[hero:cb183fe7-7ea3-4c89-811c-d03430d6424f] and [hero:157649b6-2c4d-4db7-9550-100840667b1b] come from @[Threshold](settlement:61fe04d5-3dd2-42a4-be43-6d4def202520). They signed up as part of a group investigating bandits on the road over the mountains from @Verge(settlement). This turned out to be both bandits and goblins (led by an ogre) based in an old abandoned castle near the mountain pass. During their investigations, the bandits were attacked and killed by the goblins, and they killed the lead ogre.

Among the items among left behind by the leader of the bandits was a scrap of parchment talking about flakes of winter, and down in the depths of under the castle, the goblin shaman actually had one of these flakes of winter. This flake caused them problems...but is now in Reed's possession.

The group headed towards the capital Specularum to try to find the rest of the manuscript, or indeed any more information about the flake, but on the way something strange happened....