<div class="floatleft">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/a/a6/Villagem.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100513204705g)</div><strong>Where:</strong>Entrance to Kur Edru village, morning<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Ahum, Rumar, Urnina<br/><br/>The day has barely begun when Ahum, Rumar and Urnina come in sight of their destination. The city's guard captain had sent them to aid the villagers of the Kur Edru village with a goblin problem; less obviously, it was to get them out of the city and out of his eyesight. So the trio proceeded at a steady, unhurried pace through the peaceful outskirts of the city, passing prosperous, then less prosperous villages, and finally arriving on the very outer edge of human habitation, after six days of walking.<br/><br/>They are too late.<br/><br/>What's left of the village comprises a dozen smoldering remains of houses, ransacked orchards and fields, and plenty of corpses strewn about. Apart from ravens picking at choice morsels and the lazy feathers of smoke, nothing moves in the village. There must have been a fierce battle here last night.<br/><br/>From closer up, signs of desperate combat abound. There are lots of hunting arrows strewn about; some found their mark in a goblin corpse. Most missed, however. The villagers organised a last-ditch defense with whatever flammable they had handy. That claimed a dozen more goblins, but still wasn't enough. In all, there's about thirty dead goblins. The human corpses are almost all men, a dozen of them, some hideously mutilated. Tracks abound all around, and even someone untrained in tracking can spot the telltale tracks of sleds being hauled with a heavy cargo, eastwards, down the hill and towards the next.<br/><br/>(OOC: what next?)