Immersive Ink

waysoftheearth wrote:
The abbey wall looks as sound from south-east as it did from the west (where the remainder of the company are encamped). It appears to be an irregular shaped, five-walled structure. The shortest wall is roughly 60ft long, and the longest is perhaps twice that. The entire wall is about 10ft tall, and comprises great whitewashed stone pillars at each corner, with a stout timber stockade wall in between. The whole is set on an earthwork of stone rubble and earth so that it stands upon flat ground despite the slope of the hillside.

Within the wall is a small cluster of shingled rooftops, and a chimney from which the smoke arises.

There is a thatch of stunted trees surrounding the far side of the structure, with some of them almost overhanging the wall.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen would eye the walls. How many ways in do we see? How far away are the buildings from the stunted trees?

Wen would whisper to Guntram "I'm no expert on such things but those trees look like a good stealthy entry."

waysoftheearth wrote:

mgtremaine wrote:Wen would eye the walls. How many ways in do we see? How far away are the buildings from the stunted trees?

There is only one obvious entrace; a very stout looking over-sized timber door which stands between two whitewashed columns. This is presumably the "front gate".

There are trees growing right up along side the wall.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen is satisfied and would look to the others if they wish to return to camp with the news.

mushgnome wrote:
"Guntrum, take this news back to camp." Highbough whispers. "Wen let us enjoy the night air until our watch is over." He continues, "I am cheered by that plume of smoke, for it means the abbey is not completely overrun by undead as I feared, for night walkers have no need of cook-fires."

He lapses into silence and spends the rest of his watch shift lurking around, a ways apart from the PC's camp, with his ears trained for any voices, animal noises, the clang of metal, or other sounds from the abbey. Wen is welcome to join him, but nobody who moves louder than an Elf or Hobbit.

rleduc wrote:
Guntrum returns to camp, with Wen if he's coming.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen would nod to Guntrum and quietly wander off with Highbough, it is after all his favorite time of day.

waysoftheearth wrote:
Guntrum, back to thread 45 please.

waysoftheearth wrote:
Wen and Highbough watch Guntrum head back to camp, but decide to linger in the night a while longer... it is a beautifully moonlit night, after all.

When the human has passed from hearing, they converse quietly in Elvish, keeping a sharp watch over the silver-blue hills from a comfortable vantage atop a lazy boulder...

(1d6=4)

Sometime after Guntrum has gone, the pair spot a shadow that moves. It is hardly larger than a Man, but quiet as a mouse. It has all the cunning of a hunter, and it appears to follow in Gumtrum's tracks... but then is gone from sight utterly, and does not return.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen would whisper to Highbough in elven when it was passed. "Not one of ours, do you think, to quiet."