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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by spiderwrangler » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:09 am

The centaur looks at Randy in surprise.
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He turns and calls out something in the other language none of you speak.
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As Holger clarifies, his startled look is split by a large grin.
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He calls out in the other language again before turning to Holger and clasping his left fist to his chest and inclining his head towards the sorcerer, turning to offer the same gesture of respect to the rest of the party.
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More centaurs emerge from the grass, each dabbed in vertical muddy lines, and each bearing signs of having seen battle in recent days. In addition to the large bearded leader, there is a male of similar size, dappled grey with black hair and a shorter beard, carrying the same weapons as the one who has been speaking to Holger and Randerwaith.

Rudolph: You think back to everything you can recall about centaurs... you remember stories spoke of them as wandering nomadic tribes that usually avoid contact with the other races, moving from place to place without becoming embroiled in local politics or disputes. They are skilled hunters, and well able to defend themselves, but don't go out of their way looking for a fight.

A third, this one female and bare chested as well, with a dark brown coat other than white on the legs and underside of her horse torso, long dark brown hair fully braided. Her pike is stowed across her back, and a long bow with nocked but relaxed arrow in her hands.

Perhaps unnoticed at first by many of the party, as his hoof falls make little sound, from behind them on the road steps a centaur younger than the others, of a more lithely muscular build and somewhat smaller stature. He sports no beard, and his blond hair is cropped short, a long bow slung across his back, and his forearms resting easily across a pair of shortswords on a belt around the base of his humanoid torso. He grins a the party and nods.

((He's the one Holger failed to see or hear moving around behind the party with his 19 Perception. 24 Stealth is a heck of a roll!))

The last to emerge is a second female centaur, fairly young, bare chested and even slighter than the sword bearing centaur. Her coat is mostly a reddish brown, except near her tail where it gives way to white splotched with the reddish brown. Her hair is a wavy auburn with a streak of white, a braided section above each ear joining in the back to keep it off her face. She carries a quarterstaff in addition to the ubiquitous longbow. As she emerges from the grass, she walks directly towards the party, focusing on Maji. The leader calls out to her, but she ignores him as she paces a circle around the dragonborn, once, twice, three times, before stopping and... sniffing him.

((I'll take another perception check from Zephyr, now that the dragon cloud has swallowed the dwarf cloud and they've merged into just a cloud looking cloud.))
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by M0rtimer » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:25 am

Ulmwin's not sure if he ought to whistle, or try not to stare... Eventually trying to opt for the latter, especially as he's not sure what's going on- Though they seemed friendly...

"What's going on, exactly..?"

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Theis2 » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:30 am

Holger briefly tells the others what is going on

"They are saluting us for killing the blights."

Holger copies the greeting and repeats it to all the centaurs coming forth.
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Holger never had a chance to see him coming :lol:
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by spiderwrangler » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:35 am

((Rudy would probably also be aware of centaurs not having human modesty norms...(probably a topic of excited speculation among teen humans).))
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((I'll take a straight intelligence check from Randerwaith, with advantage please.))
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Arch Lich Burns » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:39 am

Maji looks at the centaur circling him, sniffing her as well, not sure what to think of her.

Insight: 1D20+3 = [2]+3 = 5
No idea at all.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Lurks_In_Shadows » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:43 am

Randy nods respectfully to the others.
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He shakes his head.
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:50 am

Nemeia smiles and nods.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by spiderwrangler » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:53 am

Maji: As you got to sniff her, she mutters something and flicks her hands... all you can smell is a floral scent. She smiles and shakes her head at you as she gives you one last sniff before turning and trotting up to the leader, her soft lilting voice conversing with him in the language none of you speak.

As Randerwaith speaks up again, the leader responds.
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The leader and a few of the others chuckle at Randerwaith's statement
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Arch Lich Burns » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:56 am

Maji looks at Ulmwin with confusion. He points to Ulmwin, moves his hand like it's talking, then points at the centaurs.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by M0rtimer » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:03 am

"Hmm? I don't understand them either, Maji."

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Lurks_In_Shadows » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:06 am

Randy chuckles
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He looks thoughtful. He then reaches up and unpins his Obad-Hai badge and hands it to the leader.
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He looks the leader directly in the eyes.
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:09 am

Nemeia sides up to holder and asks for a translation.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Theis2 » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:25 am

Holger translates for Tess and the others except he whispers the last bit to her.

"Randy warned them about the other rumors around here and apparently orcs don't trouble them and I assume they live away from bandit preying grounds. Also laughing at Randy for telling them the wild has become a dangerous place. I think he's also trying to establish a relation to them and the church.."

Holger continues the jest of the dangerous wild, before he turns to the young female with a big smile as he tries to stifle a laugh
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:51 am

"Huh. That man is full of surprises..."

Nemeia waits patiently for Holger to translate any future conversations.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Lurks_In_Shadows » Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:55 am

Randy turns towards Holger with a grim smile.
"Not the Church, Holger. Just us and maybe the Circle Vale Abbey. If my breathern were more adventursome, they wouldn't need me to run their errands."
There's a bit of an amused glint in his eye.
"You did say you wanted to be a hero, did you not?"

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:08 pm

(pretty sure he whispered the church part :))

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Patdragon » Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:20 pm

Rudolph has an urge to offer his traveling coat to the females centaurs, but instead tries to prevent any blushing and focus on the males who are talking, Trying to work out what language they are speaking.

"Do they speak common?" he asks Randy
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Theis2 » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:49 pm

Yeah, that was meant to be just a whisper, I should maybe have changed the text to be smaller, doing that now actually.
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Lurks_In_Shadows » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:58 pm

Let's see if Randy heard him anyway.

perception: 1D20+3 = [20]+3 = 23

I would guess that's a yes.:chuckle:

Randy replies to Rudy.

" I don't think so. We couldn't understand each other until we got to elvish."

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Arch Lich Burns » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:10 pm

Maji frowns at Ulmwin and writes. Language spell? And shows it to him.

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by spiderwrangler » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:14 pm

As Randerwaith mentionds something dark moving, the leader grows somber.
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As Randerwaith hands over his badge, the leader inspects it, showing it briefly to the younger female.
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Randerwaith mentions not standing alone against the dark, at which the young female intones almost absentmindedly.
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During all of this, Holger has been translating both Randerwaith's and the centaur's dialogue, before addressing the younger female directly.
She looks at him, then at Maji, before turning back to the Dryderion and continuing her conversation in that other tongue. He seems reluctant, but she seems to be persuading him to whatever her point of view is, as they go back and forth. He eventually nods his head and gestures towards Maji before speaking to the rest of the group. Not waiting, the female approaches Maji once again... no sniffing this time.

Dryderion speaks:
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As he is speaking, the female has reached Maji once again, this time addressing him directly, in a third language.

"Yuba biẏārāra, candra siliṁ, āpani ki prakr̥tira jihbā kathā balachēna?"
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Zephyr remains lost in cloud gazing, it's a good thing the party isn't being murdered by orcs.

((I'll still take that INT check with advantage from Randy. Rudy can make one as well, based on his previous decent Centaur check.))
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Arch Lich Burns » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:27 pm

Maji grins when he hears a language he actually understands from them and writes in druidic to her.
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by spiderwrangler » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:32 pm

She nods enthusiastically:
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She waves her hand over the end of her quarterstaff and an oak leaf unfurls. She plucks it off and holds it out to you.
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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Patdragon » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:36 pm

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Re: The Sundered Way

Post by Arch Lich Burns » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:37 pm

Maji nods and digs through his bag to fetch the yew sapling.
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