Attn: Scouts (OOC)

[Anna]

Okay, my dear scouts!

Some details for play.

1. The elves started their night's travel perhaps two or three hours before sundown. Nights are short in the summer (and all you with sunburns had to actually have time to GET the sunburns! ).

2. The scouts parted from the main group shortly after the last bit of light left the sky. It's full night now, and they have about eight hours before sunrise.

3. They're not going to find anything by the time the sun starts washing color into the sky, but just as the upper rim is peeking over the horizon, they'll smell water and soon after find a river.

[peachbug]

Well, my excuse is exposure of intense sun a couple hours for several days might do the trick for somebody really fair skinned. Or somehow...while...they slept? But I'm just BSing. So, yea, sunburning unlikely, probably. (Want me to change it in my posts, or let it go?)

[Anna]

I accomodated the sunburns in the posting already, so leaving it alone would be best. If it needed to be changed, I'd have PMed you as soon as I saw the sunburn references!

There's only about 8 hours of darkness during the summer, remember. Elves will spend plenty of daylight hours awake and active.

[Viola]

I figured that they had to sleep, too, and I believed they wouldn't have taken much to build a tent camp (if they even know what that is! XD), so that's why I had them have sunburn Jut to explain

[Anna]

I was figuring Sunsong grew the grasses taller and had them weave together to form some kind of shelter, or they rolled up in their sleeping furs for protection - but there were still several daylight hours that the elves would be awake and moving around.

Yes, the sunburns caught me unexpected - but I'm pretty good at rolling with the unexpected in RP, and incorporating it with the plan. Actually, that's what I LIKE about RP this way. I don't know what y'all are going to do, so there's always something unexpected coming, no matter how completely I plot a scenario. That's good!!

[Anna]

Okay, scouts! You can post the departure from the river, but then they'll be meeting back up with the rest of the tribe in the original thread. I'll get all of 'em moving now.