Skeletal Rider

We see a skeletal rider on a horse wearing chain mail and holding a rusty lantern that sheds no light. Some of us think he might be the skelton of the poor soul we found along the road a few days earlier. He doesn’t interact with us but rides to the south along an old hunting path. Our party splits up and follows him from a distance. Weeble Wobleston and myself (Malron Lichtstrahl) follow the party from further back, and the main group follows the rider from thirty feet or so.

This continues on for over thirty minutes before the group decides nothing good can come of it and we should head back to the main road. At this point we grouped up again and started north as one group. After some time I noticed some movement in the forest and suggested to Schlopkht to sneak around and investigate while we kept going north.

It turned out to be five men dressed much like Vistani guards, with one as a leader. They tried to extort a toll from us to be allowed back on the main road. Aera shan Ravanór tried bribing them with a smaller amount and as they rebuffed the attempt Weeble cast sleep on one of the ones further back. This kicked off a fight where the leader tried to escape after he was injured, but we were ruthless and Weeble put him to sleep as he ran. His minions were even more ruthless though, as one threw a knife at the leader, probably in an effort to wake him, but it impaled him and finished him off for us. So much for interrogating him.

We looted the dead and found gems worth either 10 or 50 gold each.