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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 296035" data-attributes="member: 114">Trajan is faring a little better - his great strength and his bastard scimitar are occasionally getting past the damage resistance. Then while Anne-Marie flings away the grappled creature (which bounces to its feet and runs right back in towards her), Trajan decides to “Smite Evil” and lands a might critical blow, felling one of the creatures. The remaining Hobyahs don’t like playing a game where they could get killed, and they quickly leap off into the undergrowth, chanting “Run, run, run” to each other. Battered and bloody, Anne-Marie is affected by the poisonous bites of the creature and some of her personality and will continue to drain away. Trajan is, by the grace of Asura, unaffected by the many bites he took.They don’t get much sleep that night, as they warily watch the shrubbery for the hideous squirrel creatures, but they don’t reappear. In the morning Trajan makes a point of skinning the creature which he killed, and taking the pelt with them, back to the village.Meeting up with their friends once more, they are surprised when Arilyn and Dala recognise the demon squirrel skin - apparently an elderly priestess by the old graveyard had one perched on her shoulder the other morning… Trajan and Anne Marie are joined by K’tan and they travel back up the road to the graveyard.It takes them less than an hour, and they can see a low wall surrounding gravestones overgrown with long grass. In the centre of the graveyard is a mausoleum with the sound of low chanting coming from within.Cautiously stepping over the wall, they approach the entrance to the structure, and inside in the dim light they can see an elderly woman dressed in rags who is apparently praying at various symbols around the walls. In one hand she clutches a staff of black wood. Trajans neck-hairs rise with the sense of supernatural evil in this place, but he can’t pin it down.They attempt to talk with the old woman, but she seems clearly unhinged, moaning about appeasing the spirits and some such nonsense. Clearly she is no follower of Asura and thus a pagan, with no real god to worship. As they leave, a movement catches Anne-Maries eye - up in the rafters she is sure she saw a movement and glint of green eyes, probably the size of a large cat… or squirrel creature. They decide to do nothing further for the moment and head back to the villageAt least, that is the plan… but the road back to the village seems to have disappeared! Rather, it ends abruptly, and several huge trees are now growing up right in the middle of the path, as if they have always been there! Hunkering down and watching out for elven archers they creep up to the huge trees and decide to gingerly squeeze past them - all the while calling out into the forest in general that they “mean no harm”. If only it was clear that the forest and its denizens felt the same about them...</blockquote>

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