Immersive Ink

The Vagabond Knight is already deep in magical conversation with her owl companion...

"Hello to you, my dear friend. Praise be to Saint Tamaræ that I am at last granted the honour of speaking to you in words we can both understand. Tell me, how came you to be with the man we found you with? What purpose had the two of you in these Hinterlands?"

Dorgan says, Ok, looks like Des and me so far. Anyone else coming? We need to move soon.

I think we have enough Hero types for this mission. Any lvl 1-2 types wanna come along?

Dhren offered, too, Sully... Just so you know. One page behind

Desmond points at the newest member of the party and says, "Dhren said he'd join us. The three of us should suffice for checking out the two missing. Let's be off so we can return by nightfall."

Desmond hefts his foreign crossbow, checks that it is ready to fire, and indicates he is ready to go.

Desmond discusses the location of the ogre cave with Helmut and Ashtad, who visited the site the day before yesterday. From what they can figure, the ogre-cave--and the bridged ravine--lies in an easterly direction from the abbey. Truth is, it can't have been farther than a mile or two off, at the most. It took about an hour to hike to the abbey, downhill, from the ogre-cave so surely it can't take more than two to reach it in the uphill direction?

Southwatch is much farther afield, in a more northerly direction.

Desmond glances over at the young woman with the bow, "Do you want to join us, as well, Ashtad? It would be nice to have someone with us who had a much better idea of where we were going. Might even make the trip take less time."

I think four should be the limit. We don't want to take any more from the defense of the abbey/backup ring team. And then since the ogre lair is east and Southwatch is north, I think just traveling to the ogre lair and back should be the plan. Maybe Josiane can send her owl off with whatever she has in mind and we can get some help for Dorgan in some other way.

ehiker133 wrote:I think four should be the limit. We don't want to take any more from the defense of the abbey/backup ring team. And then since the ogre lair is east and Southwatch is north, I think just traveling to the ogre lair and back should be the plan. Maybe Josiane can send her owl off with whatever she has in mind and we can get some help for Dorgan in some other way.

That's the plan!

Plans are discussed muchly as the sun climbs into the sky. Finally a course is decided and Dorgan's team shoulder their packs for the short trek to the nearby ogre-cave to investigate what became of Beringar and Valorn...

Dorgan, Desmond, Dhren (and anyone else departing for the ogre-cave) over to thread 071 please...

"We should check on those that went to the ring," says Helmut as Dorgan and his small group departs, "and perhaps find us a dopple-ganger while we are at it."

"If the pilgrims stay together they should be safe - from what I have read on these creatures, they prey on the solitary."

ehiker133 wrote:Desmond glances over at the young woman with the bow, "Do you want to join us, as well, Ashtad? It would be nice to have someone with us who had a much better idea of where we were going. Might even make the trip take less time."

"I am more than happy to come along, I will lead you to the ogre lair and the bag of coin I covered before I left so to find again. Let us be off!", says Ashtad.

If there is anything Ashtad can do to help Dorgan next, she is willing to help.