonna I'm gonna flank with using some
of these trees.
Cool. So maybe I'm not taking as direct
a path as Braun or the... Or Ver
and his buddy, but I'm I'm coming around.
Yeah. I'm coming I'm coming I'm come on
come
around the mountain when she comes.
Like I gotta an 18 on my stealth
check. Jay, you you have an armor check
penalty
me? Yeah. I just saw it in chat.
Oh, yes. Yep. Looks that way. Are you
wearing some super spicy armor? That's already taken
into account in my...
My skill bonus.
So it's only a minus 1. I mean,
no. I'm just wearing stud leather.
Does that make you? I'm just kidding.
You got it. Oh, it's because you don't
meet the strength requirement for studded leather armor.
Okay. I was unaware that there was a
strength requirement.
So saying you... Like, right before the week
leading up to this, you worked with me
a lot to get me into different armor.
Originally, guys, I was gonna be wearing a
wooden breast plate because I just... Thought that,
like, really fit the aesthetic of car, but
it, like, totally jacked up my ability scores
to do that. Or not totally, but it
was just, like, more dexter dexterity than I
really need for this build. Okay. From things
advice. I mean, would you rule of cool,
like, help him into a different type of
armor be I think regular leather would probably
be better for you. You do lose.
Actually, you lose nothing because the dex cap...
It has a higher. Yeah. Dexterity threshold. So,
like, you're more yeah. You're more like dodgy
and leather, if you're a high character. Yeah.
Versus like a character like me. So love
that is just the better 1 for you.
Yeah. I'll just talk you into that right
now. Yeah. I was looking at the 2
and didn't see much besides the higher index
cap on leather. Or but I figured it
was all the same. And what about
Zara?
Zara is wearing no armor. Well, you're wearing...
But wearing explorer clothing. But, yeah. That is
that is armor. Is it? Okay. So you've
changed out of your dress
before this? Well,
I guess so... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, mechanically,
I would... I'm, you know, I have explorers
clothing in my inventory. So if I knew
that I would be traveling outside of the
town. Yeah. I'd put on my explorer clothing.
Maybe she just has, like, 1 of those,
like, shawl that, like, goes over that's all
fancy, but, like, she leaves it on the
horse and now she's like ready.
We're seeing a whole another side of the
of the daughter.
So, yeah, You want to describe your new
outfit since it's different. Yeah. It's dependable, dark
leather, sturdy leather boots. She still got has
all her, like, tri and jewelry and stuff.
But then she like, also lets her hair
down too. She doesn't... She's not as worried
about seeming, like high and proper. She's, you
know, she's out here in the wild, so
she's ready to travel.
Okay. Well, the court's not here to observe.
Right? You none of your people are here,
so you can kinda like, let loose. Yeah.
Exactly. So it's not... It's not like you're
wearing no armor. You have armor, Brian. Well,
no. Explore clothing says una armour as the
1 of the tags. Mh. The proficiency bonus
of place, but There's no actual armor. Rem.
So, will I make a sur check, stealing
j,
pronunciation.
Or either way, I know the role is
supposed to be secret. Okay. Sean privately rolled
some days. It happened.
That rolled mine. Well, first things hurt... Cardi,
you get off ahead of the group a
little bit and start looking around for some
tracks. And you do actually find some not
quite animal tracks. But something small moving through
the under brush
and going up the hill. So you start
following that, the others are sneaking along behind
you. Okay. So you're climbing up the hill,
you're following these tracks that you found. And
as you get back towards the far side
of this Rocky clearing.
And closer to the woods again. You see
that the tracks seem to
disappear.
There's a small cluster of them in 1
area
but they're not heading in anywhere anywhere else
past that point. Do we still hear the
voices? You can still faint hear the voices.
And it sounds like they're coming from
around that same area where the tracks stopped,
but it's still muffled, like they're not right
there.
I look up in the trees. Can I,
like, do a hand signal to the other
party members?
Sure. Okay. I'll do it in common? 1
of them looking at the trees right now.
I was about to say I... I'm afraid
I don't understand d hand signals. Oh, I
stopped doing it in war and I start
doing it in common. Looking
Sorry. So I got my I got my
sign language mixed up. I'm like, signing all
that to Ver, like, apologizing
the dialect.
Issue.
You can do basic gesture or some stuff,
but... Yeah. Well, I... I'm gonna gesture
to the weapons on my waist, and I'm
gonna get my shield ready, and I think
Ver will
understand.
