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Aight so just like with Zeroth who wanted to track and remained alert/hiding from enemies, you’ll can do that but you will be going at a slower pace, meaning that it’ll take you longer to complete your tasks which means a higher chance of running into something in the forest. Of course even if you go more quickly that just means you’ll run into less things, but they might get the jump on you. Your choice.

In any case in order to start getting a better idea of your surroundings and marking them as you go, I’ll need a survival check. As for being on guard and alert, I’ll need either a perception check or you can just use your passive perception (that’s 10+Wisdom+Proficency if you’re profiecnt with perception). Do note that if you roll you must stick with the result even if you roll lower than your passive perception.

And finally, to actually find those iron sand diposites, you’ll need to do either a survival or a nature check. It’s a survival instead of a perception since you have no frame of reference for what exactly Ironsand looks like, since it’s not immediately obvious, though once you find what you think ought to be the right thing you can then use perception checks. The same thing will apply for the herbs.

Now I should reliterate that trying to do all three things by yourself will severely cut down how quickly you can do all of this. Just tracking your progress alone will cut your travel speed by half if you’re trying to be even halfway accurate using an inaccurate map, then it’ll cut t down even further since you’ll be cautiously approaching things in the forest whilst looking for danger, and finally you’ll have to spend even more time tracking and examining your surroundings for signs of ironsand.

All-in-all, you’ll be moving at about 1/10 of your normal speed while doing all the things you want to do. And that’s not including the time it’ll take for you to actually hike to the dry riverbed Bookie marked on the map, which is about an hours walk away if you went at normal speed.