by SendoKasai 5th February 2014, 2:41 pm
Sendo continued to plod along ahead of his female scatter brained partner. He felt certain she wouldn't try anything so he had relaxed for the most part until they reached the forest. The place had an ominous feeling to it no matter how you looked at it, the trees twisted and warped went on for as far as the eye could see. The canopy shutting out the raise of the sun almost completely. It wasn't hard to see why this place was called the spooky forest, though at the same time Sendo thought that, it was a rather childish name and didnt quite fit the atmosphere this place gave off.
While he continued thinking of a name that would befit such a place, his guard didnt drop for a moment, from the time his feet stepped into the thresh hold of the forest his left hand had been on the trigger of his sheathe, ready for action. The path that led through the forest was narrow and winding with overgrown roots covering parts of it completely. It was best they didn't stray from the path though, who knows what would happen to them if they did as this seemed a very easy place to get lost in. Lending to ominous feel, was the smell. It was a strange cross between dank musk, moss and rot. This definitely wasn't a place he would stop in to take a nap, rather one he would leave as soon as possible. Not because he feared the place, he had seen much scarier places. But because the view of the sky was choked out by the canopy and the smell invaded his nostrils, it was rather rude.
As he continued walking allowing his thoughts to bounce like a child's toy, a distant howl snapped him to his senses and without turning his head, his eyes snapped like a shot right to the direction he had heard the howl in. His hand tightened slightly on his blade and his eyes narrowed without stopping moving. The howl was probably too quiet for his companion to have heard it so he didn't want to worry her. His eyes narrowed in the direction he heard it in, scanning for even the tiniest movement. But what he saw made him wonder even more. There wasn't even the tiniest bit of movement, it was as if the wind refused to blow through this area. Or the trees themselves didn't permit it.
Sendo didn't relax after having heard that, but continued eyes forward down the path. He noticed that fungus on the trees assisted in the light department. The fungi grew on most all of the trees near the base and branches of the trees and had a soft blue glow to them. If there were only a few the light would barely be enough to see more than a foot in, but with the mass of them in the forest, it helped to illuminate several feet ahead while also adding to the atmosphere. To add even more to it, a dank thick fog was forming around his forelegs for some mysterious reason even though the conditions outside the forest wouldn't have created such a thing besides the fact that this phenomena was staying around ground level.
Sendo wasn't given more time to analyze or cascade his thoughts any longer, as a bit of shrub about five feet in front of him to the right started to shake, while everything else stood still. He stopped and watched, hoping his companion would have the sense to do the same and not rush ahead into danger. His thoughts and eyes narrowed as he brought his right hand into position to grab his sword if danger was truly ahead.
OOC: Monster die roll One