The Quiet Year IC

[Lacco]

Five of Clubs

The Parish arrives. Who are they? Why have they chosen your community, and for what?

"They are here! They are here!"
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"Who?"
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"The Wrath Singers."
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"No."

A group of riders in full mail, clad in the dark gray loose tunics with insignia of the order. Followed by a dozen of priests, half of them flagellating themselves, the other half walking bound in pews, singing their wrathful song. The unholy holy warriors of wrath, that want to cleanse the world of darkness. With fire.

They came. And they expect the hospitality, cooperation in their cleansing rituals and obedience. They will stay until the darkness is warded off... and they do not like other churchmen in general.

Action
Discover something new: A small shrine has been found in a grove beyond the river. It looks ancient, just a simple place of worship, a black obsidian stone covered in runes and few standing stones. Local hunter discovered it by accident - but according to him, there was a well-travelled path and several sets of tracks leading to the village.


Resources:
Arable land - abundance
Farm animals - Sufficient
Workable iron - sufficient (for now)
Healing - sufficient
Braziers (to stave off the Darkness)
Mining Pit (blocked)
Smithy (provide sufficient tools; for now)
Traps for the Beast of Woods (provide sense of safety?)
Sturdy Wood - Abundance
Fresh Water- Scarcity

Projects:
Build a Central Storehouse Completed, whoever started the project please description be the finish (remember it doesn't have to be successful, but if not we should still learn something useful)

Clear the Foul Waters: finished (please finish description).


Luccan's Discussion: Despite our walls and weapons, death seems more frequent than usual, not less. How can we handle the violence from our own?
Lacco36: We have to fight darkness as a community, as a family would - not bring in more strangers that bring discord.

[JbeJ275]

Nine of Cubs

Someone goes missing. They’re alone in the winter elements.

The community organizes constant search parties and eventually the person is found. Project dice are not reduced this week.

Benjamin, the Hunter who found the shrine went missing one midnight, his lodge covered in signs of desperate struggle, but too far from the village for help to reach him in time. The Wrath Singers presume to judge ll his family if it seemss he has succumbed to sin, and so they and many others are desperate in their attempts to find him.

Eventually he is found, bloody and half broken near the path leading from the shrine deeper into the woods. Upon waking he tells a story of red eyed man leading a host of beings fromed from root and shadow to drag him away, with him desperatley fending them off and eventually esaping admist some other chaos. This would be dismissd as drunken madness, except the then draws a blade of pure obsidian that no-one searching his bodt had found. It's jagged blade tinted a strange red.

Storehouse: Though the winter has shown that the cillage has much to fear from the outside world, the inside of the walls becomes a more secure place than before with a humble but practial storehouse holding enough food to carry them through the winter... should nothing happen to it of course.

Discussion: This vioence does not always follow the normal cycles our hnters and militiamen are used to. I fear there is little we can do to fight it without exploring these forces further ourselves.