Just another bad ale at another bad inn..Just another job..Just another dark road..Just another quiet village, too quiet.

A Still night. Pattering rain turns to snow in the noiseless woodland, where beasts run mad from unknown fears. Clouds rumble above, split by crackling lightning that fades with haunting images of lumbering forms, while cries and maddened whispers split the silence..

Alone she was, still in the dank cellar, singing softly then weeping gently; one small lifebeat in the village.

"the Bad men have come..theyll feast on your souls"..

.....

A frantic deadly flight ensues from shambolic forms of the dead, single minded without remorse they pursue without relent..infused with another power, another hunger.

The companions fight their way out from the inn, from the village, down the quiet road, where soundless steps belie the danger within the dark. Down to the same bad inn, on the same dark night, of just another day on the sword coast - where they left a little girl, alone, where evil would bend her innocent mind to whatever it wills.

…..

Breathless and panting they return to the inn hearing news of the missing sheriff. Spooked locals are now white with fear – is that the wind or moans?

Deflated in the face of what seems an implacable adversary, the companions pause to gather their thoughts.

A loud thud sounds on the inn door..

Another thud shakes the heavy wood..

A scraping claws its way down the door, sharp in the silence where no breath is taken, in another bad inn on the sword coast..

Dungeon Masters: Jonnytheshirt,
Players: Belly as Farzad Grim, brotherfinn as Findlewick Bandraggle, Mackas as Jak, quirkster as Carabell Buntwiss, Tony Walsh [Gloomveil] as Eune of Elsewhere,