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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Funeris" data-source="post: 2050772" data-attributes="member: 22792">Chapter 9: Death in the Family ContinuedOk, its short.  Hopefully its the first of several posts.  That is if the Yeti keeps bugging me tonight <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Heroes plopped down one by one by two around their table at the Weeping Willow Bar and Inn.  The ale had been flowing nearly freely for an hour before Motega stalked in to take his own chair.The Rorn was laden with dirt, strands of mud interwoven with his thick black hair.  A content smile was on his face as he dove into the ale.  Already he reeked of alcohol and not the watered-down ale kind.“The amulet has been taken care of?” Tobias questioned.“Done and done.”  Magnus grinned.  Tobias’ eyebrow began to arch.“It’s been placed into appropriate hands to be rid of,” Fitz affirmed.  “Good.”“And,” Fitz added, “I’ve had a suit of armor commissioned.  And the mage and I have purchased some useful supplies.  Besides, what did you do today?”“Nothing of any import to you.  Just explored the city.”“I’ve gathered some information.”  Motega paused to capture everyone’s attention as he grabbed his fourth goblet of mead.  “Seems the Earl here has been recruiting the trappers and hunters in this area to track the dwem.  The trappers and hunters have been smuggling information between towns and cities.“The dwem hit Dun Beric hard that first night then practically disappeared.  But there have been even more troubles farther north, near Victorsburg and Rhelm.  The forces in the north, if they are separate forces, seem to be larger than the group of one hundred sighted here. “But the information is sketchy at best.  Several trappers have gone missing.  And so the Earl has forbidden the trappers to leave the lands surrounding Dun Moor.  The hunter I spoke to says a force was sighted just to the west of here not long ago.  But further attempts to find the dwem were unsuccessful.  “Also, my friend claimed there are a set of caves just to the north of town maybe ten miles north of here, maybe twenty.  The caves used to be frequented by bandits but they’ve been abandoned recently.  A strange scent akin to rot has repelled the beasts naturally found in the area.“Algoch says the caves run generally south-southeast.  If that is their course, then they should probably intersect with the tunnels under Llyndofare.  Probably right where the nests of those carrion crawlers were.  I think we need to investigate those caves.  I’d bet a good barrel of mead the dwem are held up there.”  Motega grabbed another tankard and looked up at the party.Everyone else’s tankards had stopped halfway to their mouths that hung wide open in confusion. Magnus looked most astounded.“What!?” Motega roared.“You…,” the mage stammered, “you spoke.  In…in complete sentences…paragraphs even!”Motega grunted as he finished his tankard.</blockquote>

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