Editing Dear Darkness:Bashter Evagrius (section)

===An Education in Surviving Evil===
Things were calm and working according to plan until the middle of his second year, when the entire valley was overrun with husks.  The region was cut off from the rest of the world for almost a month before the area was retaken by a Kalinthi unit of monster hunters supported by Trusnikron rangers.  The village closest to the monastery was in ruins, and there were many dead.  Some of the dead were killed after they became husks, many were killed by husks, and many more appeared to have been killed by humans while they themselves were still human.  The surviving commoners were lead by the Munstersen brothers, who described a list of the common horrors of a husk plague: a siege, family members mad with grief, etc.  The local lord was an obnoxious young Hawkwood who was given the fief to get him as far from Court as possible, and it became clear that he mismanaged the situation, squandered resources, and indiscriminately killed commoners who questioned his commands.  The local lord's remains were found outside the village, along with those of his Muster police chief.  The villagers offered no explanation regarding what happened to them.

The Kalinthi found the monastery had become a web of carnage, makeshift barricades, and traps.  Inside, there were only two surviving monks: a seriously injured Bashter, and a young Eskatonic named Yacob.  The abbey resisted the initial outbreak well, as it easier to defend than an open town.  They received a radio call for help from the Munstersens, who were in dire need of medical supplies.  Bashter, Yacob, and a third student named Ozandrus volunteered to take supplied down to the village.  Ozandrus was eaten by husks on the way down.  Upon returning, Yacob & Bashter found that the priory's defenses has been breached somehow, and their friends and mentors were either dead, eaten, or animated into husks.  Bashter and Yacob became trapped in the abbey looking for survivors, and they found none. Bashter and Yacob created a safe zone in one tower, but Bashter broke his leg in the process, and Yacob dragged him to safety.