"The G4 leadership doesn't want to admit it, but it's pretty clear they don't know why the Change happened, or more importantly, how long it'll be before we're rescued," Youmu explained. "They do say that we have to be prepared for the possibility of a long stay, as a just-in-case scenario. For the most part G4 restricts its scope to player welfare which has concrete results, and leaves the metagaming to other groups."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"No hard feelings, don't worry," Youmu assured Rayne after she had made her choice. "We need people like you and Sylvia to push the boundaries. I wish you good luck... heh, you know what I mean. I need to get back to my own group - let's catch up once this is all over, okay?" The swordswoman bowed and took her leave.<br/><br/>"Nice to work with you, Rayne," Sylvia offered her hand. "So you're the first arcane archer! I think it'll be just the two of us prestige classes - G4 has three people including Youmu, and there're a couple of freelancers going solo for their own gain. Nobody else's showed up after you arrived, and the white stag should be making his appearance any hour now."<br/><br/>"That's a nice griffon you have there. May I?" Sylvia asked, reaching out to pet him. "So his name's Dix? Or Dick? Naughty naughty," she clucked her tongue and flashed Rayne a smug grin. "I don't know what you heard about Horizon Walkers, but it's probably way overblown. We're terrain specialists, like the ranger's favored enemy ability but with favored terrains instead. In the olden days one of our choices was the ability to<em>dimension door</em>all day, but that got nerfed with a daily limit a while back and I didn't even choose it now. To get around nowadays I have to do this..." She whistled, and a horse came trotting up to her. "Meet Chestnut!"<br/><br/>"And I suppose I should get this out of the way before you get your hopes up, but I specialize in urban terrain, which is great for PVP but less so for this quest," she shrugged sheepishly in the direction of the forest outside Stag's End. "Though I still got a solid six levels of ranger under my belt."<br/><br/>(Sylvia - Ranger 6 Horizon Walker 5)<br/><br/><hr/><br/>That afternoon one of Youmu's group caught the first glimpse of the white stag, and soon enough they were off in pursuit. Rayne didn't see anything, neither stag nor track, however.<br/><br/>"Each party can only see its own white stag," Sylvia explained. "But keep an eye out, once the first one shows up, the rest follow soon enough."<br/><br/><em>Make two rolls: Perception and Survival (follow tracks)</em>