Spring, 1224

The area around Cruentis Petram in the Yorkshire Dales is full of caves, many of which are home to the supernatural. Having spent much of the season investigating the deaths at Nocte Flamma, it is decided to use the rest of their time spelunking looking for vis.

Several caves are investigated, and some vis sources are located (including some magical berries growing on the roots of a tree, and the pool of a blind water faerie with a fear of loud noise). One cave has a magically created back wall, about 300 years old. Carved onto the wall are the words “Here lays the flesh of Helione ex Tytalus. May she find wisdom in her sleep.” They decide not to explore further until they can find out some more about Helione.

A cave of giant spiders is also investigated. Most of the small spiders (the size of a large dog) are destroyed, as are a couple of larger spiders (bigger than a man). There is evidence that an even larger spider dwells within though, and a rest is declared before any further exploration is done.

The magi investigate the smoking caves of the spiders and harvest what vis they can. There is also vis in the bodies that the spiders have wrapped in their webs, Animal in the animals and some Corpus in the body of what is presumably a peasant. They are not sure whether the victims were magical in nature, or whether some process created the vis. There are still larger spiders dwelling deeper in the caves, so they decide to leave them and come back later, in case they can harvest them for vis.

There is a large eye carved on a weathered rock on a hill, which has a strong magical aura. The eye seems to be part of a face, mostly buried in the top of the hill. Reckoning that the face belongs to a large stone humanoid, they estimate a total height of about two hundred paces. Any attempts to investigate the stone magically fails to penetrate its resistance, though they determine that it has a magical might of around twelve magnitudes. The magi do no currently have a way to investigate directly any further, so leave it alone for the time being.