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of the bear without any notice from their side.
Continuing onward. The secondary hour goes without
issue, but you do begin to come upon the outskirts
of your recollection of where The Sour Nest
resides. You’re still a good 100 or so feet away,
using the trees at your disposal and you can see
now the wall that matches the perimeter. It’s a
thin, five foot wide wall with a very flimsy rail
across the top, but it is a walkway for watch
guards to keep an eye out. As you glance at this
distance, you can see one figure that’s walking
the perimeter of the top of the wall, with a heavy
crossbow at the ready. They stop and look out.
LIAM: How dense is the forest around this place?
MATT: It’s pretty dense. The reason it took two
hours to get there is because you’re going through
the forest. Otherwise on foot, in any sort of open
scenario, it would take you half the time.
LIAM: There’s no manicured, open place around.
It’s just nestled among trees around it or–?
MATT: It looks there is manicured to be about a
ten-foot distance between the wall and any of the
surrounding trees, specifically to make sure that
any sort of approaching individuals would be out
in the open. You can see now a little bit of light
is coming through. It looks like they’ve cleared
out a bit of the canopy, not entirely, but a bit
of it to also prevent any low-hanging boughs or
branches to curl into the interior of the walls.
It’s not a massive stronghold, it looks to be
approximately a little larger than the Estate
Sybaritic that you were at, but it’s more for
function than beautiful decor. A lot of the wood
seems to be old and weathered from rain and dry
seasons. It’s just a beige- and gray-looking
establishment. Pure function.
LIAM: Our lot is hidden in the trees, a ways
away?
MATT: Yes. You can barely see it above the wall,
but the little bit you can see has that visual and
you can see it’s a mixture of stone and wood. The
edges of the actual structure are stone and then
wood is either then placed over stone or wood is
the intermediate construction material.
ASHLY: The cart is not back?
MATT: From this perspective, you don’t see where
the cart would come in.
LIAM: This is where we send an owl.
SAM: Sure.
LIAM: I’m going to send him and it’s going to take
a moment. I want him to go around the entire place
and keep an eye on it and watch it. Maybe 20 or 30
minutes. Are we good with that?
SAM: In his talons, he could bring a little mouse
and drop it in there. I’m just saying.
LIAM: How will we– You and I could talk to the
mouse.
SAM: We could, but the mouse couldn’t talk back.
ASHLY: Wait, wait, wait, what’s our plan here?
LIAM: Well, for now this is easy, we’re going to
send my owl now. If anything goes wrong, will you
please tap three times on my left knee? I go blind
and send Frumpkin up.
MATT: Okay, so, Frumpkin makes it up. Tree, waits
a moment, tree. The one guard you see doing the