Yeah. I've had my rap drone since we
first heard the voices. Okay. Well, anybody that
wasn't ready. I gesture that they should get
ready.
Okay. So you pull out your shield, you
bought your club too.
No. Actually, I want my other hand, to
have a particular scroll.
Okay. So you don't see anything up in
the trees, at least nothing unusual. You're still
hearing these noises. It's a little bit louder
now that you're closer here, but you can't
tell really where it's coming from.
Car gives
a gentle
nod to Braun. And Braun, nods back
and then steps over towards some other bushes
or or small sap,
and he
sticks his little feet in the ground and
puts his arms out and begins to change
a little. His eyes disappear different foliage,
ga his form
and he looks like just this little little
moss tree sap. A little sap. Wow.
That's amazing. That's quite a talented little friend
has over there.
Blends in perfectly with the other shrubs around
him.
Perfectly still.
Sway in the slight wind. It's great.
So is it the kind of thing where
we could make perception checks to try to
see just try to figure out where these
things are. Yeah. You could make checks.
Well, again, it's supposed to be, I think
secret because you don't know if there's anything
to in the first place. Mh but we
can assume because we can hear the voices.
Right? And we see the tracks. Yeah. But
you're not supposed to know if you signed
needed, and there's nothing that you see or
if you failed and there's nothing that you
see You know. I'll I'll be a little
bold. I want Car to eat try to
glean a little bit more information from these
tracks he's found. I realized that might expose
him a little bit, but I'm gonna have
him come a little closer and inspect the
tracks.
Alright.
Ver zara, you're looking around the area trying
to find any signs of them, but you
don't see any movement or any creatures nearby.
Cardi, and you move up closer to the
tracks. And
when you get there, there seems to be
an unnatural straight line in the dirt. That
is where these tracks end.
Unnatural straight.
I mean, I notice when something's
unnatural.
Do you say anything to us?
I give you concerned glance
because I don't wanna break the silence. Mh.
And some more some more sign language.
That you apparently don't understand.
What is it? What's wrong? Where are they?
I'll look in the direction where I think
that these tracks are leading
which is... Where do you think it is.
Can I point to the unnatural
straight line and see if they can see
it from where they are? Yeah. So it's
like the tracks are moving forward, and then
there's a little bit of a grouping of
them and at the end of this grouping.
There's a perpendicular
line. It cuts across the tracks. Oh, man.
Is that like a is that like where
a portal was to the fay world or
something? Which way are the tracks going towards
the line or away from it? They're mostly
going towards it. It looks like this is
a relatively well used pathway. So most recent
tracks are heading towards the line.
Oh,
okay.
Yeah. I mean, like, they're faye. They're they're
G ones. Like, they can like, do some
teleportation stuffs, can't they? Probably. Yeah. So... But...
How do we... What what do we do
with that? Wait a minute. I wanna switch
my exploration. I wanna try to inspect the
line with nature and see if I can
detect something,
primal magic about that line. Detecting magic? Oh,
I don't have the detect magic, can prepared.
Yeah. I know it, but don't have it
prepared. You should always have detect magic prepared
if you have it, 1 of the most
generally useful spills. No wait. I do. Okay.
Yeah. So I did did prepare to detect
maddox so I'll cast that. Okay. Does he
have to be close? What's the distance? It's
a 30 foot? Range. It does not detect
through walls or other barriers.
And so that we are all aware now
and moving forward,
casting any spell without the subtle trait requires
speaking in a distinctly loud voice.
Know clearly, and basically breaking any stealth that
you have. Okay. Alright. Well in that case,
like, we'll huddle together and I'll kind of,
like, whisper to them and say, if we
want, I can cast tech magic to
see if there's a portal leader. Yeah. It
might be worth it because the tracks... Or
I'm whispering.
Yeah. The tracks just end. I don't know
how else to explain it besides.
Match.
Magic magic magic
Very well, I shall cast a spell to
see if I can detect any portals here?
Why don't we be on our go everybody
else like ready. Detect magic works a little
differently in this game than you're probably used
to? Basically just... Is there anything magical within
30 feet. Art Yes or no. Yeah. That's
all you get. Yeah. Okay. That's kinda how
I remember it. With the ability to rule
out stuff that you already know of. So
if, you know, if I know some else
has magic armor, I can choose to ignore
that essentially. So it's just a radar sweep
of your immediate 30 foot area. Yeah. Beep
when Deep.
