Runes

Timestamp: Ostiarium forests - Afternoon

As you walk down the forest game trails, you hear the sound of droplets of rain fall from the higher branches to the ground, repeat throughout the trees. The forager leads you deeper and deeper into the woods. At first the four of you chat and trade pleasantries but as the day wanes a sense of unease descends upon you.

You all can tell these woods are old. The trees as well with its dark twisted bark skins. It is eerily quiet. The silence of the forest only broken by the falling water and the occasional bird shrill bird call.
As you draw closer to your destination you start noticing runes carved into some of the trees.

Suddenly your guide stops. He points to a depression on the forest floor about a dozen yards in front of you. He refuses to go any further. As you, Jyin and Hendrik make your way to the ditch the smell of decay and rotten flesh hits you.

Clearly the remains belong to more than just one body.