▸ Bar the way

They encounter an obstacle, or hit a dead end, or discover they lack something needed to move ahead. They've got to find a way through, or over, or to backtrack and find a way around.

Describe what's barring the way forward, and maybe give an option or two for what they could do instead.

"It's just not going to happen, Caradoc. You can barely scale the bluff yourself, and don't see any way to drag those sleds up here laden with bear meat. And it's not like there's anything up on the Flats for you to tie a rope around, either."

" You drag the sleds northeast but, shortly past the Stream, the drifts get much deeper. It'd be grueling to wade through and there's no way you'd get home by dark. Looks like the only path left is back through crinwin territory. What do you do?"