Greyhawk Mark, afternoon and into the night
Geenaa and Defrel bid their farewell... for now. They will make for the Bright Tower to warn then and then head north. If they can they will return in 3-4 weeks and seek you out...
The rest of the party ride out and make for the other homesteads. The first three places that they stop are similar to the first, a few farmers and cattlemen and woman, working their small farms independently... stubborn and untrusting of strangers. They all reports sporadic attacks by Orcs and other raiders over the last few weeks, but nothing they have not been able to repel. Listening to your reports they are nervous and some talk of banding together with other homesteads… just in case.
The last farm that the group comes upon is burnt out and abandoned. Storm clouds roll in quickly as darkness falls and a light rain starts falling as they party arrives at the farm. It looks like it was destroyed maybe a week or so ago. No bodies or farm animals are found, but evidence of some kind of attack is obvious. There are some Orcish graffiti painted on what might have once been a barn, a Red Moon (one of the major war tribes of Orcs from the southern empire).
Setting up watches for the night…
Assuming 1st Verrick, 2nd = Lorien, 3rd = Norbac, and 4th =Philo
…the party beds down in a partial room with a bit of the roof still intact to protect them from the rain. On Norbac's watch he hears something out in the storm… more then just the rain and thunder… drums. Drums in the night!??!
Somewhere out there, the sounds of drums slowly gets louder and then starts to fad…
