I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

[itookashot]

WHO: Jesper Fahey, Ciri, Claude von Riegan, and Gideon Nav
WHAT: It's Quest Time Baby
WHERE: Throughout the journey to Solvunn's Supply Run
WHEN: September
WARNINGS: Eventual violence!



With Solvunn providing aid, the leaders of Thorne and the Free Cities have asked some of their trusted Summoned to travel to an agreed-upon meeting point to retrieve the supplies, check them, and bring everything back safely. This will take two weeks out of Cadens to do. While portals will be utilized to cut down on travel time, they will still need to cover the remaining distance of some miles to reach their final destination each way.

The Free Cities will ask the Summoned to accompany some soldiers to help guard the supply transport. They will be taking the southern trail (shown by the dotted lines) across the desert, traveling west to the forest that sits between the Solvunn and Free Cities border. While a portal will take the transport team as close as possible, characters will still need to make the rest of the journey by horse, ensuring the wagons come through the portal safely. They will also need to watch for the usual beasts and bandits, as well as take into account weather, terrain, and other hazards. To complete the assignment, they must successfully bring the supplies back to the waiting portal and into Cadens.

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[frontlinetitties]

Somewhere between the blur of movement that now represents Jesper, Ciri's continued attempts to wrangle them into battle formation, and the death throes of the sandskid she'd been battling, Gideon sees it. The sandskid approaching from the rear, moving like it means to join the others, and she's swift to descend upon it without a sound bar the whistle of metal through air.

Harassing the thing with strike after strike, she begins to force it back in the direction of the ledge. Some peripheral part of her watching out for Claude, for the moment when the dumb, nasty creatures will (hopefully) lock down on his feigned vulnerability. She means to be there when it happens, if she can. Wants to see what will happen when they fall within the ravine-monster's reach.

[godshattering]

Ciri's shout echoes a thought that'd crossed Claude's mind, what with it being entirely too convenient he's the closest to that ledge and there's at least one sandskid yet to get the message about not snapping at his horse despite his sword being aimed at it. The endorsement of that idea: that's all he needs to continue the path towards the ravine with the others corralling their remaining attackers to follow him. It doesn't take long for them to catch on that he'll be outnumbered and he can't help a grimace at so many fangs aimed his way. All the better to reach their destination soon.

As they go, his horse begins to protest whether from approaching the sheer drop, the monsters creeping ever closer, or both, and leading the way there comes with sidesteps from her and some whinnies just to make her disapproval clear. "Easy," he murmurs to the horse with a reassuring pat to her neck. "We're both gonna get out of this just fine, I promise." Hopefully. He's not about to say otherwise, though, since she settles enough to keep walking forward with one final snort of attitude.

The sheer speed and skill of his companions combined means that when Claude forces the nearest sandskid over the edge with it giving one last hiss as it falls, he quickly nudges his horse out of the way to follow through on that promise of safety and so he can watch as they help the other monsters also meet whatever it is lurking in the ravine that'd studied him so carefully.

[wiedzminka]

As Claude runs ahead, nearing the ravine, Ciri watches the rest of the worms go after him. Some of them, still catching up, she leaves to Gideon to handle. Since she's able to get there very quickly, Ciri decides to go help Claude just in case. She's perhaps the only one of them who doesn't risk falling into the ravine if the ground cracks, when she gets to the very edge.

She watches the first monster, screeching and chittering, tumble over the edge. And then, suddenly, she's there beside Claude, sweeping a second beast toward the sheer drop.