What do you say next?

a) Let's approach on the sly and spy on them for a little while. Time constraints be damned, you need to gather information about the terrain - and whichever chieftain currently has the sceptre.
b) What difference does it make in the end? We need the sceptre. Let's just keep going and approach the chieftain as planned. We'll wing it when we have to.

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What do you say?

a) Let's approach on the sly and spy on them for a little while. You need to gather information about the terrain - and whichever chieftain currently has the sceptre.
b) What difference does it make in the end? We need the sceptre. Let's just keep going and approach the chieftain as planned. We'll wing it when we have to.

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What do you say?

a) We should turn around, go home and get more intel.  How are you supposed to appraoch a chieftain if you have no idea who it is you're approaching, what tribe they belong to, and what, exactly, they are capable of?
b) Let's approach on the sly and spy on them for a little while.  You need to gather information about the terrain - and whichever chieftain currently has the sceptre.
c) What difference does it make in the end?  We need the sceptre.  Let's just keep going and approach the chieftain as planned.  We'll wing it when we have to.

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What do you decide?

a) Leave.  This really isn't your problem and you've already almost died more times than you care to count.
b) Go north.  You  might be able to convince the Chieftain to give you the sceptre piece... or you might have to fight his entire clan.
c) Go east.  Grass dogs?  You can take 'em.  You think.

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What do you do?

a) You and the Rangers escort Hessa back to her people as fast as humanly possible - straight through the bog.  The Tuatha know how to defend against the Seeker's Son...  assuming that the Seeker's Son doesn't catch up to you first.
b) You split up.  Give the sceptre piece to the Rangers and have them escort Hessa home.  You try and draw off the Seeker's Son by taking the slightly longer route past the bog, and hope to whatever deity rules this place that you aren't caught before you make it to the forest.
c) You split up.  You give the sceptre piece to the Rangers to take straight back to their hide-out.  You and Hessa travel together to the forest of the Tuatha.  Hessa is in no fit state to be travelling alone and will die if she does.  Hopefully, you can escape to the forest before the Seeker's Son catches up to you.  Hopefully.

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