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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 1849290" data-attributes="member: 8243">November 11th and 12th.Chapter OneFrom the city you ride nor-east. You have two days ride ahead of you to the homestead of Beck. There you will replenish you supplies before making your way to the Hui river, the edge of the Kingdom and the start of Shamutanti Hills. You pass through a few villages and steads and it is fairly obvious from the responses of those who you see that there has been more traffic along this road than usual. The travelling that first day is uneventful and you make good time. The next morning you set off early. If your luck holds, you should arrive at the homestead of Beck well before nightfall.After an hour or so the road enters a wood and a short time later, a small stead appears around a bend. The stead is set in the middle of clearing ranging some two hundred to three hundred yards from its center. The numerous ten feet high mounds of earth around the stead indicate that these people make their living by charcoal burning. But what is more interesting is that, as you approach, a small knot of people forms on the road in the center of the stead ahead, growing to a dozen or so  in number by the time you get within about 100 yards. Most of them are armed. Axes mostly, although there are a few spears and short bows as well. The weapons are held awkwardly, diffidently almost. They watch you approach, but they are also rather heatedly (but in hushed voices) discussing something.</blockquote>

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