2.0 - Lure of the Lost

Borgath finishes trading credits for stimpacks at his highly marked up rate and then proceeds to provide directions to the cave in question - the one with the superstitious stories of ill tidings. He mutters again and maybe again that you seem borderline insane to choose to go there, and it seems a waste to take perfectly good stimpacks and lose them there, but you get clear directions regardless.

What next?

(OoC: Guess I'm taking point)

(OoC: Edit I guess it's Csillag (Read Guard), Urik, Dagger, Heyop, Kaveri (Point))

Heyop nods once things are figured out suggesting a staggered column for the journey until they get into a situation, since terrain might be difficult there's nothing like being the first one to bowl over the rest of your squad to remind you a single file line isn't always the best solution in hostile unknown territory.

(OoC: Waiting for random encounter roll...)

The terrain is wintry and somewhat unpleasant, but the guidance from the village seems to be spot on as you easily make your way through the forest. Although life has returned somewhat to e valley, the forest in these parts remains wierdly, unnaturally quiet. The silence heightens your own sense of risk and anxiety, as you feel out of place and unwelcome.

OOC: Kaveri is welcome to role a survival check -- easy (1 purple) because of good directions from town. Hawaiiis, in fact, awesome. I do have some source material with me and have an old iPad for typing larger things -- so we shouldn't be completely halted. That said, I expect the long weekend will be slow for all of us?

The confab method of tracking more or less seems to work, but Urik definitely gets the sense he is being watched. As you work your way north towards the cliff wall that houses the cave system you seek, Urik spots a few shadows slinking through the trees.

The party makes its way -- along the course given by the village. Specifically, following the small river (or is it a large stream?) north towards the valley walls, then turning left -- or west, once you reach the walls to find the cave at the spot marked below.



You reach the caves -- and they lie just ahead of you. They are the likely location of the holocron you seek, but upon your arrival at the entrance, you cannot help but pause and reconsider your eagerness. The darkness beyond the mouth of the cave seems to be more than the absence of light. It weighs against your vision with a discomfiting pressure, as if offended that someone would dare try to see through its pall. Beyond the initial gloom, you sense a great hunger, lying in wait for unwary prey.

But beyond that, you sense a spark of light, some remnant of hope and life that steels you against the malevolent presence. Your quarry lies ahead -- you're sure of it now.

Quietly, at first, you hear the low growl of a group of angry beasts. It seems to come from the forest around you -- almost pressuring you into the cave.