The Race for Treasure pt. 1 (HQ) (Closed)

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

The four men had given up on finding Vince. The leader, Grifth, was worried that he had seen the second piece of cloth, and had memorized it. They rushed on to the location of the map, practically leading Vince.

The men seized the map from its hidden location, and rode on to Lebonwaith. Vince followed, drawn on with the urge to see this whole thing through. He guessed that the winner of this race would get the treasure.

Now they had traveled all the way through Lebonwaith. Vince could only guess at their destination. He needed the map; he could no longer just follow, otherwise his opponents would get there first.

He found their camp, one night. This time he would get the map. There was a single guard out again. Hopefully this would be as easy as last time. Only this time, there were no rocks...

[Vince]

Vince cursed under his breath, what was he to do? He had a dagger and could easily slit the man's throat, but that would cause a problem, becuase the man might let out a death cry, waking the other three men, so, what was he to do? Discouraged, he had decided on his action. He tried to sneak close enough to the man to slit his throat.

4 + [dice=6][rand=128953371989620162471174685290772884688178331588567252367883391]

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

Villain: [dice=6] + 2

The Villain looked out across the valley and saw a shadow moving through the shrubs.
"Awake, companions!" he shouted, drawing his sword. "Something draws near!"

Apparently he couldn't tell who or what was down there. But either way, he had now sounded the alarm.[rand=5223833939973226322235514221769878966102376953526280582566305155]

[Vince]

Vince cursed under his breath as he hid back into the shadows, again! How can he be so unlucky? First he searches everywhere except for the leaders tent and then finds nothing, then he gets spotted right away by the gaurd. He was discouraged, if he must he would run one of them through with a dagger and flee into the shadows. A good tactic, but a dirty one at that. First, he had to wait for some chance. He stayed hidden in the shadows.

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

"There!" he pointed as the other three joined him, swords drawn. "See? The shadow moves!"
The other three men squinted through the darkness, but saw nothing. "Blast it, just come with me and I'll show you!"

The Vince's horror, all three started coming down the slope down towards him.

[Vince]

dang it! Vince quickly checked his pack, he had nothing but a dagger to defend himself with, he needed a way to kill them without being killed, obiously a shadow tactic wouldn't work. A zuju potion and a dagger would be of no use to him, well the dagger would be useful but not usetul enough. He needed a plan, as he slowly kept moving back, and the men kept coming closer, he feared that he would die without speaking with his brother again. He prayed to the gods that he could find a way to survive.

4+ [dice=6] =[rand=72741632520888940684559056720890387064617250128525242108086269051]

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

The men came down slowly, looking for the shadow once again.

Villains 1: 2 + [dice=6]
Villains 2: 2 + [dice=6]
Villains 3: 2 + [dice=6]
Villains 4: 2 + [dice=6]

They search around for minutes, but can't find a trace of Vince, who had hid down under a bush. The men finally gave up.
"Whatever it was must've gone. Back to the camp, only this time two guards per shift."

Everyone agreed and went back up to the camp.[rand=08568165119497197087401574331231118667886520508826461148812435475]

[Vince]

Vince sighed, this would both make it harder and easier to search, on the good side, if he gets into a tent, then he wont have trouble searching, but its harder to get into a tent with two gaurds. If only he could kill them. He sighed as he tried to think of a plan.

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

Eventually, Vince decided to let it be. He would try again the following night. At dawn, the four men packed up and rode. They rode all day, and to Vince's suprise, all night. Vince didn't get a chance to search that night. They didn't stop at all, except for brief resting spots, until the following night, when they pitched tent again. Tonight, they only had one guard again.

[Vince]

Once again Vince extremly discouraged at not beign able to get the map, searched the ground and to his suprise, found a good sized rock. HE picked it up and threw it at the gaurd.
4 + [dice=6][rand=52274908983804423974392141774612268715885539388748605861334262639]

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

((That would be considered powerplaying, I think.))

Villain: [dice=6] + 2

The rock struck the man and he fell backwards. Vince ran swiftly over to the camp. The man was pushing himself up, weakly, so Vince struck him again with the rock. The man was now out cold. Vince looked around. There were three tents again; all looked exactly the same. There were also saddlebags.[rand=4847027741946253121614820125930342495482330102316177539922616388]

[Vince]

((I would think power playing would be not rolling the die and having it knock him out, I think I did this correctly, or is powerplaying finding a rock?))
Vince went to the saddle bags and checked them again hoping to find something that would help him.
4+2+[dice=6]
(I do add guild bonus when searching, no??))[rand=7415792818371033052635417486194710694509018104403409308583556006234]

[~ Hero Nemesis ~]

((Yeah, you finding the rock. I think that would be powerplaying. Or god-modding. I forget which, lol. And yes, you do add Guild Bonus for searching.))

Search Check for Saddlebags: 10
Success

To Vince's delight, he finds a roughly drawn map in the bags. Probably a copy the men made incase Vince had come back and stolen the map from them. Vince looked over his shoulder and saw the guard was again stirring. He quickly dashed away from their camp.

When the guard awoke, the camp became alive. They searched the surrounding area, but Vince was gone. Upon packing up their camp again, they found the map was missing.

Now both parties had a map to the treasure. The race was on. Vince, upon reading the map, found their destination. Dormev. Three days of hard riding brought Vince to the Territory of Dormev, but he knew his four opponets were hard upon his heels. The treasure was located in the Mines of Glovein.


Continued at Part 2