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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariakor" data-source="post: 2297128" data-attributes="member: 8473">Jian Guo: Closer inspection reveals that the riders chose to leave the main trail and followed along a much frequented game trail . Due to the recent rains and the animals in the area, it is difficult to see the tracks at first, but  then you see them. You also realize that one rider must have split off from the rest and continued further down the trail.  Under one bush close to where they parted from the road you can see some dark spots in the mud, which seem to be blood. These spots are about as old as the tracks themselves.Lin Xu: [Know religion 15]: you realise that simply scratching it away won't undo the magic at work here, but it sure is a start and could at least slow down the corrupting effects. There are some other protective signs and small rituals you, or anyone with spiritual experience, could conduct to further slow it.The doll seemed to have been the focus for the summoning, as it is caked with the monk's blood and was left in the place where you could usually expect to find the relic holy to the shrine and its ghost.[to answer Arishan's question: there are signs used for defiled places, usually it is a scroll that you put up over the entrance to warn people coming here.</blockquote>