4. Another day, another hike

The group continues to advance, it is more than an hours and a half since the woke up, but walking in a single file in the snow take its toll and they have the impression they are walking fo hours.

The already narrow path up the side of Mount Strumpet thins even further and falls away until it is little more than a stone beam no wider than six inches against the cliffside. It runs for more than fifty feet before the path broadens again to anything even remotely resembling a safe ledge. This narrow crossing, combined with wind and newly fallen snow settling on already slick rock, will not be easy to cross. A few small stones blow down from higher up the mountain and tumble to the jagged rocks more than a hundred feet below.

Wyce looks for any alternate secret passage. He still thinks his Dungeon Delver abilities are going to help him.

They wouldn't have carried all town metal over here. We are on wrong path dwarf agree with Wyce

Guess we have no choice but to proceed Nog says getting ready to press on

go, go, go. Gimdrus start walking upwards

I think I may have run out of favors for the residents of Newville. I do not want to walk that path.
Out of frustration I hurl a fire bolt to the wider path beyond the narrow ledge.
That's where we need to be. There must be a safer way to get there.

i agree Nog affirms It is too dangerous to proceed this way. We owe nothing to the News that warrents us risking our lives needlessly. Maybe the elves used some kind of magic to proceed. he then proceeds to ritually cast Detect Magic to find if there is a magic contraption that might help them cross safely.

This might take a while he says as he prepares the ritual But it better than possibly slipping

Right. There must be some trick. Gimdrus returns and decide to play with goblin toys while waiting for ritual completion.
He would like to take the small oven and the doll. Put them in front of each other an press the button.