Geode Fe

I wish we could say we had an uneventful day. While we didn't get into any trouble ourselves, we did come across a lot of other people's troubles.

A couple of hours into the day's journey, we came across a broken wagon along the road. Beside the wagon where 9 dead bodies. 8 of them looked like they had been decapitated in their sleep. The ninth had been hit by lightening, but not during a storm. Quite a gruesome mess!

We buried the bodies and searched the broken wagon, but it had been picked clean. This could only mean bandits. But to murder 9 people in their sleep? I would think if you let them live, you can rob them again next time they came through.

Farther down the road, we came across a ditch dug across the road in a spot where you can't drive around it. We had to stop to dig the sides shallower and fill it in some so we could get our cart across it. A bit of searching around revealed that this looks like it was an intentional trap designed to slow travelers down and allowing for an ambush.

The best we can figure, the party we had met yesterday where the rouges bringing their booty to market, and they stole it from the dead people we buried along side the road.

They have 2 full days ahead of us, even with the cattle, they would make it into town and be lost to us before we could do anything to bring them to justice. I guess we will just have to let the next town know what kind of trouble there is on the road.