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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 3648726" data-attributes="member: 49514">On the Road...As the group breaks camp that morning, they note that the owner of the nearby manor, his family and servants are out and about tending to chores.  Of particular note is the manor's dog, the same one that barked at them yesterday, watching them from behind the wooden fence.  It starts barking again as they start down the road, seemingly at Corath in particular.More farms and homesteads, none as elaborate as that first one, dot the road as the group travels on toward Vedlund.  Most of the farms are grazing lands for cattle and sheep.  There are also several orchards, all of which appear to be regrown over the past few years.  Alaric recalls that this entire area was trampled underfoot and razed by the orcish army as they advanced on the capital during the Shadow War.A week's travel finds the group passing out of the farmlands and into Vedlund's stone quarries dominating either side of the road.  Workers are busy hauling stone out on large pulley systems, loading two or three blocks on sturdy wagons pulled by immense (Clydesdale) draft horses.  A dozen or so of these wagons are lined up, apparently waiting until a full shipment is ready before setting out for the capital.As the group is passing by one of the pulleys, one of the draft horses starts and rears, as if reacting to something unnatural.  The wagon it is attached to backs into the pulley system and the stone block dangling precariously in the ropes starts to sway.  The wagon driver appears unable to control the horse and is on the verge of panic himself as the ton of stone sways over his head.</blockquote>

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