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The Cemetery

the long afternoon, the trail in dappled gold.

The cemetery rises behind the Hall on a low hill. Stones of grey limestone, set in rows. The funeral chapel at the gate. The sexton's bench under the yew. Old Mester, the sexton, knows the names.

Walk the rows

Read the names. Sit a moment. +1 morale.

Ask Old Mester

"Anything I should know?" Wisdom check, DC 14.

D20

Yola's garden plot

Lavender, bell-vine, quiet moss. A bench. No commerce.

Sit at the bench

Read the stones

Pell told you once: every stone in this place was once a person. The walker who stops, reads, and remembers them carries them forward a little. Some stones are in scripts you do not yet know. Some carry hidden lines through them. There is a riddle in the new section that nobody has yet untangled.

P: Walk a row. Stand at a stone. Read what is left of the name. The realm will give you what you can read, and rewards the patient walker with what was left behind. — P.

The stones you can read today

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