Okay. Exactly. So you cast detect Magic,
and you don't detect anything.
Okay. Wow.
I don't detect any magic
nearby.
Perhaps it's not a portal, but they've all
chosen to teleport away from this exact spot.
Are they wait? Could they be invisible? Wouldn't
they have seen us by now? Maybe they
have some sort of capability
to hide their tracks.
Whether physically or magically?
And do we hear them still? Or does
it seem like they've faded... Their voices have
faded? There are pauses now and then for
20 or 30 seconds at a time, but
then they start muffled shouting.
Alright. Well, Ver is growing impatient. So I
go over to where a line of tracks
ends and look at it. Okay? You see
the same thing that I described. Mh. They
I try, like, kicking across the line and,
like, the stepping in the mud and or
in the dirt. Do you step across? Past
the tracks? Yes. Alright. I put a foot
across the line into the dirt. Okay. You
step across with 1 foot? And
nothing happens.
But I still hear them. Can I hear
them better now than I could, when Lenovo
standing back? Yeah. It sounds like they're closer
now than before.
If anything, it sounds like it's coming from
below you.
Hope below below us. Like in the ground?
Well, the ground is below you? Yes.
Could it be that they're
burrow? What is this large flat thing below
me?
Must be the crown.
Car is gonna continue to
rely on survival, and I'm gonna put my
ear, my do.
Ear to the ground
and try to keep glean what I can.
I will stab into the ground with my
rap here, but not where the door is
Could it be that this is a growing
variety of G?
It's very pesky. I mean, they they'd ruin
your garden. As you thrust the sword into
the ground, you feel the ground shift and
fall out from under it. Oh no. Out
from an... Underneath you. The other 2 might
be far enough back, Zara is probably not
there. But Car, if you were listening
past the tractor at all, which is where
it's loudest
then you would have also been cutting this.
Oh, no. I I don't think I would
over commit. I would probably just where wherever
I was. Drop down and try to listen.
Well, ver, at least, you stab into the
ground to extra pressure causes it to open
up underneath you and you start to all.
Whoa. You can attempt to grab the ledge
as long as you have a hand free.
Certainly
make a reflex save. I take it. I
am an expert it reflex saves. It's acr
check or reflex save, whichever you want. We're
gonna go with
reflex save.
Low roll, but decent result. Got a 14.
That is
unfortunately
barely not enough. Oh,
Yeah. Can anybody else do anything?
I don't think you get any reactions to
that? Oh, no. Probably not. So you tried
to reach out with your other hand and
grab the ledge, but you don't quite grab
purchase and it slips off over the edge
and you fall down. Cool it.
Fortunately, this is not a long drop. Instead,
it opens out onto a shoot, so you
get slippery, dirt and rock slope, which catches
you somewhat, and then you wind down a
short ways and land at the bottom, rough
up, but not actually hurt. Like a slide.
Yeah. Like a dirt sled. Viral, No.
You found the entrance.
Very well done, Ver. Cardi says down the
slide.
I g around for my rap, and I
grab it, stand up and dust myself off
and then I start waving it around. H
at? Caves?
Where are you? This noise of whatever voices
you were hearing has stopped since the trap
door was opened. Come out and show yourselves.
Your voice echoes back. I turned to Car
and say, well, please that's all we can
do here. Let's back and before back Thought.
Yes, sir. Throw down a rope, please if
you would. Certainly, sir. I... I can't actually
see you.
Well, I am down here, so you feel
up down. I'll find it. I think we'll
need something heavy at the end of the
rope. It's not going down the slide. But
garden.
Wait just a moment. I need to find
something to tie to the end of the
rope to have it followed down the slide
with you. Very.
There's a perfectly good dwarf up there. Yeah
real quick, fame is a rules question. If
Braun is, really far away from me. Do
I lose some of his benefits as a
familiar. Should I like, go back to the
woods and grab him? Assure him that everything's
alright. His abilities
stay. You don't lose any of that.
Okay. Yeah. I think the the standard
familiarity ability of em emphatic connection is up
to a mile, so he shouldn't lose that.
Does Braun have... Can I see him? Like,
would he... Could he see this hole in
the ground from where he is planted himself?
