Welcome one and all, I'll get the ball rolling I think, here goes:
It had been a strange day in Paridon, a small inland village buried deep within the countryside of Mern. Strange by the fact that everyone was tired, not to say that people weren't usually tired by late afternoon, what with all the work that had to be done in the fields and farms and village, but, tired in the way that you get tired after a heavy night out on the tiles, a soul draining type of tired. In fact everyone felt uncomfortable and had done since waking up that morning, the discomfort had led to short tempers and more than a few harsh words had been spoken that day, especially between solid friends. Certainly something was amiss, there was also something else, the elephant in the room, to put it subtly...
