Journey to Lands Far Far Away (RP)

- Lille -

The bear awakes, frightened and angry, it takes a swipe at you but you are expecting it and are fast enough to get out of the way. The fire in your hand puts it off a bit, and it turns instead to the nearest other human and lumbers in their direction ready to take a bite out of them in retaliation.

What do you do?

Oh, &#*(! the bear thinks Make yourself look big!

It stands up on its hind-legs to try match Ezme but is intimidated by the woman's size.

It won't take much to push the bear's morale over the edge and make it flee.

What do you do?

- Lille -

Reassaulted by the the smoke that woke it, the bear lashes out at the smallest person who is also the one cause it the most trouble. You can't say you weren't expecting this, so you can try to dodge out of the way or avoid the paw.

What do you do?

The bear harrumphs irritatedly, then turns 'casually' —trying to make it look like it is not intimidated by the group and just has better things to do— and 'saunters' off without looking back.

The shadow-bees are also, mostly, under control, and the area is as clear as you are going to get it. It is time to lite the fires and deal with the corrupted trees.

What do you do?

All the corrupted trees go up at the same time. It takes a little while for the shadow-bees to realise the assault, and by the time they do, it is too late and most are caught in the flames. A combination of the smoke and the smashed berries confuses those outside the hives, you see from your back-off-distance that they are trying to sting the berries rather than going after your party.

As the last tree burns through to the core, the dark bodies all simultaneously evaporate into smoke and vanish. There is no sign of them left. Instead of honey, there is a dark tarry residue in the trees, you don't think anything will be tempted to eat it anymore.

You set your fires hot enough that there is little but ash afterwards, but inside the ash and underground there are probably glowing coals. If it rains tonight —and you think it will— these should be extinguished, but they do pose some small risk of spreading the fire if the coals are uncovered by wind —of which there is currently little. Pouring enough water (or even sand) onto them to fully extinguish them now will take many hours, and the locals may become curious about the fire and smoke if they spotted it. Do you want to have to answer questions about what was done here today?

You are all also hungry, your meager leftovers from the meal you brought from the inn made an inadequate breakfast and that was hours ago, before running all over the place and extensive manual labour. If you want to get away from here and find a place to camp and hunt so you can eat tonight, you probably need to get moving.

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Most of you don't know Lille. You have helped her with her 'regional problem' and probably expect to leave her here while you head off to dangerous lands unknown.

What do you all do?