Yeah. He's close enough to see. Okay. I'm
not gonna have him leave his form, but
maybe I run over and I'll count I'll
have a little chat with him and let
him know, like, hey, Like, yeah. Just for
him to keep on the lookout. I guess
I wouldn't want him to give chase, but
I just want him to watch if anybody
enters or leaves, the cave that isn't us.
Okay. Alright. He doesn't nod because he's a
tree, but I trust that he heard me.
I have a climbing kit. There's gotta be
something here. Like, there's a hammer. I could
tie a hammer to the end of the
rope. Tied off around the tree. There's plenty
of those around? What is it a 50
foot rope? You've got a grappling hook. You've
got... Tree is around to tie it 2.
If you wanna throw something heavy down to
pull him out, I don't see anything particularly
heavy in that kit either.
Oh,
why don't we in... I know it's a
little more cumbersome, but... Because you said this
was a slide. What if we set up
the climbing kit pulley.
Stuff, like, using the trees, you know, whatever...
I it's 50 feet a rope with pulley,
like, whatever I need to, like, rig it
so that we can go down more safely
or even back up. Okay. So you can
set your rope here and basically let it
down and climb down along with it. Yeah,
Darrell. Hold on, fred. Verily, you are pretty
much in the dark. There's a little bit
of reflected light coming back down through the
tunnel behind you, but you can't see much
of anything. Down here. Alright. Are you a
human barrel? Yes. There's always 1. There's always
1 in the party. It doesn't have dark
vision. Never fails. Since it's taking kind of
a while for them to figure stuff out,
I'll grab the flint steel and the torch
out of my backpack and light it up.
Okay. Oh we go into a new map.
I think so. Oh, first map change of
the campaign?
What what new
map.
So you have nap in 1 hand torch
in the other? Yes. And you're looking around
you. This looks like
probably a natural cave perry rock ski, but
not like solid rock around, so there's a
lot of dirt and roots and things that
are holding it in place, about 10 to
15 feet wide here extends
around bend and out of Saint. I'm not
trying to milk the climbing kit. I assure
you. I I feel like I could rig
something that would let us more easily get
back up and down. I mean, what are
climbing kits for? Right? Yeah. I could use
some pitt, like, if if I need to,
like, get the pulley
into the ground, make it more steady so
that I can run the rope over the
pulley. Yeah. Certainly. If you just throw the
rope onto the edge of this ramp it'll
go down a little ways, but it's not
gonna slide down to the bottom because it's
right.
I mean, I could put the grappling hook
at the end of the rope to give
it weight, and I guess if we need
to haul something up, like, let's say an
unconscious party member. Mh. Yeah. I... I'm not
I'm not actually trying to rescue Ver, I
guess I think I wanna go down there
with him. What do you say za, Zara?
Yes. I I was hoping not to get
my travel clothing soiled today, but
I suppose if we must. We should go
help this
barrel fell out.
Excuse me while you're preparing to come down
here. It looks like there's a
tunnel of sorts. Perhaps this is where the
G have been hiding. Here we are.
Perhaps, this may not be a dead end
after all. My wife and I are listening
to the wing feather Saga series. Oh, cool.
Listening to it. On audiobook.
Oh, okay. I'm I'm reading the first spoke
with my son, and we've been watching the
show on Angel Studios. Oh, that's really fun.
Yeah. It's it's great. So like,
anytime
instead of saying there we are. We always
say, air we are. There we are. Yeah.
There's your there's your joke listener. If you
haven't checked out that series. Yeah. Very good.
A good, especially if you have, like, children
it's to good listen with or watch. Sure.
Have to take that out. They just really
seasoned 2 for guild
subscribers on Angel Studios, and it actually comes
out for wide release later this summer I
think. Nice. Was already a fan of Andrew
Peterson music and Been meeting to check out
the series. Yeah. It's good. You set up
your rope, and you start climbing down?
Yeah. If if it's all rigged proper so
that we could use to get back up.
I think we should descend. Alright.
You you first master dwarf,
I suppose you're accustomed to crawl around in
these kinds of
tunnels.
Yes. I I do have a lot of
tunnel experience. You can see in the dock
then. Oh, I see pretty great actually. I
mean, it there... A lack of color, certainly
no change to to you in the dark.
Yes. It's true. I'm just as black and
gray as as always.
You know
natural and neutral are actually a really nice
color palette for clothing. I I could take
a a point from you. This crown and
green is a bit
earthy. Wouldn't you say? It is, but
I'm learning to look past it.
