After exploring the outskirts of Grimdale, the party set off from town, following new leads and fragments of information. Guided by Rubin, an old Earth Genasi guard who’d long left city life behind, they traced signs of the spreading blight to a nearby river, where corrupted remnants lingered. Rubin shared what he knew about Nymora and its darker dealings, pointing them toward the forest ahead.

As the group traveled through increasingly blighted terrain, they were interrupted one evening at camp by a thief. Cereius quickly ensnared the would-be robber with Entangle, revealing a familiar face: a goblin named Pancho Vagabond. Once a fellow guild member of Kyver’s, Pancho greeted him not with warmth but with a string of profanities, which Kyver was more than happy to return. Their colorful exchange led to a tense conversation, during which Pancho revealed fragments of information about the Vitalis.

That night, We’ahqa struggled with haunting whispers echoing in his mind, “One of four must die.” He tried to push the voice aside, though thoughts of the blight and the suffering villagers lingered heavily. As the others settled down to rest, Pancho invited Kyver to join him on a familiar kind of job: robbing a nearby caravan, just like the old days. But Kyver, having turned over a new leaf, refused.

Moments later, as Pancho wandered off into the dark toward the caravan’s distant lights, something massive and unseen struck. The creature, four-legged and swift, snatched the goblin up in its jaws and vanished into the woods, leaving only silence in its wake...

Theme music written and composed by ⁠Efflorescence⁠

Edited & Mixed by Thomas Lapierre III

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