Evento·Páramo

The Abandoned Campfire

A campfire ring sits just off the trail, stones still warm to the touch. Whoever was here left within the last hour. The fire has been carefully smothered - not kicked apart in haste, but properly extinguished. Someone who knows fire discipline.

Beside the ring: a single tin mug with cold tea still in it, and drag marks leading northeast.

Elecciones

1
Follow the drag marks. Someone left in a hurry despite being careful with their fire. That's contradictory.
sin requisito
Éxito
The drag marks lead to a rocky outcrop where someone cached a pack under a ledge - they left camp quickly but planned to come back. You leave the pack untouched but help yourself to the tea. It's chamomile. Not bad.
Fracaso
The drag marks lead nowhere - they fade into bare rock after thirty meters. Whoever left knew how to disappear. You've just spent twenty minutes tracking a ghost.
2
Use the warm stones and remaining fuel to heat your own meal. Waste not.
sin requisito
Éxito
The fire bed is perfect - good airflow, sheltered from wind, flat cooking surface. You relight the coals and heat a quick meal. The warmth and the rest do you good. Sometimes the best finds in the waste are the simplest.
Fracaso
You relight the coals and they flare - a pocket of trapped resin in the firewood pops and throws sparks onto your sleeve. You slap it out before it catches, but your nerves are shot. Open flames in dry country demand more respect than you gave them.
3
That tea - the plant in it doesn't grow around here. The blend tells you where this traveler came from.
Cooking nv 4
Éxito
The tea is a mix of chamomile and desert lavender with a pinch of something bitter - creosote root. That specific combination is a folk remedy for altitude sickness, used by communities in the higher eastern mesas. This traveler came from elevation and is heading into lower ground. The drag marks make sense now - they heard something and moved to higher terrain for a vantage point. Standard mountain-dweller caution, not flight.
Fracaso
You taste the tea and identify chamomile, but the secondary herb could be any of a dozen bitter plants. Without seeing the dried leaves, you're guessing. Your analysis produces three equally plausible origins, which is the same as producing none.

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