(Adventure) Trek to the Vinyard...

[Uriel]

OoC"Right-O, thels...sorry.

Zoe spends a moment Detecting Evil upon the Fetish, noting that it radiates a faint Evil aura, though it seems to have no Power in-and-of-itself. As to it's origin, Zoe is stumped as the others were, nothing in her studies with the Priests or her time spent in the Libraries of The Church described a Talisman like this.

The Roll of distant thunder sounds, a storm seems to be heading this way, perhaps 2 hours off. Troi is suprised, as his assement of the Weather earlier seemed spot-on in indicating clear skies. Odd, that.
It is aproximately 3 PM at this point, with steady, though careful (in case the storm does break) riding you could reach the Vinyard in another two hours.

 

[Velmont]

"I'm not a specialist of those things, but it seems the rain have erase most of the usefull things. I don't see anything usefull, and now a storm is coming, I suggest we don't waste too much time here, or maybe our hunter have sen something I havn't?"

Rinaldo look at Troi.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Troi looks to the sky, and scratches his head.

"Um... yeah, 'bout that." He says, regarding the oncoming cloud cover. "So far as I could tell this morning, we were gonna have a nice clear day."

He shrugs. "But anyway, about this wagon... yeah, I can't find any tracks. Kinda wierd, y'know? Even with rainfall there shoulda been somethin'... well, lemme take a closer look, just to be sure... only take a minute..."

He dismounts, and searches the area around the wagon for tracks.

 

[WizWrm]

Velbrik dismounts. "Yes, this whole affair is turning out to be quite odd. I'll check the wagon itself to see if there was anything the roadwardens missed. Unlikely, but possible considering their state of mind at the time."

He considers, "And one of the halflings did say that Gunnerson thought there might be 'witchery' involved, given the lack of bodies in what he thought to be a wolf attack. Though it was probably superstition, this is a good time as any to check for sure. Give me the talisman so I can catch it in the area and kill two birds with one stone."

Velbrik takes the talisman, holds it in front of him, facing the wreckage, and proceeds to cast detect magic. Once that's completed, he begins searching through the broken wagons, trying to be careful not to disturb too much.

Casting detect magic; untrained Search check (+2); can I tell what types of weapons were used?

 

[Arken]

Felix looks up at the sky grimly...

"Great just what we need..."

He pulls his cloak around himself as he also sets about searching especailly looking out for anything that particularly seems pertinent to him.

Untrained search check (+3). Particularly looking for things of arcane and divine significance: knowledge (arcana) +7, knowledge (religion) +5

 

[Velmont]

"I won't stay on my horse and looks at you."

He jump off his horse, stumbling a bit on his feets on the landing.

"Let's see closer that wagon site"

Rinaldo looks all around with the other, trying to not indure Troi in his inspection for tracks. Search +7 (Trained and Trap)

 

[Thels]

Zoe stays back, holding all the horses together. Four people searching is more than enough, I would probably only leave marks the others might get confused over. She keeps a look at the surroundings, occasionally peeking at the sky.

 

[Uriel]

Dismounting, you begin a thorough search of the area, each person focusing on a particular area of interest

Troi
Looking about in the mud near the wagon,Troi sees that most of any tracks are in fact washed away or too muddled to be readable.
However, he can tell that whatever made them came from the South and (walking along the Track for a ways) whoever made them seem to have been running along the Road for some time, as if tailing the wagon...there were at least a dozen Attackers,perhaps more.

Velbrik
Casting Detect magic, Velbrik notes nothing in the way of eminations. His search for weapon markings turns up two things.
Several marks from large bladed weapons, most likely axes are cut into the wagon's sides, and the barrels as well. Secondly, there are numerous claw marks along the wagon as well, deep-grouved sets of 4 claws.



Rinaldo
Trying not to interfere in Troi's search, Rinaldo looks about elsewhere in the area. Finding a smaller group of tracks, Felix follows what looks to be one set of booted tracks that begic at the Wagon, deep boot prints as if someone jumped from the Wagon, landing heavily and then ran North. A second muddled set intercepted these not 30 feet from the wagon and obliterated the tracks in the area where the two meet.Most likely, a Wagoneer jumped, running and was taken down like a deer by a Wolf and then held in that location while others came.

Felix
Felix looks for any signs of relevance regarding things more esoteric, moves over to where Rinaldo stands, noting with a sickening feeling that the ground there is very dark...blood.
In fact, he gets the sinking feeling that the scene had a deliberate look to it, as if some Ritual was performed.

Velbrik focuses his Spell upoon hearing Felix' observations, noting a distinct, though faint aura of Necromancy.

Zoe

Sitting upon her horse, Zoe gains a vantage point not shared by her companions. The Paladin looks about and her eyes settle upon a black feathered arrow embebbded in the trunk of a tree at the edge of the treeline. Te trajectory would make sense if someone shot from behind the Wagon at the drivers.

 

[Uriel]

double post

 

[Keia]

Thurgan tries to just stay out of the way and keep a sharp eye out for whoever ambushed the wagon in the first place. 'Hate to get jumped by the same group while we're a searchin' for 'em,' Thurgan thought.

OOC: Spot +3