Her bondmate's frustration and concern were starting to bleed heavily into Berath's mind, bringing sporadic flickers of red and yellow into her otherwise white eyes. she said, trying to assure herself as much as him.
<-Find it was a biiiig misunderstanding? I can see that happening,> Bereck cut in, acidic and sarcastic and not at all patient. not something benevolent!... Keep close to Rochelle, I'm sending the other flitts to Becka. And Cai.> He didn't know the Benden healer well yet but he owed her for what she'd done for Berath under pressure, and he liked what he'd seen of her work ethic so far.
Berath acknowledged this with a rumble, glancing to make sure her charge was safe for now before turning to another approaching human. The answer sadly was just a stunned shake of his head; Berath nudged him closer to the others and peered around in the gloom again.
Cap, Carp and Scalpel meanwhile disappeared between, appearing again a moment later in the air above Becka and Cai.
(Group B info gathered: 20 x 2 19 x 1 18 x 2 17 x 1)
Seeing that they had conflicting information and Freiask couldn't seem to sense where the tunnelsnake had headed, Freia decided to try one last time to find information before screaming in frustration. The next person she went to talk to was so confused and Sharding out of it, that she actually moved away from the people and was getting ready to open her mouth to scream, when the gold wher decided to headbutt her. "Fine! We will go to gather more. Keep our heads on the tunnelsnake."
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[Siata]
"Hey, you!" Siata saw an older woman, her ash blonde hair decorated with soot. She pointed and the woman deadpanned stared back at her, what looked to be an eight year old girl in her arms. The child clung, pale and dark haired, and a crimson firelizard sat on her head.
"Hey, you is not my name," the woman said, shifting the girl with a small noise of discomfort. "And what? I have a crying apprentice on me. Sanguine - please, stop, I am groomed. Honest."
Siata looked at her messy hair and smoke stained glasses and shrugged it off. That's how she looked when groomed too. "Did you see what happened?"
"Ah. Yes. Right. Tunnelsnake, I think. Something like one. I didn't get a clear look, Namini started getting upset then the fire started." The child sniffled. The woman looked uncomfortable. "I didn't see anything else. Do you?"
"...Not really."
The older woman sighed and started past siata, towards the huddled people. "It's been a long night already. I wouldn't worry about not knowing. Keep asking around, I'm sure plenty of people were paying more attention to the snake than the fire."
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:32 pm
Courath
Courath walked carefully, a couple young children cradled on her back between her lifted wings. She'd been unable to get any further information out of the shocked weyrfolk and as such had moved on to her initial task of removing people to safety. As Plexith had done with the injured so she would do with the frightened young. She crooned to the children who'd been entrusted to her care. ~ Aerith I'll be right back. I'm following Plexith. ~
She hunched down slightly and stretched her limbs into a trot, doing her best to keep the motion as smooth as possible as she trailed the bronze along the ground. ~ Mine are you better? The fire is out but now they hunt for a tunnelsnake. The damage is bad... but the suspicion is worse. We do not have tunnelsnakes like this in the south so we? ~
Dizzian, with the direction from Mercy, was able to start clearing the tables. The simple task didn't stop her mind from dwelling and constantly checking on Courath but it gave her something to put that anxious energy too. ~ Not that I know of... At least never in the weyr itself. Shards even starving felines don't come into the weyr. The smell of dragons and whers is supposed to keep them far away.
"Mercy? Does Malvren have tunnelsnake problems?"
Cai
"Chew it. That is fine." Cai responded to Becka as she worked. "Have them heat up the blade until it glows. We're going to cauterize the veins. It'll stop the bleeding." Why she hadn't thought of it before Cai wouldn't know. Maybe she'd been trusting on the Journeymen to arrive in time to prevent such a need. Well she wouldn't make that mistake twice. She would have to make do with what she had and just trust her instincts.
"Becka if those are Berecks as well can you see what they want?"
GROUP A With the fires tended to and the buildings charred or toasted but mostly standing, focus shifted to interviewing the victims. The reports were almost all conflicting in their accounts of the Tunnel Snake’s location. Frustrating? Entirely! However, after a number of people were interviewed, it became somewhat less murky the general direction of the Tunnel Snake’s movement: west, towards the lake and the cliffs. The buildings still steamed as the group marshaled and headed west, past the Infirmary and the storage buildings, searching for signs.
