In the morning Natalia casts a stone shape spell over the
deceased body to form a cairn.
The group continue their approach to Vanhold and as they
approach Otto casts a mage armour spell upon himself as he had a feeling
something was going to happen.
Stone houses seemed to make up the majority of the buildings
in the town of Vanhold, a river also runs through the town pretty much
splitting the town in town with a single bridge across for access to both
sides.
As they enter town the group dismount and cautiously make
their way in to see what is happening.
The town seems very quiet and still and no citizens could be
seen anywhere, this worried the group even more as there is no sign of struggle
or fight.
As they approached the area towards the river Natalia and
Miro notice a large number of flies hovering around an animal pen round the
back of a nearby house.
Vaneer takes a look into the pen and finds a couple of
severely bloated and decayed corpses of boars, each corpse is filled with arrows
and darts.
As they are wondering about the events that happened here a
dark voice comes into the mind of the group “Everything all leads to Death
eventually”.
Miro breaks into the brewery only to be meet with the sound
of pan pipes which is quickly followed by a voice encouraging the Halfling to
have a drink.
Kyrander uses his magical instrument to try and counter the
musical charm on Miro but sadly his musical talents would make a dying cat
sound like a world class performance, which is a shame as shortly after his
attempt all apart from Vaneer and Natalia fall under the pan pipe charm, a
Satyr then suddenly appears to which Vaneer remembered them fighting before.
The Satyr explains to Vaneer and Natalia whilst the others
attempt to drown themselves in ale that he was hiding here as the sprigans
didn’t appreciate his musical talents, Vaneer suggests that if the Satyr was to
join forces with the group he could get vengeance on the sprigans. In return
Vaneer promised that he would talk to Van of Vanhold to allow the Satyr to stay
in town afterwards as either a tavern owner or a brewery worker.
The satyr agrees to the deal with Vaneer and lends his bow
to the group’s mission.
Once outside of the brewery the group notices some movement
over in the commons area, as they approach to investigate Vaneer soon finds
himself at the bottom of a 20ft pit and the sounds of hooting laughter could be
heard from behind some bushes as the rest of the group aid their cleric out of
his pit.
The group then notice a green fellnight sprigan fail at an
attempt to be stealthy as he rolls from behind a house to a tree.
Kyrander spots another sprigan hiding in a nearby tree and
shoots at it, causing the sprigan to fall out of the tree from surprise.
Kyrander re-shoots at the sprigan that fell out of the tree
and kills it enraging the remaining 3 sprigans as they all shoot at the ranger.
Miro faints and attacks one of the sprigans killing it
outright with a dagger through the eye,
Otto casts magic missile at another sprigan,
Vaneer charges the other sprigan and barely lays a scratch
on it,
Natalia casts flaming blade on the sprigan that Vaneer was
fighting.
Bob charges the same sprigan but misses,
Spot also charges the same sprigan and hits,
Satyr shoots a sprigan and hits,
Kyrander shoots at the Satyr’s sprigan killing the creature
and then lets a second shot off on the remaining sprigan also killing it.
“Does this creature’s fate make you ponder if this could be
you one day? Dead, alone and face in the ground?” The dark voice says again in
the heads of the group.
The Satyr informs the group that there is about 20 sprigans
in Vanhold somewhere and they are being led by a really big sprigan and that
they all seem to avoid Inn, the most interesting fact that he mentioned was
that vanhold was already empty by the time the sprigans arrived.
The group decide to go check out the Inn, as the get to the
Inn they notice a word scratched on the door “NOMEN” (NOMEN is a local Centaur
tribe that have been causing Vanhold some issues lately but have agreed a
nonaggression pact).
In the Inn’s common room a figure was standing with its back
to the group, it was large in size and had pointy ears.
The group slowly approached the figure and attempted to talk
with it but it remained motionless and silent, whilst Otto detected a slight
necromantic aura.
Vaneer finally looks at the creature and thinks that it’s
most likely had its life completely drained from it.
“Even a predator can become the prey and a hero can still
fall” the voice says again,
Every step squeaks no matter how slow they stepped as the
headed upstairs, about halfway up the stairs they could hear the tavern sign
start to creak outside even though there was no wind this day.
Once upstairs all the doors along the corridor apart from
one were closed, the group slowly work their way down to the open door, the
room was a standard Inn room with a bed which appears to have been slept in.
As Miro explores the room, a hand suddenly shoots out from
under the bed and grabs the halflings leg which causes him to scream to like a
girl, as the group look round they soon see the Boogie man standing in the
corner (they met back at the feast of the dancing lady).
The boogie man releases Miro and greets the group, after
some discussion it comes apparent that the boogie man came across Vanhold abandoned
and was hoping to use it to scare fear into future generations but the sprigans
soon moved in and wouldn’t leave.
Otto offers the Boogie man a position on the council of
Wyvernshore to which boogie agrees to but only “if” the group survives to leave
the town. He also agreed to the group using the Inn as a safe place to rest
whilst they were here.
The group relax and take their time to explore the rest of
the Inn and amongst the rest discovered belongings they find a letter dated
about 3 months ago to a professor and mentions something about a Jade bracelet
found on the river back.
A book with a signal of a snake on the front of it, which as
Miro looks at the snake the signal suddenly comes alive and swipes at him
before it disappears back into the book. A bundle of papers from an academy of
scholars further north which Vaneer mentions it would be worth returning as an
olive branch of friendship.
The group agree to rest for the evening and discuss their
options in the morning.
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