Walk down the muddy road
From Create Your Own Story
You trug along the muddy road heading further inland. The fog quickly envelopes you hindering you sight to little more than a few tens of feet around you. Even the sound seems muffled by the mists as you feel completely cut off from the ship and the only other men you know to be here. You feel as if you're in a dark dreamscape of gray and brown. Even the vegetation is unfamiliar yet that unlike that you know in the Old World.
The road makes a sharp turn to the right before straightening out. The deep ruts where wagons have travel have pooled murky water from a combination of rainfall and a low water table. The road slowly winds to the left and you see a sign materialize out of the mist. It reads Marais d'Tarascon and nothing else. With a few steps further the colonies first buildings reveal themselves from the fog. You find the very much the same as you would expect to find in the French countryside save they appear to be slightly raised from the the moist earth. A strange sight so far from the old world. Both disconcerting and comforting at the same time.
You notice that you have heard no sound of people as you enter the colony proper. It is midday and yet there is no one. You even knock upon one the doors of near by cottage only to have no one answer. You even peer into the one the windows. Inside the cottage, it appears to be a perfectly normal home with nothing out of place.
Before you can consider your next action, the sound of a bell rings out through the muffling fog. It sounds like a church bell yet there is no common religious service that would be practiced on this particular day. You decide to investigate the ringing bell.
You discover both source of the ringing and the whereabouts of the colonists. They have gathered in front of the church at the south end of the colony. It Appears they are all attending a funeral. Leading the service is the colony's Pastor. A giant of a man with a thick black beard whose voice booms out over the crowd. The colony follows him around the small church to the backside of the building where a small but surprisingly full graveyard sits.
You presence has not been made yet as you seem the coffin being brought to the graveyard. It is but a simple wooden vessel yet wrapped completely in heavy metal chains. The coffin has eight strong looking men as pallbearers. The tall Pastor speaks once again in French, "Tomas we return you body back to the earth. May you find piece in there in the afterlife. Tomas, you will be missed by all here, but Tomas you are no longer welcome here. Accept your fate and be a peace and bother Marais d'Tarason and her people no longer!"
You make another glance at the coffin and realize that the eight men are simply needed for the weight of the coffin but to keep it under control! Whoever is inside of the coffin it still alive and trying to get out!
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| Status | ||
| Health | 100% | Equipment:
Rapier, Pistol |
| MP | 100% | |
| Level | 2 | |
