Tantau II

[Callowmoryne]

  I'm okay with just resting sir, i may need those points

[watanabe]

 

DESTINY POINT!

Does this mean I missed hitting the ground somehow? 

[Jingo]

It means you were like this guy:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/29/man-survives-foot-fall-mountain-standing-rescuers-arrive/

[tomcat]

Okay, cool... with that result, everyone in the party is fine after the climb and the march, except Logar who is -1 for weariness. Just to re-state, he will need an hour rest to remove the condition.



Kara stood, only putting slight pressure on the one leg. She stretched it and shook it and slowly eased her weight down on it. She smiled. It was not bad. It did not hurt anymore. She moved around a bit - walking, jumping, and then did a quick sprint for a few yards. Kara could feel a slight, dull ache, but nothing of dire consequence. Certainly nothing that would hold her back on the expedition.

Brim sighed, "Fortune smiles on us after all. Let's get moving."

The march was tedious, except for Sam - at least that is what the others perceived. In truth, the rough terrain drew harder on the droids batteries and though he did not tire, Sam kept an eye on his internal system status. The team scurried from rock to rock, keeping cover from any potential eyes watching from the prison. They climbed over broken outcrops, and jumped over small trenches eroded from water or wind. It was a challenge to keep ones breath and so they stopped on many more occassion than would have been necessary on another planet. Fluid rations were consumed, as the bright sun beat down on top of them and turned the rocky landscape into an oven. The prison atop the cliff steadily inched closer and the plateau cliff wall slowly rose in height as they approached.

The river was now easily seen, and the team saw more lifeforms - or what they assumed was living photosynthetic organisms. A green and rust colored algae was very prominent along the walls of the river bank, and into the shallows. Brim mused at how life found a way in almost all conditions. He knelt to the ground and took his water pouch from his utility belt and drank deep. The other companions also settled a moment to rest. They had been marching for just over three hours and it would be another half-hour before they were in proximity to the access tunnel.

Logar'Dan lay down across a large flat bed of stone and looked towards the cliff wall for any movement. He scanned along the top where patrols might circuit the prison. He checked along the foot of the cliff. He looked at the tunnel itself. Not far from him, Sam did the same thing, but scanned the wall with his slugthrower rifle and the targeting scope atop it.



Perception check
DC 20 Perception...
Brim +9
Britton +8
Kaida +9
Kara +10
Logar +3
Sam +12
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Brim 1d20+9 : 13 + 9, total 22

Britton 1d20+8 : 10 + 8, total 18

Kaida 1d20+9 : 4 + 9, total 13

Kara 1d20+10 : 7 + 10, total 17

Logar 1d20+3 : 19 + 3, total 22

Sam 1d20+12 : 17 + 12, total 29

[Callowmoryne]

Logar cleared his throat and spit on the rocks. "I've got movement people, humanoid, moving around near the tunnel entrance. Maybe a patrol or work crew. Blaster fire that close may be disastrous to the whole plan. I'm not much for stealth though. Ive got my blade but it could get loud if their armed." Logar couldn't help but smile, the shaking of his hands that had subsided during the rough climb began again in earnest.

[Jingo]

Kaida peered over at the tunnel entrance from behind an outcropping of rock. She covered her eyes against the glare of the sun but still couldn't see anything. She sighed and settled down on her rump while they rested. "If they're a work crew perhaps we can just wait a few hours until they're done and then move on," she wondered outloud. After all, they needed the rest anyway. A permanent guard stationed there could be tricky though.

[tomcat]

Brim put his long fingers over his eyes to shade them and then nodded confirmation of his own. "Yes, I see movement, too. But it doesn't appear to be regimented... meaning, it does not look to be a patrol or a stationed sentry. Whatever they are doing, it is random. They appear to be going to the water for... food, maybe? Or, to bathe? I can see one now moving back to the tunnel entrance." He then stared up at the prison. "Isn't the prison environmentally sealed? At least in regards to the primary structures? I know that there is exterior areas, but certainly since it has an environmental system to protect from the sun's radiation and to enhance the air, it would be sealed. Yes? I say this because, at our distance and if it is sealed, there is little likelihood that we would be heard... even with blaster fire."

[Callowmoryne]

  hey buddy is the river in a depression where we could use it for cover to get to where these things are moving around, not like swim it but maybe skirt the bank and the shallows.

[tomcat]

yea, John, the riverbank will offer a terrain bonus of +2 to stealth rolls.

[Jingo]

Lets wait a half hour or so and see if we can get an idea of what they're up to really. Or maybe send out the stealthiest among us to get a closer look. Using the riverbank to stealthily move up on the facility is a good idea--as long as they're not in the river when we do move out.

[donimator]

Sam got a real good look at the creatures through his scope and did an internal double take. He checked again, ran the parameters through his limited internal database and came up empty. He quietly called out the description as he continued to focus, "Several figures...Humanoid, but not human...Simian almost...Enlarged musculature...Clawed arms and legs...Moving between tunnel and river." He turned away from the scope and looked back to the group, "They look feral. Don't look like something the Imperials would employ. Is there anything native to this rock?"

[Jingo]

Kaida was grateful Sam was a long. Droids were indisputably useful at times. "Well then, they're probably native to this planetoid and are just getting foot or water." She stretched and settled more comfortably in her position. "In time, I suspect they'll move on to other activities. As long as they don't catch our scent or see us, we should be able to avoid them. And if they do come after us and if Brim is right about the prison being environmentally sealed, that frees us up to use blasters to scatter the pack. Britton, what do you think?"

[tomcat]

Brim answered Sam's question, "There was no information on indigenous life." Then he turned to Kaida's statement, "They are not going anywhere if that cave is their refuge."

The Rodian scanned the cliff, "It is not going to be possible to climb that cliff - not without climbing gear. The access tunnel is our best possible means of undermining the prison. If those creatures live there, we are going to have to find a way to either chase them off, or subdue them. Sam, may we all take a look through your scope?"

The droid nodded and handed his rifle to Brim who took a long look before handing it to Britton. "Those do not look like they are going to be fun to deal with."

Britton also gazed through the targeting scope and then handed it down the line. Sam was right - feral was definitely the word for them.

[Jingo]

Kaida frowned in agreement. "Anyway to know for sure if they're using the drainage tunnel as their home? If so, we can try to sneak past them, but I'm guessing scent is going to be a problem unless we can nullify it by taking a dip in the river. But if there's no way to avoid them, then we need to at least get the drop on them, ambushing them from a distance, and taking them down before they get in close with those claws." She gave a small shiver at the thought.

[Callowmoryne]

Logar saw Kaida shiver and fought back one of his own. What was wrong with him that the idea of closing ranks with those things gave him a shiver of anticipation if anything. "I'd say that's safest,we should use the riverbank for cover until we get into range. See if we can't scatter them, and if not we can certainly thin the herd before they can close on us."