Road Reconnaissance – Day 4: The aftermath

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Road Reconnaissance – Day 4 (cont)
With the large humanoids surrendered, the party looks around for something to immobilise them with. However nothing suitable comes to hand, and so after a brief conference both humanoids are despatched.
Then whilst Umar and Bazin relieve the ex Shaman of his head, the rest of the party quickly scout around for any items of value and carry out a quick analysis of what had happened. There are two humans unaccounted for, with nine corpses found in the pile (two missing a leg and a heart).
Most of the humans equipment has been trashed during the fight, or by the large humanoids after the event, whilst the spears and clubs carried by the large humanoids themselves are hardly what you would call masterworks. All in all, the party manages to gather in 12 silver and 17 copper coins, which seems pretty meagre.
Just as the party is about to leave it is Wun who spots something caught under a root of the tree that the Shaman was sitting at. It is a small leather bag, which looks to have snagged on the root – since the hide cords have obviously stretched and snapped. On opening it is found to contain 8 gold coins plus a brooch made of silver entwined with willow. The brooch is somewhat reminiscent of something a Wyldwood priest would wear, but somehow different. Neither the clerics or the druids feel particularly comfortable about the piece, although everyone else is unaffected – and the item is not detecting as magical.
As the party heads back to their cache of camping equipment, Kherak flies top cover – from this Quercius can estimate that actually the plume of smoke – whilst impressive at ground level would barely be visible out beyond a few miles. No sign can be seen of the two humans thus far unaccounted for. Approaching the cache, Kirsten is sent in to check for strange scents, but again – nothing untoward is picked up.
So, it is now just after midday…….. general concensus amongst the party is to rest up and observe the road and the woods around the distant pyre.
The rest of the day passes uneventfully. As night falls Toowit takes over on aerial recon (although nowhere near as effectively in terms of coverage)….
By the time the first signs of dawn are visible, everyone is fully rested, spells have been memorised….and people are getting pretty bored…..
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