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The party leaves the tower to investigate the <span class="mu-i">circle</span> left behind by the strange small figures. Descending the now disarmed and well-explored tower, with a new weapon in tow, they come across what the figures left behind.
Coming closer, it is strange how the objects were left. In a large circle left out for them, the party could see the small objects laid out, dragged into a large circular pattern. The Sages of the party note it is not dissimilar to a magic rune. The objects are like lumps in the morning light, and seem a bit fuzzy as you approach.
As the party get closer- they finally realize what they are. There is a collection of corpses here, the corpses of birds. Many dozen dead birds laid out in this circle; most with broken necks and some of their feathers plucked out.
"... Is this the monkey's circle? The guide stone said so, but there was nothing here yesterday."
<span class="mu-b">"Well the "monkey's" must have left this here for us. But why?"</span>
"Is it a warning?"
Just then, by chance, <span class="mu-s">Scrim</span> happened to cross near the center of the circle of birds- and then a low sound picked up. Without moving their heads or stirring at all, the sound of loud cawing from the dead birds could be heard, their still corpses yet somehow impossible crying out like a murder of crows. Scrim is afraid. Moments later, the sound ends and the dead birds are quiet again.
<span class="mu-s">Scrim has been cursed</span>.
