Game Thread

You guys walk for a bit before entering into another clearing of considerable size. Yuu notice the cavities where baubles were mined from here. This clearing seems to have been cleaned out. This time there are only two paths for you to choose from. Listening closely, Thom knows that from how his voice projects off the two possible ways to go that the left most passage is much more closer than the right.

"Do you hear something?" says Bellatrix as she observes you listening rather intently to the two openings.


While that is going on Dominador is a couple of feet behind the group bring the rear. He keeps looking behind him expecting something to jump out at them. He looks back a bit too much however and kicks a rock and begins to stumble. He catches himself before anything could happen but is still unable to notice anything peculiar behind them.

Taachis front line copy stops while they reach the clearing. It merely smiles ahead waiting to be commanded again.

After about 5 minutes of walking or so you reach into a final clearing. This one sports some broken down mining machines that are worthless now. Some Azure and Acadius baubles are still in the walls as well as littered on the grown. The baubles on the grown however are glowing a different color. Almost as if a red tint were on them.

"Never seen baubles like that before. I wonder what they are" says Bellatrix as she rushes forward to see them out. Almost immediately as she gets there she screams.

"BLOOD! BLOOD EVERYWHERE!" she screams. At this point you all look around and in the darkness you notice the carcasses of people littered about the darker areas of the clearing. Something had murdered them. Bellatrix looks visably shaken as she surveys the area to see the mass of bodies in here.

I'm guessing Dominador saw nothing of interest in the second of these three clearings?

yes that would be correct I failed to mention it. There wasnt anything of much relevance in the area

As the others search the bodies for clues, Heiro leaves them to their grim work and keeps watch on the surrounding room and exit. "So many helpless dead left to rot. There is no reason for such brutality. Someone or something will answer for this," he murmurs softly.

Dominador starts looking for specifics as to how these people were murdered. Their deaths appear to have been a brutal one from what you can tell. The bruising is deep in blue and purple and on some of them you can feel shattered bone under the skin. Some appear to have been delimbed to some extent. Whoever did this to them did not let them off easy. Arret also examines the bodies and figures that they were killed from blunt trauma rather than the maiming.

Halal closes his eyes as he asks his question and a voice begins to permeate in his head.

"Those unspeakable horrors... says the trembling voice. "Those beasts of scale and rock haunt me even into death".

Thom searches through the bodies and finds 4 shins in the process. Thom also find some of the badges of the people that were slain. These could possibly be used for identification later. He searches the bodies for evidence of numenera but determines that he could not find any and that what had slain them was purely physical of nature.

Perhaps medical examination isnt Taachi's strongest trait as he may not have needed it so much while in Faladon. He observes the damage on the bodies but for whatever reason it may be you are sorely convinced that this is a trick of some sort and that these bodies were laid here as some sort of distraction.

Heiro begins to look around the layout of the room. You begin to notice patches of soft dirt and some holes that are at most a couple of feet deep with soft dirt in them as well. It seems as though something dug its way in or out of here. The holes were located in some of the more darker parts of this clearing which seems whatever dug its way into or out of here did not want to be seen.


Bellatrix attempts to calm herself down as she looks away from the bodies and Adonis and Selphus stand at the door guarding it from anyone who may enter.

"These people were mercilessly killed. Who would do such a thing to a search party. They didn't wrong anyone!" says Bellatrix whose voice still trembles with fear.