Rangering!, Friday, Period Four [ 08/21 ].

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

As the class headed in today, they'd find the usual clearing set up in the Danger Shop had a large river nearby, skirting around a large outcropping of rock, with the usual choices of weaponry and armourments available to the students. Minsc clasped his hands together with a loud sound to get things started.

"Hullo!" he said. "It is our last day! So let's do some rangering!"

His arm swept toward the long bring going across the river. "Behold!" he said. "Behind those rocks, there be gnolls! I did not have the chance this semester to show off what a gnoll really is, so allow me to do so now!"

With that, a large, growling creature stepped forward, looking (and smelling) like an unfortunate cross between a very tall and skinny human and a tall and skinny hyena. "This," Minsc said, "is a gnoll, and they are my personal favourite enemy. So I have studied them lots. Take notes! You might encounter one today and since we are rangers, we must know their weaknesses, which include..."

Minsc lead them through a very quick and very happy-go-lucky bloody demonstration on how a gnoll is best taken care of by stabbing them in the chest here, hacking off there kneecaps there, and sometimes slicing through the head. Pity those among the class with weak stomachs.

With the gnoll messily disposed of, Minsc continued his speech as he cleaned his blade. "Go it alone, in pairs, or in groups, however you like, but you must journey into the gnoll stronghold in these mountains and save the captive within before they are eaten! There are three steps to this: the wilderness, which you must cross, which will be rife with all sorts of creatures and gnoll guards. Then you must find your way through the mountains themselves to find the place, and then you must infiltrate the stronghold and rescue the captive."

There was then a pause, as Minsc looked confused. He started counting carefully on his fingers.

"Wait. Four parts. You have to get it, but you have to escape, too! Any questions! Ask away! If not, then, gear up and get rangering!"


[[ apologies for the later than usual class! Please wait for OCD is totally buttkicking for goodness, and please check the OOC note if you get the chance! ]]

Comments

Sign In! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about this being the last class?

Re: Sign In! -- 08/21.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn Hood

Re: Sign In! -- 08/21.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne Carrick

Durning the Talking Bits! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

...and to arms! Listen to the directions on how to best kill a gnoll, your instructions, and then take the opportunity to suit and arm yourself and choose your partners or groups if you wish.

Re: Durning the Talking Bits! -- 08/21.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn was listening very carefully to the instructions and already formulating plans in her head.

Re: Durning the Talking Bits! -- 08/21.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

All in all, Zayne still wasn't that big on the killing of sentient creatures, even if they were apparently evil, especially if it involved the kind of stuff Minsc just did to that one.

So Zayne was considering the stealth option. And maybe kneecap chopping if it came to that. Cutting off limbs was a Jedi tradition, after all.

Wilderness! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Track your way through the heavily wooded wilderness, but watch out for critters and gnoll parties! Unless, that is, you want to encounter them to gain more experience points.

Re: Wilderness! -- 08/21.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne made his way through the wilderness carefully, doing a good job of not attracting unwanted attention. The result of this was taking longer to figure out where he was going because he got slightly lost. That part was slightly embarrassing.

[OOC: I fail at writing today. No interaction here, just noting my failure.]

Re: Wilderness! -- 08/21.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn moved carefully through the woods and was careful to deal with any critters that she came across. She was determined to suceed well at this.

Storming the Stronghold! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

The stronghold lies somewhere in these mountains, so find where the entrance may lie but, as in the wilderness, watch for not only critters and gnolls, but also traps and maybe even caves worth exploring!

Re: Storming the Stronghold! -- 08/21.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

When Zayne started to make his way into the mountains, he was pretty happy with how stealth was working for him so far. He was really lucky today.

For a moment he had completely forgotten that this was HIS luck he was thinking about. He was sure to turn a corner and end up in the middle of a gnoll camp or something completely unaware.

[OOC: Random encounter, please!]

