Althea is quite baffled that Rose does not seem in the least surprised to see her, until she remembers Step running off earlier. As much as she'd like to have a chat with Rose (and to pelt her with questions), Althea can clearly see that Rose is clearly quite busy. There'd probably be time later. Noticing Tieh's question, she turns to him. "I can fight off most monsters, I think. Unless they are really large or really tough. If I face a lot of them, though, even weak ones, I will, of course, need healing", she says.<br/><br/>Turning back to Rose, Althea realizes there are a few things she needs to know before going off exploring. "Anything in particular we should be looking for? Oh, and most importantly, have we found water yet? Well, drinkable water?", she asks. While waiting for busy Rose to reply, Althea glances at the makeshift table in front of her. Apparently, Rose had already made some kind of list of what they had, and something that looked like calculations of some sort.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/397100">Intelligence Check</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20-1</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">16</span><br/>Althea actually understands the calculations. Somehow. Though <span style="font-style: italic">I</span> don't know what they mean; you haven't said yet :P<br/><br/>As for Touch of Truthtelling, I wasn't sure whether he'd know it, since it is a relatively obscure spell :x<br/>Also, you might wanna have brush up your quoting skills ;)</div></div></div>