347 - Bone Lake

Scouting and Exploring are two different things, and I much prefer the second. My Hunter ability to detect animals was useful, but it didn't detect things like the goblin farmstead. <1 >

Likewise, there were High Men, sometimes called Eagle-Men, and other humanoids.

And, what we were counting on, monsters.

Viper Hounds, Tree Scorpions, Skull Lurkers... anything that ate people was suddenly our unwilling ally. But we needed to know where those allies were, and the best paths to lead our enemies near them.

For their part, the enemies were being smart. They had scouts of their own, and made use of them. So it boiled down, for those first two days, into a contest of mobility and knowledge of the land.

And then, the smoke columns were spotted near Whitehill, and our knights mounted up to ride that way.

"Traitors and assholes!" Gyrfalcon raged.