Chapter 2: The Trek to Myrefall

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May 12, 2025 11:43 pm
Kethra pulls her cloak tight. The village in utter devastation, based on tales told, she can but fear the worst. She approaches the village, and after trudging better part of thirty feet, she closes steely blue eyes in intense concentration.
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May 13, 2025 2:32 am
OOC:
point of clarification
Quote:
The outskirts of Myrefall are a scene of utter devastation. ...
the buildings that are completely devastated are the communal buildings, longhouse (inn and bar), church, the community storage barn.
Is the entire town destroyed?
Being able to ignore the cold better than his fellows Kish has been pondering the Winterlight Lantern. While taking down the camp he asks the others if any are smoked with crafting. As it might be helpful to fashion a bonnet for the Lantern and suspend it over the party member who needs it's aid the most. This should allow them to benefit while limiting the lights glow in revealing their presence.
As they look over the town Kish shake his head. This, this is bad. This is not mere mindless destructing but a careful eradication of any meant to use this place or is resources to last the winter. I wish we could locate the sending stone. All the villages and outlying settlements need to be warned. These Lesen mean to quote of all who live here. And if they're can eliminate a town this fast they can likely do it again.

Wanting a better grasp of the enemy Kish looks for tracks and signs of damage to determine the types of magic and weapons used.
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May 13, 2025 9:45 am
Johan looking around at the destruction" Something large and powerful moved through here. This was no natural disaster or typical attack by an army." As he continues to move around he will look to Kish"Maybe the sending stone is still here. We should go investigate the remains of the longhouse."
May 13, 2025 11:17 am
"Myrefall..." Nelie whispers in shock, her mind as blank as the snow surrounding them. It's hard to gather her thoughts in view of such devastation. An entire village, broken like this...

Johan and Kish's exchange snaps her out of it. She nods in agreement. "The longhouse, yes. And if there are survivors of the attack still around, the longhouse or the church should be a good place to start looking, right?"
May 13, 2025 11:38 am
Nelie, hold aloft the lantern. It's light may waken and comfort any injured or in hiding. Kish suggests as he looks around as they head into town.
May 13, 2025 12:43 pm
"Good idea." As they move forward, Nelie holds the lantern up as high as she can manage. She keeps her eyes and ears peeled for any sign or sound of life.
May 13, 2025 6:01 pm
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/3e/b8/6d3eb8ea7a127eb8a98e0cb799a07e47.jpg Onlooking Leta is absolutely devastated by extreme level of destruction. She can hardly believe her eyes. So many lives lost. This evil must come to an end as resolves herself.

"Let us search here and about for survivors. Tracks?" Seems the destruction itself, she isn't concerned about. Only the people.

Hunter Leta looks at the tracks and such to get a gest of what has happened her and hopes to spot tracks of survivors as well.
OOC:
She has cantrip Light up and casts guidance upon herself to aid her. She has a 19 on tracking & figuring out what has happened here.
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Rolls

Tracking (Survival)+Guidance - (1d20+5+1d4)

(12) + (2) + 5 = 19

May 13, 2025 7:20 pm
Odin follows along with the others. He sends Huginn off ahead of them to scout for any dangers or threats.
OOC:
Huginn stays 100' ahead of the party. Odin communicates telepathically any course corrections based on the direction being travelled by the group.
May 14, 2025 6:05 pm
Psybermagi says:
OOC:
Is the entire town destroyed?
Is every single building leveled? No, but is effectively destroyed, as it will take considerable time and effort to rebuild now. There are several buildings that were pointed out specifically as completely leveled, but the majority of the town has suffered a large amount of damage with areas towards the outside spared the most, but the areas toward the center where the communal buildings are lays mostly in complete ruin.
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Skill Challenge time!
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Skill Challenge Progress

Successes:
Failures:

Required: 3 Successes before 3 Failures | DC 13
Current Successes: Leta (Survival 19)
May 14, 2025 6:17 pm
Odin spent some time observing the destruction from Huginn's aerial vantage point.

Rolls

Huginn's Perception check - (1d20+3)

(13) + 3 = 16

Odin's Perception check through Huginn's eyes. - (1d20+3)

(7) + 3 = 10

May 14, 2025 7:04 pm
Kish keeps an eye on the surrounding and his teammates as there begin scouting the town remains

Rolls

Investigation * - (1d20+5)

(11) + 5 = 16

May 14, 2025 7:07 pm
Unable to discern destruction from undead, fiendish or celestial influence, our paladinic half-elf approaches the devastated village. She studies the ground as she strides forward in the snow, hoping not to miss important details or clues the devastations might have left behind!

