Need help with a mapless pointcrawl
So, the idea is an open area, not underground, but less about landmarks and more about scenes and things happening: an aftermath in a battlefield, a bunch of cultists doing a ritual, enemy patrols walking, etc.
The main thing is, I don't want to use hexcrawl, but instead a pointcrawl (pathcrawl, whatever), but the area is unexplored, so there is no map to give to players and let them choose where to go.
I will seed some rumors about places and so on, but that is more a reward for doing some prep investigation, than a must.
I will give the first paths to choose right away as soon they arrive to the place, giving ideas about what the path mean (this one has a bunch of footprints, this one smells like death, in this one you can hear voices speaking, etc.).
Any extra advice about this?