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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8284478" data-attributes="member: 59816">Archemedes' aerial view helped Ruznami to piece together a picture of what had happened here. The light rain had not totally obscured the wagon-tracks and boot-marks. The coach had been stopped by a group of individuals who stood on the road. Presumably some words were exchanged and Broun, the driver, had tried to run his horses through the mob. One of the horses had been stabbed, and stumbled a hundred yards later, causing the coach to lurch to the side and to overturn in the ditch. Kaliban found that the dead horse was missing a leg. While the rest of the body had been picked over by local carrion feeders on the following day, the leg most likely had been taken immediately after it had died.Ethian found another dead animal. A hyena that showed signs of having been trampled by a horse - most likely during the desperate charge. The hyena had succumbed to its wounds some forty yards on the other side of the road, where an animal trail led off into some light brush. A broken branch suggested that taller, possibly humanoid creatures had gone that way in about the right time-frame. The hyena wore a spiked collar, and an ugly piercing on its snout. Ethian concluded with confidence and dread: Gnolls.</blockquote>