The Southern Wilds
Bale, worried about anyone else travelling, puts a sign on one of the farmhouses near the road.
As we travel closer to the city we see more farms and buildings, all have been barricaded, but the barricades were broken through. Partially eaten bodies are in every holdout.
We finally see the golden spire of Everlife in the distance, meaning we will arrive tomorrow. But as the night begins to fall we barricade ourselves in a farmhouse outbuilding made of stone. We light big bonfires to burn the dead we’ve found at this farmhouse, and to provide light.
During the night, an animated Scarecrow menaces us. It isn’t undead, isn’t an aberration, it was built and given horrifying, sadistic life. It attacks us and paralyzes us with a crippling fear. After a terrifying battle we defeat it, and it flops to the floor, looking again like a scarecrow. We throw it on the bonfire.
We don’t sleep much after that.