Chapter 2: The Trek to Myrefall

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Jul 11, 2025 8:57 pm
Johan after searching the wagon approaches Kethra"I found this excellent set of chainmail which looks about the right size for you if you would like it. It would surely be an upgrade." He will take the other goods he found back to the spot he has decided for camp. Then get to skinning the wolves.
Jul 11, 2025 10:18 pm
Raddue says:
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@WanderOne was that with advantage?
Mechanical Leta has NOTHING that would cause that to be an advantage. LOL. Leta is hunter and a priest of the GOD of HUNTING.
Jul 11, 2025 10:21 pm
WanderOne says:
Raddue says:
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@WanderOne was that with advantage?
Mechanical Leta has NOTHING that would cause that to be an advantage. LOL. Leta is hunter and a priest of the GOD of HUNTING.
I figured you guys would both try, each giving the other the Help action, thus giving each other advantage. If it doesn't make sense for your character, though, I totally understand and I back the character decision.
Jul 11, 2025 10:22 pm
Thank you Johan, Kethra replies.
Our paladinic debutante tries on the chain armor. Surveying its weight and feel.
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Can I wear it? I’ve only a Str 12.
Jul 11, 2025 10:24 pm
WhiteDwarf says:
Thank you Johan, Kethra replies.
Our paladinic debutante tries on the chain armor. Surveying its weight and feel.
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Can I wear it? I’ve only a Str 12.
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Heavy Armor. Heavier armor interferes with the wearer's ability to move quickly, stealthily, and freely. If the Armor table shows "Str 13" or "Str 15" in the Strength column for an armor type, the armor reduces the wearer's speed by 10 feet unless the wearer has a Strength score equal to or higher than the listed score.

- Player's Handbook (page 144; Chapter 5: Equipment; Armor and Shields)

So yes, you could wear it -- you will just move much slower.
Jul 11, 2025 10:32 pm
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Leta is already wearing Chain Mail and STR of 14 to barely support it. Now magical chain mail would trigger her eye.
LOL. Even with ADVANTAGE Leta can't make it. (Evilly nasty dice)

Leta will work with Johan and taking care of the wolves. She even has her own trusty skin'ing knife with her just for that purpose. She is rather a professional at it.

a sword clearly not of their craftsmanship. The blade bears elegant scrollwork that spirals down its length like frost patterns, with a crossguard shaped like crescent moons and a grip wrapped in midnight-blue leather. Most remarkably, the entire weapon emanates a soft, silvery radiance like moonlight through winter clouds, casting dim light in a fifteen-foot radius even now. Can you say WOW.

Someone needs to take that SWORD. Sorry to say it isn't non-proficient Leta. There is a good reason why she just uses a basic mace. Cleric (simple weapons only.)
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Rolls

Nature advantage check for these creatures - (1d20+2)

(5) + 2 = 7

Jul 11, 2025 10:44 pm
Leta

Leta crouches beside the fallen creatures, her fingers tracing the coarse fur that covers their twisted forms. Despite her years of wilderness experience and the countless hours spent tracking game through the northern forests, these beings defy everything she knows about natural predators. Their proportions are wrong, their movements frozen in death suggest an intelligence that goes beyond mere animal cunning.

The knowledge slips through her grasp like water through cupped hands. She recognizes wolf tracks, can read the signs of pack hunting, but these creatures... they're something else entirely. The unsettling feeling grows that whatever these things are, they don't belong in the natural order she's spent her life learning to understand.
Jul 11, 2025 10:50 pm
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/3e/b8/6d3eb8ea7a127eb8a98e0cb799a07e47.jpgWith camp and such, Leta let's all know what she feels and knows about these evil creatures. They are an abomination to natural order. Evil for sure and undoubtably intelligent. And most likely there are more of them. They PACK.
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Jul 11, 2025 11:20 pm
Kethra removes the chain armor as soon as she feels it’s unfavorable weight.
Thank you, but will stay with my leather armor, for now.
Jul 11, 2025 11:22 pm
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Is the sword a finesse weapon?
Jul 11, 2025 11:23 pm
OOC:
Alright ya'll, I was trying to throw Kethra a bone here with the chainmail since I remember them rolling very poorly for starting money in the Character Creation thread, but in my arrogance I didn't notice they had a STR of 12. With your permission, I was going to change it up to Studded Leather so that Kethra keeps their full Dex bonus and gets an effective +1 to AC.
Jul 11, 2025 11:25 pm
mathias0077 says:
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Is the sword a finesse weapon?
You are all trained in weaponry of some kind, so without much effort you know it is a longsword, and thus is versatile but not finesse.
Jul 12, 2025 3:21 am
The sound of heavy footsteps on packed earth draws attention from the scattered group. A dwarf emerges from the village's outskirts, walking with a kind of aimless purpose that suggests he's been wandering rather than following any clear path. Snow clings to his winter clothing, and his eyes carry the distant look of someone who has seen too much in too short a time. Even from a distance, the bruises and cuts visible on his face and hands tell a story of recent violence.

