Chapter 1 - The Beginning

Ütés:
As you scan the parameter during your watch, and even with the additional watchful eye of Taft, you don't see much activity. A few hours in you do see a small white rabbit bound into the bubble from nearby underbrush. He sniffs the air trying to locate some food.

Taft leaves you as you go to wake Aelar and lays by the fire that has been built. He adds another large log onto it and then rolls over to sleep.

Aelar wakes easily from his restless sleep and bids Taft and Utes a good night. He then wakes Crolwell, "Time for our watch," he then takes up up watch, walking and humming a new tune he is working on as he keeps an eye out for danger.

The goblin in Crolwell's pack struggles as it feels Crolwell lay back on it, but it turns out the old man is surprisingly dense and the thing can't manage to break free. More muffled noises are heard from it, but after the loud outburst it quiets and moves no more.

After about an hour on watch, with Crolwell shouting out increments of time and the current status, the white rabbit bounds quickly into the bubble again from the underbrush. It darts right and left for a moment, then shoots straight through the encampment, not even seeming to notice all of you and the fire. It breezes right past the fire by only a few inches.

Another moment later you hear another rustling coming out from the brush that the rabbit emerged from. A small pack of wolves bursts into view and halts. It starts looking around and sniffing the ground. They go up right to where you think you remember the bubble ending and start sniffing the air, seeming to be looking for something. They don't appear to have seen you, yet.

Hearing a sound scampering off in the forest the lead wolf sniffs the air intently. After a moment he bounds off into the woods and the other wolves in the pack follow closely behind.

The rest of Aelar's watch goes on uneventfully. As the night is coming to a close it's time for the final watch. Then you can finally make your way out of these woods.