Thaumont 8th, Misha’s Ferry, The Dymrak Forest
The party was awoken by the sound of a slightly mechanical cockerel by Glimmer’s bedroll. It turned out Namfoodle had made her a surprise clockwork alarm clock as a gift.
After a quick breakfast, Rurik changed into wolf form to see if he could track down the scent of Misha, who had still not appeared. Unfortunately, his nose could mainly smell bear. It turned out that they used clearings as well as woods. He did get the scent of people but could not distinguish any in particular.
The party headed to Sukiskyn - they were expecting to reach it that day but dusk fell before they reached it. They were looking for a suitable place to camp when they heard shouting from up ahead and smelt smoke. The homestead came into view across a small river and parts were on fire. There was shouting and the sounds of frightened horses.
As the group approached the edge of the forest , they were surprised by a volley of spears as a group of goblins in wolf skins jumped out of the undergrowth. The party fought them off but the danger was not over as a large group of goblins on wargs were rapidly approaching from the rear.
The party ran to the homestead’s gatehouse where they were let in by a young man and woman. However, more goblins (dressed in red) were in the courtyard.
The party killed some of the goblins as they moved towards the house and the rest were finished off by arrows and sling-stones from defenders in the house. However, Snake had continued ignoring the threat and instead put out the fires using a couple of castings of Create Water. This saved the gatehouse but a large barn and some of the palisade were badly damaged.
Safely (for now) in the house, Pyotr welcomed the party and introduced his fellow clan members, mainly from two families. Unfortunately, the smith and his (adult) son had been killed by goblins leaving just the son’s wife Masha and her baby as survivors of the family. The rest of the clan was unharmed. Darya, Pyotr’s wife, made sure that the party fed and could take a breather whilst other clan members kept watch.
Pytor gave them the other bad news that the white horses had been stolen by another group of goblins (the viper tribe) who had run off with them. However, there were two tribes left besieging the farm.
The goblins appeared to have surrounded the homestead, lighting fires, and drumming and chanting. Snake and Rurik ran to retrieve the two dead bodies and the party took up positions around the main building to keep watch.
The were soon slightly perturbed when the chanting stopped but use of a fire arrow did not reveal any goblins moving towards the house and the chanting soon restarted.
Then Aiameir who was alone atop the tower attached to the house was struck by a slingstone from the north
To be continued…
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