Is there any particular reason why this group is in Northern Ertain and heading toward Crandel ???

Not a terribly uncommon thing - a group of one faith or another wandering across the land to visit some holy place or another.

None of you are Lysoran, so... *knowledge check* nobody has heard of it. It may be a legitimate holy site, it may be some charlatan posing as a priest claiming that it's holy.

If it *is* a holy pilgrimage, they very well may not accept nonbelievers on the journey.

Why is our group in Northern Ertain and why are we heading towards Crandel ???

Thank You for the previous answer Olan

Sorry, I misunderstood.

You're in Northern Ertain because your last adventure - clearing a trade route of bandits - placed you not far from here.

Crandel is the nearest population center, and offers possible shelter from the weather, plus a warm meal and cold ale.

Your first response actually cleared up the possibility of our group trying to escort the Pilgrims to the Shrine (which I understand by the 'Roll' is an emphatic NO)

Thank You Sir

I mean, you could offer to escort if you want. I'm going to doubt that they will accept the escort, but it's up to you if you offer.

Irel. Because sometimes you just have to beg forgiveness rather then ask permission.

Very late, but I support Rae as the closest thing to the "leader" role, with others probably butting in as needed. Telca on point when we're traveling, ect.

Hey folks, just a heads up.

I'm attaching a really crude map that roughly approximates the locations of everyone. By my reading, Talca was originally up ahead and froze. Hammerfoot approached the pilgrims, we had some parlay, they continued on to the southeast, Hammerfoot went back to walking northwest (the original direction). Rae offered them some food, Pepper asked about escorting, Irel shouted her offer of escort. The pilgrims, now farther down the road, turned to reply, and were then attacked.

Pilgrims (not to scale) are represented by blue diamonds (more than one pilgrim per diamond). Attackers are red triangles (again, more than one per symbol). Rough position of the party members is indicated with green letters coinciding with character names.

Hammerfoot has some ground to make up before he can mix it up.

Give me your intentions to cover at least a couple of rounds of combat, please.

Vengador should actually be between Hammerfoot and Talca on the right hand side

Thanks, map updated.

I've been asked how this works. Ideally, please post your actions to the game thread itself, like so:

Bob the Mighty frowns. Just when he thought they were safe, the pilgrims were attacked... oh no! And now, more fluff here.

Bob grasps the handle of his great axe and rushes to the aid of the pilgrims.

((OOC: Bob will attack the first enemy he comes to, with the intent of keeping himself between the pilgrims and the attackers, if possible. If victorious, he will move the next closest foe, and so on.))

I updated my attack plan - please take note of this.

Will try to manage a post tonight. Tomorrow at latest.

I understand.

Duly noted, Cap'n.