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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5557177" data-attributes="member: 2710">As Quioan and Daylily scout the area, a distraught Ryall shakes himself back to the present to answer Relic."He said, 'I bought this house fair and square, you loon!" Ryall says. "And then I gotta say I started shouting so's I didn't hear much else he said. The folks in the caravan I'd hired on ta carry cargo held us back, though sure'n I couldn't hurt him but lucky they were there to keep him off me. Weren't no one else around that I remember, though I think he had a horse."[gm]I'll put information roll results in sblocks for the party making them. If anyone wants to just say they're sharing all their info by default, I'll leave his info unblocked, and of course if someone says go ahead and look, you're free to look at his sblock. Otherwise, I'll trust folks not to peek, or to keep what they might learn from peeking out of their in-characters actions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> [/gm][sblock=Quioan]The vegetable garden seems generally unremarkable. Though you'd have to take a close look at the sprouts (Know check) to identify them all, they seem common enough.The clearing seems to have been well-kept; the grass isn't naturally so even, so between the garden and this, it's clear the grounds are being maintained even if the caretaker doesn't appear to be currently present. Quioan's certain the bare spot isn't natural. It's clearly been leveled artificially, probably to serve as a foundation for a small structure, though he'd have a hard time telling how or how long ago (relevant Know check). He catches sight of various footprints near the foundation, but hasn't the skill to tell where they might go.It's when Quioan invokes his arcane sight that things get interesting. There's a dim, lingering aura of transmutation magics that does, in fact, seem to be about the size and shape of a house. Whatever spell it was is no longer active, but it was clearly strong enough to have left residue behind. As it doesn't immediately fade, Quioan knows it was originally at least of moderate strength.[/sblock][sblock=Daylily]A loop of the clearing doesn't present any obvious dangers. There's a whole forest out there, of course, and Daylily knows the wild isn't always content to stop at the edge of the trees, but there doesn't appear to be anyone or anything stalking around at the moment.With the exception of the soft-tilled earth of the garden, the ground in the clearing doesn't seem to have held any footprints that Daylily can follow.[/sblock][sblock=Relic]After nearly tripping on a root the size of a small child that he managed not to notice, Relic decides he's better off asking questions than searching about. Like Quioan before him, can't help but think he's never met a man as sincere as wiry Ryall. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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