The Blighted Woods was no more inviting by day than it had been during the night. The outright haunted aspect was gone, replaced by bleak and barren desolation. Not a being stirred under the dead husks of trees, their leafless branches crisscrossing in a dark net that covered the land. From the air Rayne spotted a fairy ring at the edge of the woods, a circle of gray mushrooms except for one particular large specimen, its red colouration vibrant in comparison with the colourless shades around it. It was bent at the stalk, its cap pointing deeper into the uninviting depths of the woods.<br/><br/>As Rayne headed further in, the trees became clustered thicker together, their branches reaching overhead intermingling into a tangled web of twigs. She could either flying above them or go below, and they obscured vision from above, leaving her with no real choice but to stick close to the ground if she wanted to follow the mushrooms. The ground was covered in a mulch-like layer of infertile soil, dead wood, dried out moss, with the occasional shriveled insect carapace or mummified bit of fur mixed in, that had not even been able to decompose properly. She found another fairy ring, with another mushroom pointing the way onwards, drawing her ever further on...<br/><br/>The soft ground held footprints well, so when Rayne found the tracks that were the first evidence of a living being other than herself and Dixon, the surprise was that there was something living here at all. Two-toed prints, the tracks of a wild deer or a stag. A little further on, she came across the hoofprints of a shod, domesticated horse, U-shaped prints in the ground. Well, nobody said these were the<em>abandoned</em>woods.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tracking</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll one Survival check to see what are Rayne's options for following the tracks.<br/>DC 5: Follow the fairy rings<br/>DC 10: Follow the wild deer track<br/>DC 15: Follow the horse track<br/></div></div>