Edit: color Janira's speech blue<br/><br/>Janira smiles as her charges - that's how she saw the lot of you - started socializing in earnest with each other. She gives you all time to load up supplies on the mule, but suggests to Sebastian. "Hmm, a wagon will probably be a bad idea, especially since we are headed into forested areas and caves. Getting the donkey to follow along will be enough of a challenge, so let's go."<br/><br/>She hands a list of shops open at 4 am in the morning so anyone who wishes it may do some last minute shopping ( OOC : so far none except Callie's bullets ), then the lot of you travel out of Absalom, with plenty of time to socialize - except for the rather stiff pace.<br/><br/>You travel across the Cairnlands with no issues, breaking for camp in the wilderness, and even as Janira regales you with stories of former Pathfinders ( it seems implied they are "former" not due to the events taking place very long ago), she seems oblivious to the "heat" the party is sharing. She also shows you her Wayfinder - an intricate silver compass emblazoned with the Pathfinder Society logo, the Glyph of the Open Road, and her initials J.L. - and mentions "I received this wayfinder when I successfully completed my Confirmation. Should we be successful on this journey, you will receive your own as well. You will find that your Wayfinders may also be repurposed for other uses."<br/><br/>The camp breaks early the next morning as she turns out to be quite an early morning lark, and you press on, entering forested terrain that occupy the base of the Kortos Mounts. The canopy of the trees towering overhead begin to shield most of the day's sun, and vegetation becomes denser. The path seems gradually more difficult to follow, but Janira takes out her wayfinder to obtain her bearings and directs you all to keep pressing northwest. She remarks there seem to have been some heavy rainstorms lately and this forest area has changed somewhat.<br/><br/>You are still making your way through the forest when there is a sudden sound of a tree crashing, nearby, and Janira starts in awareness. As small forest creatures scurry out helter skelter, she calls out for you all to be careful and prepared, then starts pointing ahead. You watch as insects seeth out from one of the fallen trees and another nearby, creeping massses forming into belligerent angry swarms.<br/><br/>(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/zyraen/1492133760498_zps4srrwjqf.jpg)<br/><br/>OOC : Note that all the black circles are upright tree trunks, and are occupied squares, and also provide cover if you seek shelter behind it. The dark green underbrush (Tessa is occupying one such square) and squares with the fallen tree trunks are difficult terrain. Knowledge Nature for the enemy. Janira is intentionally not placed on the map and will go last. Separately, since this is PBF and I don't want to hold up, I will average the enemy initiative and have them act together.<br/><br/>INITIATIVE<br/><br/>20 Faolan<br/>16 Shirin<br/>13 Swarms<br/>11 Sebastian<br/>9 Vannalys<br/>5 Tessa<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Summary: At 2017-04-13 20:37:39, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 5d20 Result: 49 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102067)<br/><br/>Full Result: Melendrith rolled: 5d20<br/>Comment: Init Rolls Faolan2 Sebastian1 Shirin4 Tessa3 Vannalys2<br/>Result: 18, 10, 12, 2, 7, <br/>Total: 49<br/><br/>Summary: At 2017-04-13 20:39:13, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 2d20 Result: 20 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102068)<br/><br/>Full Result: Melendrith rolled: 2d20<br/>Comment: Init Rolls S1 top S2 bottom<br/>Result: 6, 14, <br/>Total: 20</div></div>