Boztun Badlands, Klos 18th, 350AC, 7:00  (partly cloudy, 34 degrees, crescent moon)

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A new dawn arrives.  The group awakes, eats, re-equips, and gathers to head back out again.  Your squad of soldiers again have the chest of gifts for the badder king.  No sign of the mountain bike though.  Today there is a hint of blue sky and hopefully the sun will peak through once its high enough in the sky.

The soldiers (particularly the High Plains Drifters squad at the gatehouse) subject you to some “good natured teasing” as you head back out for the 3rd time.  “See ya tamarra!  I’ll have the heala’s keep ya bedz wahm!”   Etc.

You follow the path, deja vu all over again.  Then head off to the northeast, over your old footprints in the snow.  Eventually (by 9:00) you get back to the scene of the iceworm encounter.  Except that things have changed.  Up ahead (80 meters or so) where you remember a frozen corpse being left, there is a tan-brown smudge of disturbed earth without snow covering.  Some sort of post has been driven into the ground at the site, perhaps sticking up several meters.

What now?  (You are again at the blue X on the map below)