Mists over the Musarde, Chapter Five

[Le Noir Faineant]

Cirdan staggers towards the scene, stiff and tired from the night in the armor, the vizor still closed...

As he first perceives what has happened, his breath under the grotesque helmet seems to change into a loud growling...

[JMaytr]

"I say we should leave this place. Obviously these villains are after us. Lets leave so that these innocent should not suffer."

[Brock Marsh Runoff]

"I am understanding your view, Jon. But I am thinking they are not following us. These men, they have been part of this cult for some time. And if the cult's origins lie here, it is possible that they have had designs on this land all along. And now that Wolutha sleeps at last, perhaps they are thinking they can now dominate these folk. I would be lying, Jon, if I said part of me did not want to take my chances with the mists. But I am thinking we would be leaving these people no better than we found them.

"Besides, we had left the body of the doctor behind, no? If so, perhaps he has found a way to travel between worlds once again. I am thinking if we find him, we are finding our way home."

With that, Dorgio assists Benn with the examination of the body.

[ewancummins]

As the party examines the dead man's body and the area surrounding it, a crowd of local men gathers at the scene. The natives begin to shout with angry voices. It is difficult to understand them because of their dialect and the confused babble of voices.

Wat says-

''They want revenge for Lothar's murder. They wish to capture the killer so that they may burn him.''

[Lord Skybolt]

"I say we find the killer then and find our way home at the same time then !! "
Alain exclaims to the rest of the party

[Le Noir Faineant]

"I say we should leave this place. Obviously these villains are after us. Lets leave so that these innocent should not suffer."

Cirdan seems to fix Jon as the youngster speaks up, but then is somehow distracted.

For a moment, you might have thought that the half-elf would have considered to attack the boy...

[ewancummins]

Some of the local men begin to jabber at Cirdan. Even he has trouble understanding their weird bastard-Darkonese.

They are saying something like:

''Tracks....trees...look...kill, kill!'

[Le Noir Faineant]

Some of the local men begin to jabber at Cirdan. Even he has trouble understanding their weird bastard-Darkonese.

They are saying something like:

''Tracks....trees...look...kill, kill!'

[Batman voice:] "What?!"

[ewancummins]

Some of the local men begin to jabber at Cirdan. Even he has trouble understanding their weird bastard-Darkonese.

They are saying something like:

''Tracks....trees...look...kill, kill!'

[Batman voice:] "What?!"

The men stop talking at once and back away...

[Lord Skybolt]

"Hey stop scaring the villagers Cirdan . They want us to track down the killer by their tracks so they can punish who ever it is by their customs . " Alain on hearing Cirdan speaking in such a way .

[JMaytr]

Jonathan looks equally frightened by the Dark Knights actions and moves closer to Norzak.

"I was just saying I want to go home."

[Lord Skybolt]

"And I agree completely with Jon on that . " Alain adding his thoughts to discussion .

[steveflam]

"I wanna go home too, an I think everyone else does too fer that matter. But I don't think it's look good if us would just leave here now. They seen some prints, let's follow em. Lad, stick with me, awright?"

[ewancummins]

The local men have indeed found some prints, but the tracks are not human. From the look of the prints, it would appear to be some sort of wild animal- a feral dog or a wolf, perhaps. The trail begins near Lothar's corpse and leads deeper into the woods, away from the Moot.

[Adam]

With a grimace, Bennedict shoulders his crossbow.

"It cannot hurt to look," he says, wishing that were true. He gestures towards the tracks and the villagers. "Lead on," he says, in the local dialect.