Slowly making your way down an alley flanked by high walls, you sense movement and hear the slight scrape of a boot on stone. Before you have a chance to turn, an avalanche of rock falls upon you.

Fist-sized rocks and small boulders rain down from above. Diving to the side, you raise your pack above your head and succeed in deflecting away the worst of the avalanche. A cry of surprise echoes from above as your assailant realizes the trap failed to kill you. Jumping to your feet, your group moves as one into the nearby building to converge on your target.

Climbing to the top floor, you find a group of humans fearfully huddled against the far wall of a room with daggers and bows trained on the doorway. You see the panic in their eyes as they realize they missed the only shot they had to end you. One of the attackers looses an arrow that ricochets off the edge of your waiting blade and pings harmlessly off the wall. You are in no mood for this. As you advance into the room, the rest drop their weapons and raise their hands in submission. Once you get a clearer look at them, you realize these must be survivors from Refuge, perhaps a hunting party that was not present during your purge of the village. They must have fled your wrath and hidden here.

You can tell these people recognize who you are and are very aware of what you did to their village. No doubt they believed they could exact their revenge upon you and loot your corpses for supplies. With their plot foiled, however, they have thrown themselves at your mercy.

Before deciding how to deal with the assailants, you ask them if they know what is happening in Refuge. The eldest of them hesitantly offers a reply. "We… we returned from a hunt and everyone was dead. The village was dead. After gathering what supplies we could find, we started to leave, but something was there. Something malefic. The One as my witness, it was a blood twister. We never saw it but we know what it did to Borik. He lost control of himself as all his bones twisted, breaking them into splinters. Then, spears of blood went right through Gorlan. The rest of us… we ran. Straight into the woods until we got here. That's when this storm set in."

Getting some idea of what awaits you is helpful, but as lightning arcs overhead, you know you need to make a decision. These men have broken The Pact and attempted to take the life of an Oathsworn. Judgement is yours to render.