Kaaric and Cousins

The duo seems to take Kaarik's story with Aldon smirking in pleasure at your misfortune but Annarrgeal looks at you with a hint of suspicion. After a few more exchanges you get the two to proceeded you out of the room and make your way from the keep. The two take their leave and you make hasty farewells with your parents before quickly leaving out one of the side entrances and heading towards the Seer's tower as your parents suggestion. You always got on well with the seer and the Wards Master that live there. The trek should only take a day by foot and your frequent visits there to study will make your direction of travel seem unremarkable to the family.

Finally out of sight of the family holdings you breathe a sigh of relief as a tingle of excitement fills your heart. Though you have come this way many times it was always with others. Through the lands between the holdings and the seer's tower are claimed they are not clear of all perils. Adjusting your pack you set out...

You have roughly a 20 mile hike between the holdings and the tower. You are about a mile out and walking through the woods. Explain any travel activities, planned stops for lunch, etc

Walking for another hour or so before leaving the track to travel parallel to it as you seeks good prey to hunt, Kaarik has wandered about a quarter hour when he feels an odd sensations. What was that? He looks to the spot only to see the shadow of a tree swaying in the light breeze. A sense of dread starts to creep over you as you keep seeing something(?) out of the corner of your eye but can never focus on it. You get the sense of being stalked. . .

You scan the area with arrow knocked and ready to fire but see nothing. Cautiously you move away from any deeper shadows knowing it needs larger patches of darkness to teleport around. What you need it s to find an open clearing or to get back to the road. This wooded area is suited better to the meenlock than to you.
Remember that this system requires you to spend 1 action to "load" ranged weapons. So the next time you fire you will need to reload, 1 action, then fire, 2nd/last action.

The arrow narrowly misses the fleeing meenlock as it vanishes back into shadow.

Fear https you heart as the shadows between you and the road thicken in a sinister way. Unable to bring yourself to enter them Kaarik runs at an angle add fast as he can but knows it is nearly impossible to put run the meenlock, which can do through the shadows easily.

The meenlock continues is taunting and harassing by chittering and causing shadows to grow and shape claws as you near them .

Moving towards the road while attempting to look everywhere at once and avoid shadows Kaarik knows he is a couple minutes out still from the road. Though this drives needles of fear through your thoughts it is clear you need to change thing up. With the road a ways away still perhaps a clearing or any opening where you can prepare to retaliate. Being somewhat familiar with fey you suspect that one or two hits will kill or drive off the thing. However if the hunt continues it increased the likelihood of attracting more and then you will truly be in danger. Suddenly the meenlock pops out of a shadow to swipe at Kaarik again but misses as it chitters tauntingly.
meenlock move, attack