Chapter 1: Willowdark, a Village Repressed

Xaar, you manage to find some rabbits paying not quite enough attention and you nab 5 in their warren. You didn't see much larger than that in the time you spent hunting. However, you did find some bushes that yielded a decent amount of berries and some edible leaves.

When you return to camp, the fire is crackling.

You spend three or four hours moving steadily south. Just as you are about to turn back, something catches your eye. Off in the distance, probably a 20 minute walk further, you spy a strange set of lines breaking the horizon. Looks like a camp of some sort. However, there are no fires, no sounds, very little movement.

Yes please, stealth rolls at advantage since you guys have the drop and it's dark.

You quietly make your way to the darkened camp. As you move up towards the tents, you realize that there are people awake in the camp, they are just deathly still, observing their surroundings like sentinels. You count a total of 35 two-person tents (orange spaces), 5 (lighter orange spaces) tents of finer make, and one low campaign tent (golden 2x3 space), the markings of Markindale plainly visible on the heavy flaps. The entire camp is shaped vaguely like an upside down horseshoe against some mid-sized hills. There are sentries 15 feet out from the outer perimeter sitting stoic with their weapons drawn and held at an easy position. You don't believe they've seen you.

Perception checks please.

Perception checks please.

As you lie low in the scrub brush, you do your best to spot details about your targets. It is relatively dark, so it's hard to make out much, however, you do note that you see no glint of armor. Whether this means they are unarmored or in blacked out armor, you aren't sure. You do notice that the guards at the edge have large pommels over their shoulders, with a pair of sheathes on their hips.

You see one person moving through the camp, low to the ground, and not making a single sound.

From where you are, and with the limited light you have available, you detect no movement. Nary a fidget.