<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"></span><div align="center"><strong>~ INTO THE DARK FOREST ~</strong></div>[/size]<br/><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/4f/ad/a74fade689cd083107e42a2c6b919111.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Introduction</strong><br/><br/>It was an astonishing coincidence that Kalem Allbright should find himself in the company of someone like Desponia.  They had very little in common.  But sometimes fate has a strange way of throwing strangers together.  They were both aboard the same carriage, and they were both thrown out when the driver of said carriage refused to drive north through the Arthfell Forest.<br/><br/>Another driver had informed the pair that the famous Travelers Stop Inn lay a few miles due north, and that if they pleased, he should be by in less than a fortnight to retrieve them.  The pair agreed, and so they ventured forth through the forest without much consequence.  Kalem, ever the gentleman, had not disabused his honor nor that of his very attractive companion.<br/><br/>The dark mass of the Arthfell Forest looms just to the north of the trade route, an ominous wall of unbroken green and shadow. Not far ahead is the famous Travelers Stop Inn, the only safe refuge in the area. Rounding a bend in the road, you see a trio of mangy dogs playing a gruesome tug-of-war with some sort of humanoid corpse. Their snarls and barks break the silence of the otherwise calm afternoon.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Initiative please.</span><br/><br/><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/jfEYJW3.jpg)</div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTad7zLVX8tNzLoHX1MAR0HeyaueYGSFCtAxXvbiPwdNOW57oPRxQ)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">Kalem Allbright</span></span><br/>Character Sheet (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1859476)<br/><br/>"My lady," he said,  "we should stay well away from those beasts.  I shouldn't want you... I mean, us, to be bitten."  Kalem was embarrassed to express even a flash of familiarity with the lady.<br/><br/>Kalem rolled a 15 on initiative.<br/><br/>The dogs have rolled a 9 on initiative.  They have 13 AC and 6 HP.<br/><br/><strong>Play-Through</strong><br/><br/>”Please stay behind me,” he said before he charged towards the left-most dog.  As he ran, he drew his two kukris from their sheathes.  They glinted and whispered in hushed sharpness.  He lunged at the dog, slashing at it with a single blade.  Is the attack successful?<br/><br/>Aye.  He rolls an 18 total, and does 7 damage with his blow alone.  The dog falls on its side with a yelp.  Though not dead, it is out of the fight, dying.<br/>