Chapter III
You begin the trip towards the ruins of the Blackscale Castle, following in the wake of Tyroa and the mantis huntress from last night. The brushwood eventually gives way to open plains for a good two hundred feet around the walls in any direction, the land cleared and salted in ancient days to prevent any would-be attackers from finding shelter in the trees. You take a knee at the edge of the brush and take a moment to drink in the sights of your ancestor's home.
The castle was built around three tall towers, connected by curtain walls of dark stone. One of them, the nearest of the three, has long since fallen into rubble and ruin -- little more than piles of rock around a gaping hole leading into the courtyard. The other two are still standing, more or less: the furthest north seems mostly intact, while the easternmost has lost much of its top half, leaving it open-aired and leaning precariously to one side. Between the two crumbling halves you can see a gate that's been battered down. There's nothing left of the wood, but the metal portcullis is still visible, hanging in a bent and broken mess off the side of the entrance.
You can't see much of the courtyard inside, save for glimpses of a squat, boxy looking keep peeking up above the collapsed tower's ruins. In the fading darkness of the morning, you're fairly sure you can catch glimpses of flickering light inside the keep's windows. Someone's home. You don't suppose you'd be lucky enough to find Tyroa in there, guarding the entrance into the ruin's depths... better her than a pack of bloodthirsty ogres, right?
Other than that, you can see no signs of life within the castle. But it's early morning yet, and your vantage gives you only a narrow view of the inside...
Name: Remielle Syrililth
Race: Salamander
Sex: Hermaphrodite
Figure: Amazonian
Class: Mage
Stats: STR (10) CON (16) DEX (14) INT (15) WIS (8) CHA (12)
(( And now we return to a more normal passage length maybe >_> ))
Before everyone jumps on Scouting, remember that Remi is unwise as shit and failure usually results in Bad Things(tm).
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