Mists over the Musarde, Chapter Four

JMaytr · Post by **JMaytr** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:55 pm

"Yes, I agree with Benn, Buckman died because we don't have all the answers we need." Jonathan never takes his eyes away from Norzak as he speaks. "But perhaps we could lure Van Dieks to a meeting place of our advantage?"

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Wed May 27, 2009 4:22 pm

Norzak looks straight into Jon's eyes. "Yeah, mebbe we can work out somethin to that effect."

Lord Skybolt · Post by **Lord Skybolt** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:40 am

"I think the main thing we need to do at this time is to find out a way to permanently kill or disrupt her "corporeal" form . As she has be tied to the keep from what I herd from the old man at moot or something close by or in it . " After speaking his thoughts out loud he waits on what other party members think .

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Thu May 28, 2009 4:49 pm

While your party holds conference, the natives fan out over the area, searching from some sign of Wat and the 'devil' that took him.

Brock Marsh Runoff · Post by **Brock Marsh Runoff** » Fri May 29, 2009 7:47 am

"We should be telling them," Dorgio says, gesturing at the other searchers and looking towards Benn and Norzak, the only two who seem to be able to communicate with the inhabitants. "They have a right to know what happened to their friend, and besides, they may know something of the keep and the witch."

JMaytr · Post by **JMaytr** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:18 pm

Jonathan calls out to the searchers in Darkonese,

"Hey! We found this note! Have you found anything?"

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:38 pm

Answering Jon in the old-fashioned dialect of this country, one of the searchers says-

''Two things have we found- the mark of the devil and his prints in the earth.''

He indicates a scorched line that zig zags across the soil and undergrowth for three feet. In the vicinity of the scorched line are several prints in the soft earth. Some of these prints are evidently not human.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:11 pm

Brock Marsh Runoff wrote:"We should be telling them," Dorgio says, gesturing at the other searchers and looking towards Benn and Norzak, the only two who seem to be able to communicate with the inhabitants. "They have a right to know what happened to their friend, and besides, they may know something of the keep and the witch."

Question for Ewan:

Does Cirdan recognize the area we are in as distinctly Darkonese?
- Because if that's the case, yours truly might want to give the usual "don't be afraid, peasants, the god king protects you" speech.

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:13 pm

The brace of hounds which have been brought by the native men now strain on their leashes, pointing eastwards into the woods. The local hunters notice, of course, and a whispered conversation asrises among their number.

After a moment, the man who'd just spoke to Jon says [in the local dialect]-

''Our hounds ha' the devil's trail! He is not long away- it may be that we can follow him. ''

Brock Marsh Runoff · Post by **Brock Marsh Runoff** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:05 pm

Dorgio grins when he sees the dogs have picked up the scent. "Yes! Maybe we can be tracking him...but what is it we are tracking?" He stoops to examine the tracks, thinking back to his studies, trying to remember any instance of a creature bursting into flames of its own free will. He also examines the tracks, looking to see if the ones that look unhuman resemble those of a weasel or a rat.

Lord Skybolt · Post by **Lord Skybolt** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:47 am

Alain waits on the hunters with the dogs to follow the trail of their enemy . As soon as they start following the trail he will be right with them .

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:57 pm

Bending over the ground where the scorch mark lies and where the tracks are pressed into the earth, Dorgio is able to more closely examine the clues...

The black scorch mark is a crooked line in the dirt and brush, and it stinks like a discharged pistol or musket. The tracks near it could indeed have been left by some sort of weasel- but it would have had to have been something like a man-sized beast to leave such big prints!

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:17 pm

"Oi, I thinks mebbe it's Van Dieks tracks, boys. We be in the right direction. Dun fergit, tha tinkers want 'im alive."

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:37 pm

The huntsmen set off into the woods to the East with the two hounds in the lead. Alain follows- but do his comrades come with him?

Brock Marsh Runoff · Post by **Brock Marsh Runoff** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:07 pm

With some hesitation, Dorgio starts off on the trail with Alain and the huntsmen, still puzzling out what could have caused the fire.

"Alain," he says, matching pace with the outworlder, "You are knowing of firearms, yes?" He points to Alain's brace of pistols. "Did you notice the smell of the tracks? It was smelling like one of those. I am wondering if maybe he was using gunpowder to scare the people?"

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Mists over the Musarde, Chapter Four