The World of Astrial

"You may make a fine wolf hunter. Fazer and I often used a similar strategy. Even when I was little girl, he began telling me of zese tactics.

Zough, if we ever have to escape, we need be careful. Zey will likely catch up to us wiz time...

Fazer would get out into ze open where it'd be easier to simply shoot zem. Ze same principal will apply with zis bow. Additionally, I know we can use ze teleportation arrow to escape. However, I am unsure if zere's a way for us to teleport togezer. My first assumption would be zat I simply need to touch you some way. We should test zis.

Ze pack may not necessarily be small. Somtimes wolves will pick one area to live in and travel to ozers to hunt. Its very possible zat if zere's anozer forest nearby also controlled by ze same pack of wolves, zat zere could be a fairly large pack within ze woods. Zey may only be using zat stretch of woods for a home. Perhaps zere's somezing zere zat increases ze safety of ze location for zem.

Let me look over zis map again."

((Loki, do you have a discord? It'd be cool if we could use that for communication.

Robs, you'll need to decide if there are any other forests within a.... let's say 5 mile radius. Like I'm looking for a large woods that the wolves could migrate to for additional hunting grounds to hunt. This would allow them to support a larger population.

I'm also looking for a landmark in the small forest we're being assigned to. Maybe a cave or something where the wolves might nest in.))

Zere is a second forest. Much larger. No sign of any den or cave in ze small forest..... so Zat eliminates my hiding out zeory....

However... ze large forest is 7 to 8 miles away from ze small forest. Zat distance is too far for ze wolves to travel during ze day. Maybe we do have somezing here.

"Zere. Ze larger forest is too far away for ze wolves to travel during ze day. Also, looking at zis map its highly unlikely there'd be safe place for zem to cam in ze smaller forest. So what we need to do is observe zeir migration patterns and see what we can learn.

Judging by the distance between ze two forests, its highly unlikely they'd travel during ze day. Zey don't want to be spotted out in ze open on such a far distance. It'll be a little risky but I beleive ze knowledge we'd gain highly outweighs zis risk.

Maybe we can set a trap... Fazer showed me how to make a good wolf trap from zings in nature... However, since we're being given a lot of money we should buy stronger materials from a vendor. Zat will maximize our changes of success.

So we have two zings now we should do before hunting ze wolves.
One we need to test my teleportation arrow for multi-person teleportation. Second, we should observe zeir movement patterns before hunting zem. We will need to mask ourselves somehow... Perhaps we can buy somezing from ze vendors zat'll do ze trick."

((Think I'll wait for korbin again. This will give him enough to think about))

"U-um...t-there's a possibility that the wolves can perhaps travel through the night without rest....that's assume they come from the Alfrueta's forest..." Arisa suggested.

"Which would make cutting off their path a viable strategy if you're correct. Maybe they don't travel in the night but instead in the extreme early hours of the morning, go about with their hunting, and return to the larger forest at dusk. Which gives us multiple windows of opportunity to intercept them." Korbin said.

He studied his map, mentally plotting the possible travel routes that the wolves might take to reach the forest near Orion.

After leaving the magic shop John found him back in front of the Trios guild. Feeling a bit tired john decided to just sit down on one of the nearby benches surrounding the Guilds exit.

"Wonder what those hero's have chosen to take on as a quest. Whatever it is Arisa will take care of them so i can just relax for a bit." he thought to himself.


slowly laying down looking at the sky John starts to just look at the sky and go into deep thought...

Alisa was walking out from the back. She was fully geared now with her lightweight full set armor, two swords, one on each side, and her ear with tail moving about. She took a minute to look at the bulletin board.

(sorry been thinking when to step in))

"You will make fine wolf hunter, Korbin."
He is almost as intelligent as I am. Yes, I will keep him around. He will make fine unit. Like queen on ze chess board.

Eliana was doing much the same.

"So...t-the decision is...?" Arisa asked, "J-just remember the creatures here...may be different from where you are from."

I cannot let zem know zat I have high suspicions of zis world being a simulation. Hopefully ze level of seriousness I've provided
here will reject any suspicions of such.

"I believe ze decision is obvious. Korbin?"

((Also it almost seemed a bit meta-ish that they knew of Eliana thinking that the world was a simulation. Though I'll give you that one because of how there's a HUD and everything, so people could easilly get that idea. That's sorta where I got the simulation idea in the first place. Just want to make sure that your characters were only suspecting of Eliana's thoughts and not knowing for sure.))

"Depends on what you are proposing. I'm thinking that the best strategy would be to arrive a few hours before dusk to situate ourselves. Then we would wait until the wolves begin their travels back to the main forest at dusk. If that tactic fails and intercepting them in the early morning hours fails as well, then we could directly pursue them."

Arisa might be right, these wolves may be far different than what we are familiar with. Which will leave a number of caveats to deal with.

((I'm back sorta, I might be a bit slow for posting for the next couple of days. I should be fully back by Saturday ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ))

"Zat sounds like a good plan. We will need to buy some supplies."

((Provided this times stamp includes the fact that they went and did everything they needed to prepare, then I'm fine with that.))

Kris arrived at the guild and thought it strange to find someone lying outside of it and gazing up at the sky. She slowed her pace, coming to a stop several feet away from him. The elf wore a cloak, and she had chain mail armor on over her gray robes. Even though she wore a cloak, one could see a mace hanging at her belt. The pack on her back had a helmet hanging from it, and she wore a small shield over her shoulder blades. Her robes were modest in both cut and color, a dull gray. They ended at her shins, the boots under them had dust from the road on them.

"Are you injured? Or maybe just feeling philosophical? Did they kick you out?" she asked, gesturing toward the Guild. Her hair was clean and free of tangles due to being so short, but it was . . . askew. At times, she ran her hands over it and tried to press it down and tame it. It just always seemed to pop back up.