Session 5: Trek to Ten-Towns

As the sun rises, everyone is ready to recommence the travel to Icewind Dale. The road stretches out before you, the sky gray with clouds, the ground white with snow and the mountain range rising to block the horizon. Beorne Steelstrike estimates this will be a 4-day trip at best as the fresh snow from the storm will slow overland travel throw the dangerous mountain passage to a crawl.

Just past midday, you come across a smashed cart at the side of the road. Two sets of tracks lead away from the cart into a grove of snow-covered fir trees.

As soon as Agna starts to check the tracks, Beorne brings the caravan to an halt and shouts a few commands for the guards. As their prepare for anything, the dwarf leads a smaller group to investigate the cart for any clues of what might have happened.

Helda approaches you "Ye might be right there. No want no surprises this far north" She takes a very quick look at the tracks and agrees with Agna. "Boots and horse yes... Maybe someones get caught by the storm?"

The group quickly picks up the tracks leading them away from the cart. The four of you follow the tracks into the fir grove for about a half-mile into the grove, finding a grisly scene at the end of them: the half-eaten frozen carcasses of a half-elf man and a horse. Adaia can't tell what killed the half-elf, and any tracks around the scene seem to have been lost to Izuhn, but Agna is able to tell those look like Wolf bites.

As Agna finishes her ritual, you notice a shift in the lighting around the corpse, a shapeless brightness as if a spot opened in the clouds.