Grey reports
Subject Ranging ahead
Bel follows Ran's lead, and pulls his bow out. He also sends Ebon up scouting ahead looking for trouble. While looking for traps and ambushes, he is also looking for tracks.
Bel waits for Ran to move out though.
From: Karl
Subject Birds
Salix is waiting for a response from Cai. He will not speak to a friend's animal companion without permission.
From: Ami
Subject Birds
Cai puts Grey on the pommel as she dismounts her horse. She takes up her long bow and quiver, then leads the horse next to Salix's mount. Grey is restless the whole time and quickly hops back onto her arm when she offers it to him. She approaches Salix with the hawk, nodding.
"It would be good to get more detailed information from Grey so that we might be prepared," she tells him.
From: Karl
Subject Birds
"If there is anything you can do to tell her that I am a friend, it might help, though I suspect she won't be too reticent to talk to me seeing as we're clearly traveling companions."
With that he touches his right hand to his left breast, beneath his robes, looks up to a spot above the horizon and says a short prayer to Obad-Hai in a language unknown to the rest of the group(OOC - I presume no one else in the group speaks Druid ;-) ) (Speak with Animals) . Then he turns to the hawk and speaks, but to the group, his words are all shrieks and cries.
(OOC - Mark, Salix will introduce himself to Grey and ask what has he seen that alarms him so.)
From: Mark
Subject Birds
Cai calms Grey a bit as Salix says his prayer. The hawk calms as much as hawks do at her touch. When Salix starts talking, it is in shrieks and cries. The bird looks at Salix and twists his head sideways, trying to get a better look at the half-elf. Grey then starts squacking back. Over the next few minutes the two hold a furious conversation.
From: Karl
Subject Prayers
Small edit:
He places his right hand over the symbol of an acorn and oak leaves carved into his leather armor over his heart.
(Sorry, I'm still in wizard mode from the other game.)
From: Mark
subject: Grey
Grey looks at Salix when he speaks in Hawk. It takes him a second to realize that he understood the half elfs words.
"Hi nature person. I am Grey and this is my person."
OODM: Karl I am going to do this between you and I. I will put it up in the archive once you have told the group what the bird said.
From: Karl
Subject Grey
"Hello Grey, I am Salix and this is Noctis, my friend." he says indicating the owl.
"What have you seen up ahead that has troubled you so?"
From: Mark
Subject Grey
" I have noticed the big white one. I do not usually see his type since he is a night one."
"What has troubled me? Well my person, you know the short one over there, you know you are big for a person?, said I could go hunting up ahead and I was doing so and had just found this large rabbit, boy did he look tender and fat, when I saw something. This other person, did I tell you he was dressed in metal, comes running towards me. So I took off, of course, and he fell down right where I was going to eat. He was not moving so I but he was laying on my rabbit so I thought I would ask my person to come help me get my rabbit back."
OODM: You get three more questions. I figure 1 question a minute would be about right.
From: Karl
Subject Grey
(OOC - Mark, that is brilliant.)
"OK, friend, maybe we can help. Did you see any other persons? If so, what did they look like?"
(ooc - is that two questions?)
From: Mark
Subject Grey
OODM : I will count it as one. :)
"Other persons? You mean two legged persons like that person? No, no that person was alone. Not get good look at person on ground. Person fell on face."
From: Karl
Subject Grey
"Thank you, Grey. You are a noble bird. I will see what we can do about your rabbit, but this might mean danger for my friends, so I ask your patience."
(ooc - I would like to use my last moments of the spell to wake Noctis as follows: )
"Noctis, sorry to wake you. There might be trouble. Please head into the forest ahead of us as we move and come back to me immediately if you see a threat to our group. Give 2 hoots if the threat is humanoid. 3 hoots if it is animal. By the way, you are being very patient with the ride. Thank you."
From: Mark
Subject Noctis
Salix screechs at Grey for a few minutes and Grey screeches back. After a few minutes Salix turns to Noctis and gently wakes him, hooting quietly to the owl. The owl looks at him with his big eyes and takes off. He circles the camp a couple of times and Salix points in the direction that Grey came from. Noctis flys that direction. About 10 minutes later Noctis returns and lands on the pommel of Salix's horse, hooting twice. He then goes back to sleep.
From: Karl
Subject What Grey said
OOC - I'm not sure how you want to handle this, but I was assuming that Salix would relate the info from Grey while waiting for Noctis to return. I'll just send my write-up below and you can tell us if anything needs to be revised/changed. Also, you said "camp" below, are we camped? I thought we were still traveling seeing as it's about noon, right?
IC -
Salix finishes the conversation with Grey and then nudges Noctis, hooting and squeaking several words at him as well, upon which the great Owl heads off in the direction Grey had come from.
"Grey has seen someone, humanoid, wearing armor. He might have been fleeing something, and he might now be injured or dead. I think we need to check it out immediately but cautiously. He did not see any other humanoids around.
"I have asked Noctis to fly ahead and come to warn us immediately if he sees that there is still a threat there."
(OOC - I'm assuming here that we would have headed in the direction Noctis flew and that he would have met us following him on his way back.)
IC - "Something is still there ahead of us. Something two-legged that Noctis considers a threat. We'd better be careful".
(OOC - my reasoning is that based on Grey's report, the person ahead might not be dead but in need of urgent assistance. Salix would have tried to encourage Ran to have the group check it out, and if he was reluctant to do so, Salix would likely have checked it out himself unless specifically ordered not to. Let us know where we stand based on this reasoning. Feel free to disregard it, too. Sorry to muddy the waters.)
From: Mark
Subject Camp
OODM: Camp may have been a poor choice of words. I meant where the group had stopped for Cai and Salix to talk to the birds.
From: Ami
Subject What to do?
Cai agrees with Salix. She wonders if Noctis saw the same individual as Grey did and was spooked, or if he saw whoever the allegedly injured individual had been fleeing from.
Either way, she feels it would be better for the whole group to move forward on their guard and investigate. There is probably only one individual who would pose a danger.
From: Kevin
Subject Distance
OOC: Would either Cai or Salix have gotten an idea of how far ahead this person is? Trying to figure out if we should stake the horses here or ride ahead a little farther.
From: Mark
Subject Distance
Salix would be know that assuming a round trip of 10 minutes or so, whatever they found was about 1/2 a mile ahead.
From: Jake
Subject The group
And Surin is waiting to hear what Salix relates. He is considering volunteering to sneak ahead, but he'll wait to hear what happens with the bird before he does so.
From: Jake
Subject What to do
Surin watches the exchange between Salix and Grey with interest, making a mental note to ask Salix about it when they camp that night. [OOC - Mark, how common is magic in everyday life in this world? Would Salix have aeen this kind of display before? If so would it have been a common enough thing or a rare occurance?]
He thinks better of volunteering to scout ahead. Given the information related by Grey, he feels it would be best to ride together toward the possible threat, and he says as much.
From: Mark
Subject Magic
OODM: Well magic is not unheard of, but it is not so common that every one has seen a magic user cast a spell. A druid speaking with the animals is fairly common in it's circles and it is very likely he had seen Salix do it at least once with Noctis on the trip to Gorn.