>>5345681>>5345743>>5345771>>5345796You scramble to come to your senses. You are wrought with pain and sickness, and you're not sure you're alive, but something tells you you are.
<span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">You are suffering from Exhaustion Level 5, which has the following penalties:</span>
1. You have disadvantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws.
2. Your speed is reduced to 0.
3. Your hit point maximum is halved.
Exhaustion level is reduced by 1 every time you have a long rest, until it reaches level 0 again.
You have 1/23 HP, and enough magic for 4 first-level, 1 second-level, and 0 third-level spells.</span>
Instinctively, you find yourself casting your Light cantrip on the nearest object you see. Your surroundings are illuminated, and so is the woman's face. You struggle to focus your eyes, but you think you manage to make out her demeanor; she's looking down at you with skepticism. She is a tall woman, with raven black hair and piercing brown eyes, and the same darker hue to her skin as the Vistani you met by the lake that one time with Ireena. She's wearing a brown jacket, along with what looks like colorful garments underneath.
Is she friend or foe? Oh Kossuth, she looks... heavily armed. A sword hangs from her waist in a scabboard, and your light reveals the glint of two axes strapped under her coat, next to what appears to be a crossbow. You try to make inventory of what you have at your disposal, but you quickly realize you have no idea where your belongings are, and you're too drained to move. Where even are you?
You don't want to feel so vulnerable. Before the woman can speak to you, you lift your head just enough to inspect the cold forest and your immediate surroundings, looking for anything - other people, tents, structures, a road - that might get you on the same page as your new friend.
<span class="mu-s">Wisdom (Perception) Check - Disadvantage</span>
Roll 2d20, discard the higher roll, then add Aranuel's Wisdom modifier (+3) to perform a check with Wisdom (Perception) with Disadvantage.
(Best out of 3.)
