within the forrest

[Herring]

After being forcable remove from his village ? head east following the sun. After many weeks traveling he found himself deep in the heart of an enormous forrest with pleatyful amounts of mushrooms and small edible plants.

felling quite confident he could survive he he decided to make himself a log cabin, as he found himself a small clearing he realised he was not alone as this claer was man made...

[Pirate]

All around the clearing the ground smoldered with waves of heat rising form the ground witch was blackened with ash, and as he looked closely he saw that his foot prints where not the only ones to be seen.

(just helping with the story)

[Herring]

with his lack of knowledge of other races he could 5 different types of prints. two he seen before further back of woodland creatures and three others.

one look almost the same as his (leadindg him to belive there was anthoer dwarf about), one was small and shaped like shoes (making it hard to determie which race) and the other set followed closely to the shoe like prints, behind and slightly to the left only verging when obsictals were in the way.

These prints travel around randomly like they were looking for something but were unable then after what seems forever following the tracks with his eyes they suddenly stopped as they head out the oppisite side of the clearing

[Herring]

arming his pistol he walked slowly around the out side of the clearing consantly looking around and observing the burnt ground

noticing a small area, that was not travel and looks like something was buried there, he stopped suddenly, listerning patiently for something to happen.

when he could not hear any thing but the faint calls of birds, he merged towards the area, then suddenly he heard rustling in a near by bush. quickly, swiftly and shaking he swung around, pointed his gun directly at the bush and fired.

missing the bush his bullet hits a near by tree leaving a burn mark in it and suddenly a small woodland creature boundes from the bush and headed in the woods. staring into the woods where this creature had ran he could see a small figure fading into the distance.

remembering what he was looking at before, he continued into the clearing...

[Herring]

after what seemed like several hours of slow paces and listerning he finally made it to the part where he could see what looked like a small wooden chest under some rocks unharmed by the heat grabbing the cheat under one arm he ran out of the clearing to the nearest side and found a small area where it was reasonably sheltered from the elemnts and would be easy to protect him self from attack...

the chest ...
small wooden
small burn mark on left side
small dragon symbol in orange
oversized solid gold lock
sturdy iron bracing
contents yet to be revealed

taking his chisel and hammer from his pack he crack open the lock
he placed the lock in his bag (so he can sell it later ) and opened the chest...

[Pirate]

(Inside he found a weather beaten tomb bound in leather and sporting a funny dialect that you can't translate.)

[Herring]

returning it to the chest he listerned carefully and then made a breack for it.

he ran out of the bushes ( more of a light plod) around the clearing and towards the far side.
after several minutes he slowed down top a fast walk and could hear running water.

walking towards the river sindri could see the open feilds of what he belived too be the other side that he had came into in fact it was 90* clock wise from where he entered.