The ground was rather trampled, obscuring most footprints. Further tracking reveals a confusion of trails through the area, as if the Tunnel Snake is looking for a way out. It’s shied away from the riders’ weyrs where dragons are huffing and agitated. The tracks take the group down to the beach where the crescent becomes a narrow band at the base of the cliffs, pockmarked with shallow caves.
Drag marks and footprints lead through the sand and around the bend requiring further investigation.
YOUR TASK: LOCATE THE TUNNEL SNAKE
Roll 1d20 For Tracking 1-6: the caves you investigate are empty 7-14: you find indents in the rocks with scrape marks, as if the Tunnel Snake was trying to go through the rock. 15-20: the FIRST PERSON to roll in this bracket FINDS THE TUNNEL SNAKE. (details in spoiler tag)
The cave you are in is deep, dark, wet and has a bit of a tunnel at the back from an old stream or spring that drained into the lake. However, it’s a dead end and the Tunnel Snake is cornered. With your arrival it turns its baleful gaze upon you with all the pain and terror of as animal forced to fight.
MAP SHOULD SAY GROUP A xD;;;
GROUP B Your tracking has taken you deep into the jungle and out into a clearing. The scent of dragon is thick in the air here, as if someone’s spent a while. The scent is unfamiliar but the feline tracks don’t cut through the clearing – they’ve gone around it. Could it be whatever they were doing, they’d been somehow, ironically, innocent? The dragon they were smelling, however, wasn’t present but the scent of human could be picked up.
YOUR TASK: LOCATE THE SOURCE OF THE MAN- AND DRAGONSCENT
Roll 1d20 1-6: You can’t find any evidence – if there is any, it’s too well camouflaged for you. 7-14: You find a bootprint here, a talonprint there… signs that someone has been camping here but their actual camp is unknown. 15-20: to trigger this you need TWO people to roll in this bracket. (details in spoiler tag)
The camp is Identified! It is a low lying thing, set among the bushes on the far side of the clearing, nearly impossible to make out in the day, let alone the dark. A man is inside and a shadow is above.
GROUP C As the dragons were conducted and information flowed past those seeking shelter at the ruined party, the efforts to make the place suitable for incoming casualties. And arrive they did. Everything from scrapes and bruises to broken ankles… a lot people suffered from smoke inhalation and minor burns from fighting the fire.
YOUR TASK: ADAPT TO AND TEND TO THE INCOMING INJURED
Roll 2d6 First DICE: 1-very mild (bruise), 2-mild (scrapes), 3-moderate (sprained ankle), 4-severe (bleeding), 5-very severe (broken ribs, shock, 2nd/3rd degree burns), 6-beyond help (on the cusp of death or dead [player's choice]) SECOND DICE: 1-botch (you injure them [category 1-3], category 4 becomes category 5, and category 5 becomes catatonic or dead [player’s choice]) 2-4 : mild help, able to sort the individual, soothe them within your ability etc 5 : you have a sense of the injury and are able to treat it decently 6 : you are a natural at helping the injured, your effort makes a real difference.
Becka heard that injured were incoming and being Healer Apprentice she knew she should be among the first to receive the injured since at least some of the incoming would have likely seen her around the infirmary. She looked at Cai who was still working to try and save the first bleeding man. "Rider, can you handle this by yourself?" she asked the F'itz who was helping hold the mostly unconscious man down. "Cai, i'm going to help those incoming" she said before making sure F'itz had the man in hand and moving off to see to the first injured person.
Shards ... would she ever get blood out of her clothing..... she sighed inwardly as the first person she saw to was bleeding heavily. She took him by the arm and led him to a relatively free area and sat him down, somehow the man had gashed his forearm open. "Just sit down here please and raise your arm up" she said, helping the shocked man to sit. She mumbled to herself as she looked for something to bind the man's wounds up.
She sighed and looked at Nightling... and gasped, ALL of Bereck's flits were there with her "Wha....is Bereck ok?" Nightling gave her a reassuring croon and Becka sighed "Nightling, get me a bandage please" she asked her green, giving her the image. When the green returned Becka bound the wound up tightly, hoping the pressure would vastly slow the bleeding down as she saw MORE wounded incoming.
Asoth reached the clearing and landed, it was too dark to see much so he stuck to what was in front of his face and he snorted "Dragon scent....and.. human?" he sent to those around him, dragon and human alike, since the humans didn't have a proper sense of smell like a dragon did (in his opinion).
