This epic adventure for our 4 wandering misfits is just about to begin! Beginning in what is hopefully something else besides wandering forest roads for the past 3 weeks, half starved and delerious from boredom and the constant sight of trees and more trees. Those crazy peasants in the previous town telling the party that a remote collection of villages will be down this very self same road, but they seem to be rather silent about how far!<br/><br/>Why are you going to these remote villages in the middle of nowhere? Mainly because they are one of the few places where Mithril can be mined, which leads to a rather nice amount of income. Too bad the mithril veins are in the middle of nowhere, and guarding such an expanse is beyond most kingdoms reach. Naturally, this leads to trouble in the form of bandits, as the merchants in previous towns have told the tale of the mithril shipments running dry. Nobody wants to go and check out to see if the people are all right, since the common assumption is bandits and more bandits.<br/><br/>Being adventurers and actually modestly good at it (or you wouldn't have had lived to reach level 6), this is a decidedly good thing to go scouting and see what is up. Which leads to your current predicament, lost in the woods on a dirt road that has not been used in months, hoping that at the end there is life and civilization and not just ruins of burned down buildings. Food stores running low, morale running low, and the small tick of a chance of madness creeping in.<br/><br/>While you 4 manage to stave off the madness for the time being, you manage to crest a hill in the forest, and finally come across what looks to be cultivated land. With the sprinkling of farmhouses off both sides of the road, which are not burned down! While you stare in stark wonder, there is a few peasants off into the distance, as they see you in turn. Throwing down their tools and running off in the other direction, screaming like it was some sort of bandit attack or something.