A Whole Campaign
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4. Your party has set up camp for the night. What happens during your first watch.
The party, worn and tired from their trek and unexpected battle in the desert, decides to stop and set up camp in the shadow of a large ruined wall. Hopefully it can shield them from any desert wind or other environmental mishap that could happen while they rested. As is customary, the youngest of the party is assigned first watch--that falls to the young birdfolk paladin Smitty.
Now Smitty doesn't see very well in the dark, and he doesn't have very good sense of hearing, but what he lacks in perception, he has spades in curiosity. As everyone retires for the evening, Smitty makes his rounds at the edge of the light of the fire, keeping his eyes trained in the darkness and his ears listening for any strange sounds. After about an hour, he hears an ominous scraping. It isn't coming from inside the camp. With enough effort, he identifies that it is coming from the ruined rock wall nearby.
Unsure whether the scraping poses a danger to the party, he lights a torch on the embers of their bonfire and investigates. When he is close enough to see the surface of the wall, he shines a light upon it. Shivers run down his spine as he sees writing being carved into the wall by...nothing. It's like some sort of invisible creature is chiseling the lines on the wall. But he is equipped with a magic item that sees invisible creatures, so that doesn't make sense. When the carving is finished and the scraping is silenced, he holds his torch up high to see what was written.
In a voice that he borrowed from his childhood friend, he says out loud, "I can't read that."
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