Archet

Dear Mother and Father

I am sorry I have not written to you in a while but I have been rather busy. I am staying in a small town called Archet. Originally I had been heading for a larger town nearby called Bree but when I arrived there a few days ago I overhead a lot of the townsfolk talking Archet having been assaulted the day before by a group called the Blackwood so having heard that I decided that I could get more work there at the time. Wow I could not believe my eyes as I walked up the road to the town. It has almost been destroyed every building has been badly burnt with a few buildings left as nothing but ruins only the wooden wall around the town managed to escape being burnt. I quickly found the person who seemed to be in charge his name is Jon Brackenbrook and as I felt so sorry for the townsfolk I offered my services to him and the town for free which I could tell from the look of his face really shocked him. Well I spent the rest of the day looking for people that were missing, it turned out that they had been murdered during the assault so I buried them and then and to go and give their family’s the bad news. I also colleted some items for a local farmer called Cal Springley who was too scared to leave the town in case the Blackwold came back. I got anther shock when I got to the farm, it was covered with giant spiders and I really do mean giant I are least bigger then any cat I have ever seen and that’s the smallest ones. I have been sleeping in one of the town stables as the inn was one of the buildings that have been turned to ruins but the townsfolk have been very kind and have brought me something to eat each evening which I am very grateful for as my bag of supplies is now running very low. Yesterday when I was checking if there were any more jobs I could do to help the town a dwarf approached me his name is Atli and he told me all about how he had heard about the spiders from the other townsfolk and that he was worried about his cousin Bali because the day before he had asked Bali to check out an old cave that the hunters had blocked off but Bali has yet to come back. He explained to me that he would go him self but he had got injured fighting the blackwold. So I went to the cave only to find that the cave was wide open with the entrance covered in cobwebs apart from a hole just big enough for spiders to get in and out and on the floor not far from the cave was Bali’s body it looked like the spiders had attacked and killed him. I colleted up his possessions for Atli and buried him. Later in the day Atli came back over to me he thank me again for helping he and asked if I could do one more job for him. It appeared that some pages were missing from Bali’s journal which held some important information Atli asked if I would go back to the cave and find the missing pages and also to killed the spider-queen which he thought would be in the cave as it was a very likely nest for the spiders and hopefully by killing the queen it will be a big help in getting rid of the spiders. I went in to the cave in the early afternoon it was much bigger then I thought it would be. It was not easy to get though as you might expect from a spiders cave there were cobwebs everywhere and it was rather dark. The spiders also kept attacking me they seems to be quite clever as some of them would come up you on the floor from every direction all at the same time all trying to bite me and kill me. They would get under my feet as I tried the fight them off and after a few minutes more spiders would lower themselves from the ceiling and throw some webbing at me I think they might have been aiming for my sword arm so I could kill them and a few times they did succeed I am so thankful for my shield as I don’t think I would have survived to get out if not for it. Well in the end I found all of the pages scattered around the cave how they got there I have no idea but there we are. I then went on the find the queen it turned out that the cave went all of the way to Cal Springley’s farm so no wonder the farm was covered in spiders. The queen had made her nest inside the farmhouse which she had got into by making a hole in one of the walls. She was huge at least half my height if not just over after a long and tough fight I killed her and cut of her head for Atli. I must have been inside the cave for hours as when I got back out it was just starting to get dark. Back at the town I gave Atli the journal pages and showed him the spiders head he was so very pleased that the queen was dead and went off the telling the whole town and watching go off I realized just how tired I was and went off to my stable to sleep. I have now done everything that I can at the moment to help the town so I am just writing you this letter then I will be moving on the next to between here and Bree it called Combe. I hope that you are both well and I will write to you again soon.

Love Erintal