Left right and all about

Plaese note this is a WIP
After several hours of rest the party wake to find that it is still pitch dark and no sooner are they up then it starts to bucket down.
Alexa tends to the parties wounds and Alane is mobile but still badly battered after her duel with the wizard.
The magical mark is slowly spinning around and around provinding no sense of direction and with the darkness there are no visible landmarks.
The party decides to wait to see if conditions improve. When they dont they decide to pick a direction and see where they end up. Grim Gorgson takes point walking ahead of group. After a couple of hours several of the group become convinced that they recognize some of the trees that they are passing and that they are walking in circles.
They halt and have a discussion during which grimgorson notices that the marker is spinning faster and in a different direction.
After experimenting a bit the party discovers that the marker spins faster or slower depending on the direction they walk.
They decide to walk in a direction that slows the spinning down. An hour later they reach a tipping point where the marker slows down and then starts to speed up but now spinning in the opposite direction. There does not seem to be anything special about the area this happens in.
Taking a right hand turn they head off again. Marking there trail as they go. The marker starts to spin so fast that it becomes almost a blur. The party once againtakes a right hand turn and attempts to find a spot where the marker stops spinning. Once again the marker starts to slow down and after and hour of walking it almost stops but then reverses its spin.
They group decides to backtrack to the point where the marker was spinning its fastest and investigate that area. When they arrive back at that point they begin a search of the area. Using their magic sense both Falandar and Alane detect a faint trace of magic emanating from a small pile of stones. Breaking open the cairn they find a round stone with magic markings drawn on it. Falandar rubs out the markings and the magic emanating from the stone disappers. Falandar identifies the stone as being lodestone.
The marker has stopped its bluring spin but continues to rotate. The party decides to see if they can find other areas where the marker spins at speed. Sure enough they manage to locate two other cairns with magically marked lodestones.
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