The trouble with Fey Relations

You make the trek to the hunters house, figuring you will have time to make it there, look thing over, and return by sunset. You chat along the way to get to know each other better and easily find the things left by the monk. Besides the packe there are other items that most who travel would have in it. The items include a bedroll, flint & steel, a belt pouch , a rucksack, a lantern, an empty waterskin, a rope (50 feet), a torch, a sword, chain shirt, sling w/20 bullets, and a shield. Unfortunately the monk was apparently fastidious in keeping his things clean so the majority of his scent is on the pack. But the bed roll is taken and stuffed into the pack to rucksack with you on your trek back to the troubled valley.

Let me know if you want to grab anything else, do anything going to/from the house, and what you do when you get back to the valley just before sunset. make camp, start the search, go into town, etc.

You are able to easily find one of the two roads into the valley and Aizashi catches a faint trace of the monks smell. But beyond that it is too weak to guess where he camped, other than common sense. So you pick a decent spot and make preparations for the night.

The mental touch fades then returns a bit stronger Noble words must be matched by noble deeds. If thou art true to thy word and self ye shall be thanked. The witch and townsfolk fight while others suffer. Distrust and malice gain power in the dark of the heart. See that yee follow not in this raging current that will crush all caught up by it. Remember that truth is balance and no side of any story hold the entirety of it all.

Taking turns you rest through the night without incident though both of you feel as if you are being watched A couple of time you each feel again the strange pressure in your minds of the voice but no words are conveyed and the contact is brief.

In the morning you make your way into the little village. The village itself fills most of the small and peaceful valley with a house located near fields throughout the area but growing increasingly dense as you approach the middle. You see and are seen by several farmers working their fields on your way in to town.

You quickly come to the crossroads which has a total of 6 buildings. A church, a warehouse, a smithy, a small inn , a brewery, and what looks to be a store. Each of these looks to be larger than should be needed and built mostly of stone with living spaces on the second floor of each. This leeds to the speculation that perhaps they were, and possibly still are, also the local holdfast against unfriendly outsiders or overly energetic and dangerous natural events.

The sound of the smith hard at work and a trickly of smoke from its' forge is the first thing to greet you as you near the center of the village. An entire side of the smitthy is thrown open to the cool crisp air but from the waves of heat seen radiating out of the smithy you assume it to be welcome to those within. A man is gathering firewood from a small side yard next to the inn and pauses to watch you with a mix of curiosity and caution as you near. The smell of fresh baked bread and cooking food argue with your imited funds over having a second breakfast. The inn likely has a much better cook than the one at this mornings camp

The road into the village center passes several homestead that consist of 1 to 6 structures and look to house 1 to 3 families. Beside the adaults children of age are already out doing morning chores on the farms. A few children are spotted playing and upon noticing you stop and run to the nearest adault but keep watching with obvious wide eye wonder and curiosity. The adaults seem friendly though not openly friendly.

The decentralized layout of the are is typical of the freeholds so this valley was likely settled by them though from what you know is under the contorl of no nation, kingdom, or federation.