He pauses at the edge of the longhouse clearing, taking in the scene before him with the slow, deliberate manner of someone processing information that doesn't quite fit together. The fallen wolf-creatures, the overturned wagon, strangers scattered across the area engaged in their various tasks; it's clear he's arrived in the middle of something significant, though the full scope of what has transpired here remains to be discovered.

His legs seem to give out beneath him as he stumbles forward, barely managing to cross the threshold of the longhouse before collapsing to the floor. The impact is heavy, and he lies there motionless for a moment, his breathing labored and shallow. It's clear that whatever he's been through has pushed him to the very edge of his endurance.

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Jul 12, 2025 3:34 am
Smoke still curled lazily from the blackened timbers of the longhouse. Horgurn Loudbeard stood at the edge of the tree line, boots rooted in frostbitten soil as he stared down at what remained of Myrefall. The village looked like a half-forgotten dream, one that ended in fire and screaming. His axe hung limp in one hand, streaked with dried blood and soot. Tears rolled freely down his cheeks, unnoticed in the cold. He wiped at them once, then again, but they kept coming.

He dropped to his knees, the cold biting through his clothes as if punishing him for surviving. Around him, the wind whispered through the trees, indifferent to his grief. The furrows he had carved into the land, the humble dreams he’d sown there, everything he had worked for was buried beneath the ash and ruin. He tried to take a breath, but it came ragged and broken.

A sound escaped him, rough and low, not quite a sob and not quite a growl. He gripped a fistful of frozen earth until the pain in his fingers anchored him to the moment. There would be a time for vengeance, for answers, for fire in his blood. But not yet. For now, all he could do was kneel in the wreckage and let the weight of what he'd lost pull him down.
Jul 12, 2025 10:01 am
Nelie's head snaps up at the sound of someone approaching. She had been preoccupied with studying the strange creatures, but all her collected lore and innumerable stories had given her no clear indication as to the nature of their attackers.

"A survivor...?" She comes to her feet and raises her voice. "We've got a survivor!" On her short legs she start moving through the snow and debris. The strange sword—too large and unwieldy for her—she still keeps clutched in her hand, dragging after her and leaving a trail in the dirt.

"Hey there, friend", she says, speaking softly but still keeping a few feet of distance between them. They had no idea what they were truly dealing with after all, and not all foes might be as obvious as those they had just slain. She tries to look him over, see if he has any obvious wounds, and if his face is one she recognizes. "I'm Nelie, of Ormskirk. We're all from there. Is this...?" She looks around at the utter devastation surrounding them. "Is Myrefall your home?"
Jul 12, 2025 12:26 pm
Johan will stop what he is doing and rush to the fallen dwarf picking up a med kit on the way"Be still friend you are with friends. Lets get you fixed up." Johan will start first aid checking the dwarf over for his injuries and applying first aid.
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Jul 12, 2025 1:49 pm
@mathias0077 You can tell that this dwarf, whoever they are, is in bad shape; they're at 1 hp.
Jul 12, 2025 1:54 pm
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/3e/b8/6d3eb8ea7a127eb8a98e0cb799a07e47.jpg "Let's get him in and warmed up." Leta aid and helping him move.
Jul 12, 2025 1:59 pm
"Easy now. Lets get you by the fire and get you some water and a bite if you can handle it." Johan will also start a broth with the things he found in the wagon.
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