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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrem Bayle" data-source="post: 1061761" data-attributes="member: 3103"> The interior of the barn was dark and foreboding with slivers of light streaming in-between warped and knotted boards. As Tamari approached, she noticed a large pool of blood just off to the side of the barn. It seemed to be the source of a trail of blood that led into the barn. The smell of blood and death was strong here, and it only grew stronger as she got closer. Still unable to hear any animals, she took a moment to peek around the side of the barn. Then she knew the reason for the silence…Old Man Bailey had raised goats for years. Now, it seemed over half of them where missing. The rest, however, where still here. In fact, they were everywhere…… The animals had been mutilated. Some where missing their heads, or legs, or where simply disemboweled, their entrails spread about the pen. The smell was nearly overwhelming. A raven, picking at one of the goat’s ruined eyes, called in alarm when it saw Tamari and took to the sky.Glancing back within the barn, her eyes adjusted to the darkness. In the densely shadowed areas, she could see the interior. She couldn’t see color, but she could see detail, and she could see the bails of hay shift as something moved behind them. Her mouth went dry and the hair rose on the back of her neck as she heard the wet ripping sound of flesh tearing. The trail of blood led further back into the barn…The others approached the barn from behind Tamari, looking into its dark interior. *BANG* The door cracked against the outside wall and another raven called and flew into the forest, drawing the other’s attention to the mutilated livestock remains. ________________________________________________Elig, having broken away from the rest of the group, was the first among them (not counting Tamari) to notice the pool of blood. As he looked at it, he noticed the ground around the blood was disturbed as if someone, lying on the ground, had been writhing violently. Likely, whoever had been wounded there had been the source of the blood. It was also likely that that amount of blood loss would have been fatal…..The blood trailed off toward the barn. It was smeared, as if whoever it belonged to had crawled away or had been dragged.________________________________________________ Having pulled Tad to the ground, it took all of Ilsha’s strength to pull the spear free of the grisly corpse. It was slick with now cold blood, which made the work all the more difficult. OOC Summery:Ilsha is still back with Tad.Elig is standing off to the side of the barn. (Roughly 20’ away from the others.)The others are standing in the barn’s doorway.The barn is 15’ x 30’ and is only one story. It has a raised platform in the back with a ladder going up to it. The platform is covered in hay. Beneath the platform is very dark and shadowed. The trail of blood leads back to the shadowed area below the platform. The tearing sound comes from the same location. A man sized pile of hay, stacked on the barn’s floor, blocks your view of whatever is making the sound. Let me know if I’m unclear on your intentions or if you need further clarification.</blockquote>

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