Karni slumbers. Or tries, in a house full of babies. lol

OOC: I lol'ed.

Don't get too cozy the rest of you. I still have *plans* for you all as you slumber. Not always life-threatening, but...

I just want their part to move because they are in actual, well at least courting, danger.

(OOC: I'd hate to be caught out in pitch black unawares--I'm less concerned about the grim man spotting us and more concerned about 3rd parties creeping up. This might be a good use of Hanalee's hooded lantern, which can be dimmed? The dimmed lamplight should be a healthy balance between stealth and seeing where the hell we're going, errr right? At least prolong the current Dim Light state?)

"Got a light?" Hanalee asks Caden, slipping her lantern from the back of her pack.

Bright Feather goes into Trance after the sun fully sets.

Caden shakes his head "no. Hadn't planned on prowling around at night, these things always just sort of happen."

OOC: A hooded lantern would be excellent. Unfortunately you only have an explorer's pack, which doesn't come with one. However, it does come with torches and tinderbox, neither which Caden has.

Tinderbox allows lighting things as an action. Torches give 1 hour of light, sheds 20' bright, +20' dim, and deals 1 fire damage if lit, upon a successful melee hit.

We may handwave-ium time and space and materialize a hooded lantern for 5 gp.

Hooded Lantern gives 6 hours light per flask (pint) of oil, sheds 30' bright, +30' dim. May be hooded as an action, to reduce light to 5' dim.

Dive Bar C, just outside

@ 11 PM

Alric

You and Delilah find yourself closer as the night winds down. She invites you for a rendezvous back at her place and you two walk together out to the boardwalk. There you hear a 'tsk' and "kitsaan! (no good!)"

You turn to see a native halfling woman in the middle of the street looking at the pair of you, shaking her head with disgust, and then looking down. As she walks quickly across your path and into an alley you hear, "fallen hero, forgets his people." Your brain is in a fog from such a good time it takes you a moment to remember — she is one of the villagers you saved from Tree Sap Hill!

She's in the back alleys now, but you think you could guess where if you raced to catch up. But that would mean leaving Deliliah. And what would you say anyway? And what the hell did you do wrong?

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Leaning-Juniper-Sheltering-Sage

@ 11 PM

Bright Feather

Rhythmic sounds of fire crackle lulls you as you meditate upon the stars. The meal was good. The hypnotic peace holds you and your companion for hours, closing your eyes, and spilling into you —

*rolling thunder, squeaks, ROLLING THUNDER, SQUEAKS, THUNDER! >LIGHT< "Whoa!" "To the right! Level out! Level out!" >Light< THUNDER, SQUEAKS, rolling thunder... "damned fools on a picnic" squeaks...*

You and your companion naturally rouse with great alarm from the restful trance of an outdoor evening! You turn about to the fading sounds and see just darkness. "Fools! Death chasers!" You can see your young elf friend shaking his fist in righteous anger nearby.

He scrambles from his blanket and spirals out looking at the ground. Already the young elf is looking about for tracks to verify what just happened. He spots multiple horses and wheel tracks, coming quite close to this juniper and then veering off before — it crushed you both.

"What sense have they with their horse drawn 'moving cabins' at this late hour? If they cannot see, they should wait like sensible people. Forever in a hurry, what good is light if you race faster than you can see?" Coming back to you, "I am sorry medicine woman, but there were no fresh tracks about this tree. I expected Outsider Ways, but not insanity. My apologies, I shall stay awake the rest of the night."

OOC: How many hours passed before the wagon nearly ran us over?

(OOC: I don't have--Dammit! I was looking at a sheet I'd written up for a character in another 5E game! (Who was going to be Hanalee, but the concept changed If handwavium's okay, Hana will pay the 5gp and use the hooded lantern, otherwise she'll light a torch and remember to buy the lantern back in town!)

"Wait--I think I have something that could work," Hanalee realizes, and pauses to retrieve her tinderbox.

OOC - Alric only does this if it seems safe to leave the young lady.


"Excuse me dear Ms. Delilah" He pats her arm in apologetically. " I must go speak to some judgmental Ninnies"

Alric hurries off down the alley way toward the woman who commented on him!

Quote from: Marleycat;778396OOC: How many hours passed before the wagon nearly ran us over?

OOC: You enjoyed your meal around sunset, around 7:30 PM, as you are further down the mountain than Caden & Hanalee. You both enjoy the stars & remnants of the fire, being in trance by 8 PM. Three hours you both were in before so rudely interrupted by the stagecoach.

But silver never sleeps in a boomtown. And 1/2 a mile down mountain is still in the way of Easterner traffic. The young elf is reluctant to start a second fire, for his own strange reasons, but you could convince him that it would serve as a warning beacon for the crazies.

OOC: Handwave-ium it is. Like Felix the Cat and his bag of magic tricks, 5 gp disappears and *poof* you have a hooded lantern. We'll assume you bought it at Vaux's during a preparation point. Please subtract 5 gp on your updatable character sheet at this topic's beginning.

Let there be light!

OOC: 11 PM in the rough side of town of a boomtown can hardly be considered safe in any way. But during daylight it's not much better, as your jaw can attest. You think you can sprint for a bit and maybe catch her, but those alleys can be mazes, and it along with sprinting will mess with your perception.

You'd sensibly risk only a 40 yard dash of a chase, about 2 rounds of STR checks and Disadv. Wisdom (Perception) checks. They don't need to be cumulative, just paired.

OOC

strength checks are a 4 then a 11.

Perception is a 16 and a 7

Wish they were Dex checks

Bright Feather will try and convince him a small move and a small fire that can be seen may be in order since we're so near a travel route.