[Votin holds the dying torch. Narrhill holds the fresh torch.]

The group exits the cellar stairway, quickly moving through the kitchen area's charred out doorway into the chapel. Snow falls again through the burnt out rafters. The pews remain tied to the broken front doors. 
All is quiet. 
Votin, TIllak and Keet grab limbs of the large frozen carcass and weak with hunger struggle to drag it back to the kitchen, wondering how it will fit in the cramped cellar below with the second carcass and the four of them...

Kéet will drop a bullet into his sling and follow, ready to let loose should Narrhil give a warning.

[I'm out of town until Tuesday so might not be able to post until then or Wedsnesday.]

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eakratz wrote:

Kéet will drop a bullet into his sling and follow, ready to let loose should Narrhil give a warning.

[I'm out of town until Tuesday so might not be able to post until then or Wedsnesday.]

Keet remains at the ready, but he needs to help drag the carcass.

Caveman wrote:

[Any new footprints?]

None were noticed before everyone just trampled through here.

Votin, Tillak, and Keet manage to drag the second carcass into the kitchen area.

Using whatever means at hand Votin starts breaking up/chopping with dull axe he can and then assist with building a fire .... in a suitable location of course...[in the kitchen?]

What will be used as firewood?
 

The lectern was previously burned. The best pews are tied to the entrance. The remaining shelves in the cellar are filled with bottles. Maybe the rickety table under the broken out windows?
 

Last edited by Iron Ranger (9/01/2024 7:24 am)

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

[rickety table?...feel free to act on Votin's behalf , in the middle of a huge outside project]

From July 15, 2023:
Votin and Narrhil spend a Turn searching the room throughly, sharing the light when necessary.

Votin discovers that the door to the cellar area he had assumed was smashed is indeed still functional.
Narrhil finds the long table is burned and rickety but fairly stable. There are stray carvings in the hardwood, maybe from a cutting knife at the far end.

Votin detects older boot scuffs on the floor moving from the burned out door to the cellar door.

Narrhil finds rat bones in the empty pot hanging from the heavy chain in the fireplace. His light only shines 15 ft up the chimney onto the old cobwebs inside.

Votin's hunger drives him to hack up the rickety table for fuel and wolf carcass to char!


 

It reads, She is false.

Caveman wrote:

Narrhil reads it out loud to his comrades, "what does this mean?"

[I not sure if Narrhil knows much of the witch, as it could be what I read years ago, if I remembering right or wrongly? ]

[Narrhil, Tillak, and Keet recall a beast man in the cave prison bringing meat to fatten you up for a "she" who used a magic stick against his kind.]