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westwhere2022-03-25 09:10 am
chosenbylight) wrote in westwhere2022-03-25 09:10 am
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WHO: Anduin, Jon, Moiraine, & Yennefer
WHEN: Mid-to-late March
WHERE: The Haunted Forest
WHAT: Forest Group Plot Roll
WARNINGS: possible discussion of child abduction, animal hybrids, bad language (looking at u Yen)
The forest had not been a particularly inviting place the last time the otherworlders had encountered it, but setting foot in it now it is clear that something new is afoot. Even the smaller creatures of the forest have grown more aggressive and feral, and the further the group traverses into the forest, the more it feels as though the forest is out to get them.
As if the magical illusions of home and angry forest animals were not enough, as they advance they begin to encounter what can only be described as animal hybrids. Bears with antlers or tusks. Bats with talons or insect-like legs. Some of the animals even have human likenesses.
The Hok-Shinn have claimed to have been 'dealing' with the villagers' issue. As the group soon discovers, this entails leaving the remains of cattle strewn about the forest to feed the hybrids and keep them away from the village itself.
Anduin lets out a slow breath as the latest boar-bear mix shambles away. It had been far too big to risk attempting another fight, not knowing how many other animals there might be nearby. He glances aside warily at his companions and their village escort who has brought them this far.
"Do you suppose we are getting any closer to what is causing this?" he asks, voice only slightly above a whisper in case something out there in the forest might overhear. "There are certainly more of them in this area..."
WHEN: Mid-to-late March
WHERE: The Haunted Forest
WHAT: Forest Group Plot Roll
WARNINGS: possible discussion of child abduction, animal hybrids, bad language (looking at u Yen)
The forest had not been a particularly inviting place the last time the otherworlders had encountered it, but setting foot in it now it is clear that something new is afoot. Even the smaller creatures of the forest have grown more aggressive and feral, and the further the group traverses into the forest, the more it feels as though the forest is out to get them.
As if the magical illusions of home and angry forest animals were not enough, as they advance they begin to encounter what can only be described as animal hybrids. Bears with antlers or tusks. Bats with talons or insect-like legs. Some of the animals even have human likenesses.
The Hok-Shinn have claimed to have been 'dealing' with the villagers' issue. As the group soon discovers, this entails leaving the remains of cattle strewn about the forest to feed the hybrids and keep them away from the village itself.
Anduin lets out a slow breath as the latest boar-bear mix shambles away. It had been far too big to risk attempting another fight, not knowing how many other animals there might be nearby. He glances aside warily at his companions and their village escort who has brought them this far.
"Do you suppose we are getting any closer to what is causing this?" he asks, voice only slightly above a whisper in case something out there in the forest might overhear. "There are certainly more of them in this area..."
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"This place is unfamiliar to us all," he says. "Tracking may prove to be especially difficult, with the magic that seems to have been placed upon it."
He frowns in thought.
"Animals do not congregate in such numbers unless there is reason. Natural or otherwise. Perhaps we need not track the animals themselves so much as... Whatever is drawing them here?"
He has no idea what he's talking about, in truth. Being a prince, and then a king, he's spent most of his time living within the confines of a city. Any traveling he has done in his young life has been, for the most part (up until arriving here that is), under armored guard...
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She's spent enough time in the forest since they arrived, both exploring and on various little quests. There'd been enough that Moiraine had seen to clearly say that there was something unnatural influencing the place, as if that even needed saying.
"Though that influence may not be so simply trackable, not if it isn't solely the animals affected by it."