Hanalee will take her fortune reading, and then head to meet up with the others...

Quote from: Mr. Kent;818130Hanalee will take her fortune reading, and then head to meet up with the others...

Can you access rolz.org directly anymore? If not, roll 1d6 6x and I'll take it from there. This ritualized fortune telling process will likely spill into the early part of 1:15~1:30 PM.

It's working for me now. At work I'm on Internet Explorer, but rolz doesn't work with my Chrome at home :/
Kent: repeat 6 1D6 => 2 ; 1 ; 4 ; 6 ; 3 ; 4

Caden slowly reaches down and out the bundle he is holding down. He steps back a few steps and puts his hands up near his face to signal he means no threat.

Blushing Phlox Home

slipping into 1:30 PM

Hanalee

2,1,4,6,3,4

Getting a snow hare pelt, the daughter offers you a place to sit before her mother. She then returns to the kitchen mumbling some excuse.

The elderly mother then takes a deep breath and starts the ceremony. She seems to rejuvenate twenty years. Shaking the female & male pine cones, she hands the female one to you and asks you to put it in the bowl (wood mortar?) and smash it with a river rock (pestle?). Pine nuts and wooden lobes strew about the wide bow, and she asks you to stop so that she may read.

"The strength of your relationship is lax in its bond, and there is no speed or urgency to reach each other. There is a sense of taking for granted what you have. However there is vigor between you two, an endurance, probably built by a long time relationship. You are so young, so you likely must have started as childhood friends.

"You share a sympathetic outlook, like you see eye to eye. There seemed like a logic to you both getting together, like the bond's longevity should naturally progress into marriage. However you both lapse into moments of poor sense, and together too. You have good crow sense, but slip into ground squirrel moments. However you both are so fun and lively chasing about your dens, you will make a happy home."

"If you have children you will be fun parents, if very laid back. Have many children, just in case of benign neglect. The large family will keep an eye out for each other."

Quote from: Arkansan;818379Caden slowly reaches down and out the bundle he is holding down. He steps back a few steps and puts his hands up near his face to signal he means no threat.

"Cha'! Cha'! — Hanaa! (yeowch!)" It seems the one with flowers tucked in its ears struggled to break through the necklaced-one once you set down the bundle. Finally it breaks free and rushes to the bundle, cradling it, shouting, "Grackto!" The necklaced-one shakes its empty hand, the one holding the other back, as if it got hurt. It starts barking angry sounds at the flowered-one all the while the flowered-one coos to the bundle.

The gnaw-bone-one still kneeling scrunches up to the necklaced-one's leg and grabs around it. It still gnaws and purrs while still staring at you. The necklaced-one brushes the gnaw-bone-one's head, then points its sharp bone at you and barks, hisses, and growls at you. There's a rhythm to it, but still unintelligible.

"Grackto... you're safe now," the flowered-one then starts nibble grooming and licking the furred bone bundle.

Caden asks of them "I suppose that belongs to you"?

"Not 'that'. 'He'. And he has a name, Grackto." The flower-eared one responds to you automatically without looking up to you or breaking off for long its attentive grooming of the bundle. "And you're scaring him," it then gives you a furtive sideways look as it starts to slowly sidle away from you.

Meanwhile the tooth-necklace one looks back to the flower-eared one, then you, and back to the flower-eared one in confusion. The tooth-necklace one starts to make its barking hiss-growls at the other, though calmer. You passively notice it still wears a confused face, however, as you guess it recently learned something unexpected about its companion. (Your passive Insight of 12 exceeds the DC, thus this is obvious to you)

The flower-eared one replies back with a hiss-bark and shrugs away from you, holding tighter to the groomed bundle. "No, scary. ." Squats down and goes to grooming. The gnaw-bone one stops gnawing and the thonged bone drops back down as a necklace. It hugs the tooth-necklace one and leans its head against the other's thigh, trying to look away from you.

Next round: response?

Alric, I assume you are Move+Dash each round for 50'. This is the end of the second round since you heard the cry. By next round — after the next exchange between Caden & 'the mysterious thingies' — you will finally end around the area you think you heard the cry come from. On the fourth round you may engage a 25' wide swath of this band of rough where you think your friend Caden & whatever made that cry should be.

Alric will move quickly till he can (Hopefully) hear Caden then slow down unless he sounds distressed. Passive Perception is 14

(We'll have another pass between Caden & the critters and then we'll have you try to guesstimate whether he's OK and roughly which area.)

Caden tries to take as neutral a posture as he can, "Oh sorry I didn't realize it was a him not an it" he says to the apparent leader. Caden will back up a few paces and give them some space hoping to stall until someone else arrives. This situation is a bit odd for him to handle alone.

"Good crow sense," Hanalee repeats, and pauses thoughtfully before rising from the hare pelt.

She thanks Mother Phlox for her time, goes to the kitchen to check on Daughter one last time and bid her adieu, then leaves the Phlox Home and heads to find her allies...

Old Graveyard, natural perimeter rough

ending @ 2:15

Caden

Backing up some (5') you leave space where either of you may flee without incurring the potential to be grabbed in response (out of mutual reach, no OAs). The mostly woody foliage obscures light from trickling in and interferes with direct line of sight (Dim Light & moderate foliage, Lightly Obscured, thus Disadv on Perception (WIS) checks. Also woody branches interfere with ranged attacks, Disadv on Ranged Atks). This is useful for you both if either of you desire to flee.

Looking up from its nervous? grooming the flowered-one tentatively adds,"Grackto is thankful." To emphasize she lifts the fur & bone bundle and nudges a jutting bone in three-part repetition. Hard to tell which "limb" it is from this light.

The tooth-necklace one watches you both, and then adds in softer purrs and growls toward the flowered-one. The flowered-one glances back and then looks back to its bundle. "Grackto wants to know his rescuer's name." Gnaw-bone-one peeks at you between the tooth-necklaced-one's legs.
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Alric (npc: acolyte & weaver)

You hear mumbling sounds, almost like talking?, and can roughly rule out the rightmost 5' of this 25' band of rough. It seems a good ways in there, but there's only one way to be sure, and that's go in. Favoring left or right of the 20' band will leave one stretch of 5' out, and going in is going to look like a 5’ Spd per round endeavor. The woody branches are inconvenient to both light, direct lines, and terrain.
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Bright Feather

Bright Feather is still by Livonia's Monument puzzling out the clues.
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Main Trail

Karnath

Karnath is still on the Main Trail, standing at the ready, shield drawn, mace up, grimacing. Mercifully no passersby are nearby, but a few more seem to be coming from the boomtown a good ways away (perhaps a minute or two).

Caden replies slowly "My name is Caden, your quite welcome for the rescue".

[double post]