— sutekh | end of event

[redsoil]

I found some curious things, when dealing with the dead who were left behind in the Oakwoods.

Firstly, they appear to have died while filled with horror. I have also collected samples of a blue substance found around and upon their bodies. I am certain that I am not the only one who took note of this.

You are welcome to what I gathered. I do not care what you decide to do with it.

Additionally, in comparing the bodies of the explorers to those who were slaughtered by the mounted warrior -- their deaths are notably different. Deaths within un-deaths, this is ridiculous. To my knowledge, the components of a soul are universal. Regarding the explorers: I found no sense of soul, nor any of the components. For them to lack is ominous, but may also amount to nothing more than an oddity of the realm.

They are empty, and that is all I know.

At this time, I am only beginning my considerations. I will continue to deliberate for your sakes.

( OOC | While Set is here to Report On It, any characters that went poking around the explorer's bodies would be able to find blue dust that causes their Shadows to go "YEAH LMAO NO"!! Set's personal responses will be delayed, as I'm still tagging the event!

Feel free to take this in whatever direction you'd like. Did your character uncover something? Are they interested in something that happened during the event? Are they considering anything based on Certain Experiences They Had In Canon? pepesilvia.gif )

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[heavenstorn]

Would that there were an alchemist among us...

Perhaps the powder is residue from a plant. My assumption is the Oakwoods themselves are responsible for the explorers' deaths. It wouldn't be the first time a wood turned on its inhabitants after being slighted.

[redsoil]

I have lamented the same. We have a doctor, but I know not the limit of her knowledge.

[ also several folks who are just, generally interested in drugs which is kind of alchemy?? also, he's sorely tempted to actually put some on his tongue to test it out ye olde style. ]

In this place, I'm dismissing nothing. The Oakwoods did come alive around us at times, threatening our safety -- why not a residue, as you said, that infested them and caused their demise.

You've experience with hostile forests, then?

[heavenstorn]

[ Set no don't put strange things in your mouth...never mind that that's also exactly what Cedrik would do... ]

Some experience, yes. The Black Shroud was home to spirits known as Elementals, and the people who lived there did so only by their grace. Any who dared antagonize them would soon face 'the Greenwrath'. Treants would uproot themselves and attack, animals would turn unusually hostile, that sort of thing.

The Elementals strength has waned the past few years, but I expect it's only a matter of time for them to regain it.

[ There's also the woods he grew up in, but that was more thanks to the reputation of the wood-warders than anything supernatural... ]