Session #3, January 5, 2018
The clouds had been increasing over the past two days and on November 2, 837, the sky was fully overcast with a continued moderate west wind. Forni knocked together a couple of wheelbarrows to aid the excavation and then worked on building the camp.
As the rest of the party continued its exploratory excavations of the mountain slide, they spotted a small group of armed men in the distance. Closing and hailing each other, the two groups recognized one another as Viking and Suebi.
The four Suebi tribesmen were guarded, but not hostile. When asked if they knew of the mining camp, had perhaps traded with them last year, they said they did not and did normally hunt in this area. Uncomfortable around each other, the two groups went back to their business with no more discussion.
After a peaceful night, November 3 was warmer still, but with a light rain. Again the party went back to digging, but with Forni, as he had been yesterday, concentrating on building out the camp. In the afternoon the woman Haldora arrived in the camp bearing a small cask of mead. She was known to the men as she had been in Amkedvik this past year, arriving from a steading south and east along the coast. Unsurprisingly, a pretty woman walking into the camp with alcohol was welcomed with no questions asked.
The light rain kept up during the night, but early on November 4 cooler air arrived and it changed to snow. Unable to ignore the oncoming winter any longer the party paused its dig in order to concentrate on standing up a more protective camp. In four day's time, the 20' square timber bunkhouse was roughly completed with a fireplace to feed the smokehouse, a root cellar below holding 70# of smoked venison, and a wattle fence around the 80' X 100' compound.
On November 9 the party once again focused on the digging and began finding some more debris. Digging on the next two days also revealed likely mining camp debris, but on November 12 they final revealed crushed huts. The three stone, wood, and turf-built huts they found were partially crushed, but having voids within. Voids devoid of any miners, but including this:
Koriol employed his primeval awareness to ascertain the presence of anything unnatural within a 6 mile radius about their location and felt that there were elementals, fey, and undead present.
Late in the night, after the party had dragged their tired bodies back to the campsite for sleep, the four Suebi tribesmen returned, two of them unconscious and being hauled by the other two wounded men who begged for help.
[Once again weak memory, but slightly better notes. Please forgive any inaccuracies.]
