Encounter-a-Day

Off in the distance, the PCs can hear swearing and what sounds like several people shoveling dirt. Indeed, a few hundred yards away, hidden by the terrain, five men are hurriedly burying something. By the time the PCs reach where the noise was coming from, the men are running away in several different directions. There is a mound of fresh earth, obviously where they had been digging.

The men have just buried a pine box. They don’t know what was inside, and were paid well to bury it quickly and without being seen. Inside the box is a young woman, dressed in fine clothing. Her breathing is slow and shallow and to all but a trained eye she likely appears dead. She’d been drugged so that the people burying her wouldn’t know they were burying someone.

The girl wakes up about 15 minutes after she’d been initially buried; whoever did it to her had intended for her to be conscious of her predicament. She has no memories of what happened, how she got there, or even who she is.

Follow-ups: Who is this woman? Who had her buried, and why?