The Necessity of Travel

Oxana comes across her well soon enough, but as she examine it to see if it's still usable, she finds that there are tracks of some clawed, four-legged animal, probably about half her size that come up from the well, and return.

There is also a silo, and to Tatianna's surprise, the grain in it is still very good. It's not particularly humid in this place, though, so perhaps that's why. She also finds a millstone and stone oven in good working order, so as long as you're here, rations won't be a problem.

All in all, it does look like a nice place to live. If it weren't for those worrisome tracks...

Johnsan takes a mmoment to study the tracks and then looks around at the surroundings. He is both looking at the tracks as a potential food source and as a danger source.

There's a sort of outlook tower right up next to the wall that will give you a good view of the well, assuming you want to keep watch. You all climb up the ladder that's on the side and wait. It's a nice shade from the sun and gives you all a chance to rest in relative safety, which is something you've not had in a while.

It's dusk, almost night, when there's movement from the well. A large, winged lizard-looking creature crawls from the well. It's about as large as a medium-sized dog (no metric system here, must use whatever we can to measure things!) and is soon followed by three more. They appear scatter out, probably looking for food. One of them stands up on it's hand legs to look around, and you see that on its front two legs it has long, hooked claws. The creature is obviously very deadly. These things will definitely need to be cleared out if you're going to bring your village here.

The creatures appear to show no real intelligence beyond what your typical animal would show. They furtively move away, quickly slipping from one hiding place to another, and soon move out of sight. They come back within about an hour, their maws bloodied. They clearly don't store their prey in any way. Whatever these things are, they're not smart in the way that dragons always are in the stories.

Should you go to find what they've hunted to learn more about them before you attack, or should you strike while their bellies and full and their senses dull? Or is there another option that presents itself?