Raine, Morgan, Atropos, and Bob found themselves on a trek through the Greevan forest, having left the Autumn Road some miles back. The map they were given was marked with an X on the northern end of a hill called Cratered Peek. As they advanced they would occasionally snatch a view of the hill between the treeline. It rose to two hundred feet, where it suddenly plateaued, its edges jagged and sometimes black as coal. No trees grew atop Cratered Peek.
**Atropos kept looking around as he walked, in awe of the forest. Far different to be walking in one than watching it go by in the carriage from Elexia.**
Atropos - Seems like a bit of an oxymoron, if that's your meaning.
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Morgan secured Brave to a tree before they got too close to their destination, the thick foliage wasn't great for her and she didn't want her too close to the action if things got violent.
Morgan- Any chance your little friend could scout ahead?
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The density of the forest lessened in the coming hundred feet, until it eventually gaveway to a clearing at the base of the hill. There there was a wooden fort, small, with its wooden walls and gate no more than six feet high. Behind them loomed a larger wooden shack, smoke rising from its stone chimney.
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**Raine contemplated the situation while they discussed tactics... They needed a distraction.**
Raine - What we need, is a distraction. Catch them unawares, and then one of us sneak in to flank them, while the are otherwise occupied. Do you think the badger can pull off a little mischief?
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Raine - I see your point. My familiarity with the nature of bondmates is lacking, I admit. Let's try to get closer at least, we'll need more recon if we're going to form a better plan.
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The small fortification loomed before them. The palisade was garnished with sharpened edges along its top ridge, and in some corners the wood seemed aged, almost rotten.
Atropos - Okay, rotten spots, there is a weak spot. A distraction would still be handy. If we weren't in a forest I would just set the fort on fire, but we can't risk the whole forest.
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Raine - True, and that would risk killing our target... At least they weren't smart enough to leave sentries posted. Maybe one of us breaks through the rotten wall, chances are if they send someone over we can ambush them quiet like, and proceed to go in.
Atropos - Well, if any of use are going to risk drawing their attention its me. Ladies.
**Atropos started down towards the fort's nearest rotten corner, pasting pummel and strengthen, then waiting til the ladies signaled they were ready before he started trying to break his way through.**
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Raine - This map is marked, 'Cratered Peek' does that strike anyone else as funny?
To live is to hope, and while we breathe, we hope and live.
Atropos - Seems like a bit of an oxymoron, if that's your meaning.
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Morgan- Any chance your little friend could scout ahead?
Bob - ...thats not fair and you know it. Fine.
**Bob huffily waddled out ahead, scouting their path.**
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Atropos - You said he are after a Greevan official right?
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Bob - On it.
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Atropos - So the back approach has easier entry, but a more exposed approach.
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Morgan- We could play at being lost damsels on the visible side while you sneak in the back, perhaps? Gain the element of surprise?
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Raine - What we need, is a distraction. Catch them unawares, and then one of us sneak in to flank them, while the are otherwise occupied. Do you think the badger can pull off a little mischief?
To live is to hope, and while we breathe, we hope and live.
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To live is to hope, and while we breathe, we hope and live.
**Atropos, keeping low, followed Bob until the fort was in sight.**
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To live is to hope, and while we breathe, we hope and live.
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To live is to hope, and while we breathe, we hope and live.
**Atropos started down towards the fort's nearest rotten corner, pasting pummel and strengthen, then waiting til the ladies signaled they were ready before he started trying to break his way through.**
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