Alora is going to keep looking out for Wolves (especially dire and were kinds of wolves) as she carries on down the path in her cloak. Can she see anything up ahead?
I'll wait to see if Kivan or Valygar can tell who was dragged and who was doing the dragging then I will creep into the woods following the track as best I can.
Not bears, Alora. But there was a large number of abnormally large wolves... and the letter states an evil inflicted by a wound... I fear that we may be up against a group of werewolves. Being daylight we should be safe from a large pack of them, but be wary, one may be a natural werewolf like our friend, Cernd, and we have no way of knowing who may be a werewolf.
no way of knowing? well then...any of us could also be harboring these creatures within us, if you be correct? *peers about suspiciously* if there be a half-sized one creeping about it could well be Alora! *points accusingly* or if you see one with suspiciously well groomed and even painted claws i would suspect that vain thief over yonder!
Some way into the woods, Valygar and Kivan find a dead body lying half-concealed in the underbrush. He looks to be a peasant, and wolf paw tracks as large as your clenched fist surround the body. His clothes are ripped, torn and bloody, and he holds an envelope in one clenched fist.
no way of knowing? well then...any of us could also be harboring these creatures within us, if you be correct? *peers about suspiciously* if there be a half-sized one creeping about it could well be Alora! *points accusingly* or if you see one with suspiciously well groomed and even painted claws i would suspect that vain thief over yonder!
Some way into the woods, Valygar and Kivan find a dead body lying half-concealed in the underbrush. He looks to be a peasant, and wolf paw tracks as large as your clenched fist surround the body. His clothes are ripped, torn and bloody, and he holds an envelope in one clenched fist.
he's been killed on the way to the post office. We should read the letter to see what it says.
Oh, sorry! Base scores at 18 Dex are Pick Pockets 25%, Open Locks 25%, Find/Remove Traps 10%, Move Silently 20%, Hide in Shadows 15%, Detect Noise 15%, Climb Walls 60% and Read Languages 0%
@Fighting_Ferret You can't read the letter in the woods. The body has been dead about a week. And given the claw marks and bites, it looks as though he was killed by Wolves. Large ones.
@Fighting_Ferret You can't read the letter in the woods. The body has been dead about a week. And given the claw marks and bites, it looks as though he was killed by Wolves. Large ones.
Thank you. So I have 300 points to distribute. I will put 80 into Move Silently, 85 into Hide in Shadows, 60 into Open Locks, and 75 into Find/Remove Traps.
So overall: Pick Pockets 25%, Open Locks 85%, Find/Remove Traps 85%, Move Silently 100%, Hide in Shadows 100%, Detect Noise 15%, Climb Walls 60% and Read Languages 0%
Yes, it's too dark in the woods to read the words.
The letter is dated a week ago.
Hail thee of might and valor: I, the Burgomeister of Barovia, send you honor- with despair. My adopted daughter, the fair Ireena, has been these past nights bitten by a creature calling its race "vampyr". For over 400 years he has drained this land of the life's blood of its people. Now, my dear Ireena languishes and dies from an unholy wound caused by this vile beast. Yet, I fear, too, that the creature has some more cunning plan in mind. He has become too powerful to be fought any longer. So I say to you, give us up for dead and encircle this land with the symbols of good. Let holy men call upon their power that the evil one may be contained within the walls of weeping Barovia. Leave our sorrows to our graves, and save the world from this evil fate of ours. There is much wealth entrapped within this community. Return for your reward after we are departed for a better life.
Kolyan Indirovich, Burgomeister
The writing is *not* the same as on the letter which led you here. It's much more shaky and halting, for one thing. But it looks like an entirely different hand wrote the letter.
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Me! That's who.
Also, I'll take the envelope and examine the body.
Yeah, so what are my base thieving skills before adding any points including dex bonus?
So overall:
Pick Pockets 25%, Open Locks 85%, Find/Remove Traps 85%, Move Silently 100%, Hide in Shadows 100%, Detect Noise 15%, Climb Walls 60% and Read Languages 0%
The letter is dated a week ago.
Hail thee of might and valor:
I, the Burgomeister of Barovia, send you honor- with despair.
My adopted daughter, the fair Ireena, has been these past nights bitten by a creature calling its race "vampyr". For over 400 years he has drained this land of the life's blood of its people. Now, my dear Ireena languishes and dies from an unholy wound caused by this vile beast. Yet, I fear, too, that the creature has some more cunning plan in mind. He has become too powerful to be fought any longer.
So I say to you, give us up for dead and encircle this land with the symbols of good. Let holy men call upon their power that the evil one may be contained within the walls of weeping Barovia. Leave our sorrows to our graves, and save the world from this evil fate of ours.
There is much wealth entrapped within this community. Return for your reward after we are departed for a better life.
Kolyan Indirovich,
Burgomeister
The writing is *not* the same as on the letter which led you here. It's much more shaky and halting, for one thing. But it looks like an entirely different hand wrote the letter.