canada ♔ you might make it boy but by the skin of your teeth

[adamantiumed]

WHO || Logan, Grimrot, Miles, Nels, Abigail  [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to a secluded village to help put an end to a dangerous disease
WHERE ||Falcon's Hollow, Canada and Darkmoon Vale
WHEN || April 21st [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

Perched at the edge of any civilized lands, the small lumber town of Falcon's Hollow has always had to rely on itself to solve its  problems.  Now the hacking coughs of the sick are heard throughout the town.  The plague has come to the Hollow, and the town is ill equipped to stop it on its own, particularly given its resistance to magic.

That's where the Knights come in, sent to assist a local herbalist in putting together enough supplies to mass produce a cure.

Comments

[theminotaur]

[ abigail is momentarily distracted by watching logan's wounds clear up, but she shakes her head to clear her mind and focuses on the task at hand. ]

What about the dwarven ruins or Ulizmila, do you know anything about them?

[adamantiumed]

[ "Dwarf home! Yes, yes, dwarf home in the mountains. Dark dwarves! Evil." ] I thought the dwarves were long gone. [ "They are, they are. Were evil! Most people don't know." ]

[theminotaur]

[ abigail squints at him, unsure whether she wants to believe him or not. (sense motive 26) ] But you know where they are? And you'll take us.

[adamantiumed]

[ he sounds like he's telling the truth! "Can tell you! Don't make me go there," he sobs. logan rolls his eyes. ] We don't need to drag him along waiting for him to stab us in the back. 'Sides, the mountains are the furthest thing out, if that guy was right.

[theminotaur]

[ but but but cannon fodder. maybe it's for the best she doesn't say that out loud, tbh, instead seeming to shrug without actually moving her shoulders. ]

[cuivre]

See if he can mark it on the map. If not, we should just get moving.

[adamantiumed]

[ logan yanks out the map in clear irritation, as if this is a waste of time, and holds it out to the creature. ] Where?

[ it studies it with buggy eyes for a moment trying to make sense of it, before stabbing it with a nail at the base of the mountains. "Here, here." ]

[cuivre]

[He pulls out a pen and makes a quick mark.]

You don't want to run into us again, understand?

[adamantiumed]

[ "No, no! Will go far from here, yes!" it sputters, side-eying logan as it backs away towards the woods. logan curls his lip up in a snarl at it, and it yelps and runs off.

with a sigh, logan just starts pushing ahead, making his way around the riverbend, towards where they've been told the tree is.

the dense trees and thick brush of the forest eventually give way, parting seemingly in respect for the titanic darkwood tree that dominates the clearing. several times taller than a temple minaret, in one direction the obviously ancient tree reaches into the sky with branches like a giant's arms, while in the other, it plumbs the earth with roots thicker than a man's waist. its limbs broad and strong, its bark thick and so richly colored as to be almost black, and its leaves the size of bucklers, the giant thing is less a tree and more a cathedral of boughs and branches.

the clearing is roughly ovular, 180 feet from north to south, and 110 feet from west to east. the elder darkwood tree has a trunk 30 feet in diameter, with low branches that extend 35 feet from the trunk in every direction.

logan cranes his neck, looking up at the massive spectacle with no small degree of respect. ] ... Huh.

[grimrot]

Oh, how beautiful! [Grimrot gushes, wandering up to examine the gorgeous tree as she searches her memory to see if she knows anything about it (knowledge nature 21).] It's amazing this tree has survived long enough to get this large in this day and age.

[adamantiumed]

[ nothing too special, but she would know that the moss they need to collect from it usually grows higher up the trunk, so they'll probably have to climb. ] Especially next to a lumber town.

[cuivre]

Makes you wonder if someone's protecting it...

[Or something. Just saying.]

[theminotaur]

[ abigail looks up at it like O_O. ] Or it's magic. [ she glances over at miles. ] You heard what that woman said. Superstition could have kept people away from it for all these years.

[adamantiumed]

One way to find out. [ he ain't afraid of no magic. ejecting his claws, he stabs them into one side of the tree and then starts to fucking climb up using them (climb 27) ]

[theminotaur]

[ this seems like a horrible idea, but he's basically indestructible, so w/e. maybe he'll be fine. abigail watches anxiously, keepin' 'em peeled for anything out of the ordinary. (spot 16) ]

[adamantiumed]

[ she doesn't see much, until logan makes his way up a ways, pushing some of the leaves off to the side with his bulk - and he sees something that stops him in his tracks, giving them a full view if they make a 14 spot check.

three corpses hang from the higher branches, flayed of almost all their flesh, equipment dangling from their half-devoured carcasses. ] ... Oh, for fuck's sake.

[theminotaur]

[ abigail gags at the sight, quickly turning away. why does she always get the disgusting body parts and flayed things??? she was supposed to have escaped this! after a brief moment to steal herself, she turns back and picks her way forward, looking up at logan unsteadily. ]

Can you cut one down?

[ gonna put this murder basement life to good use if it kills her. ]

[cuivre]

[Miles cringes visibly. Worst. No thanks.

So he'll focus on something else, which is currently trying to make Abigail feel better. He goes to stand near her, placing a hand on her shoulder as if to make sure she's alright.

Maybe he just needs a little help keeping his shit together too, don't judge him.]

[theminotaur]

[ abigail leans into miles almost unconsciously, just wanting to leech some comfort out of this mission that is going astoundingly crappy. this is not even the most horrible thing she's seen in her life, she just wasn't expecting it to follow her through the veil.

which is why she murmurs, on a whisper, ] This is not okay.

[adamantiumed]

[ logan makes a grunting noise and starts to climb up again, slowly, but he stops abruptly, tensing. yellow eyes flicker from the leaves above. suddenly a large reptile leaps out, as green as the surrounding foliage and at least six feet in length. it has a dragon's head filled with sharp teeth, and two arms ending in grasping claws.

it pounces at him, biting, jaws clacking short of logan's head (atk 13), its long snake like body wrapped around the trunk of the tree ]

[grimrot]

[That thing is pretty horrifying. Grimrot pulls an extract from one of the pouches on her belt and imbibes it, letting the magic she stored in the alchemical formula activate. Then she tilts back her head and spits a glob of viscous liquid towards the creature (atk 11) which, on the off chance it hits, will function like a tanglefoot bag with a reflex save of 14 to resist being glued to the floor.]

[theminotaur]

[ in an instant, abigail has one of her knives out and she steps away from miles to flip it in her hand and fling it full force at the reptile ...thing. (atk 18 (22 - 4 for throwing), dmg 6 if it hits) ]

[herebemonsters]

[ grimrot's glob very nearly hits the thing, if only because it's flat-footed, but not quite. abigail's knife, however, buries in its side. it screeches and tries to bite logan again (atk 22), but its teeth can't break through his metal skeleton so there's that. ]

[zwy_il]

Wonderful country, Canada. [Nels says sarcastically, as he sprints toward the tree the monster is in, drawing his sword as he charges.]

[Naturally (Much like the flying shit on Andres) the beast is out of reach. Unfortunately for the Tatyzlwyrm, Nels has no hesitations about hurling a blade as effortlessly as a dart: And a Nat 20 Critical Attack for 26 Damage (Boosted with Cunning Insight)]

Bullseye!

[adamantiumed]

[ the blade cuts right through the creature's throat, and its eyeballs roll back immediately, its entire body going slack enough to send it flopping down to the base of the tree in front of them.

/init

:)

logan, still hanging on the tree above, raises one eyebrow down at it, then back at nels, and looks...

almost impressed. ]


Nice.