Chapter 2 - The Raiders’ Camp

Kirsk, you extend an arm and reach out to try and grab onto something, anything, and as you do you feel the hand of Zachary grab a hold of your wrist. You can feel his grasp loosening quickly, physical exertion is clearly not his greatest feat, but the second he gives you allow you to grab onto the rocks with you other hand and you quickly scale up to where he’s standing.

You look through all the dead cultist’s belongings, but they seem to have been dedicated enough to not hoard anything for themselves. You rest a little bit, Kel making sure to meditate and centre herself.

After a short rest, you return to your journey and after another hour you finally reach what appears to be your destination. After a distance where the landscape has been mostly flat, the rocky plateaus start to grow higher on either side once more and you can see ahead that they connect into roughly a horseshoe shape and form a hollow where the raiders have set up camp. You can see it teeming with life, the laughter and shouting can be heard from quite a distance, it seems that they are celebrating their success. You can see a guard tower at the mouth of the hollow, but other than that the security seems to be relaxed, there seems to be no one guarding on the ground.

You hide away and observe the camp for a couple of hours. The celebration inside seems only to get rowdier. It's hard to see the layout of the camp from where you are, you'd probably need to climb onto the plateau and walk further in to see everything, but as you look closer you can see several circular huts made out wooden stakes, hide, mud and sod. They're crudely built and decorated with skulls and you mainly see kobolds around which seems to indicate that this would be where they're staying. You can't see any tents from here that would indicate where the cult's leadership would be.

More importantly, you see from a few stragglers arriving after you, you notice that they just walk in. No one seem to accost them, the security seems barely existent. No one are wearing cultist outfits. There is reason to believe that you might be able to blend in, unless you were unlucky enough to meet someone who noticed you in Greenest.