“Don’t say anything, don’t look at me, just… Get us across this bridge, all due haste.”
“A-.. Alright.”

So! The Auscives party (other homebrew campaign aside from Axia) made it to a dwarven mountainhome recently, to see the Underking and see about getting a very special weapon reforged and sent back to the last country we were in, Greymoor. In this party are Ysra, Wood Elf Ranger; Lucian, Human Rogue; Ameria, Changeling Bard; and Telek, Dwarf Wizard/Fighter. And now also with Cederic, BlueBrush09's fighter from the CoS campaign!

This mountainhome features a massive rock suspended by enormous chains over a fishbowl-shaped caldera full of molten rock. There’s one giant stone bridge to and from it. The bridge has rails, the caldera does not.

Ysra is a constantly-analyzing-the-environment ranger from an ancient forest. This is not something she has any exposure to till now. She sees no way whatsoever to stop oneself from falling to certain death should one fall off the bridge or over the caldera’s edge. Our party makes it halfway across before a jostle and a child’s excited happy scream just short out our Mirkwood Witcher’s body entirely and she freezes in the middle of the bridge.

After some kerfuffle, newcomer to the party Cederic is asked to help her get across. He’s just trying to be nice and fit in with this group! But Ysra doesn’t like Cederic; she’s wary as hell of the poor man. So for this sellsword, this blond mercenary she’s incredibly suspicious of, to pick her up and carry her across this godsforsaken bridge like a soft damsel, and then on top of that get mistaken for a paired couple by the greeting dwarf on the other side, is HELLA embarrassing.

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