The Trefaldwyn Chronicle - Dark Ages Pathfinder

[Shayuri]

Myfanwy nodded, and added her own piece to the puzzle.

"What's happening here is not natural, at least not entirely," she said. "I have felt...disturbances in the town. An invisible presence. What exactly it is, and what it's doing...I can't say yet. It's almost certainly the source of the strange dreams some folk have been having, and is most likely related to why so many are taking so ill, even if the diseases themselves seem rather minor."

She nods at Gwyn.

"That whatever this is focused on the women's circle so quickly and forcefully suggests to me that it saw them as a threat. Finding out what she knows, and why she was excluded, may be the key to understanding what's happening here...and therefore stopping it."

 

[ghostcat]

"So Mad Megan's first, then the ruined cottage?" Quint suggests.

 

[Dr Simon]

From the directions given to both groups, Mad Megan's cottage is slightly closer than the ruins, but both are roughly in the same direction, under the eaves of the forest that overlooks the Dinas.

It is small, wattle and daub with a thatched roof that hangs in low eaves almost down to the ground. Straggly winter skeletons of herbs poke through the snow on either side of the door. A thin trickle of smoke rises from inside, but the door is closed.

 

[Kaodi]

Gwyneira casually examines the contents of the garden that are showing, curious at what Mad Megan might be cultivating here.

OOC: Profession (Herbalist): 1d20+5=10

 

[ghostcat]

Hanging back to let the ladies deal with Megan, Quint wonders round the perimeter of the garden seeing what he can find in the way of tracks or spores.

OOC: Take 20 (=26) on Identify Tracks

 

[Walking Dad]

Daunton Du Duchnain

While the others examine the garden with more mundane senses, Daunton quickly weaves a spell to scan the place for any magical workings.

 

[Dr Simon]

The herbs are pretty standard culinary and medicinal plants, but Gwyneira notices hanging above the lintel of the door is a bunch of dried herbs, all of which have reputed protective properties against evil spirits and the like.

Quint finds that the only tracks not made by small birds and animals are those leading to and from the cottage door - not many, at least accounting for all of yours. It looks like somebody visits from time to time but doesn't go in, as the snow directly in front of the door is undisturbed.

Daunton detects no trace of magic in the area, at least the doesn't come from his companions.

 

[Kaodi]

Taking note of the herbs Gwyneira glances to Myfanwy and says, "Perhaps you should knock. Your appearance may be the least disconcerting for this 'Mad' Megan..."

 

[Shayuri]

Myf gives her a wry smile.

"Do I look so mad?" she asks rhetorically, but with humor.

She goes to the door and knocks firmly on the weathered planks,

"Megan?" she calls. "My name's Myfanwy. You don't know me; I'm not from around here, but I need to talk to you about the presence I've sensed in town. Will you open the door for me?"

 

[Dr Simon]

There are shuffling noises from inside the cottage.

"Go away," says an old woman's voice, tremulous with fear. "There's nothing for you here. I don't know anything."

OOC: Sorry about the delay for such a brief reply!