Volume 2: Search for the Blue Adepts
The group has gone several miles without seeing anyone. Although there are birds in the trees, they keep their distance. Radagast can sense some small mammals... squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, birds... nothing larger, but they stay well away from you.
It isn't until you've gone a dozen more miles or so that you begin to catch glimpses of dark creatures that lurk and follow you just at the edge of your awareness. While most of the shapes seem to conform to the shape of a wolf, some seem to be larger or longer or winged.
Another few miles and you begin to find closer examples of the Dark. There are the dead carcasses of animals... cows, goats, foxes, even bears... but while the animals have been ravaged and half-eaten, they haven't begun to rot... and they are also blackened somehow.
A few miles farther you encounter the stones... if that's what they are. They are black roughly circular flat stones that litter the ground. They are between 12" and 36" in diameter. There appears to be no pattern to them, so it's not like they form a path or anything. The farther you go, though, the closer they are together... until you come to a farmhouse. The stones are all touching now and completely surround the house.
And then there are the statues: six of them--an adult male, an adult female, an adolescent female, an adolescent male, and two dogs. They appear to be made of the same black material.
So far, no one has stepped on a black stone, but you can't continue any farther without doing so. You'd have to circle around the farmhouse.
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