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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Branding Opportunity" data-source="post: 4236869" data-attributes="member: 31812">For a bit over an hour you follow the creek, still swollen from snow melts, over boulders, fallen logs and many turns as it cuts its way through the hilly, wooded landscape.  It's still early spring, and the leaves are a light, yet intense green.  The last frost was less than two weeks ago, and back in the valley the farmers have begun turning over their fields to prepare for the spring planting.Among the many mixed hardwoods and evergreens you begin to see the slender trunks of fruit trees, mostly apple and pear, just beginning to show their white blossoms.  A few minutes later you notice a distinct trail on the left bank of the creek which begins to wind its way into a shadowy canyon among the high bluffs around you.  Following it you begin to see more and more fruit trees, until the darkening forest opens up into a large clearing.  In the center of this clearing, hard against the mossy canyon walls, stand a largely ruined keep.The walls of Castle Mistamere are jagged and full of small holes where stone blocks have tumbled to the earth, now scattered around the ruins.  A gateway in the center of the front wall stands empty, and the massive outer doors lie rotting nearby on the ground, although an inner gateway still stands, slightly ajar.  This gateway seems to be the easiest entrance through the wall, although a gaping hole off to the left of the gate could provide another.  Peeking over the outer wall in places are the ruins of the castle itself, backed against the sheer cliff of the canyon behind it.You now stand at the edge of the clearing, nearly a hundred feet from the castle walls.  Other than the normal sounds of a wood in springtime, and the soft whistle of the wind as it passes through the perforated walls, you hear nothing out of the ordinary.  The area seems utterly abandoned.[sblock=OOC]I have made Perception checks for everyone.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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