A group of five, two Witches and three Monsters, set out to see what had become of a settlement closer to the heart of the forest of Geardagas. There'd been birds coming in at a steady pace about the rise of what they now know as the Cwyld today, though it'd been something natural for as long as could apparently have been remembered, considering the casualness of which it is mentioned. Eager to aid their brethren at the deep forest's foot, the group sought out the settlement and found it flattened.
There was evidence of something, or many somethings, having destroyed the houses and whatnot of the settlement, but there were no people about. Searching around perimeter of the settlement found traces of Arachne involvement, and so the group decided to move further into the heart, which was really their mistake. Within the forest nearby, which would've been the deepest expedition even now, they allegedly found the bodies of those missing, which were being consumed by the local Arachne, stained black and white by the Cwyld's effect. They weren't the only victims, the group'd written, because there'd been Dryads and insect-like beings (not Fae, Georgie says with a sniff, though honestly they more likely were and he's just real stuck on his theories) hanging in their webs as well, and it's with only one death of a Monster that they'd escaped back to what was left of the settlement, and then back to Aefenglom via the river.
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DECEMBER 2019 (THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO DEWAINT)
A group of five, two Witches and three Monsters, set out to see what had become of a settlement closer to the heart of the forest of Geardagas. There'd been birds coming in at a steady pace about the rise of what they now know as the Cwyld today, though it'd been something natural for as long as could apparently have been remembered, considering the casualness of which it is mentioned. Eager to aid their brethren at the deep forest's foot, the group sought out the settlement and found it flattened.
There was evidence of something, or many somethings, having destroyed the houses and whatnot of the settlement, but there were no people about. Searching around perimeter of the settlement found traces of Arachne involvement, and so the group decided to move further into the heart, which was really their mistake. Within the forest nearby, which would've been the deepest expedition even now, they allegedly found the bodies of those missing, which were being consumed by the local Arachne, stained black and white by the Cwyld's effect. They weren't the only victims, the group'd written, because there'd been Dryads and insect-like beings (not Fae, Georgie says with a sniff, though honestly they more likely were and he's just real stuck on his theories) hanging in their webs as well, and it's with only one death of a Monster that they'd escaped back to what was left of the settlement, and then back to Aefenglom via the river.