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"Before we head out of town, I want to check out the market to see if they bought anything interesting other than standard supplies. Also if there is are interesting foods available I'm sure Poppo would cook it for dinner."
Wanting to get back with the group outside of town Nikolaos only makes brief inquiries and purchases whatever regional delicacy is available.
Once back with the group. "Once we do find the dwarf and his group, what then?Do we follow them so that they lead us to the mask, or do we stop their progress on the spot?"
Nikolaos doesn't discover anything interesting along those lines. They just picked up food, extra waterskins, a tent. They came with a good amount of supplies on hand already, this was apparently just to top them off.
The group starts tracking Varram's bunch to the east. The tracks are old, but easy to follow for now. This route only gets light foot traffic from the locals, a heavily armed bunch with carts stand out in the soft earth.
"Fine, fine. Back to the castle we go, I guess. Lia I hope your broom can handle many trips today."
"If we're relying on pets and familiars, you all just let me know when we've found the cultists and it is time for me to fight. Please direct any and all questions to Lawrance. I'll be having lunch!"
Out of Character: I don't care either I just want to make progress. I'm all for down time RP, but it's been over a month IRL since we downed the white dragon. We're starting to suffer from analysis paralysis on every step of the journey.
Poljen says, "When I look through Trammet's eyes, I can do so for an hour. No matter how far he flies. And if they are a week ahead of us, we can certainly move faster than them, even on the ground. But the castle is much faster. Since the tracks are so obvious, we should return to the castle and and follow the path for 40 or 50 miles, then I can send Trammet to keep following the tracks. We should be able to find them in no time that way."
Lawrance thinks for a bit "Let's do it this way - we stay aloft in the castle, watching and keeping too far up to be considered anything more than just another cloud, while the familiars and such make alternating forays down near the ground. A familiar can be called back at any time, instantly, to report, so let's plan on calling each one back hourly for a report, then send them out again. That would have two familiars in the air at any time, and one reporting back every 30 minutes. As far as Pol's Trammet, he can be an extra pair of eyes, and we can get Pol to look through them if the cycling familiars report anything important."
Out of Character: : How many standard familiars do we have? I'm basing this on two, although Poppo could resummon his into a new form instead of a frog.
" We need to get going. While we debate this we fall further behind. This mask must be recovered. I'll send the broom for whoever else is ready to go." She flies Mari up to the castle. Lia sends the broom back down to them so everyone that wishes to can ascend to the sky castle.
Out of Character: : I think that we have a consensus to fly ahead about 50 miles in the castle and look for tracks there. Let's please get this moving forward. The campaign is in danger of bogging down. I'm sure Daishain is ready to test us with his next challenge *wink*. Edited: Kyrroeth on 8th Feb, 2018 - 4:46am