Twilight, Day 1
Complication Dice: 5 of 6

It had taken a good hour or so for the adventurers to find all that could be salvaged from the wreck of the wagon and then turn back to the mountain trail, leading their horses across the gap and then resuming their course.

The ruin of the wagon and the loss of a good portion of their gear was not something easily forgotten. Now Mundstock was truly on foot, albeit she used skis to their best advantage. And they’d certainly lost potions and some portion of their food as well, as well as other useful items. The brief flare-up between Verglas, Maxis and Roland didn’t recur, though; even so, it was a quiet journey onward into the mountains.

For a miracle, they didn’t run into any opposition. Njal had come across the old tracks of verbeeg once, and they had seen a flock of ravens which were too large for the distance they seemed to be at … but, fortunately, the gigantic birds had other business on their minds, and nothing confronted them.

Even so, the loss of time weighed heavy. The sun was sinking into the west, and the first finders of night cold were beginning to caress their faces. After what seemed an endless hike along sharp trails and down precarious paths, their way finally dipped into a narrow dell, a cleft below a vast overhang of rock. And at last, turning around a bend in the road, they saw it, a hundred feet ahead.



It was something more than a ranger’s hut; even from the distance it had been built with a high-arched roof to throw off the snow, and it was more the size of a small family’s home. There was a hint of a stable behind the main structure of the house, likely enough to keep their mounts and companions in relative comfort. The roof seemed intact and well-made from here, and the place appeared to be in good condition despite being apparently abandoned for a long time.

Indeed, that was the troubling thing. The place seemed to be maintained. As if it were inhabited.
The primary evidence for that supposition being the sign of a flickering light present in the window to the left of the front door.

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What do you do? You’re a hundred feet out from the structure.