<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;">Sorry this response took so long to assemble- I seem to getting rusty with only one game to play in :3  It's good to have the campaign moving again!<br/><br/>At the prompting of a certain kitsune, <a class="postlink" href="http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4714324/">here's</a> another piece showing what Sherani's been up to during the hiatus...</div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Ureck wrote:</cite>"Hey, wait Sherani!"<br/><br/>"I did not mean anything through words. I... I am sorry if I made you uncomfortable. I... I... Umm... needless to say, I will do what you've asked of me. Nothing more or less, if you do not want it."</div></blockquote><br/><br/>"Huh?"<br/><br/>Sherani's head does something akin to a locking brake as she tries and fails spectacularly to reverse mental direction for the second time in her conversation with Ureck. As her addled brain collects itself, she tries again slowly to reassemble the state of affairs between herself and her collie companion:<br/><br/>She and Ureck are buddies. Okay, simple enough. They're also dating... sort of. Not really. Only Ureck thinks so. Except he doesn't. But he will. But only as a favor, because he likes her... but NOT that way. Maybe? Ow.<br/><br/>After a few more mental run-throughs, Sherani comes to the conclusion that her and Ureck's maybe-romance is a lot like bad cooking: hard to process, and better off not examined too closely. The only safe way to handle this is to toss the whole thing behind a bush somewhere while everyone's distracted.<br/><br/>With that in mind, Sherani laughs and throws an arm around Ureck's shoulder. "Hey, don't worry about it! We can practice this schtick on the road for awhile so's ya get the hang of it. And since you're the one who's s'posed to be chasin' me.." grinning, she releases the collie from her hug and sprints off down the trail.<br/><br/>"Catch me if ya can, buddy-boy!"<br/><br/><br/><br/>Several hours and a good carefree jog later, the problems of the early morning are behind Sherani. While her companions admire (and in Rak's case, frequently rearrange) the scenery of the Forest, the tigress's eye is out for local landmarks to keep them pointed in the right direction... and, of clourse, the ever present dangers of Falteen. The trailing gnoll keeps her occupied for a good portion of the morning (and a good half hour after it departs, just in case), but the walk is otherwise surprisingly uneventful.<br/><br/>Aside from Rak's slapstick, of course. The 'mighty hunter' earns a steady chorus of snickers, snorts and guffaws from Sherani's end of the marching order as tries, and fails, and fails again to catch... well, pretty much everything. It's actually impressive, in a way: a full-grown fox, barely able to keep track of prey a cub could snatch barehanded. Oh, the Hevex are going to have a blast with this one...<br/><br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Fireball wrote:</cite><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">*KAAATHOOOOM!*</span></span></div></blockquote><br/><br/>At least, that's what she was about to think. In a bit of brilliant irony on the part of the universe, Sherani's mind gets exactly as far as "have a blast" before the forest does exactly that: a roar of hot thunder from the trees  a hundred lopes ahead, marked by a rain of burning splinters. As Sherani's head swivels, eyes narrowing to scan the treeline for attackers, her mind rushes to match the sound with some known quantity from her forest experiences. Just what or who in Falteen goes "Kathoom?"<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;">Knowledge (nature): 1d20 (7) + 11 = 18<br/>Spot: 1d20 (16) + 10 = 26</div></div></div><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>"Thor be praised! BANDITS IN THE FOREST!"</div></blockquote><br/>Oh. Well, that clears that up.<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Rafe wrote:</cite>"We have to help them! We can't just leave them to be preyed upon by bandits! To say nothing of the fact that we've got an opportune chance to attack the bandits who are apparently out there, while they're focused on their victims. We can drive our blades into their exposed flanks and save ourselves the worry of them attacking us later. They'll never see it coming!"<br/><br/>"Plus bandits totally equals free food that tastes a lot better than travel rations."</div></blockquote><br/>"Ya had me at 'free food'," Sherani says, pounding her fist in anticipation. "Besides, I wanna see who's dumb enough to try exploding my forest. They're gettin' a Falteen welcome part, Sherani-style!"<br/><br/>Like Rafe, Sherani doesn't bother waiting for a response form her comrades before she swings into action- why should she? The battle's certainly not going to wait, and unlike the lupine mage, she doesn't have any fancy spellwork to call up before she can dive in. Her battle plan is the same as ever, a three-step strategy that has yet to fail: Get close. Get personal. Get seconds.<br/><br/>Step one...<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;">Surprise round action: move 50 ft.<br/><br/>Initiative: 1d20 (16) + 2 = 18</div></div></div>