Lightning in a Bottle (RP)

The figure looks briefly-optimistic at Ezme's line of thinking, then sighs in frustrated disappointment.

When Gronk starts taking out his ritual tools it looks eager, then confused. Studying Gronk's tools it seems to come to a realisation and looks disappointed in itself. It thinks for a minute. When next you see, the grail has become a bucket and the figure appears to be pouring its contents out where it stands.

What do you do?

The figure looks eagerly at Albert as he speaks, then, once again, it looks frustrated at how dense people can be (it does not know you are not from around here:).

It might take a moment for you all to realise the image has changed, it is still pouring a bucket at its feet, but there is another bucket on the ground nearby... and another, fainter, a little ways off. For the briefest moment there is also another figure —a man this time— pouring a bucket, but then the first figure shakes its head, as though worried this will confuse you more and the second figure fades away.

What do you do?

- Ezme -

The crone-figure makes a gesture the seems to say 'well, duh!'.

What do you do?

- Ezme -

The crone looks disappointed, but you get the impression it is not directed at the party, but rather at the whole situation. Either the imagery is becoming more nuanced or you are starting to understand better.

What do you do?

- Gronk -

The crone-figure looks on with baited breath. Ezme's suggestion should be enough for you try puzzle this out given what you know of the town.

What do you do?

- Gronk -

Clearly you have been too separated from the community to remember this in time, but —and too late— you recall that, a few months before the incidents started, there was a town-wide campaign to 'clean up the local river'. It did not affect you much, but a key point centered around stopping the various industries from dumping their waste into the river, and this included the butchers.

Apparently other uses were found for the various effluvia of the animal slaughtering industry, so it might prove hard to convince the populace to abandon these new practices and return to feeding the river with its waste, as has been done since time immemorial.

Before Gronk can relay his revelation to the others, the figure grows impatient at the length of the wait, with a silent scream of frustration it flickers out and vanishes. The calls from the mist start again immediately and you all feel a glowering and hungry tension in the air.

It is no longer safe for you to be out in the mist.

What do you all do?

- Ezme -

You had almost forgotten about the itch, it had not been pressing on your mind during your conversation, but as the crone-figure vanishes it returns with a vengeance. You can not resist scratching, even in front of these men.

What do you do?

- Roald -

You finally hear an answer to your call. Off to your right and behind you —the opposite way from where rope leads— you hear Albert and Gronk and Ezme calling desperately for your help.

If the away-party start moving towards you, you will also feel the rope drop slack.

What do you do?