2 Years 3 Months: Conflict

After spending time exploring the dark part of the forest, I (Taryn) re-entered the normal forest to find several of my friends from nexus traveling and being stalked by scouts and guards from the bloody chalice.  After defending ourselves from these scouts, I learned that Alphanom and the rest of the group was traveling to a bloody chalice encampment to stop some sort of ceremony.  After fighting through several groups of guards, our group made it to the encampment but was stopped at the base of a large cliff and several people were either injured or taken captive.  In the end, with time running out, one of the people in our group was able to sneak around the other side of the cliff and strike the focal point of the ceremony, disrupting it and releasing a blast of magical force that struck down both foe and ally, but allowed those left standing to move up the slope and take the encampment while those of the bloody chalice who could fled.

After securing the encampment and searching through it for supplies, we returned to Nexus and learned that another group of townsfolk had moved on some of the Horned King’s forces and were able to strike down some of his leaders.  Though the details of that fight are best left to one who was there.