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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 449913" data-attributes="member: 114">As they finish the meal, they become aware of Emilie hurrying around, with a concerned look on her face, calling for Jard, the stableboy. Shortly she comes over to their table.“I’m sorry to bother you, gentlesirs, but our stableboy has gone missing… Mr Longbottle says that if you could get him back the meal will be free. He left a couple of hours ago, shortly after you arrived, to fetch fresh chickens from the farmer down the back trail in the woods. It’s no more than a twenty minute jog, and he should have been back long ago. He’s probably napping or something, so you could just give him a swat and send him on his way……only we’re a bit worried, ‘cos one of the travellers thought he saw something odd in the trees yesterday - we’d feel better if you’d check.Trajan leads them in agreement, and they pick up some of their gear and set off down the dirt trail behind the inn, running perpendicular to the road. Strangely, occasional cobwebs over the path catch on Anne-Maries face as she leads the way. Its almost as if nobody has been down the path in days!The trail ends and opens into a field. Across the meadow in the fading light they can see the farmhouse and a strange structure next to it. As they get closer it looks as if an entire barn has been wrapped in scrub and tree limbs, bound together with a silky web-like substance. They decide to investigate the farm first.The farmhouse door swings ajar, half torn from its hinges. Preparing their weapons, Trajan leads the way into the building. The air is foul, and there is dried slime on the floor and on the walls - as if something very bulky has dragged its way through the hall. The rooms have been trashed, food has been thrown around in the kitchen and all of the kitchen knives have been thrust through a wooden cabinet with incredible strength.On the floor of the kitchen is a trapdoor to the cellar, webbed shut. After some judicious cutting they get the edges free and Trajan heaves the door open. Arilyn magically causes a small stone to glow and tosses it down the bottom of the slime-coated ladder.Leaning down through the trapdoor, Trajan can see dried slime, shards of glass, chunks of smoked meat - and across more than half of the cellar a huge, web-wrapped mound of eggs, glistening in the light, and with small dark shapes moving fitfully inside them…to be continued.</blockquote>

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