Tandor steps inside, eyes alert in all directions. He is also careful to look where he steps.

((Investigation check?))

Tandor Investigation 7+2

The farmhouse seems entirely abandoned, a muddy, strewn mess left behind. It doesn't seem like folks left in a rush, there are still belongings and food that weren't taken with them whenever they left.

"What a weird vibes does this place have" Mixtli says "Do we want to investigate further?"

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"What a weird vibes does this place have" Mixtli says "Do we want to investigate further?"

Tandor shakes his head. "I don't think so. I think we need to see if anyone knows what happened here." He turns to their guide. "Who can we ask?"

Kora wanders up the path from where you left everyone with the wagon and horses. 

"There are other farm houses, perhaps someone is home and knows what happened here?"

"OK. Let's go to the nearest. Maybe something we learn there will give us reason to come back here," the priest replies.

Tandor leads the way to the next farmhouse, but it is clear as you approach that this one has a similar X painted across the door in mud. The windows are shattered, and peering in, much of the interior has been smashed up. Bits of darker dried material spatter the broken glass. Gilbert gives it a sniff. <Blood.>

Tandor looks further along, and notes that the next two farmhouses have red mud Xs on them, but the one after that does not.

"What the hell happened here, some kind of disease?" Mixtli says in shock

"I don't know... we didn't pass through these farms from the grove...", Kora says worriedly. "Perhaps there will be someone we can ask?"

((Can I have perception checks from the party?))

Perception: 4

Tandor Perception: 22

Gilbert: 9, I am assuming this is not a scent-based roll. If it is or can be, this is the advantage roll: 21

While the next two homes have muddy Xs visible, the third in the far distance looks as if it does not.

Further, Tandor can tell that it is larger than the two they have searched and the two between. He can surmise that as the home in the middle of this small community, it likely had been here the longest, and as such would have been the logical meeting place among the farming collective. Probably their best place to try to get answers here.

With a mental command, Tandor sends Gilbert ahead to scout while he continues at a merely human pace. As he walks, he pulls out a book, turns to a particular page and quickly reads the passage. At the same time, he allows Pelor's divine energy to flow through him into the book and then back into him, allowing the skills described therein to become his for a short time.

ooc: Casting Borrowed Knowledge to gain proficiency in Survival for one hour.

Gilbert trots ahead, after a delay to lick his paw and rub it across his head, to make sure you know he's going because he feels like it.

As you approach where he is able to communicate back, Tandor gets an update from his feline.

<Bigger than the other ones, but seems abandoned too, just with no mark on the door. Lots of tools lying around, the weeds are doing good, but the crops look sick. Should I go in?>

Yes, but be careful. Check up and down and around the corners and don't forget you've got a nose, too.

Probably unnecessary advice. The familiar had no more wish to meet a sticky end than anyone else. Tandor followed more slowly, using his divinely inspired knowledge to search for tracks, markings, any sort of clues which might shed light on what had happened.

Survival 12, plus Guidance 1

Mixtli follows directly behind Tandor. Trying to help find tracks and such (if he can without having proficiency^^)

((Sure, Tandor can roll with advantage. If you know what the roll was before the 12+1 that is currently popping up, lmk.))

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((Sure, Tandor can roll with advantage. If you know what the roll was before the 12+1 that is currently popping up, lmk.))

Yeah, the first roll was a total of 23 plus I guess 1. Here is the advantage roll:

Survival 18 + 1 (retaining the same Guidance roll).