Chapter 3: The Lonely Tower

Maybe I could take a look at the terrain from a distance first to see what opportunities there are for cover?

Ruth - do the Night Blades usually only attack at night as their name suggests? And do they mostly cause trouble near the town?

Ruth responds to Naeris's question "In the two months they've been here, they've attacked day and night. Never the afternoon though, come to think of it. Guess they aren't early risers."

"It's safe to say the town is their focus. Keeping us pinned down though, so I'm not 100% sure if they've been up to anything else out there."

The party sets out for the Lonely Tower. Just before they leave, Matthew arrives and hands you a warm glass bottle of yellow liquid. Ruth speaks for him "Oh, I asked my brother to go fetch some pig urine from the Yamamoto farm. Y'know, saves you from having to tinkle on your own boots. Hmm, not sure if this is better, but hey, it's an option now."

You make your way across the hilly terrain. The weather is cooler with a lot more cloud cover today, which makes for a more pleasant walk under an open sky.



The sparse tree cover wouldn't hide a large party, but with Naeris's experience with nature as your guide, the party plots a path from copse to gully to hill that should stay unnoticed from afar. You spot the tower a ways off, and manage to get within 500 feet of it, approaching from the backside of a hill. The tower looks as it did in Ruth's map but the child was right - the top of the hill is awash in thick green vines. The shambling mound can be seen on the other side of the hill, motionless, basking in the sun. It is nearly half the size of the tower, and if you didn't know to look for it you would have thought it was a big vine-covered boulder. There isn't much action that you can see from inside the tower, but its hard to say, since its all arrow slits for windows.

It is now midday. What would you like to do?