Rolls

Perception - (1d20+3)

(7) + 3 = 10

May 15, 2025 12:56 am
Johan will move to where the long house would have been to search the rubble for the sending stone or any indication of what exactly has done this or if there is any survivors, serviceable equipment or food.

Rolls

Perception - (1d20+5)

(8) + 5 = 13

May 15, 2025 11:48 pm
With three successes (Kish's Investigation 16, Johan's Perception 13, and Odin's Huginn's Perception 16), the party has completed their initial investigation of the village. Each character's findings contribute to the overall understanding of what transpired here.

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May 16, 2025 2:17 am
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/3e/b8/6d3eb8ea7a127eb8a98e0cb799a07e47.jpg "I'm not sure what exactly attacked here but it was an organized attack. There were wolves and one large one for sure. I'm just not sure who exactly the invaders were. Too much snow and such on the ground. I would say by looks that no one survived. This was a surprise attack and I can't be sure of the number of invaders either."

She adds on, "By looks. I can't even track them. This is a travesty."
May 16, 2025 2:52 am
Kish waves at the others to gather a be quiet

The most urgent thing is signs that it is not completely abandoned. Look some of the rubble have been moves, as if in search of something. The attacker, or survivors though I doubt that, are still about. and he points out some fresh traces, a couple hours old by his estimate, around the village administrative and social centers. We need to find out who else is nearby before proceeding with anything else he states emphatically before continuing.

Honestly though, the thing that concerns me the most is the intelligence behind it. Not only was it and organized surprise attack but from the looks of it the order of events was very strategic. and Kish point out a few key points he noticed
+The night watch was systematically eliminated first, based on the guards bodies placement
+ The warning bell was likely targeted early to prevent the alert from spreading.
+ Many villagers were slain in their beds or mid meal preparation
+ Signs of storage rooms being systematically cleaned out

If they are collecting resources then they are likely moving on to their next target. Taking the towns food allows them to move without the need to gather resources. but where
May 16, 2025 9:52 am
Johan will take the healer kit .Johan will nod to Kish"Somebody had definitely been here since the attack. They have methodically dismantled and clean out the merchant stalls. Taking all valuable items. There are also signs of them dragging something heavy to the village center. By their boots prints they were searching for something specific. These prints only seem to be a few hours old." Looking around"It seems most of their activity was at the market. I say we head to the long house and check it out."
May 16, 2025 12:30 pm
Is the village’s Sending Stone anywhere to be found?
May 16, 2025 3:27 pm
WhiteDwarf says:
Is the village’s Sending Stone anywhere to be found?
If it is here, none of you have found it yet.
May 16, 2025 4:10 pm
Odin had been quiet for some time and to any who may have noticed, his gaze would have seemed 'off in the distance', as if staring off into space...yet he still seemed alert and aware of his surroundings. It was only after Kish and Johan had spoken of their observations that Odin seemed to 'return to them'.

In quiet tones he added:

"I have seen beyond sight in this matter. The buildings have not been destroyed at radom but rather they have been systematically demolished in a spiral pattern...it is as if something massive and ancient has methodically worked its way from the outskirts of this village, inward, toward its center.

I offer a warning to us all. In the shadows of the destroyed buildings there is "something". I can not see it clear enough to tell you what it is, but I assure you it is there. It remains in the darkness, seemingly intentionally avoiding my 'sight'. What I 'have' been able to 'see' is disturbing on its own. I have glimpsed large, dark shapes moving in the shadows between the ruins. Their movements suggest wolves, but they are far too large and coordinated to be natural predators.

The trail to the southeast is marked with sporadic signs of struggle as well as periodic blood spatters in the snow...it suggests to me that the villagers were indeed herded off into the wilderness. The trail leads toward an area where the forest grows notably darker and more ancient, away from the more traveled paths between settlements.

Most concerning to me is that there are distinct massive, deep impressions pressed into the snow and earth...as if by colossal, irregular feet. And interspersed with these tracks are long, gouging furrows in the ground. I suspect that, in an attempt to conceal these tracks, their makers have dragged immense, gnarled branches behind them in order to scrape away the snow and topsoil along with their footprints.

I have also seen areas nearby where the ground looks as though something with incredible strength has pushed through dense, frozen undergrowth, leaving behind a trail of splintered wood and disturbed earth unlike any animal spoor I've ever encountered. These tracks seem to be focused around the destroyed buildings.

As a point of full disclosure regarding what my 'far sight' has permitted me to observe, I have seen snow-covered ruins in the area surrounding the village that create an almost maze-like network of partially collapsed structures and debris.

We must proceed with much caution."


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