nerdytenor's The Missing Warlock

"Yeah," Karis grunts. "Say, did any of you magic-user types want to have a closer look at this ring?" she continues, fishing out the life ring of the supposedly dead warlock. "Is it any use to us, or should I just hock it at the next tinker's cart I run across?"
 

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I agree friend Karis, but with speed, one feels that this is hardly a welcoming place to remain once dusk has set.

Whilst the magic users looked at the ring, Rellek kept an ever watchful eye and ear on the groups surroundings.
 

"Certainly. Pass it over here and I will examine it whilst we travel."

Joshua holds the ring near his eye and begine a cursory examination - cursory, because he does not want to break a leg on all the protruding roots and branches which make the ground such difficult going.
 


The party heads out

Continuing on the path the party was on before the Kruthik attack, the gloom begins to lift a little, promising that the edge of the forest is near. But something is not quite right. While the dead branches and trees of the center of the forest have slowly given way to living grass and bushes, there is something afflicting them.

Clearly, this is the blight that Dardus told you of. It seems to affect all forms of plant life in the forest to varying degrees. It appears as small, black blotches; it's as if someone had dotted the landscape with ink. The blotches vary in size from tiny dots to circles the size of gold pieces.
 

No that Rellek could see the blight for himself he cast about in his mind for anything that might give them a clue to this blight. Had he known or heard of such a thing elsewhere?

ooc Can I make a skill check nature and history for me please?

Nature is trained and is +8 history isn't and is +4 ( in case you wondering +2 is because of race, the others are level and attribute ;)
 

The party clears the forest

After an hour of trekking, you reach the forest's edge. The forest continues along to the east, and about a mile away you can see what must be the road back to Greensfen curving to the southeast. To the north, you see a black-spackled wasteland, fenced off in three large plots, each to the north of the last. The forest forms the westernmost border of the plots.

Each plot is identical in size and shape, and each has a large building near the side of the road. You realize these are, in fact, farms, although there is nothing growing here that you can see. The blight has covered all - only a few trellises and scarecrows remain to indicate that anything ever grew here.

At the end of the northernmost farm, the forest begins again.
 

Rellek inspects the blight

Rellek stoops down to get a closer look at the blackish muck that is the blight. It resembles no disease he has seen before - it doesn't appear to be growing, exactly. It is more as if the life of the plant had been sucked out, and the blackness is what was left behind.
 

Rellek stands up as they continue through the forest.

It would appear that the blight that is left, is the after effects of something that is draining the life from the green. Might reason, therefore suggest that if life is being draw away, it has to being going somewhere?
 

Karis, strangely moved by the sight of the blighted land, moves to look around the buildings to see if anyone -- or anything -- lives. Or moves despite not living.

ooc: that's, what, active perception? +8 if so
 

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