Once all the group had awoken and finished off their
breakfast they mounted up and decided to head west.
They ride for a short period and find themselves amongst a
group of ancient dead oak trees; Natalia dismounts and begins to investigate
the trees and the cause of their demise. Upon closer examination Natalia was
able to tell that the trees had been dead for a long time and the most likely
cause was from a disease.
Just a short distance from the dead trees is a scattering of
bones, from which a quick rustle could be heard but before the group could
react to the noise as 2 black blurred objects raced towards them.
The first blur made its way towards Otto and his horse but
obviously missed its attack before jumping back under the flap of grass that it
had attacked from. The second blur headed for Miro and his riding dog Oskar
where it successfully sunk its fangs into the poor dog.
Now that one of the blurs had landed a blow the group could
now see that their attackers were a pair of Black & Red spiders each the
size of a pony.
The group set on the spider that was attacking Oskar making
short work of the job and dispatch it quickly before it had another chance to
attack, the other spider though continued to launch attacks at the group by
jumping out and in of its trap door lair but constantly missed each target it
aimed for.
The group in retaliation also kept missing their chances to
hit a blow at the spider until one of Krylander’s arrows finally found its mark
striking the spider which sent it scurrying back into its lair to prepare for
one final attack.
The group sensing that the spider was getting ready they all
took aim and readied their weapons for the impending attack. As expected the
spider soon launched its next attack right in the direction of Vaneer. As the
spider ran past each member they all took the opportunity to attack the critter
only to miss and then just as the spider was about to chew down on the cleric,
Otto’s cold iron spear pierces through the spiders skull killing it just in the
nick of time.
Taking a couple of minutes to recover from the combat the
group soon set to investigating the trap doors that the two spiders had sprung
from. Searching the nests within reveals a number of dead bodies in various
stages of decay, with no remorse Miro sets to searching the corpses and only
thing of interest he manages to find is a small rolled up piece of parchment.
Unrolling the parchment revealed a crude drawing of what
appeared to be a tree in a shape of a claw with a red cross on the left hand
side of the base of the tree.
Happy with the outcome Oskar’s wounds were healed before the
group remounted their trusted steeds and headed to the south east.
By some chance of pure luck the group as they travelled
across the plains to the south east stumbled across a tree that had grown in
the shape of a claw. Taking a chance the group dismounted and walked up the
hill towards the tree.
Kylander and Natalia thoroughly search around the trunk of
the tree to find that there is a loose mound of dirt under the left root, as
they dig out the mound they found a folded up cloak with a number of items
wrapped up within it.
Opening up the cloak the group discovered it contained 3
master worked daggers, a silver dagger; wand of burning hands, silver ring and
to top it off the cloak itself Otto discovered appeared to be magical as well.
Happy with the days haul the group decided to call it done
as it was now late afternoon and decided to set up camp next to the clawed tree
ready for tomorrows adventures.
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