Mier heads towards the ridge.
You note that another person started moving as soon as you did, but he went on a different path. No worries there, probably. Arriving, you make sure to stay near the shrubs and peer at the sight. There are about seven or eight large canvas-covered wagons with two horses tethered to them each that have stepped out of the caravan line. There are many wagon-tracks behind the wagons that seem to indicate that there were much more but they had fled. The people who had supposedly attacked the merchants are nowhere in sight, but the corpses of the merchants are lying around the ridge in a gruesome, bloody display.
Kaelan observes the above.
Inser searches around for animals, but he doesn't seem to be able to find any.
Thoki talks to the man playing with the paper cards.
The man doesn't pause before saying,
"
Well, I don't know anything about the totems. I've heard that there were some kids going around talking about them like they were some big danger, but ... I don't know."
He looks disinterested and stacks all his paper in a inch-high pile.
"
There's a bounty on them, 2400 copper coins last time I heard, and it does say that they are dangerous, but I don't know."
Aile & SaldenAile concentrates...
and using
1 power, she causes a minor twister of fire to appear for a moment around the namu before it disappears. That... didn't go well. The namu looks unaffected. Meanwhile, the men all jump and look around, before focusing back on the namu. They speak lowly among themselves.
Jacques heads to the reservoir that feeds the fountains in the plaza. It is on a nearby mountain; the outsiders dug a huge hole, connected it to the plaza, and diverted a small stream or four to fill the lake.
No-one else seems to be here.
Trendam attempts to try again, but this time nothing at all happens.