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| Action Id: 1179 | Crisis: | Participants: Shae, Gaston, Leola and Eirlys(RIP) | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Sept. 14, 2017, 3:40 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Action by Shae
Shae and Gaston, along with Eirlys have been taking trips out to the Oriel woods, while the spirit of the woods has departed. Shae can not help but want to try and find a way to fix with the woods, that perhaps with them protecting it and looking after it that it will somehow bring peace and safety back to the woods that had not been seen since the Age of Song, until that had been shattered by greed and ignorance. As well as being sure to spend time fasting and praying in front of the ancient beech tree. Slowly building a shrine in the hollow of the tree here to Petrichor and honoring the woods spirits.
They've taken to patrolling the area of the great Beech bree, bringing the formerly cursed sylv'alfar relics with them. Though the curse has seemed to dissipate from them, neither of them, nor the others of the group, are certain if they're now wholly mundane, or if they still contain a sliver of the 'something more' they had in the Age of Song.
Inside the shrine, they leave well stocked provisions for those in need to use, human and animal both, and to perhaps pay the favor forward to other lost travellers. Bringing large standing stones at some expense to carve the story of the hero of the Oriel woods so that others who come across will learn his story, and that it shan't be forgotten.
Action by Gaston
Action by Leola
Action by Eirlys(RIP)
Result
It's not till the 13th day that the ancient beech tree in the Oriel wood speaks to them.
"Thank you, children of Skald. I am Barkfather. Oeric's ghost lingers throughout the Oriel wood, but he was never one of the First Children, and does not know the truths." The tree twists its trunk to regard them, the wood shifting and some of the wood almost resembling a face as it speaks to them. "The shrine you have created has called me back from a long sleep, and the shrine you built will allow me to protect this grove... but only as far as your eyes may see, and no further, for I still lack the strength. Legion holds sway over much of the wood, and only a great sundering of items of power, much like your sacrifices, will allow the First Children to banish the cursed from the woods." Barkfather than goes inert- it seems he only speaks to the four that woke him, and only those four, every thirteen days- and usually but a few sentences before he slips back into slumber. It is because of lacking the strength, he says.