Safe Rest - Sketch
Added 2019-09-03 01:23:19 +0000 UTCThe 'lonely gnome' returns, this time with a companion traveler, the pair having wandered from the road up a path to a nearby farm, hoping to find at least a safe fenced in area to sleep as a storm approaches.
The gnome reads notches and crude runes carved into the gatepost, left by other travelers to indicate whether this farmstead is safe to stay at, or if they're the kind to start firing crossbows at anything or anyone wandering onto their property at night.
Farmers don't tend to welcome anyone inside when nightfall is approaching. Superstitions of wrathful spirits or undead, as well as fears of wandering escaped prisoners or robbers tend to mean that even if in peril or being chased, the door remains locked.
Some will allow travelers to stay inside their fences, usually allowing them to stay in the barn or simply camp outside within sight of the house. A silver penny per person is customary, slipped under the door.
There will be more 'autumn themed' pics, sort of like this, as September rolls along.
And pumpkins, of course.
-T.J.
Comments
There are quite a few of these rattling around in my head. I had an idea very much along that vein! Undead farming family luring in transients and merchants alike, the matron of the family a woman long hanged as a witch but brought back from the grave by her.. doting (obsessed) husband :D
Tim J.
2019-09-03 06:23:15 +0000 UTCThis is next to Neighs in my heart. The slice of life pieces. Already the evil GM in my brain is conjuring evil farmers that carve wealful signs on the post themselves to lure in the then unwary and off them in the night.
Garry Stahl
2019-09-03 02:17:09 +0000 UTC
