Everyone finishes their meals and rounds up their gear for their trek. Before they leave, Harris, the young man who had been taking notes at the mayor's last night, runs up with a scrollcase.
"
Sirs and Sir, these are the things you wanted last night," he says, opening up the case and drawing out two papers. One is a fairly new roll of paper, the lines crisp and dark. "
This is all what's been taken from people who've been raided. Widow Bray didn't know, not having gone back to her home, but there's been enough folks who've seen their house to probably tell what's hers, if you find anything. There's been a fair bit of food taken, but that's not likely to return."
The List of Stolen Things:
Thorins
Wife's wedding dress (pearl buttons, white linen)
Festival drums (carved with dancing bears)
Six red glass goblets
Five kitchen knives with orange-dyed bone handles
Westfairs
Jewel coffer (carved bluewood) with dowry savings (five hundred in silver, three silver necklaces, silver cutlery for four)
Two mirrors, hand-sized, silver frames
Pewter platter with horn of plenty etched on it
Lowerys
Grandfather's sword and dagger (purple pommel stones)
Carved wolf, hand-sized, out of sea-ivory
Four lady's hats (red, brown, black, green)
Stack of wolf pelts (dozen)
Aurmvorax pelt (gold, heavy)
Almsman
Hundred steel arrowheads
Two starwood bows
Greenfire stone (glows a bit, size of walnut)
Steel buckler with red hawk painted on it
Landshark-hide boots
Hawthorns
Large darkwood shield
Father's chainmail (worked with Baron Dulath's grape-and-puma on the breast)
The second one is a older piece of parchment, which Harris smooths out for you. "
This is the map of the ruins, done by one of our scholarly types a while back. There's the temple-structure in the middle, and the roads. The V-shapes are the crumbling walls, and the long single lines are the fallen pillars. The double lines are the paths."
OOC: Please check the map for Group 0 to see this map.
"
Good luck," he says, handing them to you with a brief bow.
Varick Forrester shoulders his bow and arrows after glancing at the map, waiting until Sir Aberlayne and Dellas saddle up their mounts, and then leads the whole group into the wild. The group is wary, eyes casting about, ears perked for danger. Haazheel sends Mystique ahead to take as close a look as he can at the goblins, and before the group is halfway there, the owl has returned, hooting softly. Dancing on Haazheel's shoulder, he understands that Mystique has more to show them.
Pausing, Mystique flies to the ground and begins to awkwardly scratch a map into the path with his talons. Owls are not exactly suited for fine detailed drawings in that way, and his bond with his master is not enough to speak clear words, but after a minute it becomes clear Mystique is drawing the map of the goblins' encampment - it matches the map they've been given in the gross details.
Mystique also adds a few new features. One is a small square near the temple. Mystique goes into a pantomime of cheeping like a chick, then pointing to the square. With Varick nodding in understanding, you realize this is the hutch where the goblins keep their young. In a few places, Mystique has also drawn circles. To explain them, he points to Dellas' burned fingers.
These, you gather, are fireplaces.
Finally, he pointes at a jagged line to the west of the temple, and clacks his beak together in a predatory manner.
This must be where the wolves are.
When asked about the goblins, Mystique hesitates, and taps the map in a few places, mostly near the fires, and sits up straight emphasizing there are awake goblins there. But then he spreads his wings in wide swaths over the rest of the map and makes a distinct sound like a snore.
It seems most of them are asleep, though not all.
OOC: See the map for Group 1 to see Mystique's map.
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