Loose threads: Origin of Desconhecido? Discovered during The Dead Know no Rest and Down, Down Into the Deep, Who Knows What We'll Find Beneath
Participants: Bruzmal, Russ'Ruk, Aoife Soo, Shirkad and brother Paul Darthe
Location(s): Greenside Farmstead, Millennium Forest
The Explorer's Guild is seeking inexperienced adventurers and recovering alcoholics to investigate repeated incidents of missing livestock. Local predatory wildlife or Fey from the nearby Millennium Woods to be the likely culprits, but attempts to identify them or discourage further theft have been unsuccessful.
Please file a quest completion report once you have put a stop to further incidents of livestock theft.
In an early morning, a group of five gathered: Bruzmal, Russ'Ruk, Aoife Soo, Shirkad and Brother Paul Darthe. Without delay they set off towards Greenside, where farmers reported missing stock that the group was tasked with investigating. On the way there, Paul was overcome with a grim feeling, and decided to scout ahead. The party, however, reached Greenside without any encounters other than a hare that Shirkad failed to catch.
Towards evening, the party reached the settlement, where they were pointed towards a house belonging to Desconhecido Claude Burdone. There they learned that a few of the bison went missing over the last couple of weeks, and they were shown a place where the fence that circled the pasture was recently broken and repaired.
Despite hesitation, they decided to follow the tracks Aoife and Russ found towards the woods. By the time they reached the treeline it had gotten dark, but magical lights summoned by Shirkad helped those who could not see in the dark press forward.
Moving deeper into the woods, Paul stumbled upon a corpse that he immediately identified as an Desconhecido, a Ghoul. Not a moment later, Bruzmal found another one and punctured its skull, proving that there are more of them. Having taken a mighty swing worthy of splitting mountains, Russ’Ruk dealt with this one in a single blow, leaving only chunky remains.
The rest of the group proceeded to search for more enemies. With the help of Shirkad’s Lights, this had proven to be trivial, and the ghouls were quickly dealt with. After them, however, appeared two of the four missing bison, who had been changed by the Ghouls into frenzied, undead creatures. With a little more trouble, the party dealt with this new threat as well, even decapitating one of the bison who seemed to mostly ignore this injury.
The group took their time to recover from injuries and then returned back towards the farm to rest. The night passed mostly uneventfully, except for some bison who spooked Shirkad during his watch.
In the morning Claude approached them, and was informed of the fate the two bison met, and requested the party search for the other two as well.
The group returned to the battlefield from the previous night, where not that long of a search yielded the result - corpses of the two missing creatures.
Russ’Ruk, with Aoife’s and Shirkad’s help, busied himself with burning the corpses of the Ghouls, to which the non-ghoul bison were added later.