[Taocow PBEM] Book 3 - Chapter XVII - Return to Hoburn Hill

[Kitsune]

[Alex]
"I am a soldier and scout, I certainly do not feel confident enough in 
the ability to just the best course of actions. I certainly do not want 
to get caught in a magical storm however," Alex responds.

She looks over at Vesper, "You know far more about magic than I do, what 
do you think." Does light up slightly speaking to him. At heart, she is 
more than a bit of a romantic.
[/Alex]

On 2015-03-06 20:52, Aaron Clausen wrote:

> [GM]
> The navigator finds a ley line heading eastward. It is a smaller like 
> that should avoid any major nexus points, and hopefully anyone seeking 
> to follow them. Night slips over the company and then they can clearly 
> see the glow of the ruins.
>
> Captain Neeson shakes her head, some worry on her face. "Those are the 
> Ghost Lights of Liverman. Some of the light is the nexus points, some 
> of it is lingering radiation, and some of it, well if the tales are to 
> be believed, are permanently opened rifts; gateways created during the 
> dark days of the Apocalypse by the first great sorcerers of the new 
> age; gates to unimagined hells."
>
> "What they usually mean," the navigator interjects, "is intense ley 
> line activity, which makes sailing on a ley line, even a minor one, 
> dangerous. I've seen this glow a few times, but never this bright. And 
> the ozone, it is getting stronger."
>
> As the navigator speaks, everyone can smell the sharp odour of ozone, 
> and those sensitive to it can feel the growing tingling sensation. A 
> ley line storm is brewing.
>
> The area they are entering is hilly, and the ruins themselves are out 
> of sight, though the glow is not. A few bluish bolts of lightening 
> flash in the sky, and the ship trembles slightly at the energies 
> coursing down the ley line.
>
> "We can try to outrun the storm," the Captain says, "or we can take 
> the ship off the ley line and hunker down around here."
>
> It is reasonably sheltered. A few houses remain, half fallen down, but 
> large and well built to have lasted through these centuries. They look 
> to have been mansions, so perhaps this was a suburb of the great city, 
> an escape and retreat for its wealthier citizens.
> [/GM]
>

-- 
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then we are a sorry lot indeed -
- Albert Einstein, German-born American Physicist

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