[Location] Runner's Mill

[Paragon]

Runner's Mill At some point, the creek running beside Denval may have been a larger, faster flowing river. Whether the Valterrian changed that is not known, but it would explain the strange, abandoned mill-house sitting beside it. It has a large water-facing wheel, but the mechanisms no longer work. The water isn't fast enough to move it, and the wooden gears and levers inside have succumbed to wood rot. Inside, there are two floors, but the stairs have collapsed in several places. There is a table on the lower floor, and a few storage cabinets and dressers - remnants left by those who resided in it before. When Denval was in isolation, it was used as a storehouse of sorts, but since then it has fallen into disrepair. Nobody visits it, and parents tell their children ghost stories to keep them away from the hazardous building. As Winter turns to Spring in Denval, there have been sightings of small gatherings at the mill, usually late at night. Lanterns and candles, bobbing around in the darkness. Many wonder if the stories have become reality - that the ghosts of the past still haunt the mill. NPCs : Duncan Soulmist Expert Possession Expert Materialization Master Intelligence Competent Long Sword Expert It was a sweltering summer afternoon a few years past that the butcher’s daughter, recently snubbed by her sweetheart, returned to Denval proper to report to her friends at the Academy she had seen a ghost at Runner’s Mill. A soldier, she tittered in the ears of her best friend, and he said I was pretty and smart and Darryl didn’t deserve me. He said I should wait on a boy who does! Rumor spread through the younger generation of Denval, speaking of a dead man with sad eyes and a kind smile. Some said he was a soldier, others a sailor and only a handful ever actually laid eyes on him. Middling years, fit and trim, and streaks of silver through dusty blond hair. Of recent there have been no sightings, but those who come to the old mill occasionally speak of a watchful presence, listening and waiting in somber servitude to whatever ill notions chained it from moving beyond. Moderator's Note: Moderation is required for this location at present - since it will be heavily involved in the Spring Citywide plot. Credit for Duncan goes to Legion. Please PM Paragon with questions.