Re: Storming the Stronghold! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Almost as good as a gnoll camp.

No, even better (if you were asking Minsc, anyway, although, to be fair, his opinion was pretty skewed).

Because Zayne just so happened to turn the corner where a trap was lying in wait, shooting out a spray of sticky spider webs hoping to ensnare the hapless adventurer in the middle of an annoyingly open spider's lair!

Save the Captive! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

You have fought your way here to the castle, beyond the goblin city the wilderness, and those big, blood-strewn pits in the floor make it pretty easy to guess where the captives are being held, but that doesn't say anything about how easy it'll be to get them!

Re: Save the Captive! -- 08/21.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Well, Zayne had made it this far without TOO many problems. He spotted the pits from his position up against the wall. If he could reach into the Force and sense where the captive was, this would probably be easy.

Zayne had forgotten that he wasn't likely to sense a captive who wasn't actually real or alive and therefore wasn't connected to the Force. This meant that he was kind of exposed to anything that might sneak up while he was concentrating.

Silly Zayne.

[OOC: Do what you will! I'm around for another hour or so before I'll need to go to SP, though.]

Re: Save the Captive! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Gnolls? In MY gnoll stronghold?

It's more common than you think.

Thankfully, gnolls weren't as stealthy as Zayne might have been trying to be, and there were two of them on a leisurely patrol when they spotted fresh meat trying to sneak into their stronghold again.

One nudged the other, and then they started cackling like hyenas. Oh, humans.

Escape! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

You've got your captive, and now it's time to get out of there!

Aftermath! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

You're finished! You were successful! Or maybe not. Either way, this is the place to get back and unwind and compare notes or just be glad if you want.

Talk to the TAs! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for good Sir Arthur and brave Sir Eric the Half-Bee!

Re: Talk to the TAs! -- 08/21.

[bitchprince]

Arthur was here again. Thankfully. Even if it was... interesting. Kind of.

Talk to Minsc! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Who, actually, for all his excitement for rangering, seems just a little bit more reserved and thoughtful than usual. And, when he's not keeping an eye on everyone's progress, is demolishing more generated gnolls. For funsies. This keep takes him back a long, long way, after all.

Re: Talk to Minsc! -- 08/21.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

It was a cheerful Gwynn who approached Minsc after she completed the exercise. "Good day, Sir Minsc."

Re: Talk to Minsc! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

"Good day, Lady Gwynn!" Minsc greeted her back. "Well done on the adventure today," he modded assumed complimented. "Although I'd expect no le--"

And then Minsc stopped, suddenly, as if he'd been struck by an idea. Which was quite the event. He'd been struck quite often, but the chances that it was an idea doing it were pretty slim.

"Gnoll spit, Wednesday!" he said. "I forgot about Wednesday!"

OOC! -- 08/21.

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is late because I needed to wait until I was home to actually play through this scenario in the game to screen cap the icons so I'm so much of a dork that I was literally storming the stronghold and fighting gnolls as I was putting up the OCD.

And this is the first quest we go on with Minsc in the game, huzzah!

A few notes:

--Feel free to mod as much as you want, as always. Skip parts even if you want. Or even just skip right to the aftermath and write up just a little thing about how your character did.
--OR, if you want, I have a series of interactions in mind for any of the above scenarios. Just please include an ooc note in your tag to let me know if you want interaction.
--This is especially true for rescuing your captive, as Minsc has plenty of ... interesting NPCs programmed in to interact with your character as they try to save them (mwa ha ha).
--HAVE FUN! I should be around the rest of the day thanks to radio.
--I LOVE THIS CLASS AND WILL MISS IT! You guys are all so very, very awesome.

Re: OOC! -- 08/21.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

After the exercise does Gwynn did to come claim her devil dog? :D

Re: OOC! -- 08/21.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Wrong account but yes! I completely forgot about Wednesday thanks to the trip and didn't even realize it until halfway through posting this. I FAIL. XD