Wednesday - Early Afternoon
As you all spread out to take care of particular tasks, you check the sun for a moment, it is still high in the sky and will be quite a while before it sets. Eddies estimation is actually very short, you have more like six hours of sunlight left. It is summer after all and only a couple hours after noon.
Eddie and Kiylea begins to comb the edge of the fields, looking for any signs of recent incursion. It takes a good hour or two before they find a number of split-hoof prints, leading from the forest into the fields. With some more examination, Kiylea discerns, once she follows the prints into the fields, that it was most likely a boar of some kind that was uprooting crops.
Kiylea picks out a couple good trees she figures would get a good vantage point from, most of the houses and barns are too far from the treeline to be a good place to watch from as Eddie points out.
Alton, Ringly, Jerran and Bubbles begin their stroll between the various Mellar houses, hoping to get an idea of which farms have been having trouble, what types of crops have been targetted and so on.
Approaching Lyra Mellar's house, Jerran strides up confidentantly and raps on the door, a self-assured grin on his face. You hear a woman call out from inside, "just a second..." In a moment the door is drawn open and Mrs. Mellar looks upon the assembled group slightly confused as to what four the villages youngsters would be doing knocking on her door. "Oh! I wasn't expecting anyone, I'm sorry the place is a mess but do come in," gesturing for the four of you to enter. When she says the place is a mess, you can barely imagine what it would mean for it to be clean, everything seems inextricably well-placed, not a speck of dust can be seen. "Now, what can I do to help you all? Sit, sit." She beckons you over to a oak table large enough to seat eight.
As you all spread out to take care of particular tasks, you check the sun for a moment, it is still high in the sky and will be quite a while before it sets. Eddies estimation is actually very short, you have more like six hours of sunlight left. It is summer after all and only a couple hours after noon.
Eddie and Kiylea begins to comb the edge of the fields, looking for any signs of recent incursion. It takes a good hour or two before they find a number of split-hoof prints, leading from the forest into the fields. With some more examination, Kiylea discerns, once she follows the prints into the fields, that it was most likely a boar of some kind that was uprooting crops.
Kiylea picks out a couple good trees she figures would get a good vantage point from, most of the houses and barns are too far from the treeline to be a good place to watch from as Eddie points out.
Alton, Ringly, Jerran and Bubbles begin their stroll between the various Mellar houses, hoping to get an idea of which farms have been having trouble, what types of crops have been targetted and so on.
Approaching Lyra Mellar's house, Jerran strides up confidentantly and raps on the door, a self-assured grin on his face. You hear a woman call out from inside, "just a second..." In a moment the door is drawn open and Mrs. Mellar looks upon the assembled group slightly confused as to what four the villages youngsters would be doing knocking on her door. "Oh! I wasn't expecting anyone, I'm sorry the place is a mess but do come in," gesturing for the four of you to enter. When she says the place is a mess, you can barely imagine what it would mean for it to be clean, everything seems inextricably well-placed, not a speck of dust can be seen. "Now, what can I do to help you all? Sit, sit." She beckons you over to a oak table large enough to seat eight.