Like Car like, has, like, like, scratches his
head, like, wondering if that was an insult.
But he pays a no mind. We have
to find our friend. Well, don't go too
far, but, yes, let's go find this person.
Air calls down after it says, sir, would
you like me to come as well or
should I stay up here and watch the
horses?
Why don't you stay up that?
Maybe a bit too treacherous for you to
to venture down here. Mind the rope, William?
Yes, sir very good.
And he won't be alone barrel, my man's
up there. Do take care. Oh, yes. Yes
indeed. And
if I'm not back in an hour,
keep waiting.
It's just like the sun starts to come
up and he's
Right? I think you to himself. I'm just
still waiting for yourself.
I don't pay me enough for this. And
he's was like, I wish I had a
warm bed. Right now. 3 days later he's
just starving up there. He does he's like,
surely my master will return soon.
Right
they're so loyal to a fault. That's the
servant tough after hour.
I've been wanting to say this the whole
time, but I I just can't hold it
in any longer and I feel like Cardi
like the perfect character to ask a question
like this.
Youtube
you seem
like,
Gen, like you're belonged to some sort of
state. I do not know from what land
you hailed dwarf, but my family
holds dominion over this and all lands in
the Strat bone valley.
I hate to tell you this, but No
1 owns any land. Not the entire Strat
Valley, like, half of it. My family holds
Dominion over, over half of the Strat valley.
I'll have you know over 50 percent at
last count.
The
Miss 53
percent if I'm not mistaken.
That's a majority.
Mister Van, if I may. The van jack
if you. If you evangelical
excuse me. Out. So sir serve object.
Civilizations come and civilizations crumble
I think you should be careful to
as scribe such ownership to the earth
around you. Yes. And this
civilization has yet to crumble.
So for the time being, the dominion of
these lands belongs, it's my grandfather. Well, I
know human and I know something about the
crumbling. I have no doubt that you do.
You may have settled the land and on
the land, but we are owned
by the land. And yet, when last I
checked my sun,
we were hunting g. So let us move
on. A task at hand if you please.
Yes. Let's can we can enjoy more die
tribes later. I I quite enjoy these sorts
of conversations.
Lead the way, please Master dwarf? Oh, yes.
I can see in stuff. Indeed.
What's a good
explore activity for a k? Eve.
I'm I'm gonna continue to survive. I'll stealth.
Hi,
will,
stealth as will. Think I'll use a c.
No. I will stop. Can we keep walking
down these tunnels. So you make your way
down the tunnel as quietly as you can.
After a short distance, the tunnel continues on
past to bend, but another room also opens
up to your right. As we're walking drill,
as As dan in dark as it is
down here. I must say it's the first
time in days. I've been out of air
shot or eye shot from my 2 foot
footprint. Are are you
are you behold to them? And I treat
them as servants, but in truth, my grandfather
sends them along to look after me to
make sure I... Don't get into trouble or
make a nuisance for myself.
My father trusts me implicitly to handle matters
on my own, so
no need of such thing. No, must be
nice. My grandfather trust me about as far
as he can throw me and at his
age.
That's not nearly even across the room. I
So
if if I may inquire Ver, that does
that mean you're not half as spoiled as
it's... Seem like you were back there.
Well, let me put it this way. My
grandfather often says, I'd dis own you, but
you're the only air I've got left.
So the inheritance are more the
training to become
what he believes will be the downfall of
this family, but by then he'll be long
gone. So He can only attempt to do
his best with me. Hey, what every family
has
expectations. Mine more so than others, I regret
to say. Mh. But enough.
Let us proceed. K. We keep walking down
the tunnel This way. Looks like there's a
fork in the road. And Car bends down
and picks it up.
But that fork back. You don't know who's
eaten off of that thing.
I, that's true could be filthy. That's never
bothered me before.
As you reach where the room splits off
to the side,
you suddenly see a large
toad like creature,
making its way towards you out of the
shadows?
Oh. Is it like sin or hopping. It
is standing upon its hi legs,
and w.
Whoa. In a very strange manner.
It has very odd looking g on its
face and
2 tons that sp out in both directions.
No what? It seems
to have noticed you and taken an interest
is about to run towards Cardi.
Everyone role initiative.
The first.
The camp.
Awesome Oh, yeah. And we're doing it. Path
finder style.