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You hush their flames low with the voice of the evening wind. The robed figures murmur softly among themselves, struggling to relight their staked torches with the smouldering remnants of their campfire.
By the time they drive away the biting cold and cloying moisture, the night sky has already begun to drape over the duskward horizon. Constellations shine above unmoving clouds. Mirror-smooth waters reflect a procession of bobbing torches.
[2/3 Groups Delayed]
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6/6 = +3 BONUS
The knight's daughter cradles her discovery with careful, hesitant fingers. The shimmering that caught her gaze was transient, but her hands had felt something solid take shape beneath the shock of frigid water.
Within an upturned offering bowl, she had found a quartet of storm-grey opals shot with yellow iridescence. They buzz quietly in the evening air, prickling skin as they roll across her palms.
[1+3 FLICKER-STONE]
She whispers a silent prayer before following the hunter.
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The pair journeys earthward. The hunter keeps his weary eyes fixed on the flicker of distant torches until they reach the cover of another ruin.
Here, towering arches silhouette the purple-hued sky. Slashes of gouged limestone mar the rectangular pillars - some hair-thin, others thicker than a full hands-width.
The daughter and the hunter break dense flax-bread over an absent fire.
"You hate us" states the daughter, simply.
The hunter shakes his head.
"No?" she questions. "You never speak to father and I."
"I...think...I disappointed." whispers the hunter. "I was careless. The wind saved me, and yet I nearly failed to do its bidding."
"And yet the wind sent us both here."
The hunter nods wordlessly before something catches his attention...
>ROLL 1d8 + 2 [BREEZE/DEW] for discovery, best of 3.
AND:
>SKYWARD. [Move to the rubble-bound lake]
>SEAWARD. [Move to the arched gate]
>DUSKWARD. [Return]
Additional Actions [Note that these bonuses are cumulative through the expedition]:
>[FOG] - Obscure their movement. [-2 FAITH]
>[NOTHING] - Wait until the need arises.
