On the road to Leed's Crossing
Valdral Shadowmace was in Bit a few days before the festival when one of the high priests asked him to go to East End to help with the mayor, who was sick. Rather than walk all that way by himself, he asks his friend Swithun Baymire if he would like to take a short trip to East End. Knowing how crowded Bit becomes during the Sun Festival, due to start in a couple days, he readily agreed. The pair traveled through Homestead and Bareback (map in post #2) before arriving in East End.
There, curing the mayor was more of a babysitting job than anything else. But once the mayor was obviously going to get better he asked if the pair could go to Leed's Crossing and find out where his son was. When he first fell ill, he sent his son to fetch the priest who lives there. After a day went by, he sent someone to Bit for help and also one of the town guards to Leed's Crossing to find his son. Neither of those sent to Leed's Crossing has returned. And, frankly, there's nothing there that's all that interesting that one would stay there so long if they didn't live there.
So the mayor asked if the pair could find out what's happening in Leed's Crossing. They were game and set out the next morning west to Leed's Crossing. About two-thirds of the way there the pair found a crude roadblock. There were seven dead kobolds there, barely a few hours old. Tracks crossed the roadway from south to north, they were human-sized foot prints. Looking west, neither of them could see sign of cook fires coming from Leed's Crossing. At this point, they decided to follow the fresh tracks north.
Hiding from the lizardfolk encampment
The adventurers are huddled down, taking turns observing the prison camp. The first thing they agreed on was that the number of townsfolk held in the stockade was not all of the townfolk potentially captured. Was this all that remained alive? Or were there other stockades elsewhere?
There are about 10-12 Lizardmen/women in the camp, 20 kobolds (half of which are out of camp most of the day, hunting and gathering), and maybe 4 wolves (all of whom are on patrols during the day. There are around 40 prisoners in the stockade.
Around 2 pm, Perin and Surina spot a pair of travelers, a centaur and an older human. The human wears the vestments of a priest and Surina thinks she may have seen him before, perhaps. They are walking along the trail left by the lizardmen the party were tracking, and probably also following the tracks the party left.
| GM: | Your long rest has finished. Let the new guys post before the old guys react to seeing them approaching. The new pair need to make perception checks (to spot the hidden camp). They can substitute Survival if they prefer it over Perception. Be sure to read the OOC thread before jumping in here.
As a reminder, Zadolix is still with the party. I'll be running him. |
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