He tried not to cover any tracks with his own as he investigated the odd mark here and there "Talon prints, and boot prints, there has been a dragon and a human here... there are tracks but i do not see feline ones" he sent to the other dragons, they could pass anything else on to Theirs.
Suunath informed Kindra of the incoming injured and Kindra groaned a little. "Ok... Narisa?" she said, "i'm going to help with the wounded, if we all help they'll be seen to faster" she suggested then looked at Abigail "Maybe we should get her to sit down or something, have some of the Bronzeriders watch her while we help the incoming?" she offered up before moving towards the trickling groups of injured.
One woman had a rapidly darkening bruise along her shoulder and was holding her arm close to her, Kindra went over "We're setting some things up over there" she said, gesturing towards the area being prepared for the injured "just take a seat and someone will be with you with some water" she soothed, leading the woman to a chair.
D'lin - Tracking Group A Tag Tunnel snake hunting party.
With the wounded being seen too and information being passed along and finally consolidated into what seemed to be a plausible direction D'lin and the others had worked their way to the pockmarked shoreline. Here the trail was winding and difficult to determine in the sand and stones. Glancing at the numerous caves D'lin sighed. "Spread out and start checking the cave entrances..remember tunnelsnakes aren't something to play with so sing out for the rest of us if you find signs of it."
Looking at the group once more he made for the first cave, which was really more like a shallow depression in the rocks. A careful examination of the ground showed no signs of the snake passing this way..so he made his way to the next.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:24 am
Plexith Still ferrying the wounded. Tag Cepheith
'Be careful mine' The bronze shared with his rider as the group began to search the caves. Although carefully moving wounded with the green Weyrling Courath, Plexith was none the less keeping his senses open to his bondmate.
'The fires are out, they search for the snake now. It is thought to be in the caves along the shore.' The bronze shared with Cepheith after she asked for an update on things.
Aerith Investigating the Tunnel Snake Group A Tag Courath
'Very well, be careful' Aerith cautioned the young dragon as she moved to help.With bronze Plextih looking after Courath's safety and Zurith helping with the wounded as well Aerith had joined the group searching for the snake. She was small and her tiny size might be useful in the caves. WInging over the group she landed next to a cave and cautiously looked into it. Empty, Taking a big sniff of the air she found not even a whiff of the beast having passed this way. This was going to be a large task..there were many caves and hidey holes on the shoreline.
'No sign of the snake yet.' The white shared with the small green knowing that she was likely anxious to know and updating her rider as well. 'They think it to be on the shore - which is certainly better then still causing havoc in the Weyr."
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:29 am
Mercy Helping with the wounded Group C Tag Dizzian
Mercy Helping with the wounded Group C Tag Dizzian
"Not that I've ever heard..." Mercy stated, it was really somewhat troubling that one had arrived here..and why would it go into the Weyr at all? While troublesome at holds where grain storage attracted pests for them to eat they were typically far more wary of the Weyrs where the Whers and dragons kept them at bay....but even if the lack of Whers in the Weyr had made one brave enough to come close Mercy was fairly certain they didn't even belong in the area. Troublesome...troublesome indeed.
Of course any further contemplation on that matter was brought to a standstill as the wounded began to arrive and Mercy turned her attention to that, helping them off the dragons and sorting them by level of injury to the best of her abilities.
"Please help me!" A voice cried out and Mercy turned to find a women clutching at her forearm while still helping someone else off of the bronze dragon in front of her.
"Move your hand so I can see.." She instructed the women who winced as she did so. The burn was ugly and Mercy was sure quite painful but it wasn't life threatening, not even moderately severe. "Find a clean cloth to keep it wrapped with and wait over there." She told the women, pointing to where the mildly injured were being herded. "Someone will see to it as soon as they can."
Roscoe had followed the rest of the group towards the shoreline - he didn't know the area all that well but surely he could help look through some rocks. Unbeknownst to him the first cave he walked into was a large one, deep and wet and all together not a place he would have chosen to spend his time, brandishing the glow he had snagged back at the Weyr he stilled as he reached the end of the cave and found the beast...and what an ugly beast it was turning to face him.
It was trapped - and trapped animals were dangerous - and he knew better then to try taking one on alone. Carefully..ever so carefully he backed out of the cave, keeping an eye on the snake less it decide to charge until he was close to the entrance.
"Over here! It's over here!" He called out to those nearby, hoping they would pass the message along and bring the rest of the searchers.
