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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 2188490" data-attributes="member: 7006">Kolarred kneels down amongst the bodies and begins the rituals that he knows will send the souls of the departed to Dolurrh.  Although he has no love lost with kobolds in general... no manner of creature should lose their life to a being of unlife like the dwarf and human were.  As he sits amongst the dead, he notices something very odd... something he did not expect to find here...Kolarred:[spoiler]Two of the six kobolds wear the symbol for Boldrei, the goddess of the hearth, around their necks.[/spoiler] Luthal heads further up the trail to look at the tracks, and he finds some things of interest.  First off... the number of tracks obviously has dropped, what with the two zombies having been destroyed.  He counts and estimates the group as now numbering at about seven, plus a mule.  That would be the Valenar monk Zola Ko, the half-orc Vol priest Horik Laan, the wizard Kendra Paxus, the rogue Steevin Streets, and three(?) additional guardsmen.  He also notices the following...Luthal:[spoiler]There are two small trails of blood following the tracks up the trail, so your guess is that the Claws were all in the area when the fight with the kobolds occured and some left the battle a bit injured.  Also, there are no longer any shuffling trails, so you don't believe the half-orc had time to raise any more undead from this battle.[/spoiler]Zook fans out and moves through the trees, looking for anything of note.  He sees that the signs of battle also occured further in off the trail, based on the broken branches, crushed bushes and weeds, and the like.  There are a number of arrows all around the area as well - stuck in trees, sticking out of the ground.  He also notices...Zook:[spoiler]All the arrows seem to have been shot from the same direction, all coming from further up the mountain... down into the melee on the trail.  As you advance further up about sixty or seventy feet, you can see obvious tracks in the leaves behind a number of the trees and bushes.  You would guess that while a bunch of the kobolds were engaged in melee with the Claws, there were a handful up here hiding behind the trees acting as snipers.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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