[IC] Shamutani Hills - psi/gng

[Scotley]

Bendyn

Bendyn laughs at the little creature and then scans the tree line for possible attackers, still paranoid he considers the posibility that the little animal is a planned distraction.

 

[doghead]

November 14th, encounter with a ferret.

The ferret alternates between hissing and barring its teeth at you, and scampering after the thrown food. Any attempts to touch the animal are greeted with displeasure from the small creature (with very sharp teeth). Eventually, it seems to have had enough and dissappears into the trees.

After about 30 minutes in total, you are mounted again and heading down the other side of the hill. The path continues for several hours this way, twisting and turning its way up and down (although generally up) the hillsides. The air begins to getting noticably chillier as the sun begins its decent to the horizon, and you pull cloaks and coats close around you.

You reach the brow of a hill, and the sight before you stops you in your tracks. The path runs through a small clearing, and dotted around the clearing are several poles firmly planted into the ground. Atop the poles are heads - some recently fixed, some semi decayed. A few of goblin heads, a human head, and one larger one you do not recognise, all with sewn-up eyes and mouths.

ooc: the first pole is about 30 feet from where Bendyn is now, and the clearing is about 100 feet from one side to the other along the axis of the path. Its about 60 feet at its widest point. The poles seemed to be spaced randomly, about 10-15 feet apart. There are no poles obstructing the path.

 

[Hypersmurf]

You reach the brow of a hill, and the sight before you stops you in your tracks. The path runs through a small clearing, and dotted around the clearing are several poles firmly planted into the ground. Atop the poles are heads - some recently fixed, some semi decayed. A few of goblin heads, a human head, and one larger one you do not recognise, all with sewn-up eyes and mouths.

Jack slips off his horse, checking the nock of his arrow.

His eyes are troubled as he scans the surroundings carefully.

"Trouble at the mine, we heard," he says softly. "Perhaps this is a result of it."

 

[Sado]

Casparan

"Is there a way around this, Jack," Casparan asks. "I wouldn't care to meet whoever-or whatever-did this, if we don't have to.

OOC-Does it look like we can go around the clearing

"If not, I would suggest we make haste through these parts."

 

[doghead]

ooc: The hillside is forested, but you could probably go around the clearing if you dismounted, or went very slowly. There is room enough between the trees, but a fair bit of undergrowth and low branches.

Jack: [sblock]From what Jack can recall, the scene in front of him fits the general tenor of the stories he heard. Although he never heard anything about heads on stakes, and the way the eyes and mouths are stiched up, that sort of detail sticks in the mind.[/sblock]

 

[Scotley]

Bendyn

Bendyn keeps a sharp eye out and his borrowed crossbow ready. "So how do we interpret that scene. What are they trying to tell us? See nothing? Hear nothing? Or just a general 'Keep Out'? Either way I have to agree with Casparan. It doesn't seem like a good idea to venture into that area."

 

[Hypersmurf]

Bendyn keeps a sharp eye out and his borrowed crossbow ready. "So how do we interpret that scene. What are they trying to tell us? See nothing? Hear nothing? Or just a general 'Keep Out'? Either way I have to agree with Casparan. It doesn't seem like a good idea to venture into that area."

"Perhaps a warning against treachery," Jack offers. "'They saw what they should not, and spoke when they should not'. Though treachery against who, I've no idea... we hadn't heard enough details about the troubles to include this."

"You can travel through the forest itself, hereabouts, if you're in no great hurry," he adds to Casparan.

 

[Sado]

Casparan

Casparan shakes his head.

"Looking at the terrain, I think it best if we stay on the trail," he says. "And be ready to move swiftly if the need arises."

 

[Scotley]

Bendyn

"Yes, our mounts are realatively fresh and I think we'd be better off trying to flee if trouble arrises. Let us leave this place quickly."

 

[Sado]

(ooc: out of town for the next week, posting may be sporadic)